So you said that you "want to become a Christian."
WHY do you want to do that?
Perhaps you have seen Christians who appear to be happy and contented? Pretty much consistently satisfied and rarely depressed? Usually courteous and kind and friendly, rather than grumpy and mean and sarcastically condemnatory? Dependable and never drunk nor addicted to smoking stinky nicotene? Bodily clean and probably safe to have sex with? Support the State of Israel?
You know that distinctive holiness, decency, and religious piety is involved with becoming and being a Christian, with some persecution inevitably involved now and then for isolating away from and confrontationally contrary against those of the worldly irreligious crowd who like to deceptively and sadistically flirt and cheat, prowl around in gangs and cliques, use profanity, cowardly chat merely about incidentals, support the wrong side of controversial social issues, be immodestly misdressed in public view [with mopheaded hairstyles, sleeveslessness, slackslessness, and soxlessness], wear tattoos or piercings, sass their parents, shriek terroristically, vandalize, discourage delving into [KJV-type and RSV-type] Bible study, and/or fool around playing cards?
Whatever it is that you find intriguing and attractive about Christians so that you want to become one yourself, there are certain proverbial hoops you have to first jump through in the process of determining if you can really become a bonafide and genuine Christian.
I will walk you through some of them, and - at any point along the way - if you feel that you will not (and thus cannot) comply and accomodate to the prerequisites mentioned, you will discover that becoming a Christian is definitely not for you.
Please answer each of the questions in succession below, and if you respond positively, feel free to continue on to the next question. If you respond negatively anywhere along the way, you should stop and continue on no further, because you are then neither capable nor ready to become nor be a Christian.
Do you agree that everything around you probably exists and is not an illusion?
[If yes, continue on to the next question]
[If no, STOP now and continue no further; you're not qualified to become a Christian].
Do you agree that everything not man-made around you is intelligently designed - and phenomenally so - and that whatever is man-made usually is also at least somewhat-intelligently designed?
[If yes, continue on to the next question]
[If no, STOP now and continue no further; you're not qualified to become a Christian].
Do you agree that what exists in your environment probably did not initially create itself, but rather was created by at least one Creator (capitalized because [He] obviously was and yet is greater than what [He] created, with the male-gender pronoun of the highest form of scentient physical creature (i.e. humankind) utilized for their plain superiority over females of humankind, and for the sake of accomodation with discriminate gender semantics concordant with the recorded and preserved Hebrew and Greek Texts of The HOLY BIBLE....which "Bible" is to be alluded to within subsequent questions?)
[If yes, continue on to the next question]
[If no, STOP now and continue no further; you're not qualified to become a Christian].
Do you agree that what the Creator created is more compliant with human survival than detrimental against human survival?
[If yes, continue on to the next question]
[If no, STOP now and continue no further; you're not qualified to become a Christian].
Being that humans communicate by both speaking and writing words, it is probable that the Creator who created humans and other entities in [His] created environment, thus logically assumed (not presumed) greater than who and what [He] created, can and did also both speak and write words comprehensible to His created human lifeforms?
[If yes, continue on to the next question]
[If no, STOP now and continue no further; you're not qualified to become a Christian].
Is it probable that the Creator has spoken and written words to special human beings of His selection during certain times within recorded history, and such communication is probably contained in that collection of books known as: The HOLY BIBLE?
[If yes, continue on to the next question]
[If no, STOP now and continue no further; you're not qualified to become a Christian].
The Old and New Testament of The HOLY BIBLE states that the Creator's name is "God," "the LORD," the "Son of God," "Jesus Christ," and more, according to Proverbs 30:4, Isaiah 9:6, Colossians 1:11-22, Hebrews 1:1-12. Is that plausible?
[If yes, continue on to the next question]
[If no, STOP now and continue no further; you're not qualified to become a Christian].
The first book of The HOLY BIBLE states that in the beginning (when recorded history's timeclock started) God created the heavens and the Earth, that the Earth was covered with water (with no mention of lava), that the Sun and Moon and stars were created on Day 4 of Creation Week, lifeforms were created "out of the ground" (rather than magically appear by their own will and then intricately assemble themselves from inanimate ingredients such as amino-acids goo), and living things reproduced only "after their own kinds" (in accord with RSV's Job 11:12). Is that better than the faithless and apostate heresy and lying suggestions of Big-Bang babble?
[If yes, continue on to the next question]
[If no, STOP now and continue no further; you're not qualified to become a Christian].
The Bible infers that humankind was created in the morality-cognizant image of God with freewill choice, rather than operating on mere animal instinct. Is that, in all honesty, how it actually is in our real-life environment?
[If yes, continue on to the next question]
[If no, STOP now and continue no further; you're not qualified to become a Christian].
Since humans have a sense of morality, are they clearly accountable for thoughts and actions which can be classified as either good or evil effecting each other for bane or blessing, probably associated with non-mythical and non-imaginary prospects of permanent ecstatic and blissful ramifications of perpetual reward contrasted with horrific tormenting consequences of never-ending fiery punishment in outer darkness for certain and specified one-time or frequent manifestations of variable and/or random behaviors under various conditions and circumstances?
[If yes, continue on to the next question]
[If no, STOP now and continue no further; you're not qualified to become a Christian].
Being that there is much disobedience and lamentable devastation and misery exhibited by humans presuming and functioning against the precepts, directives, and commands stated in Scripture (i.e. the Bible) for humans to live in agreement with, and that it is recorded in the Bible that the Creator placed both The Tempter and The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in The Garden of Eden, is it believable that the Son of God was compensatorily born a perfect human, did miracles, taught rectificational doctrine, violently died by lynching and murder, was resurrected back to life, after which He ascended into Heaven, and promised to bodily return again?
[If yes, continue on to the next question]
[If no, STOP now and continue no further; you're not qualified to become a Christian].
Is it logical and probable that, according to the principle of the relational ancestral lineage and connectivity with our primal parents in terms of initiated and ongoing sinful fault, moral obligation and responsibility, and polluted cultural perpetuation involving the need and practice of sacrifice for sins, that the bloody death of Jesus Christ some 2000 years ago over in a small area of the Middle East is effective as atonement and justification for all people who have lived, now live, and will live....who by faith believe that such is heavenly-entrance-insuring atonement indeed and that such atonement applies to them?
[If yes, continue on to the next question]
[If no, STOP now and continue no further; you're not qualified to become a Christian].
Do you believe that that atonement applies to you?
[If yes, you are now and well on your way to being and becoming a Christian]
[If no, STOP now and continue no further; you're not qualified to be nor become a Christian].