In the end, there's just what you personally believe

[Angrboda]

Can Christians honestly state they've placed themselves in the shoes of the unbeliever?

They don't need too.  
I've been there, listening to irrational doubt as if it's legitimate and supposed to overwhelm the proofs and clear knowledge.
Doubt serves no purpose if it can't ever stop doubting what has no reason to be doubted. It would then equate what ought to be accepted with full tranquility with that which ought to not be.
And it serves no purpose if people settle with it and enjoy it, and take as a proof to deny knowledge, doubt should push people to search out proofs and knowledge, not as a means to deny it all together and dismiss proofs.

It isn't that there is any problem with skepticism, nor that there is a limit to which one should push skepticism and continue to reserve doubts. The problem is twofold. First, you were an incompetent skeptic, and rather than move from a position of doubt to agnosticism, as was justified by your inability to find answers, you chose instead to jump to a conclusion that itself was no better justified. Second, your belief was not based on reason, but rather was a pathetic response to the anxiety you felt about not being able to resolve the questions before you, and so is nothing but an empty emotional response, not a rational one. That you only struggled with the questions for a mere two weeks before pathetically giving up and running home crying to your former religious beliefs simply shows that you are a spineless and cowardly person.