I am a former Southern Baptist, former atheist, almost Jew, studying to be an Episcopal priest at a Presbyterian seminary. AMA

To be honest that's just not really my experience. I don't find that everything points my to there not being a god or the Christian God either

I’m mostly referring to evidential aspects, of which there aren’t any. Or at the very most, aren’t any that aren’t more sufficiently explained by the laws of physics. Which is why even those debate-savvy theologians you see in those little Christianity/Atheist debates always concede this themselves to draw upon either faith or “internal witness”.

I guess if it has to go in that direction, which is always necessarily does have to - why does internal witness specifically lend you anything approaching certainty that it’s the Christian God that’s lending this witness? There are countless concepts of Gods that have existed through the eons - and even still today there are countless ones aside from the Christian God that are considered to exist. It seems entirely geographical & arbitrary to assume witness towards the Christian God more or less on no basis other than you were born into a Christian family in a majority Christian country.

What makes you so sure it isn’t Vishnu? Why not Brahma? Gaia? Coatlicue? Perhaps just your own brain chemistry simply reacting to the unknown that’s omnipresent around all of us?

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