For Larry Sanger, finding faith in God was a surprise to him.
“If you didn't know this change, this might be a surprise if you knew me before 2020,” wrote Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia, in a recent blog post announcing her conversion to Christianity.
In the post On his website Titled “How Sceptical Philosophers Become Christians,” Sanger unveiled how she lost her childhood beliefs as a teenager and came to believe in “methodological skepticism.” Over the years, he reexamined the argument of God's existence, and eventually began to change slowly as he read the entire Bible and converted to Christianity.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Sanger explained how his curious nature led him to question God as a young adult, but later led him to faith in God and Christ.
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Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger explained her journey from skeptics to faith in an interview with Fox News Digital. (Getty Images)
When I was a boy, Sanger said He often used up the patience of his parents and other adults in his life by asking complicated theological questions.
He remembers one day asking his parents, “What is the difference between heart, spirit, and soul?”
But sometimes the adult figures in his life struggled to answer these questions. He remembers the pastor who “shakes him off” after he raises a theological question.
As a teenager, he came to the conclusion that a person's worldview shaped the decisions they made, whether they were good or bad. He asked himself that he would simply adopt a belief that has good reason to believe he is true, so that he would not make the same catastrophic mistakes he had seen others in his life.
“I essentially destroyed 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 was through the roadside at that point.”
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Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger spoke to Fox News Digital about how he went from skeptics to Christians. (istock)
Sanger's agnosticism solidified in graduate school, he said. However, pivotal events in his life spurred him to reconsider some of these beliefs.
After getting married and giving birth to his first child, he began to question, for example, his previous belief in rational self-interest.
“I realized I am willing to die for these people… if I am willing to die for my wife and children, I will act on their interests, not their interests… And if I am going to abandon that belief, what else was I wrong?” he said.
Over the years, Sanger said his doubts about God began to fall. He even found himself defending Christians in response to what he saw as an increasingly hostile attitude from atheists to Christian beliefs.
He was also intrigued by the ideas of the occult and spiritual world. This curiosity led him to cover up the Bible in about 100 days to understand the message from a Christian perspective.
At the same time, he began to reexamine arguments about the existence of God, including arguments from causality, arguments from contingency, and design, and came to believe that these arguments would fit together like “snipples of a jigsaw puzzle.”
To his surprise, Sanger discovers that the Bible can withstand his interrogation.
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Larry Sanger said reading the entire Bible in 2020 in about 100 days led him to his belief in God and his transition to Christianity. (istock)
“In shock and surprise, I discovered that it actually makes much more sense than I understood. I've had every question I asked before and then I've been asked by others and I've been asked more plausible than others. And yet there's a tradition that doesn't ask my questions.
“What I didn't understand is that the Bible is questioning the reason there is a 2,000-year-old theological tradition. If you didn't, you wouldn't be able to continue talking about such details and the doctrines behind it,” he continued.
He began praying to God and eventually accepted Christ as his Savior in 2020. Sanger admitted that he was unsure of his conversion first. He said he had been relatively quiet about his faith up until now. He wanted to make his faith clear and feel ready to protect it.
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The Wikipedia co-founder said he has been working on a book project for several years to compile the discussion of God's existence entitled “God exists: A Philosophical Case for Christian God.”
