Christians’ reasons for believing are numerous, varied, complex, and evolving, which makes them hard to keep track of. This site is my poor attempt to list these reasons with references and their corresponding rebuttals. I will try to update as best I can. If you would like to help in this project please drop me a line.
This collection is intended to be a starting point into these often very complex topics. References and links are added to allow the reader to pursue a more in-depth study. Readers are encourage to not just take claims at face value but to critically evaluate the different opinions. It is also important to keep an open mind, to realize that you maybe wrong, and that some questions may never be answered to your satisfaction.
I. The Bible
A. Old Testament
B. New Testament
i. The Gospels
a. Original Gospel manuscripts
i) The existing manuscripts are so close to the original autographs
ii) Large number of manuscripts
iii) Reliability of textual criticism
iv) Even though there are textual variants, they do not significantly change the meaning of the text
II. The Resurrection
A. Evidence of Jesus resurrection
iii. Rise of new beliefs of the early church
III. Teleological argument or argument from design
IV. Cosmological argument
V. Moral argument