As someone who as always been a big seeker of the truth and I’m always am a little hard to convince. I’m growing up in a very strong, devout Christian family. My parents always pushed me be more knowledgeable and one day I took them up on that advice:
About a year and and a half ago, my family and I were going through some changes in our life. My dad had just got a new job that was a good fit for him. After a few years of not being able to pay the bills, but my parents remained strong in the Lord. And I went to church every day, I read the Bible every night and prayed before I went to sleep. I did everything I was supposed to do as a 13yr old boy, but one day I was watching some YouTube videos and stumbled upon an Aron Ra video.
I thought to myself, “Could he be correct?” “Is my faith just built on whatever my parents told me it was?”
I continued to watch various athiests on YouTube. I even got to the point where I would have told you I was an athiest. I stopped the desire to go to church, I stopped praying, reading the Bible, ect…..
But about a month later, I stumbled upon a William Lane Craig video on the resurrection and I loved it. He had throughly dismantled the athiest’s position, while throughly building his. He was the first apologist I’d ever seen that actually won, because before I got stuck watching Kent Hovind, Ken Ham, ect….
So, after that I started watching, reading and listening to WLC. And after a while I started studying apologetics, but at first it wasn’t to defend Christianity, it was defeat it. I studied whenever I could, I though of objections, rebuttals, even to a certain extent personal attacks. I decided Christianity was false. I wanted nothing to do with it.
Finally, I decided I was going to go onto Instagram and debate all the apologists I could find. I was going to prove them wrong, but the first day I decided to try, I didn’t fair very well. I continued to try, over and over again, but no matter how many Aron Ra objections I used, they could always counter it with solid arguments.
So, I decided to study apologetics in a different light. I studied for about 4 months. Although I still had many doubts, I was pretty certain Christianity was true. I wanted to strengthen my facts and arguements, so I got in contact with many Insta apologists (Who I now admire and would call them friends) They had great arguements and I learned a lot from them.
And after all that, here I am. I have my own apologetics account on Instagram, I’m starting my own podcast, I have this. I am still studying very heavily and very throughly. I am now convinced that Christianity is 100% true.
Battleground Apologetics 