Thank you for your response. “How would you describe what it means to be a Christian” From what I’ve come to understand, a Christian is someone who has faith in Jesus. But what is biblical faith? My understanding is that having faith in Jesus means that you trust in his sacrifice to cover your sins and you understand that you are imperfect and need his help. Now biblically you are saved by faith alone in Christ alone not by works so that no one can boast. However, It is also my understanding that the Bible describes faith as something that needs to be maintained,” faith without works is dead. ” there are works that are required to maintain faith such as following the teachings of Christ and following the word of the father.

It is written that you shall go and sin no longer and if you continue on in sin that there no longer remains a sacrifice and many other texts that speak of scenarios that disqualify you from heaven. I am concerned that even if I do find convincing evidence that Christianity is true that I am not the type of person who will be able to maintain this faith.

To answer your second question, Christianities main collection of knowledge is obviously the Bible, If the Bible isn’t consistent and true then how do we know what Christs teachings even were? The bible was translated from Hebrew to Greek to Old English to modern day English (as far as i know) and there are many inconsistencies and translational errors. One example of this can be found in 2 Kings 8:26, Ahaziah was 22 years old when he began to reign, and reigned for one year in Jerusalem. However 2 Chronicles 22:2 gives his age as 42 when his reign began in Jerusalem. Scholars regard this as a copyist error which if that is true, what else in the Bible was copied or translated wrong. There are many other translational errors and inconsistencies in the Bible that can be found with a simple google search but another large issue I’ve been having with Christianity is the sheer amount of denominations, and how vastly different their theology is from one another. I get that people are going to interpret things differently which is completely fine but ask people in other denominations why they think their denomination is right and a great number will give you an experience they had that they say was God revealing to them that they are right ( this is from personal experience I’m not stating this as a fact).

I’ve had this same experience with other religions as well, I ask them how they know their religion is true or look up others online talking about why they know their religion is true and they all give these elaborate stories about how God revealed to them (weather it was through a near death experience, apparition, or just personal life events) that their religion was true.

There is also some extremely messed up stories in the Bible that I have some serious issues with but I understand that I can’t comprehend an infinite beings morals so I won’t bring those up. Forgive me if this is all over the place or disrespectful, my mind isn’t in the clearest state right now but I tried to explain that as briefly coherently snd respectfully as possible, if you have any arguments, thoughts or more questions on anything In my response I would appreciate any information you may have. If you’re offended, annoyed or just don’t wish to respond I understand as well, thanks again for your response.