RE: Why I will never give up Christianity
Because every other religion teaches what man has to do to reach God. Christianity is the only case where God condescended to reach down to man.
Look, I'm an analytical person that one would expect to be as skeptical as you. I studied the Bible and found it convincing. I credit God himself for that stroke of good fortune.
The Bible tells us that man cannot save himself, he need's God's help - specifically what Jesus did for us. It explicitly states that no other religion can be right, because they all require their adherents to do something on their own to earn God's favor. And they contradict what Jesus Himself said: "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Show me another belief system that has better evidence. Where is your proof that what you see is all there is?
My OP allows for the fact that others can read the Bible and not be convinced. "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
That's pretty much the whole point.
When you said you study the bible and found it convincing, do you mean parts of the OT and all the NT? The OT is muddled with lots of cookery, poetry, history, man made laws, same as we have. It is an encyclopaedia. Some may or may not be accurately true, eg, history is written by the winners. The NT on the other hand is the word of God.