Christianity does sound crazy, until it doesn’t
Atheists Are Right That Christianity Sounds Absurd, but I Believe in It
From an outside observer’s standpoint, Christianity is kind of absurd.
Think about it. We believe in an invisible man who lived over 2,000 years ago in a series of backwater towns in the Middle East, was killed by some religious zealots, and then was magically raised from the dead three days later, after which he floated up into the sky and disappeared, thus becoming the invisible man we now believe in and pin all our hopes to. Oh, and on top of that, we believe in other invisible beings: angels and demons—who are all around us, helping and influencing us. Meanwhile, another invisible Spirit (the Holy Spirit) is constantly at work behind the scenes around the earth, keeping the whole thing straight and intervening whenever He can.
When put that way, even I think it sounds crazy… How then can I, as a rational, intelligent human being, actually believe in invisible men and spirits?..
But then something happened, and this is where everything changed for me. I experienced God…(read full story at Charisma News)
