The articles linked in this page may not all be complete and available, they will be in the future. --- During a party several people asked me why I'm Christian. I realized that I can't answer them in a concise way that would satisfy them and challenge atheistic beliefs at the same time. I compose this list of reasons **why I believe in Jesus after being a skeptical atheist** for so long. Logical reasoning: - [[How would we know if God exists]] - [[Which religion is true from a birds eye view]] - [[The coherence of the Holy Trinity despite his complexity]] points to Christianity being the true revelation of God - [[Too many smart people are Christian for you to brush it off]] Archeological evidence: - [[The shroud of Turin]] - [[The explanatory power of Scripture]] - [[Pure sulfur at the site of Soddom and Gomorrah]] - [[A city was thrown into the sea]] - a very improbable prophecy Historical evidence: - [[The deaths of the disciples]] - [[The historicity of Jesus]] - [[The historicity of the resurrection]] - [[The credibility of the disciples as historians]] Anthropological evidence: - [[Too many cultures share the flood story]] - [[Too many cultures share the idea of blood sacrifice]] - My entire moral foundation was based on a subset of Christian values when I was an atheist - [[The rapid rise of the Early Church]] Philosophical considerations: - [[The most moral person against moralism]] - [[Only Christianity can have a forgiving and just God]] - [[Pascal's wager]] - [[The inadequacy of Materialist Altruism]] - [[The human desire for a God]] Cosmological evidence: - [[The properties of the cause of the universe]] - [[We live in a fine-tuned universe]] - [[The scientific method applied to the Big Bang]] Personal experiences: - [[Impending spiritual war]] - [[My life as an outlier]] - [[How my self-improvement journey led to Jesus]] - [[How my ego led to Christianity]] Typologies, symbolisms and prophecies: - [[Prophecies fulfilled by Jesus]] - [More prophecies](http://www.about-jesus.org/complete-chart-prophecies-jesus.htm) - [Even more prophecies](http://www.about-jesus.org/complete-chart-prophecies-jesus.htm) - [[The cross is crushing the head of the serpent]] - [[The gospel is encoded into the lineage of Adam]] - [[The 12 jewels]] - [[Why cultural hotspots create geniuses]] - [[God made Eve from Adams rib]] - [[God is a surgeon]] Metaphysical considerations: - [[The unreasonable effectiveness of Mathematics]] - [[The existence of objective beauty]] - [[The suffering God]] Each of these points taken individually may not be strong enough evidence to alter one's model of the world, but the orchestra of all of these makes me truly believe that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. I do sometimes have doubts, that is normal (normal doesn't mean I shouldn't fight against it) but to ignore all the evidence above for a logical and reasonable agent it would mean to throw everything else along with it. The very things that we use to model life are compromised when the evidence above is brushed off as insufficient. So the real question is - *Why are you not a Christian?*