Wikipedia co-founder Sanger converts to Christianity, reads Bible in 100 days

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has announced his conversion from skeptic to Christianity

Sanger announced his conversion to Christianity via a recent blog post.

“If you did not know this change, and if you knew me before 2020, this might be a surprise,” Sanger wrote.

The Wikipedia co-founder added that the Bible “withstands questioning” after he read it cover-to-cover over the course of 100 days, convincing him to accept Jesus Christ as his saviour.

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”.

He said 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.

Sanger further 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.

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 stated that as a teen, he came to the conclusion that a person’s worldview shaped the decisions they made, for good or bad.

“I essentially razed all of my beliefs to the ground,” Sanger said in an interview with Fox News.

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“That’s what I told myself I was doing. And my belief in God went by the wayside at that time,” he added.

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

The Wikipedia co-founder disclosed that he also became intrigued by the occult and the idea of a spirit world, saying this curiosity led him to read the Bible in about 100 days to understand its message from a Christian perspective.

Sanger said 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”.

Sanger noted that, to his surprise, he found the Bible could withstand his questioning.

He said: “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.

“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 stated that he started to pray to God and eventually accepted Christ as his saviour in 2020.

The Wikipedia co-founder admitted that he was initially stunned by his conversion, adding 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.”

The Star