Facts, Truth and Meaning

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9. Once you start on the path, everything changes:

"I had built myself a fortress of atheism, secure against any attack by irrational faith. And I lived in it, alone."

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"I was startled to find that Christian theism had significantly better explanatory power than atheistic naturalism, in terms of explaining why the world is the way it is, and in accounting for my own experiences within it. Learning more about the Incarnation and about God, the most holy Trinity, has further reinforced my confidence that Christianity really does make sense of the world in a way no other worldview does."

*****

"I don't 'believe' because I like the idea and want it to be true. I don't 'believe' because I think Christianity makes sense intellectually (although that was a necessary foundation to my faith). In fact, I wouldn't say that I 'believe' in God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, or that I 'believe' I have a personal relationship with Him: I would say that I know these things to be true."

https://www.christianpost.com/news/formeratheist-christianity-really-does-make-sense-46146/