What I don't understand is why anyone (no matter how much doubt they may have in their minds) would choose to deliberately walk down that road. Kosta seems to be on some quest for "truth", but he refuses to see the evidence for that truth or even to acknowledge that the evidence exists. Kosta appears to not be specifically searching for truth, since he has chosen to disregard the evidence, but his quest appears to be one of looking for reasons to doubt; reasons to confirm his skepticism.
As is clearly stated in Hebrews, FAITH is the EVIDENCE of things NOT seen.
Faith is simply a belief that what someone says is true, whether it's implied, or said explicitly. Faith is not evidence for what was said, or implied.
Especially when that road does not lead to truth. It can't: It has no principle and so terminates in Nowhere.
A doubter needs to understand that; and then ask himself whether he really wants to risk walking down that road....
There are far better ways to "relieve doubt."
I have rarely felt that pseudo-super-rationalists were
SERIOUSLY interest in any authentic
QUEST FOR THE TRUTH.
Instead, they seem to have a burr in their saddle for a variety of reasons—all of them fostering some level of bitterness or hostility toward God and/or other authority figures—usually for some kind of degree or type of Reactive Attachment Disorder or for some tragedy in their lives for which they blame God whom they deny the existence of.
Really rational, that.
IF they were really authentically on a QUEST FOR TRUTH,
THEN their perspectives and attitudes would be more broadly based and more reality based instead of the rigid narrow fantasy world of their own creation.
Honesty.
Kosta seems to be on some quest for "truth", but he refuses to see the evidence for that truth or even to acknowledge that the evidence exists.
I refuse [sic][ to "see" the invisible evidence? You find that odd?
I refuse to acknowledge that the indemonstrable exists. Imagine that!
Kosta appears to not be specifically searching for truth, since he has chosen to disregard the evidence, but his quest appears to be one of looking for reasons to doubt; reasons to confirm his skepticism.
What evidence? What you call "evidence" is a book with fantastic tales in it.
As is clearly stated in Hebrews, FAITH is the EVIDENCE of things NOT seen
Well, there you go. For some people that is "evidence" enough. I guess I am different.