Why I Became An Atheist 

As a Christian, it's good to ask questions. And don't stop asking questions, while staying honest and open minded. But don't confuse faith(trust) with blind faith.

Notice that he didn't say he found all of his answers to be unsatisfactory, he said he couldn't find ANY answers. People just "refused" to answer him and literally didn't even offer answers. Sorry, but I call BS. This is the age of the internet. You can find a response from a great philosopher to pretty much any question any atheist brings. There's no more excuse for not finding answers. You may be not *satisfied* with the answer, but that's very different than saying they "had no answers" and "refused to answer my questions." Am I seriously to believe a zoomer in his early 20s *only* goes to his local church elders for answers, and didn't think to look up answers online from apologists and philosophers? I highly doubt it. In actuality, he wasn't looking for answers. He was looking for excuses to sin, probably because he knew fornication was wrong, and he wanted to indulge in it.

Where does it says in the Bible that Sola Scriptura is all you need? please tell me

In his podcast, The Whole Counsel of God, Fr. Stephen De Young mentioned that, most of the time, when the Bible uses the words "faith" or "believe," it is better translated as "faithful" or "faithfulness." This interpretation makes much more sense, especially when considering Paul's references to finishing the race and holding fast to traditions.

I pray for you all 🙏

As an agnostic coming from a Muslim background, this was very refreshing to share. I feel like Christianity and Islam have very common similarities that both religions have that we don't really discuss. Thank you for posting this!

This guy is about to make everything his golden calf, get depressed and keep on the flywheel of the world.

May you find Christ again. Good works with strong faith. Be a righteous man!

funny how the host said "Ignore" that last part when the man in the video said "I'm happier" it is possible to be happy without a religion. I'm an Atheist & to be an Atheist is to accept that there is no evidence in a God. I recommend all those that are not scared to think to go look at videos from Alex O'Connor & Richard Dawkins

2:15 Depending on how you define faith, you're absolutely wrong. If you define faith the way the Bible defines it in Hebrews 11:1 (Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see), not everyone in the world utilizes that definition of faith. The Bible basically claims that faith in anything (but particularly god) is confidence in what we HOPE to be true, without having observable evidence to validate the claim. Which is why it says "assurance about we do not see/observe". The issue with this definition of faith is that you can apply it to any claim. A racist can claim to have faith that white people are superior to black people, based on the confidence that they hope for and assurance about what they cannot observe. There are a million other examples, but that was the first to come to mind. If you define faith as being a synonym for the word "confidence", than yes I would agree that everyone in the world has faith. When you have confidence for something, you have evidence to back up your confidence. If I'm going to sit in a chair and I'm confident it will hold my weight, I'm not hoping that it will hold my weight because of some hope that is unobservable (as defined in Hebrews 11:1), I am confident that it will hold my weight because we have observable evidence to suggest that the chair is capable of holding my weight. Perhaps I have sat in the chair previously. I can touch the screws and bolts that keep the chair sturdy. There are peer reviews on the internet about the integrity of this chair. There is plenty of evidence that is observable about the integrity of the chair, which is why it doesn't qualify as faith in the biblical sense. If we are just using faith as a synonym for confidence, why have the word faith at all? It's rather redundant and misleading if you do that. Faith has it's own meaning defined by the book of Hebrews and we should stick with that definition in my opinion.

I also asked questions that either went unanswered or the answers that were given were not satisfactory to me. Another reason I left the church and looked elsewhere for moral guidance is because Christians would say one thing, but do another as well as use the Bible and God to justify lying, stealing, cheating, etc. As someone who cares deeply about ethics and morality, the church failed me. Once I left the church and read the Bible front to back, I realized that there was so much of it that was not being talked about, or would be interpreted in such a way that would defend things we would consider evil today. I have no issue with people who are religious and go to church, but I think Christians need to realize that they themselves are pushing people away from Christianity.

When you have sufficient evidence of a claim, you don’t need faith. Faith is belief without evidence, or even worse at times - belief in spite of evidence. Faith is not a virtue.

Y'all theobrogians sound alllmossst sensible enough to abandon faith yourselves. Keep thinking. You might get there.

I have noticed with faith that many people who leave want things to be logical and reasonable. Believing is not enough for people who want to know the truth. Religion holds people back from questioning and focuses on blind faith/belief. Even the most knowledgeable Christian scholars end up leaving the religion for many reasons.

Once I started caring if my beliefs where true or not, Christianity stopped having any value in my life. I don't have faith in things I cannot actually know or don't have evidence of. I'm perfectly comfortable saying I don't know, when that's actually the case. So, you can say or argue I have faith in things, but I would argue you're conflating trust with faith and from my understanding faith is a belief without evidence. Where as my trust in things is based on actual evidence not faith.

The panel is struggling with this one because there really is no logical answer. Most people believe in the faith they hold because they grew up with it. It becomes "the truth" and the other guy's beliefs seem unusual, strange, and vaguely wrong. At the end of day, our beliefs are stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the world. This person believes a guy came back to life and rose into heaven. This girl believes a guy rode to heaven on a winged horse. This third person believes you only go to heaven for 500 years (eg. some Native tribes). Who is right? Nobody really knows. But none of the magic can be proven with evidence. They are stories.

Grow up.