I am open to evidence. Do you think god could provide the evidence I would need to believe?
The truth is that Calvinism and Arminianism are taught in the bible. This is evidence that the bible is contradictory, they cannot both be true at the same time. The debate on this forum about the topic proves that the bible is unclear on this issue.
I was convinced god existed based on insufficient evidence. My reasons were other people I trusted believed, I had a dream that god talked to me, I based it on emotion and feelings, I believed the eyewitness testimony given in the bible of the resurrection and I believed some apologetic's. After proper scrutiny I found that all of these evidences fall short and are not reliable to conclude a god exists. I did not choose to believe god existed I was convinced of the evidence I thought was sufficient at the time, I later concluded that the evidence was flawed and insufficient and stopped being convinced.