(July 17, 2015 at 2:02 am)SamS Wrote: Has there ever been a Christian argument that has made you, for even a split second, question whether your current atheistic stance is right?
Even if the argument turned out to be completely fabricated or disprovable, did it at the very least draw you closer to believing the Bible is God's Word and all that such a belief entails?
If not, has there ever been an argument that you didn't know how to answer, or that surprised you against your expectations?
Not looking for "All Christian arguments are idiotic" replies. This is an honest question.
I'm not an atheist but I'm not a believer in Christianity either.
I grew up in Christian world and have spent a long time now discussing religion on the internet and I have to say that I've never been drawn to Christianity at all, in fact, as time has gone by I've found it even less potentially believable. The 'even less potentially believable' aspect may partly be the product of coming across far too many "build a skyscraper by stacking one evidential house of cards on top of another" apologists, of course.
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
