Can believing there is a God ever be rational?

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Can believing there is a God ever be rational?

These are my words, and my understanding as expressed below. If I misstate anything or make a mistake, it is not intentional. I think I have a good grasp of the textbook definition of atheism, but when discussing it and thinking it through I have a lot of questions. When I refer to God I mean in the God in the Bible, and I am a christian. Hopefully I will do a better job on this forum topic than I did on my last. Here is my question.

If two people say that they have considered all the arguments, done research, thought about it at length, tried to consider everything, tried to have no presuppositions, and really tried hard to be objective and unbiased. They gave it a good faith effort to come up with the right answer and not what they wanted the answer to be. Then after all that, one person states the they are now very confident that there is a God. The other person states that they are now very confident that there is no God.

Why is the “no” conclusion the logical, rational, unbiased, scientific, reasonable, with no presuppositions conclusion, while the “is” conclusion is the opposite? Is there any way a believer could be justified in believing?

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Nyarlathotep's picture
Jo - Is there any way a
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Jo, you asked, “Is there any
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@ Jo -
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The non-belief side is
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Yup...Like Kat said, evidence
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RE: Can believing a god ever
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Why is that a negative
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Yes I am refuting challenges
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Why would you think calling
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No, I am referencing him in
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" I think I have a good grasp
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If someone says the are 99%
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LOL...too funny...a deluded
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Obviously not...just look at
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@Jo Well, Sheldon pointed
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Old man shouts ...,
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Then the obvious next
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Jo - The Trinity is not in
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