Reason To Doubt

In the past eight years or so I have lost my faith, a faith that I held fervently since a young child. I finally lost my faith while attending a Bible college, of all places, due solely to the fact that the narratives and teachings in the Christian Bible cannot be reconciled with each other. Not only are they not compatible, but they are, in fact, contradictory. I spent many years playing the mental gymnastics that apologists must do to reconcile these troubling matters. The result of any sincere apologist is one of three: a claim to faith, a claim of ignorance, or a rejection of the belief.

My hope is to have completed a private book for my family, which do not entirely know the extent of my agnosticism. I will be using this blog to throw around ideas and request challenging critiques from the faith community for the purpose of writing this book. I will not answer to religious zealots or blog trolls, but I will gladly debate and discuss various Biblical and theological topics with philosophically astute or learned seminarians or mature Christians.

If you have currently stumbled across this blog, however, you have done so much too early. Much of what I will be writing here is, of course, not from my own mind or reasoning. I stand on the shoulders of giants in both philosophy and Biblical scholarship. While I have certainly read much in the past, I am finishing several books that will be prevalent in this articles on this site.

I hope to see you soon.