Ben wanted to look into if the evidence for God pointed towards atheism or Christianity.
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So, from a very young age
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I basically saw Christianity as the thing
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that my parents were telling me to do
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and therefore I didn't want to do it.
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My name's Ben and this is my story.
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I grew up in a Christian family.
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I knew growing up
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that my life would be a lot easier
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if I acted Christian
when it was convenient
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but I didn't believe it was true.
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I was a very good
Christian boy in the house
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but when I was at school
and in my social life
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I was as un-christian if you can imagine
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as one could get almost.
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I got into a lot of
trouble at secondary school
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for picking fights with other children,
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for bullying,
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I would just generally
was a real horror, pain
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as a teenager.
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But I was living this double life.
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When I was about 15 that tension
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of living this double life came to a head
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and I began to realise
that actually this life
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was unsustainable, it
was just too much effort.
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I had to either say no or yes to God.
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And so, I remember I was on a beach
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in the Lake District and I prayed,
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and it was basically a prayer
of God if you're up there
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I wanna follow you
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but I need something to go on,
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I need evidence, can you show me a sign?
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Six months later I was given a DVD,
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and that DVD was the
debates between John Lennox
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and Richard Dawkins
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but it was the first
time anyone in my life
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had shown me that there is evidence
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for Christianity,
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that there is reason to believe.
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And so, aged 15/16 I began
looking at the evidence,
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and then by the time I hit kind of 18
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I had amassed this back log of evidence,
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and I suddenly realised hang on a minute,
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the evidence doesn't point towards atheism
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but actually points massively
in favour towards Christianity
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being true, and at that
point I went basically
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okay, fine God, you win.
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I was convinced by the evidence
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and my faith followed suit.
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My life changed considerably.
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I, you know, stopped being a bully,
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stopped being a brat, stopped
being an arrogant sod,
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and that wasn't an overnight switch,
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I'm still growing in that,
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and each day I do
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but I feel that compare me
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to the 15/16 year old Ben,
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and I think it would be worlds apart.
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If you'd known me aged 15/16
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you would have put me
in the latter category,
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you would have put me in the category
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of there's no way he
would become a Christian,
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he's too hard headed, he's too stubborn,
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he's too bad, he knows too much.
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Don't ever label someone
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as unsaveable.
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Don't ever label someone
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as they would never become a Christian.
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We know that becoming a
Christian is a miracle from God
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and the opening of spiritually blind eyes
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but God did it for me, he can
do it for your friends too.
October 2019
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Topics
Apologetics
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Topics
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