Thank you for your thoughtful and extensive answers. I really appreciate the time you put into your post. Most people go though life, and just accept what they are told in their college classes, or what they hear from their relatives and friends. I see that you have put a lot of logical study into your views. Thanks again.
I agree that it is hard to explain about the miracles of Christ. Although I was raised in church, I didn’t actually have a personal relationship with Christ until I was in my teens, and considered the testimony of the martyrs who died, still confessing the truth of Christ’s resurrection. No man will die for something that they know is a lie—so this convinced me of the truth of the Bible. So although there are many convincing proofs of God arrived at through philosophy (and until recently, most philosophers, even if they were not Christians, at least believed in God)for me the most convincing proof of God (and Christ), besides cosmological, is historical and experiential evidences.
I was raised without going to church. My parents never discussed God at all. I found Him in my late teens, and I never looked back. The historical evidence for the Bible is insurmountable. I remember there was a time when atheists argued that Jesus Christ never even existed. Of course, they’ve backed down on that now, as even non-Christians wrote about His presence and crucifixion.
I’m no fan of mathematics, but it is an often overlooked science when it comes to faith. For all the changing fads of astronomical and evolutionary theory, math remains pretty consistent and has concluded that spontaneous life is a mathematical impossibility. There is an old analogy about an explosion in a printing factory resulting in a complete copy of the dictionary. Life could not have occurred, especially in the time scientists conclude Earth has existed. The only explanation is design, and while I find those ‘Ancient Astronaut’ theories interesting, centuries of people did not pray, martyr themselves, obey moral codes .etc. for an asteroid or an alien. They did those things for a man who was not a man. A divine being who gave everything to free us from the evil in man’s heart through Him and through His forgiveness.