An Unanswered Question?

Q. What makes you think Christianity is true?

A.Now comes the difficult part, as Chesterton said; to put all these things down. It would take a book that others have written(1), so I suggest you read those and I will say only this:

When one knows something so completely and believes it so fundamentally, it is more difficult for them to describe the “rightness” of it than, say, a novice. The novice can say they like one thing or another in particular about whatever topic at hand because it fresh in their mind, unfettered by the wholeness of the thing. Ask a man, whose marriage is healthy and happy though, what he feels is so right about his marriage and you are likely to stump him cold. He has all the choice in the world of where to start in his discourse but because it is all so equally a part of the whole, he very likely will not know where to begin at all. He may simply stumble out, “that it is to my wife.”

And so it is with Christianity. All the aspects of the wide world, from philosophy to the parakeet’s song, from seeing things from a wholly other perspective than one’s own tiny view to looking deep within oneself, all these things speak of the wonder, the fullness and the joy one finds in Christ. Like the happily married man, I can point you to no one thing that stands out above the rest except to say, “that it is for Christ.”

1) Asking a serious question deserves a serious answer and a small question/answer forum hardly allows the space needed. I suggest C.S. Lewis’ “Mere Christianity” “The Chronicles of Narnia” “The Abolition of Man” and “Surprised by Joy”; Tim Keller’s “The Reason For God”, “Orthodoxy” by G.K. Chesterton, “Christ, the Lord” (a two part series) by Anne Rice, and Dallas Willard’s “The Divine Conspiracy” among a very, very long list indeed.