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'I Was Wrong': Wikipedia Co-Founder Embraces Christianity and the Bible, Abandons Skepticism"The answers are out there. The Bible withstands scrutiny, which was a great surprise to me. I thought it couldn't. I was wrong." -Larry Sanger, Wikipedia co-founder
"It is finally time for me to confess and explain, fully and publicly, that I am a Christian," he wrote in a Feb. 5 blog post, noting it was time for him to unveil his testimony. And it's a journey turning many heads considering the philosopher and web developer has had such a profound cultural impact. Sanger told CBN News the skepticism he held for most of his life went back to his childhood and his unsure perspective on all religions. Despite that reticence, he did dabble in attempts to communicate with a Higher Power. "I wasn't necessarily praying to God, per se, but I had a sort of internal dialogue," he said. "And sometimes, I even wrote it out ... with some supremely wise being, and, sometimes, I would even call that being 'God,' not that I believed that that was God, but in order to just sort of clarify my thought." Today, though, he's now definitively directing his thoughts to the Lord, embracing the entirety of the Christian Gospel. The reaction has been swift, which he didn't expect. "I just assumed ... to be honest, a lot of people have more or less forgotten about me," Sanger said. "I'm not in the news that much anymore." But people have responded in droves, with Sanger calling the reaction "overwhelmingly positive." Surprisingly, he said, high-profile atheists have been silent on his conversion—a long process that he said came about after he extensively explored the evidence. "I had a lot of roadblocks in the way to coming to believe that God exists and ... that the Christian God exists, and being a Christian," he said, noting he had to shed presuppositions and ideologies that conflicted with these worldviews, including notions about being driven by self-interest. "When I had children and when I got married, I'd reflected that, 'Well, I would die for these people.' So, of course, I put their interest ahead of mine." This challenged any sort of ideology about putting the self first. Then, he began to become "very disillusioned" by fellow unbelievers—especially the "mocking skeptics." "They were so obnoxious [it] made me reflect about myself and think, 'Maybe, actually I have been influenced in a way that I didn't realize,'" he said... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Continue reading Here.
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