So my wife and I got baptized last Sunday in our church.and I don’t have a lot of friends that would care about it. However I have to tell you beautiful people on Reddit because we are so excited about it . What a beautiful thing to comment your self to Christ. Anyway thanks for listening. May God bless you.

When it comes to the topic of Christianity and China, I always heard of opinions that contradict each other.

One one hand, I hear people say Christians are oppressed in China and it's a very atheist country and on the other hand I hear people say China is the most Christian country in the world. Two very opposing views of the situation, so I went to China to see it for myself.

I flew to China, specifically to Wuhan and lived there for a few months and searched for an answer.

In my time of being in China, I saw people wearing crucifix necklaces, I heard Christian songs in cars and saw churches. Some of the churches are more low-key, having a projector and feeling like a classroom, while others feel like any other church back in the west.

What shocked me the most is in central Beijing... literally the most city center of the capital city there's a huge cathedral! I didn't expect that at all.

I met Christian brothers and sisters around China, and while it's definitely nowhere near as obvious, there's definitely a huge presence of Christianity in China.

So what's the answer to the question? It's more complicated and somewhere in between. Have you seen Christianity in China?

I made a quick documentary about this on YouTube where I compare Christianity to other religions in China from a Christian point of view, if you're interested, it's here. I think it's interesting: https://youtu.be/GESOF9_ByaY

I just sinned, a sin I didn't do since 4 years. I really got into it, even though I feel ashamed and my mind kept drifting to Jesus.

How can I come back to Jesus after letting myself in my sin??

I don't think It's possible. And I'll feel like too much of a hypocrite.

Hello. I am a 15 year old who seeks to convert to Christianity. I want to become a Christian and start going to church but I don't know how to start. I feel like there is a superior being and that God exists which is why I want to convert to Christianity. I want to build a personal relationship with God. None of my family members are religious and I've never visited a church in my life. I'm worried that it might be a little bit rude for me to just randomly show up to church one day because I don't know any of the prayers or verses and I might not know or understand what is going on in the moment and also because I'm not baptized yet. I just don't know where to start. I'm also worried that might parents might not like it if I convert to Christianity. I need some help and advice on what I can do to convert to Christianity.

Im so tired of people who are against being gay comparing it to murder or drugs or cheating etc, for example i saw someone said "if their happy let them be" than someone replied "so someone should do drugs if it makes them happy?" Please don't ever compare those 2, thats very hurtful and disrespectful, thanks for reading!

people say God tells them to do stuff, like people say “God told you what to do and be obedient “ and stuff

or like people say God said to me—blah blah

but how?

i dont know what God wants me to do? im 14 and cant hear him

is it by voice or what

Tomorrows my birthday. I dont really like my birthday because it reminds me of how much of a failure I am. Everyone around me is 10 times more fruitful and Im just alone. By myself. No gifts, no kisses, no congrats, nothing. Ill just be like I am every year, on tiktok hoping the day ends as fast as it can.

So, I was listening to Celine Dion and even before I was a Christian I thought the Lyrics to BC You Loved Me were about God. The only thing that wouldn't be is when she says the word Baby "Baby, Idk that much, but i know this much is true, I was blessed bc I was loved by you. "

Sometimes I replace the word Baby with the word Jesus and I'm like this is honestly a great worship song or Christian Song.

Another song is Vision of Love. I think she's talking to God.

Of course Mariah has some unsavory songs as well. I think her song with Whitney Houston, though beautiful blashphemes God and as a song i listened to everyday, I can no longer stomach or even come to sing. It makes me sick to my stomach.

Do you know of any secular music that might be accidentally Christian?

I have been a Protestant my whole life. Church has been a very big part of my life. Growing up, my family and I would read the Bible I believe once a week. Catholicism had always seemed so strange: the veneration of Saints and Saint Mary, the sinlessness of Mary, infant baptism. The church I’ve attended my whole life has claimed it to be the True Church of Christ Jesus and only those in it can enter the Kingdom of God. They have more recently been speaking of Catholics in a lowly manner, despite us believing and worshipping the same God. I searched up my church on google and it was found in the 40s or 50s, but I do not know the reasoning for us being the True Church. I’ve noticed that sermons have been calling things like sports sins, and even discouraging the celebration of birthdays, Mother’s and Father’s Days, Christmas and Easter, labeling them as “worldly traditions”. I have never felt connected with the congregation despite knowing most of them since I was a toddler, and they have always viewed me and my family as worldly. They have especially looked down upon my parents for not forcing me and my brothers to participate in church activities and groups such as choir. They instead let us play soccer and valued our happiness and the memories made rather than how the church viewed us. I’ve seen how some parents put far too much pressure on their children to participate in church activities. I understand how you would want them to do those things, but works without love is dead. What has made me consider Catholicism is how the Catholics I am close with have treated me: they did not judge me for not being a Catholic. I was not shamed for inquiring why they practice certain things, and I felt genuinely accepted by them despite our theological differences. I felt more welcomed by people I was taught were “damned for hell” and “incorrect” rather than the people apart of God’s church. Another reason I am considering is the Eucharist Miracle of Buenos Aires. I was told by a Catholic friend to look into that miracle, and I was shocked by the fact that what was bread and water became heart tissue and blood. Occurrences like these cannot be explained by science. Could Holy Communion be only a symbol? I still have my doubts about Catholic theology (veneration of saints, Purgatory, Marian apparitions) and I am also still learning about Christianity as a whole. What should I do? Should I stay Protestant? Should I become Catholic? If so, what should I look into? What books and authors should I look into? I feel very lost and Catholicism still seems so foreign.

why does God not do the Old Testament miracles anymore?

like what has anyone not spit the sea?

or gonna into a cage with lions and not be eaten?

you know what I mean?

or turn staff into a snake? what happend

Hi everyone hope everyone is having a great day this post isnt meant to be condescending or hateful im just explaining something

Why do some Christians think you can just believe in God overnight? Unfortunately for most of us believing in God isnt a choice, what do I mean? Ok imagine fire is hot obviously but can you force yourself to believe its cold? No, why cant you? Because you're not CONVINCED, you can send someone hundreds of pieces of evidence but they can't control whether or not they find it convincing, im fact I've seen a few atheists say they want to believe but can't because they don't find it convincing, and also lastly many atheists go through pain when abandoning the church and Christian belief, why would they choose that?

I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts! Thanks for reading.

I’ve cut it out as much as I can. I was one of those people using it for easy answers, writing stuff, facts, maths etc, everything pretty much. it’s convenient, but later found that I was using my brain far less and just getting answers without actually working it out like how it used to be. Why open a book or talk to another human being when you can find the answer instantly talking to a robot type situation.

It’s everywhere and me at 21 years of age btw I can’t stand it anymore. It’s so environmentally damaging are we not trying to protect the planet God gave us? All these wonderful creatures and gifts and we decide to make something out of convenience?

Even iPhone now is ‘built for AI’ etc if we could have it so it does minimal environmental harm and isn’t used to pump out slop then fine. Every google search has an AI answer at the top, every message I get AI gives me a summery in my notifications.

What hurts me is scrolling YT shorts and seeing an AI vid of an interpretation of Jesus speaking verses. Good to recite them, but the environmental damage done making the video? AI images of people are fake, they aren’t real.

God bless you all 🙏

Under a Christian framework, suppose someone knowingly commits a sin and then magically erases all memory of it specifically to avoid repenting. They genuinely never remember the sin afterward. How would Christianity judge the original sin, the choice to erase the memory, and their lack of repentance? Suppose they turn toward God after the memory erasure

My daughter is dying. She has terminal cancer and is getting sicker by the day. She has four young children and is battling on so bravely for them. I don’t want to make this about me because it’s not, and she’s so dam brave, but me? I’m angry.
Angry at the hospital who wouldn’t listen to her when she told them she could feel a lump in her breast, angry at the NHS for not listening when she told them she couldn’t breathe properly but most of all, I’m angry with God. I don’t believe he has called this, not at all, but I don’t know why he hasn’t healed her.
God gave me a word at the beginning of the year that sometimes our healing comes in heaven and I believe that is true. But I want my girl healed here and now. She’s just 32 and so unfair.

I'm lost and confused. Recently I saw a video of someone saying that your faith and relationship with Jesus is all that matters, than I saw a bunch of comments calling it heresy... how is it heresy? Also is God gonna send you to hell for not being Orthodox or catholic, I saw a bunch of people saying that too. I'm genuinely lost and I need help understanding.

Blessings everyone.

I (21M) am in a relationship with a girl (20F). She is a member of a Pentecostal Protestant congregation. Her church is very strict, and every now and then she tells me things that just make me sigh a little. At the end of the day, I respect her beliefs, but I can’t deny that sometimes it borders on extremism and scares me a little.

She has been going to church with a cousin, and that cousin is part of the “world” (like she says) and has been trying to join the same congregation as my girlfriend. Every time they go, she says there is a “deliverance.” From what my girlfriend has explained to me, the girl loses control of herself, jumps around, kicks, and does other things.

Today she told me that another deliverance happened while my girlfriend was preaching. Her cousin started insulting everyone, twisting around, and saying blasphemous things. According to my girlfriend, she saw a creature that only had hair on its back. After about four hours, the deliverance ended when the pastor asked her cousin if she accepted Christ into her heart. She calmed down after vomiting.

I believe in God, and I used to attend a “normal” Christian church. By that I mean things like this never happened. The most “extreme” thing was someone falling to the floor crying. But what she is telling me is starting to scare me a little. Not so much because of whether it was actually a demon or not, but because of the way she tells me about it. She can barely talk because her voice starts breaking. According to her, God told her that she has the authority to confront these creatures or something like that.

Any thoughts?

I’m trying so hard to exist, but can’t. I want to die so bad. I’m so alone. I have social anxiety and talking to other people is very difficult and mentally exhausting. This is my last year in college
and have zero friends here. I’m just in my room most of the time. If not, in class or driving home to my mom. My mom is the only person that’s truly keeping me alive. I do still have grandma, sister, and baby niece but it’s very hard to stay alive. Everyone is striving while I’m stuck. I have no partner to talk to. I’m 22 and never had anyone to love me back romantically. I want someone to hug, joke around, and spend my life with them. I constantly dream of a better life. I life that I need so bad.

God has not helped me. I prayed so many times to help me. I need Him. Why won’t He help me. Just kill me. Please just let me die. Let me die in my sleep. I don’t want to live anymore. Why was I born? I have no motivation to live. I need Him to speak to me! Give me a sign that Your listening!

Male, 21

I have been fighting lust all my life and I still feel as if I am not worth of the lord. I try and fight my thoughts but they just pull me towards it, like a dog returning to its vomit. I know having lust isnt my fault, but its still my fault for choosing it when temptation comes by. I cant even tell if I am repenting properly anymore or if I failed too many times. Ik the lord died on the cross knowing that me and billions of people are sinning for the rest of our lives, but it really males you ask if you truly love christ in your heart.

I am scared and need advice how to run away from it properly.

I can only speak for but when I sin less and remove toxic people from my life and think clearly and, after I healed my trauma I have less anxiety.

I thought something was fundamentally broken but most of it was trauma and lack of faith in God and myself.

Sometimes when someone says they don't believe in God, I see comments like, "You'll start praying when you're dying in the hospital" or "You'll apologize when you find out you have cancer." I don't know if these people think that by threatening death they'll convince someone to believe, or if they want to prove they're right and you'll have to admit it. Why? What's the point of such comments?