This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

'If ever a man had every reason to stop believing in God, I am that man.'

Alfred Basta was twenty-one when his father, a gentle church elder in Egypt, died before his time. He did not reach for prayer. He reached for proof that the God his father served did not exist. For twelve years he turned the tools of a cryptographer, the habit of attacking every system until it breaks, against cosmology, biology, geology, the manuscripts of the Bible, the historians of Rome, and the problem of evil. He expected the faith of his childhood to fail. It did not.

Why I Decided to Believe in God is the case he could not break, laid out in plain English for believers, skeptics, and anyone who has buried someone and wondered whether anyone was listening. It is organized by question, so you can listen straight through or go to the one pressing on you tonight.

Inside: the case against God at full strength; why logic, the beginning of the universe, fine-tuning, and the moral law point to a Mind behind everything; the code written in DNA; an honest look at the age of the earth and the Flood; the Dead Sea Scrolls, the New Testament manuscripts, archaeology, and what Josephus and Tacitus said about Jesus; prophecy, the empty tomb, and the men who died rather than recant; and the hardest question of all, why a good God allows suffering.

This expanded Second Edition closes each part with Questions for the Table for small groups, classes, and families, and ends with a word to pastors and group leaders.

Basta reached his verdict in 2006. Years later he buried his mother, then his wife of twenty-eight years after her seven-year fight with brain cancer. This is his account of why the evidence held on the worst night of his life, and why he believes it will hold for you.

For listeners of Lee Strobel, C. S. Lewis, J. Warner Wallace, John Lennox, and Frank Turek.

Why I Decided to Believe in God (Second Edition)

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