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The religious ask me from time to time what would convince me that God exists. I have written about various ways that I would be convinced, but they all lack in detail and specifics. Today I�m offering one example of exactly what would convince me in a challenge that would likely save my soul, be compelling to readers of my blog, and almost certainly make the news as a story that would be picked up by Christians everywhere. The steps you, the believer, must take: Ask your God for the winning Mega Millions lotto numbers for Tuesday, 5-5-15. Give me the numbers privately. I�ll take it from here. I�ll use my own dollar to play your numbers on that date. The odds of those numbers hitting, while not impossible to hit by chance, would be a sufficient sign to me that God gave you the numbers and I would therefore join your faith. If they win, I will donate the jackpot to a charity affiliated with your (our) religion. Yes, I imagine a guy donating his winnings to charity because he says that...

I�ve interviewed a many notable atheists with great conversion stories. Ex-Baptist minister, Bruce Gerencser , one-time Catholic priest,  Thom Burkett , and past Presbyterian pastor, David Hayward , to name a few. I�m aware of atheists who are now proud Christians, mostly because evangelists reshare such stories until my timeline is a flood of textual reruns. They must know that the narrative of someone discarding one life for another can be very compelling, but should it ever be compelling enough to convince you to change? Is there anyone whose conversion would be a catalyst for your own? Not long ago I had a close college friend pass along his testimony of religious revelation. Unlike a door-to-door religious testimony, my friend�s meant something because I knew that he wasn�t mentally unstable. He wasn�t justifying the means of a lie to the end of saving my soul. Coming from a person who with I�ve spent the best and worst of over four years it meant what he was saying was very l...