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Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger announces conversion from skeptic to Christianity
Bible 'withstands questioning,' Larry Sanger told Fox News Digital
By Kristine Parks Fox News

For Larry Sanger, finding faith in God was a surprise, even to him.

"If you did not know this change, and if you knew me before 2020, this might be a surprise," Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia, wrote in a recent blog post announcing his conversion to Christianity.

In the post on his website entitled, "How a Skeptical Philosopher Becomes a Christian," Sanger revealed how he had lost his childhood faith as a teenager and became a believer in "methodological skepticism." Over the years, his views began to slowly change as he re-examined the arguments for the existence of God, ultimately leading him to read the entire Bible and convert to Christianity.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Sanger explained how his inquisitive nature led him to have doubts about God as a young adult but later led him back to God and faith in Christ.


Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger described his journey from skeptic to faith, in an interview with Fox News Digital. (Getty Images)

As a boy, Sanger said he often wore out the patience of his parents and other adults in his life by asking complicated theological questions.

He re asking his parents one day, "What is the difference between the mind, the spirit and the soul?"

But sometimes adult figures in his life had a hard time answering these questions. He re a certain pastor "brushing him off" after he posed theological questions, which left a bad impression on him and reinforced his skepticism toward God.

As a teen, he came to the conclusion that a person's worldview shaped the decisions they made, for good or bad. He told himself he would only adopt beliefs he had good reason to believe were true, in order to not make the same catastrophic mistakes he viewed others in his life making.

"I essentially razed all of my beliefs to the ground," Sanger told Fox News Digital. "That's what I told myself I was doing… and my belief in God went by the wayside at that time."


Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger told Fox News Digital about how he went from a skeptic to Christian. (iStock)

Sanger's agnosticism was solidified in graduate school, he said. But pivotal events in his life spurred him to re-examine some of these beliefs.

After getting married and having his first child, he began to question his previous belief in rational self-interest, for example.

"I realized that I would be willing to die for these people… If I was willing to die for my wife and child, then I would be acting in their interest, not my interest… Then I thought, well, if I'm going to throw out that belief, what else was Ayn Rand wrong about?" he said.

Over several years, Sanger said his doubts about God began to fall away. He even found himself defending Christians in response to what he saw as an increasingly hostile attitude from atheists toward Christian beliefs.

He also became intrigued by the occult and the idea of a spirit world. This curiosity led him to read the Bible, cover-to-cover, in about 100 days, to understand its message from a Christian perspective.

At the same time, he began to re-examine arguments for the existence of God, such as the Argument from Causality, the Argument from Contingency, and the Argument from Design, and came to believe that these arguments fit together, like "pieces of a jigsaw puzzle."

To his surprise, Sanger found the Bible could withstand his questioning.


Larry Sanger said reading the entire Bible in about 100 days in 2020 led him to a belief in God and his conversion to Christianity. (iStock)

"I discovered, to my shock and consternation, that it actually makes a lot more sense than I understood. That all the questions that I had asked before had been asked by other people and answered in various ways, some more plausible than others. Nevertheless, there's a whole tradition of asking my questions and many more that I hadn't asked," Sanger told Fox News Digital.

"The thing that I hadn't understood is that the reason why there is a 2000-year-old tradition of theology is that the Bible withstands questioning. If it didn't, you wouldn't be able to go on talking about it in such detail and the doctrines behind it," he continued.

He started to pray to God and eventually accepted Christ as his Savior in 2020. Sanger itted that he was initially stunned by his conversion. He's been relatively quiet about his faith until now, he said, because he wanted to feel prepared to articulate his faith and defend it.

The Wikipedia co-founder said that he has been working for several years on a book project compiling the arguments for the existence of God entitled, "God Exists: A Philosophical Case for the Christian God."

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Christianity in the West isn't practiced like the Christianity in Nigeria.....


In the west, it's like a place of love and belonging..... No hate, not division.....it's all about Christ and his preachings. Especially if you go to the white Christian churches .... You fellowship and have a break to eat, drink or rest and continue again......

But in Nigeria, they will keep you in the church hungry from 8am to 4pm.... While they carefully collect all your money.

Really? Hallelujah, shortages for 👿😈

Religion is SCAM.

To God Be All The Glory In The Highest, Amen

OLAADEGBU:


Bible 'withstands questioning,' Larry Sanger told Fox News Digital.

LoLz. Probably afraid of crazed Trump lackeys coming after him for Wikipedia texts critical of Trump's istration.

No matter what you are
No matter who you are
No Matter What you Have

Without JESUS CHRIST! You Have no Life
Without JESUS CHRIST! All you Have is Nothing!
Without JESUS CHRIST! YOU ARE HEADING TO HELL!!

Welcome.
Grace found him

I want to convert to Islam soon

Christianity is really declining in the West

Quarterpast:
I want to convert to Islam soon

Okay... May we know why?

Righteousness2:
No

You have booked space to type your usual boring lines and preaching fake love while ing genocide of Palestinian children

If he had converted to Jewish religion, IPOB wouldn't have allowed us to hear a thing because Kanu practices same.

Hallelujah he is saved.

Jesus Christ is the only way to the father.

JASONjnr:
Christianity in the West isn't practiced like the Christianity in Nigeria.....


In the west, it's like a place of love and belonging..... No hate, not division.....it's all about Christ and his preachings. Especially if you go to the white Christian churches .... You fellowship and have a break to eat, drink or rest and continue again......

But in Nigeria, they will keep you in the church hungry from 8am to 4pm.... While they carefully collect all your money.

Not all churches, but you're funny though.

Vba lahor o, which religion be Skeptic again?

Eternity is secured in Christ.

I initially read that skeptic for septic. I thought it was all shit

Nice

Getbetter:


Okay... May we know why?

I don't owe you why

JESUS IS LORD

chiiraq802:
Religion is SCAM.

The Christian religion is never a Scam.
The Christian religion is practised in Europe with Love, Peace, Educational and Welfare
THE RELIGION IN AFRICA IS A SCAM BECAUSE THE PEOPLE MADE IT TO BE A SCAM.
JUDICIARY THAT WORKS IN NATIONS IS ALSO A SCAM IN NIGERIA

GAY LIFE DON TIRE HIM.

Quarterpast:


I don't owe you why

Sure, that's why I began the question with 'May'.
Stay blessed.
Peace.

JASONjnr:
Christianity in the West isn't practiced like the Christianity in Nigeria.....


In the west, it's like a place of love and belonging..... No hate, not division.....it's all about Christ and his preachings. Especially if you go to the white Christian churches .... You fellowship and have a break to eat, drink or rest and continue again......

But in Nigeria, they will keep you in the church hungry from 8am to 4pm.... While they carefully collect all your money.

I hail your wisdom. Christianity is more like suffering in Nigeria. Once you in church, they think you have problems. They will avoid you initially but when they discovered you got some juice they will carefully befriend you and take almost all you have including your wife

Jesus to the world...

Getbetter:


Sure, that's why I began the question with 'May'.
Stay blessed.
Peace.

Privately, I can discuss with you. But not here. I believe u already know why

Congratulations

Chinjo2:
Vba lahor o, which religion be Skeptic again?

Ov'edo pataki. Ovbo vie