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Chad | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Ya, that's true. 
Maybe I'll be curious enough one day to see how it reads.
I have heard of some of the commonly used philosophical arguments before.
I'm sure there are a ton of them I haven't heard.
I'm open to hearing them out though.
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bobby | 8 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The Reason For God by Tim Keller is also a well-written and well-reasoned book
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Daniel Wigton | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 This is a problem with canned replies. There isn't going to be an argument that works for everyone. It depends on each person's specific objections and values. I have been catholic since birth and committedly so, yet none of the "proofs of God's existence" have worked for me. They are at best, arguments for God's existence.

I wish I could say that I had the simple accepting faith that so many of my friends and family do. I wish I could say that I'd have found my way to Catholicism if I'd been born elsewhere, but I get to have a daily struggle instead. I'd like to think it is because I am just too smart for a simple faith, but in reality I am just too proud.

What I can do, regardless of the reason, is give a well-reasoned account for why I remain in the faith and fall ever deeper in Love with God and will do so till death. What that won't do is be enough for you.

Luckily nothing I or C.S. Lewis can say needs to be enough for you. If Christ is who He claims to be than He will make himself known in a way that works for you (that is not to say on your terms however) If he isn't.. well now that is a confusing situation of un-falsifiabilty.