A Lemoncode Sceptic and Orange Answers

So what do you believe and why? The first email and the first question asked by a sceptic that lead to intense conversations about the reality and the existence of God. ‘An unrest in my heart, not really’ was an early response. Religion can be so dangerous and can so easily draw people onto false roads. Further questions and arguments followed: Why faith and what does the word ‘faith’ mean? Why would God will not allow humans to see Him or prove His existence? If God is omni-potent and omni-benevolent, a loving God, and if He does exist, why then a place like hell? Stark reactions often followed; ‘It seems like denial and ignorance are fuelling your faith’. Eternity, creation and science were touched. Michael Heller agreed with Einstein, ‘It seems obvious that science just reads the mind of God’. Man is brain and heart and to deny either, makes one less than a complete human being. Metaphysics teaches us that even in the physical world reality is often not what can be observed by our senses. What would the implications of such knowledge be? And a quote from Carl Sagan ‘Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence’. How important is witness and circumstantial evidence? How can I trust something or Someone before I can believe it exists? There is nothing simple and easy about true Christianity but the truth of Christianity is simple. Relevant questions and arguments were exchanged over a 3-4 week period.