The Prolix Fool

I am finally ready to share what I have been working on for months now.  It has been a longer road than I expected, certainly with a different end than I imagined.  Perhaps someone else will find this of use.  If nothing else, hopefully it helps those around me understand my thoughts on this complex subject.

A Call to Action Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this.  This is not something I would have ever imagined writing before now, but I want my friends and family to know what has happened to me in the last year or so.   When the pandemic began, I (like so many others) found myself with much more time on my hands then normal.  After a couple months of hanging out at home and working, it became apparent that the time we were to “shelter in place” was going to be much longer than initially anticipated.  There were many options for a way to pass the time, but one day I decided I was going to make a conscious effort to get closer to God and bury myself in His Word.  It only made sense to commit my time to something that every Christian is called to do on a daily basis, strengthen our relationship with the Lord and search for His Wisdom.  So, I did just that. Initially, things went well.  I was reading more than I ever had of The Bible.  I was watching sermons and reading comment

Fact or fiction I will repeat the question I posed in the first article: If we (Pete and I) hadn’t been exposed to Christianity at a young age, if we encountered it instead now, would we be convinced it is true?  What this really asks for is the objective evidence for Christianity.  These articles have explored this from every angle I could think of.  (I do wonder if people are going to skip right to this article to just get to the bottom line.  Not much of what follows will have any context if that is the case.) There are two broad possibilities regarding Christianity.  It is either true or it is a fiction created by man.  What would a fiction look like?  Well, all one has to do is consider other religions that we know to be so (you can fill in your own blank here).  Here are some characteristics one would expect of its writings and followers: They would be limited by whatever knowledge was available at their time, perhaps containing ideas we now know to be wrong. They would reflect t