Are Christians Just Crazy? Or Is There More to It?

I thought it would be interesting to tackle the subject of Christians (or any religious group, really) being crazy.

Is this all just some mental illness brought upon us by ancient goat herders who just didn’t know any better?

Now that we have psychiatry and modern medicine, did all the prophets of the Bible just need some pills?

I’ve heard it said that Jesus would have just gone back to being a carpenter if he had modern medicine. To be frank, that statement made my blood boil.

I have a personal relationship with Christ that is beyond anything the material world can explain.

When texts such as Isaiah 53 exist in our world, it should open our eyes to the reality that the supernatural is a real facet of the fabric of our reality. How any atheist can read that and not see prophecy is a real thing is beyond me. Anything but following the God of the Bible, though.

If more atheists knew the real Yahweh of the Scriptures, they’d be more inclined to follow Him.

Most things they think they’d have to give up aren’t even sins, and yes, some of the sacrifices we must make are difficult if you’re not used to them, but that doesn’t mean following God is a life of poverty of fun.

What I think is crazy is the notion that a magical singularity caused a magical expansion and formed perfect spheres for no reason, with at least one supporting life.

Even honest agnostics must admit the “god of the gaps” lives perfectly fine in quantum physics and the science of the initial singularity. It is a fairly reasonable take to think that a deity of some kind made the universe if you accept the rest of science.

I don’t even think most people truly lack belief in God. Belief in a higher being is something that seems wired into us. Humans have evolved (that’s a dirty word sometimes) to understand there is something greater.

But were the dramatis personae of the Scriptures all just crazy?

Doubtful.

Bible prophecy proves the Bible is far more than just some book.

Jesus Christ divided history, and no one in the world for all time is more famous.

He claimed some outlandish things, yet His wisdom is immaculate to the point of being perfect.

He taught us to love other people without prerequisites—leaving the ultimate judging up to Him as the Son of Man.

He uplifted women without being a feminist. That alone made him a strange figure in history.

But He claimed He was going to return at the end of the age and judge the living and the dead. That God was His literal father, and that He is the one who created the universe.

He did things that only God could do, like walking on water and creating matter from nothing to feed thousands of people.

He predicted the future and warned in no uncertain terms that “Heaven and Earth will pass away, but My words shall never pass away.”

What a statement that was! Even the so-called “god kings” of the ancient world would never make such a statement.

Who was this man in history who changed the world in so many ways?

There are hundreds of prophecies of Jesus Christ in the Bible. There are some left to be fulfilled when He returns to this planet, but many of them have come to pass.

You can’t just choose to be born in Bethlehem.

You can’t choose to make yourself die by crucifixion.

But a sovereign God could make events play out in the way intended, couldn’t He?

So when people say we who believe these things should see a shrink, they are misunderstanding faith.

Also, faith is not blind within the biblical framework of religion. The Hebrew word, “emunah,” means faithful trust and unmoving understanding of God, not blind belief.

There are things in my life I’ve seen that make me know God exists for sure, with nothing to sway me in any other direction.

But anecdotal evidence isn’t scientific or rigorous enough to convince some.

That’s fine.

Then look at the Book of Existence and see the hand of the Creator in everything.

The world is self-sustaining, and everything here makes everything else work. Move one thing out of place, and you don’t have life on Earth.

Back to my initial point, though.

There are some things in the Bible that make people think it’s a book of myths.

Demons exist?

Angels are real?

But now that we have advanced, it isn’t hard to see that these beings exist in some other dimension or might be made of some other form of matter entirely.

What if they vibrate at some other frequency of matter, or if they are made of dark matter?

The possibilities are truly astonishing for understanding the unseen world.

Since prophecy proves God exists, I take the Bible as it is, apart from my anecdotal experiences.

That means I MUST accept all facets of the Christian faith. I would be dishonest if I didn’t.

I don’t much care how others view me, and if following Christ makes me weird or crazy, then so be it.

But it is a bit short-sighted to assume all religious people are coping or mentally ill.

If Bible prophecy were vague, like: “The blue petal will fall on the water as the sun shines,” then I’d be suspicious.

But when it tells you the Messiah will be born in Bethlehem, rejected by His own people, crucified, betrayed for 30 pieces of silver, and raised back to life, hundreds, or even thousands of years before it happened, pay attention.

If one thing happened, you could say it was lucky. But when hundreds of prophecies about one man come true, that’s probability being skewed to pieces for the reality that God exists.

You might not like that He exists. But that doesn’t make Him go away. He’s not a spaghetti monster. He’s a being that loved us enough to restore us to His perfect plan for the cosmos.

So, no, I don’t think Christians are crazy. People who speak in tongues, and it’s not an actual language that they’ve never studied but only gibberish? Sure, you can say something about that.

The guy who thinks the Australian mafia are after him because he blinked twice during a news report? Sure, that might be loony.

But trusting in the Bible, with a proven track record of telling the future before it happens?

That’s just accepting the obvious. Occam’s Razor works fine here, I think.

Blessings and shalom.