Can you give me a good reason to put my faith in Jesus?

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Agreed putting our trust in Him and believing in God are related things, however they are different arguments for each of them. If God did not exist then it would make no sense to trust in Jesus.
 
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If God did not exist then it would make no sense to trust in Jesus.
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That is certainly true. It is the main reason the OP’s original question is impossible to answer, since it is in the context of an unbeliever. One simply cannot get from showing the existence to God, believing in Jesus being God, trusting Jesus in a few sentences.
 
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One answer that I like is the little guy in the scriptures who give Christ a few loaves and fish and Christ takes the small offering and feeds 5,000.

This is what happens when we give Christ our day, with it’s joys and struggles. Something natural takes on the supernatural. It’s a game changer.
 
You are free to believe what you want friend.

As I 've said before others have in length addressed (starting with this site and it’s many resources) the issues you mention, including the “need” to have a Church which we must obey.

I chose to believe in everything the Catholic Church teaches, even if I cannot scientifically prove all of it.
 
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If the resurrection and all that Jesus taught were just fairy tails, why did the people who claimed that they saw it died defending it? Why wouldn’t you trust people who were taught not to lie? And how many people do you know that washed the feet of someone who they knew was going to betray them?
 
Because I have a high degree of confidence that HE is the only man to come back from the dead from a certifiable death.
HE is who HE says HE is.

Funny that when Moses asked GOD for HIS name HE aswered “I AM WHO AM”
 
Because all authority and power on heaven and earth has been given to Jesus. No one comes to the father except by him. Even the name Jesus is above all names and has been given by God. He is healer, teacher, friend, leader … the list goes on. But most importantly because salvation comes through him.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10:10
We are all sinners it is however God’s wish that we should all be saved. Jesus did not come to call the righteous rather the sinners.
This is right and is acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, who desires everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2: 3-4
 
A starting point might be “The Case for Christ” by Lee Strobel. There’s a book and a video.
 
Also John Henry Newman’s An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent helps clarify how we come to believe or know anything to be true, including but not limited to matters of religious faith. There’s a lot more subjectivity and flexibility in what we think we know to be absolute fact that we consciously realize.
 
You see this world, look at your mother and then look at the mirror. Then you will know.

When you believe there is a God, try to investigate all religions yourself (if you dun wanna trust anyone) , at the end you will know who is the one true God.
 
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The promise of eternal life is a good place to start, and one that the Apostles used to good advantage.

They lived in a world where life was usually nasty, brutish and short.
Even if you were a relatively rich and powerful person, you could easily die in an epidemic, an accident, childbirth, or in some armed conflict that seemed to be happening on a daily basis, or even if some person more rich or more powerful than you decided they didn’t like you/ you were a threat and they would have you killed and probably get away with it.
Poor people of course died off all over the place from famine, disease, war, genocide, childbirth etc.
Everybody wanted an eternal life with no more worries or cares.

In the Gospels and Acts you see this. The Samaritan woman at the well wanted it.
The thief who was dying in terrible pain wanted it.
The court eunuch whom Philip met wanted it.
Everybody wants some!

Nowadays life has improved, but you could still die at a moment’s notice. People die of heart attacks all the time. They get cancer. Two of my friends had their friends or relatives just all of a sudden drop dead this week (one killed in an accident and the other told his family member he was having trouble swallowing, they thought it was a sore throat or other mild issue and the next day the guy choked to death).

Many people nowadays still want some reassurance of being reunited with deceased loved ones after death, especially if they’ve lost a spouse or a child.

If you need a secondary reason, it’s because you get a lot more peace in your life from having Jesus actively involved in it. I cannot imagine going through being all of a sudden widowed without Jesus helping me every step of the way. If I didn’t have Jesus I’d be looking for something else and it might very well be some other human man or maybe a bottle of booze…for other people, it might be opioids or whatever the nasty drug of the moment is.
 
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thegr8andpowerfulOz said:
If there is no God then there is indeed no reason to trust in some church that claims to speak in His name. But that doesn’t mean that there’s no reason to trust in the ideal that the life of Christ represents. You don’t need a God to believe that loving thy neighbor is the right thing to do.
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Are you not contradicting yourself? If God does not exist, I agree there is no reason to trust in some church that claims to speak in His name. It likewise makes there is no reason to trust in a person that claims to speak in His name. Also, you contradict yourself by implying we can trust in Jesus because of his teachings on the right way to live our lives, eg love thy neighbor. But the Church also teaches this, yet we could not trust in the Church?

Go and read the Gospels. Look at what a large percentage of Jesus teachings have to do solely with himself and God. It outweighs his moral teaching by quite a bit. If one cannot trust the Church in a godless universe, it seems one cannot trust Jesus either.
 
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halogirl said:
‘What have you got to lose?’
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This is also a good point. A priest in a homily I heard told us what he said to an atheist:

"When we both die, then if you (the atheist) are right, and there’s no God, I haven’t lost anything.
We both end up in the same place, nothingness, whatever.

But if when we both die, I’m right and you’re wrong, and there is a God, then you’ve lost everything."
 
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Gorgias said:
So: giving a convincing reason to a non-believer in three to five sentences is impossible
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I should have answered him, I did not notice the question. @kerygmakid, I apologize for ignoring your question.

Let me clear, a good reason can be given to anyone in 3 to 5 sentences. But “good” in the context of the OP seems to mean convincing or believable or even rational. So while the answers given on this thread are good reason, based on my reading none of them would be called a “good reason” by a non-believer. It certainly is not possible to convince a non-believer in 3-5 sentences. I do not believe it is even possible to give him an reason he would find rational in 3-5 sentences. So yes, impossible.
 
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So while the answers given on this thread are good reason, based on my reading none of them would be called a “good reason” by a non-believer. It certainly is not possible to convince a non-believer in 3-5 sentences. I do not believe it is even possible to give him an reason he would find rational in 3-5 sentences.
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Yep. That’s my experience, too. 👍
 
I think, at the end of the day, a non-believer will not be started on a conversion past based on any argument (or rarely). My experience is that they have to witness, up close and personal, a positive live of a Christian. This certainly includes moral behavior, but I think more importantly it includes virtuous behavior. They have to see someone that is happy, joyful, caring, loving, and rational. At that point, they will be more open to a conversation, as they want to understand why (or as a friend of mine put it once: “what code do you live by?” (he unfortunately never converted, but I think he was dang close at one point, too many other factors in his life got in the way). And then they will want to know “how can you believe in all that non-sense”? Then you are on the right path with a non-believer. Start out always being kind, charitable, and happy around them. Happiness is perhaps the most important. Make friends with them, have fun with them.
 
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