(November 21, 2017 at 10:51 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(November 21, 2017 at 10:36 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote: What came first: your belief in the Gospels or your "more generic philosophical arguments"? I ask because I encounter a lot of Christians who seem never to have cracked a single book or article on philosophy until they realized they needed some work on the apologetics end and sought to lend some intellectual heft and credibility to beliefs they had already settled on for very different -- and less 'respectable' -- reasons.
I was exposed to the more philosophical arguments afterwords; so, I would say that it was the historical aspect which caught me at first. However now, if it was shown that Christianity was not true then, I would still likely be a deist.
Do you think that is an issue?
It's not an issue per se. Mostly, I was just curious. Am I to understand that your finding the Gospels historically plausible led to you being a theist or did you consider yourself a theist prior to encountering the Gospels?
