You are starting to understand. I don't claim 100% assurance but I have sufficient evidence to convince me. I step on the brakes with reasonable assurance that the brakes will work. Otherwise I would not drive the car. As an atheist I wanted 100% proof that God existed before I would believe. I found out that God is not in the business of providing 100% proof. He provides sufficient proof.

Are you saying that the Old Testament prophesies were doctored to match the events? Or are you saying the events were doctored to match the Old Testament prophecies? The Jews would never allow the Old Testament to be doctored. The New Testament fragments date to within the lifetimes of those eyewitnesses and as such could have been easily dismissed by other eyewitnesses as false. There are no contemporary documents that countered the New Testament testimonies. Josephus, a Jewish historian of the time period (not a Christian), did not dispute the testimonies.

Wow! Easily dismissed? How about " I don't have enough faith to be an atheist" by Geisler and Turek. There is so much evidence should you choose to look. As a biologist with a genetics background, the complexity of nature alone is a stunning example of an extremely creative God. He also developed an extremely dense information system in the form of DNA. Instead of two bit data (binary data in computers) God used base four with the two nucleotide pairs. A note below mentioned faith is believing in something without proof. I would add to that and say that faith is believing in something without absolute proof. We all operate on faith. I have faith every time I drive my car and step on the brakes.

Hi All, Having been a former hostile atheist and now a Christian, there is another reason atheists don't want to hear anything about Christianity. An atheist does not have a very stable belief system. An atheist does not want to be reminded that God may actually exist since that is a reminder that they might be wrong. Before becoming a Christian I had to admit that I was really not 100% sure that God did not exist so I had to move to the position of agnostic from the position of atheist. An honest atheist will not claim 100% assurance of God's non-existence. To do so would require 100% knowledge of the world and universe. Initially, as a smug atheist I made fun of Christians I knew. But they had the confidence I did not have.