is their any evidence that will make me a believer again??
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Josh Rasmussen, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Philosophy who specializes in analytic metaphysics with a focus on basic categories of reality, such as objects, ideas, and necessary existence. Rasmussen describes himself as “a truth-seeker at heart who values collaboration across disciplines and perspectives.” His pursuit of truth and reality led him first to atheism, then, ultimately, back to God.
You went from being a Christian, to becoming an atheist, to becoming a believer again. Can you share your journey?
My journey is motivated by my desire to find truth. Growing up, I sought a deeper understanding for myself, instead of just believing what my parents believed. My father was a pastor so I was raised in church. My worldview fell apart in high school. At that time, I began to ask questions about the existence of evil and the presence of suffering in a world created by God, and what happens when young children and people in remote areas who never had a chance to hear the gospel die. When I talked to my parents about these questions, they didn’t have straightforward answers for me.
Around the same time, I had a friend at school who wasn’t a believer because he said that Christianity couldn’t answer his questions. He said he wished for a being who created the universe and loved him, but he simply didn’t have any evidence to believe that. And I thought, well, yes, if there was a God, why wouldn’t He be more evident to my friend? I was dissatisfied with the evidence presented to me by the Church, so for a while, I stopped believing. But that led me to begin a search for truth where I discovered my love for philosophy and reclaimed my belief in God.