Dear Dr Craig, can an agnostic also be a Christian? For context, I was born in a

devout Christian family that slowly fell into disarray because of various spiritual and emotional

abuses.

In the fallout, all of us lost our faith.

Years later, as I grew older, I personally realized that an atheistic worldview could not sustain me in the most

fundamental ways during times of tragedy and hardship.

As I in Hersi Ali has recently called it.

There was nothing.

I believed in nothing, which caused me great distress when I contemplated the meaning of my

suffering and saw the existential abyss that appeared before me.

My only remedy at the time was to not think about it,

to distract myself.

Of course, this Band-Aid wouldn't cure the underlying issue.

I won't get into details, but thanks to many people

in my life, and thanks to the work of intelligent and compassionate evangelists such as yourself.

I began to see the claims of Christianity as tenable rather than ridiculous.

At this point in my intellectual and spiritual journey, I have concluded that some kind of

God or highest being more likely exists than not.

I have also concluded that the historical claims of Christianity

are just as likely of being true as they are not.

In other words, it's currently a 50-50 bet.

This latter conclusion is quite distressing for me because the likelihood of Christianity being true seems to be swayed by the emotions I feel from day to day.

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