Oh, so then the question should be “What would I think about these arguments if I hadn’t already committed myself to faith and I were an open-hearted truthseeker?”. Your claim is that: 1) such a person should consider arguments for the Christian faith to be good, on balance (otherwise “Christianity is greatly wounded”), and 2) such a person often would not consider arguments for the Christian faith to be good.
Why do you believe (2)? That is, how can you know what a sincere seeker is going to think of any particular argument? Or, even worse, about all the arguments so that they can decide which theory is more probable on the balance?
I met unbelievers who found some arguments convincing and others who found them unconvincing, but there is no way for me to know if any of them were open-hearted truthseekers. If doctrine (1) is true, it’s just not an empirically verifiable doctrine, since there is no observation by means of which you could determine even your own sincerity, much less that of others.
Oh, so then the question should be “What would I think about these arguments if I hadn’t already committed myself to faith and I were an open-hearted truthseeker?”. Your claim is that:
1) such a person should consider arguments for the Christian faith to be good, on balance (otherwise “Christianity is greatly wounded”), and
2) such a person often would not consider arguments for the Christian faith to be good.
Why do you believe (2)? That is, how can you know what a sincere seeker is going to think of any particular argument? Or, even worse, about all the arguments so that they can decide which theory is more probable on the balance?
I met unbelievers who found some arguments convincing and others who found them unconvincing, but there is no way for me to know if any of them were open-hearted truthseekers. If doctrine (1) is true, it’s just not an empirically verifiable doctrine, since there is no observation by means of which you could determine even your own sincerity, much less that of others.
https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/question-answer/is-gods-existence-evident-to-every-sincere-seeker