For Larry Sanger, finding faith in God was a surprise, even to him.
“If you did not know this change, and if you knew me before 2020, this might be a surprise,” Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia, wrote in a recent blog post announcing his conversion to Christianity.
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.” 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.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Sanger 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 remembers asking his parents one day, “What is the difference between the mind, the spirit and the soul?”
But sometimes adult figures in his life had a hard time answering these questions. He remembers a certain pastor “brushing him off” after he posed theological questions, which left a bad impression on him and reinforced his skepticism toward God.
As a teen, he came to the conclusion that a person’s worldview shaped the decisions they made, for good or bad. He told himself he would only adopt beliefs he had good reason to believe were true, in order to not make the same catastrophic mistakes he viewed others in his life making.
“I essentially razed 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 went by the wayside at that time.”
