Why I Am A Christian

Someone asked me once, "Why are you not a Muslim?" Why am I not a Muslim? The answer is simple. I wasn't born into a Muslim family. I wasn't raised in a Muslim environment. So I have no knowledge of the Muslim faith. There is another answer. I discovered the Lord Jesus Christ.

I was raised a Christian. When I was a child I went to church. I participated in Christian services. But I did not know Christ then. Later on, when I became a young man, I abandoned faith. I found it belittling. I thought it was fit only for fools. I thought faith was tailor-made for fools. I did not believe in any god. I did not believe in any faith. I chose to believe that God does not exist. I chose to believe that it is pointless to believe.

Later I discovered God. It happened casually. It was not premeditated. It happened suddenly. There were certain factors that contributed to my return to God. Christian television is one factor. I started to watch missionaries and healers. And I started to ask the question, "Could this God be real?" That's how it all began.

And then I read the Bible. I was stunned to note that the Bible was a most interesting book, and that the Old Testament was a shattering tale of a failure of an immense love. There was a great lover, and his love was rejected. The experience was overwhelming. Thus I was drawn to the Christian faith when I read the Bible. I was drawn to Christ. Above all, I was drawn to God the Father. And that's how it came into being - my Christian faith and my Christianness.

Years later I started a work for God. How did this happen? I got tired of what I was doing in the world. I was not impressed. I was not inspired. And then I was not required. And when I was not required, I stepped out and walked out into the area of faith. I became a missionary for Christ. I became a minister. I became a pastor. I became a shepherd.

So that's the reason why I am a Christian. That's also the reason why I am not a Muslim and why I am not a Hindu or a Buddhist. I have little knowledge of other religions. And I don't want to know about them. Because Christianity and Christ are enough for me.  Christianity gives me sufficient information regarding myself and regarding the world. I don't need to seek information elsewhere. At times I do read about other faiths. I even read about atheism. I do read other explanations of life. However Christianity will do for me. Christ will do for me.

- Samuel Godfrey George

I Cannot Choose Disbelief In God

Troubles have assailed me. Some prayers remain unanswered. But I'm in no mood to give up my hope yet. If I did there is nothing else for me.

Life Is The Evidence For God

Our very breath testifies to a living God.

Is The Evidence For God Not Clear?

The evidence for God is present in the life that we see in and around us. However the kind of evidence that some people require for believing in God cannot be given as God is not scientifically observable. He is so for a good reason. He is an invisible God and requires to be accepted in faith.

The Evidence For God Is You

Your existence is the best evidence for God.

When God doesn't seem good and powerful

For some people God is not a welcome subject. He seems improbably good and powerful. In fact some totally deny his existence. But if God exists, how can we explain his goodness and power in the wake of many disquieting questions?

"I Used To Be An Atheist"

Powerful, truthful testimony from a former atheist.

How do you know that there is a God?

A question that many people ask and this is my answer.

A Former Atheist Speaks

How atheism seemed popular to me at a certain time and how it has now been eclipsed by a certain belief in God

You Cannot Abolish God, You Cannot Abolish Religion

Despite the spirited work of antitheists and atheists, religion cannot be abolished and the worship of God cannot be abolished. The force of religion and God is beyond the power of science and disbelief and cannot be dismantled by the world union of unbelievers. This is a struggle between unequal forces.

God requires belief

To know God one must believe in him.

God Cannot Be Scientifically Proven

God is a spiritual truth to be spiritually discerned. He is discerned when deep connects with deep, when a human spirit seeks a divine spirit. Those who cannot see God are those who are without a desire to know God. And those who demand scientific proof for his existence to believe in him are those who have no knowledge of the spiritual and who are resistant to the truth that God is not a scientifically demonstrable fact.

I Am The Proof

A son of a Hindu, a former atheist and a God-hater, I am now a priest of Jesus Christ singing His praises and telling others about His wonderful love. Can there be a better proof for the power of God than what He has done in me?

People debate the existence of God

Samuel Godfrey George gives his opinion on the raging debate over the existence of God.

Why is it difficult for some to believe in God?

Why do some people see nothing real about God? Why are they not drawn to God?

Life and Death

When are the living dead? When the living fail to acknowledge the source of life they are dead. Without this acknowledgement there can be no worship of the One who is the only one fit to worship. And in the absence of that worship, there can be no spiritual growth. Without spiritual growth a human being cannot be complete. The spirit that is not allowed to grow will decay in the body in which it resides. That body may show signs of physical life, yet it is spiritually dead. The living body is destined for physical death, but the decaying spirit will outlive the body to live an eternal life of spiritual death.

The spiritually dead cannot be victors over life, which is under the law of sin. They cannot know the Truth, which liberates Man from all forms of bondage. The Truth is the realization that nothing that is created is worthy of worship or devotion, and that the only One who is worthy is the Creator. Neither this realization nor the worship of the Creator is self-achieved. The union of the human spirit and the Divine Spirit achieves these. Such union cannot be forced. It is predestined. Those who belong to the Creator are predestined to belong to Him.

God is the Creator. Man is the created. Man is also a creator, as he is made in the image of God, who is the Supreme Creator. The image of God that Man bears is of a spiritual nature. Like God, Man has the knowledge of good and evil. Yet unlike God, he does not have the power to choose good over evil, as he is under the law of sin, as ordained by God. Man came under the law of sin as a result of his disobedience to God. His disobedience to God was also an act of obedience to the enemy of God, the Devil. The disobedience to God separated Man from God. And Man without God came under the rule of the Devil.

The rule of the Devil over Man’s soul can be undone only by the intervention of
God. This intervention can only take place when Man recognizes God and His Truth. And this will not come to pass by human might and understanding.

There is Divine wisdom, and then there is human wisdom. The two are in conflict, as God and Man are in conflict. Man, who is made in the image of God is unlike God. God chooses good, and Man chooses evil. How then can God’s wisdom not conflict with that of Man?

The wisdom of God is for the benefit of those who have been predestined to belong to God. Even those who have been predestined to belong to God can resist God. Resistance to God is in the very nature of Man. Those who resist God resist life. Let not people of God continue in their error. Though they walk in the path of eternal death, they will not die, for God will not be prevented from having those who belong to Him. The people of God will come to their senses, and turn away from the clutches of death. They will return to their God.

-Samuel Godfrey George

Believers and Unbelievers

Belief and Disbelief

Someone sent me this message:
"I hope you know that God does not exist".

This is my response:

What do I know? What does anyone know except what has been revealed to him?

To him who declares that there is no God, I have only this to say, "You are right. This is what has been revealed to you."

To him who believes in God, as I do, I say, "You are right. This is what has been revealed to you."

That God does exist is evident to all and yet not perceptible to all. Everything that I see testifies to his existence. Not everyone can see this. Let him who can see see.

What we see and believe is what has been revealed to us. And the question of "what" is revealed to "whom" is determined in the realm of the Spirit, which is invisible, yet perceptible to the one to whom it has been revealed.

Believing in God is better than not believing in God. Not believing in God is better than declaring disbelief in God when one actually believes. In truth the worst state is to declare belief in God when one actually does not believe.

- Samuel Godfrey George

I used to be an atheist

The Atheist's Dislike of God