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I became a Christian because Christianity is true.
Its truth is not overwhelming. However there are certainly sufficient grounds for belief in the truth of Christianity - and certainly no compelling reason to reject Christianity on the basis of logic and evidence.
(Christian belief is a choice, needs faith.)
Nor is absolutely everything about Christianity true, not every small detail - and maybe not even the mass of Christian claims - but fundamentally and in its essence Christianity is just True, True, True...
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I became a Christian when I realized that - in this respect - Christianity was exactly the same as Science - which I had believed-in since a small child.
Take the above passage and substitute 'Science', 'Scientist' or 'Scientific' for Christianity and Christian.
That is what I recognized, and what I have since believed: Christianity it true; just as Science is true, in the same kind of way.
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And just as with Science, if you are doing Science (rather than merely expressing opinions about it) you must choose a theory; if you reject a particular Scientific theory then you can only do on on the basis of believing another different theory - or else you cannot do Science.
(If you are doing science you are believing a theory, many theories, whether you know it or not. A real scientist knows his theory.)
Well, you can chose not to do Science and thereby avoid choosing a theory to believe; but if you choose to live then you must choose a religion to live by; and if you are living, then you are believing a religion, perhaps many religions, whether you know it or not.
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Of course Christianity is above Science, more than Science, and in a sense necessary to the development and continuation of Science as a social activity. What I mean here is that the structure of what it is to mean that something is True is analogous between Christianity and Science.
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If you choose to believe Science as true (real Science, the best Science) - or believe a particular scientific theory; then you can legitimately choose to believe Christianity in the same kind of way, on the same grounds, just as rigorously.
That is what I discovered.
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Stimulated by re-watching:
http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/truth-claims-and-christianity-jerram.html
See especially 5.50 - 10.15 minutes.
But watch the whole thing - it contains some marvellous stuff.
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