Unbelievable?: Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian

if we grant the possibility that there is a God, then the explanation that God raised Jesus from the dead turns out to be the best fit for all the data we have.

Atheism and Christianity tell two very different stories. One is a story of ultimate purposelessness – the ‘blind, pitiless indifference’ of Richard Dawkins’ universe. The other is a story of ultimate meaning and hope – hope that there is a reason for our existence, hope that our lives mean something, the hope that death is not the end. A hope that

for mainstream academics, the view that Jesus never existed belongs in the same category as those who claim that the moon landings were a hoax.

no widely respected historian holds to the mythicist position,

Rocks, chairs and cats also lack belief in God. Does that make them atheists?

apologetics alone can never provide the whole picture in our search for faith. In the end, nobody gets argued into the kingdom of God.

We aren’t obliged to make every element of the stories line up in order to establish that the Gospels are historically reliable, any more than differing accounts from the battle of Waterloo would change the conclusion that Napoleon’s army was defeated.

Maybe God isn’t interested in people simply believing in him. Instead, I think God is far more interested in people loving him and trusting him than merely believing in him.

the Islamic view of Jesus stands against the vast weight of prevailing scholarship.