Why I Believe
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چکیده
When I came to UCSD, a professor asked me how I could be a professing intellectual and still be a Christian. The topic came up a few weeks back as well. So I thought I would collect my thoughts about reasons that I personally find helpful when considering whether Christianity makes sense. Note that I do not accept the definition that faith is "belief without reason". Instead I prefer the definition of faith as "trust without reservation". I write in the hope that people who find Christianity implausible and irrelevant will perhaps find one or two ideas that will, at the very least, provoke some thought.
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