What are these personal experiences? What are your logical reasons? In what ways is the Bible accurate on so many levels? Please don't take this in the wrong way, I would just like to understand more on why people believe what they do, because this topic is of interest to me.
I don't want to write a book, and I am not that smart. But here are a few things.
Long story short my stepfather was a big partier. He smoked cigarrettes and drank a lot and did speed and stuff. My mom started taking us to church when I was probably about 5th grade. He would go to some Christian concerts and my mom's church softball games. He was usually drunk and sometimes embarrasing. Anyway one time he went to a concert drunk and speeding and ended up becoming a Christian. He stopped smoking and drinking and everything instantly. He did a huge 180 and is still going strong (I am 40).
When I was a pothead I tried to stop smoking weed, but never really could because I never REALLY wanted to. Through different circumstances I ended up going to church and ended up becoming a Christian (or, maybe going back to it). It was weird because I was somewhat resistant to making the decision. I didn't really want to change. Anyway, when I did make the decision, I no longer had the desire to smoke weed. It may sound like a small deal, but it was pretty impressive to me.
No, neither of these prove anything, but to me they are testimonies in the trial of Christianity.
Throughout history critics of the bible have cited many things that they say prove the bible to be inaccurate. But as time goes on, and more archeological discoveries are made, the bible proven to be accurate, and not the opposite.
The bible is not a Jewish nationalist book, and no human has anything to gain by writing it the way it is written.
Christianity is not like any other religion. It explains what the problem is and has its God offer the solution, and pay the price. It is not a system where you earn your salvation. It puts everyone on a equal starting point where nobody can claim to be superior.
The bible os full of ageless wisdom and insight into mankind. It is a reasonable explanation of the human condition. Man given true free will, and making a mess of it.
There is no denying that it is a quite natural for humans to believe in a "god". No other religion has a god who has made the claims that the god of the bible has made. And with prophecy and the historocity of the resurrection of Christ, it makes a convincing argument for itself.
It tells of the origin of life. Science has nothing on this matter.
The arguments against Christianity are weak.
Again, I understand that none of this is proof. But when dealing with the unprovable, one must take the evidence from all kinds of different sources and weigh it, and make a decision.
