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Top Ten Benefits to Christianity

While various human beliefs and interpretations of Christianity have played a part in creating havoc in personal and political realms, there are benefits to believing in a loving and personal God. These benefits are themselves topics of research. Each is also based on one’s faith (which is often based on what one wants to believe). Everyone has faith; the object of one’s faith differs.
Some have personal experiences that affirm the existence of God. Some believe that suffering has value or is redeemable and therefore assimilate God into their thinking. Some think there is too much suffering and that lessens the likelihood of God. But the faith of Christianity is also based on historical manuscript evidence, archeological finds, accurate prophecy, and the unlikely probability that the Bible written over thousands of years could maintain its integrity and unity.
Here are some benefits:
  1. Gratitude. A renewing of reasons to feel thankful.
  2. Optimism where good comes from bad.
  3. Random acts of kindness and organized movements to relieve suffering.
  4. Ongoing positive relationships.
  5. Strategies for coping; making meaning out of difficulty.
  6. Full forgiveness and the freedom it gives.
  7. Reducing over thinking and social comparison.
  8. Stress management.
  9. Lasting accomplishments.
  10. Great retirement plan.

We all worship something or someone. Christians worship a God who is more than a personal crutch; He is a stretcher that carries us. “I have swept away your sins like a cloud. I have scattered your offenses like the morning mist. Oh, return to me, for I have paid the price to set you free” (Isaiah 44:22). The belief is based on the historical Jesus, the one rejected and crucified, with his followers swept away and scattered. How this man in such a short time transformed his fearful followers to men and women going to their deaths for their beliefs, to an ever strengthening movement 2000 years later is challenging to explain. For most though, people remain unconvinced until they see God working in their own lives, through prayer, Bible reading, and church attendance.

For more information on the reliability of the Bible see this short article.

The author Dan Blair is a Christian therapist at Blair Counseling and Mediation.

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