Wesley Huff
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Podcast Appearances
non-explainable, unexplainable from a natural materialistic sense of kind of looking at the world. And so although that marked that powerful supernatural experience later in my teen years, I still really and maybe this is what you're referring to in terms of hitting a wall is I was really wrestling with other questions in that, OK, something happened when I was a kid.
non-explainable, unexplainable from a natural materialistic sense of kind of looking at the world. And so although that marked that powerful supernatural experience later in my teen years, I still really and maybe this is what you're referring to in terms of hitting a wall is I was really wrestling with other questions in that, OK, something happened when I was a kid.
I'm not sure really how to get around that, but I have these intellectual questions. questions about whether what I believe or what I've been taught to believe is actually true. And so that started a period of time.
I'm not sure really how to get around that, but I have these intellectual questions. questions about whether what I believe or what I've been taught to believe is actually true. And so that started a period of time.
Yeah, yeah, where I investigated. And, you know, I lived in a home where we had the Quran on the shelf. And so I pulled it off and I read it at that point in time. Now, I've read it multiple times since then, but the first time reading it through and thinking, okay, could this actually answer the ultimate question that I have? How old were you the first time you read it? I was 16. Okay.
Yeah, yeah, where I investigated. And, you know, I lived in a home where we had the Quran on the shelf. And so I pulled it off and I read it at that point in time. Now, I've read it multiple times since then, but the first time reading it through and thinking, okay, could this actually answer the ultimate question that I have? How old were you the first time you read it? I was 16. Okay.
Oh, at that point, I probably read the Bible about two or three times. Okay. So I read the Quran cover to cover. I've read it multiple times since. But I also read the Bhagavad Gita. I think at the time it was a shorter version. It wasn't the entire Bhagavad Gita. And I read the Book of Mormon. And digging into some of these...
Oh, at that point, I probably read the Bible about two or three times. Okay. So I read the Quran cover to cover. I've read it multiple times since. But I also read the Bhagavad Gita. I think at the time it was a shorter version. It wasn't the entire Bhagavad Gita. And I read the Book of Mormon. And digging into some of these...
pieces of worldview literature to try to figure out, okay, I know what my parents raised me to believe, but is believing it because they raised me to it the best reason to believe it? It's not a bad reason. I don't think it is. But is it the best reason?
pieces of worldview literature to try to figure out, okay, I know what my parents raised me to believe, but is believing it because they raised me to it the best reason to believe it? It's not a bad reason. I don't think it is. But is it the best reason?
And so exploring some of these questions as much as I could at that age in looking at these sources, going online, trying to interact with people who held these worldview perspectives. And that was really the process that I think God used that set the foundation for what I do now in terms of actually wrestling with, because I think there are good objections to the Christian worldview.
And so exploring some of these questions as much as I could at that age in looking at these sources, going online, trying to interact with people who held these worldview perspectives. And that was really the process that I think God used that set the foundation for what I do now in terms of actually wrestling with, because I think there are good objections to the Christian worldview.
I don't think they're true, but that doesn't mean that there aren't good ones. And so I think we have a duty if we are pursuing the truth, and ultimately I think that Jesus is the truth, with a capital T, that we have a duty to pursue what is true even above, say, an allegiance to Jesus.
I don't think they're true, but that doesn't mean that there aren't good ones. And so I think we have a duty if we are pursuing the truth, and ultimately I think that Jesus is the truth, with a capital T, that we have a duty to pursue what is true even above, say, an allegiance to Jesus.
Now, I don't think that that is in competition to each other because I think that Jesus is the truth, but we should ultimately be asking the question, what if this could be false? And looking at the objections from the other side and saying, well, are there any actual reasonable objections that invalidate what I believe to the point that I need to rethink this?
Now, I don't think that that is in competition to each other because I think that Jesus is the truth, but we should ultimately be asking the question, what if this could be false? And looking at the objections from the other side and saying, well, are there any actual reasonable objections that invalidate what I believe to the point that I need to rethink this?
Oh, I don't think so. I was a bit of a slacker.
Oh, I don't think so. I was a bit of a slacker.
I think... Yeah, most likely.
I think... Yeah, most likely.