(January 8, 2016 at 2:34 pm)Crossless1 Wrote:(January 8, 2016 at 2:29 pm)athrock Wrote: Which is to say that you, as an individual, have not yet heard a compelling argument for theism. Maybe you never will.
But that is NOT the same thing as saying that compelling arguments do not exist, is it? After all, there are lots of atheists who finally run across the one with their name on it...
No, I have not encountered a compelling reason to believe and neither (by definition) have any other people who are, at this time, atheists. Of course, there are former atheists who found or experienced something that caused them to change their minds. By the same token, there are former theists who now say they saw through the "reasons" they previously had for believing.
Both happen for the same reason. Because a wise man builds his house on the rock of truth and the foolish man builds his house on sand. When tested by the wind and rain the wise man's house stands while the foolish man's house falls.
If an Atheist truly seeks the truth about god he will find it. if a religious man builds his faith on empty religion he will loose it.