Introduction

First and foremost, let me begin by describing myself, about my personality, which i consider important to include as a beginning of a long journey discussing about religion, about my faith..

Well, i found myself as a critical person, a skeptic who always try to wipe out all preassumptions inside my mind about anything. I like 'scientific' ways of investigating things. I am the kind of person who is hard to believe in something if there isn't enough evidence! Or enough basis of that belief! Simply put, I'm a rational person! I hate biasness, preassumptions, and deriving conclusions from emotional tendencies alone!

As a science lover, i always try to be as open-minded as possible. (for your information, open-minded does not mean accepting everything, but it means that i am willing to accept new ways of looking at things and not reject it instantaneously just because of sentiments) . Moreover, besides the open-mindedness, i found myself as a person who is very curious about anything! A person who often questions things which we might sometimes consider as 'facts', such as in the case of the olden days perhaps, "Why the world must be flat?", or even "Why must there be certainty about anything?"

Now giving this idea about myself is very important, as this would further strengthen the validity of my arguments about religion, in case you might think that my view would be biased.
Well, it can't be denied that since I was in primary school, I had received lessons about Christianity. This process continues on throughout my secondary school days. However, it was not until I'm in college that I really knew what it meant, and why religion is so important. Before then, religion to me was just like any other subjects offered in school. It's just like mathematics, or science, you name it. And the reason that i studied it was just to help me pass my grades.

When I'm in college, I started to think seriously about this issue. I started to become exposed into philosophy. While I declared Christianity as the religion I believed in, I'm also trying to keep an open-mind, noticing all assumptions and possibilities, in order to investigate my own faith. I know you might argue that my view would be biased since i receive Christian teachings since I was in primary school. Well, I'm fully aware about this distrust. What's more, i'm just nothing but a stranger to anyone reading this blog. So it's totally up to you readers whether or not you would consider this to be a worthwhile issue to be considered. But due the presence of that distrust, that's exactly why I'm emphasising that I'm a critical, scientific person in which I always consistently assess myself, and ask myself whether or not I have made an assumption to believe in something that is not based on rationality. Another thing, I would also claim that I am presenting this as honestly as possible, in order to share whatever convictions that I have. Again, it's totally up to you to be skeptical about it, or consider it worthless. But if you share the same curiosity about truth, let's learn together in this journey to find the truth.

And yes, one final remark, as an open minded person, I constantly test myself, which means I will continuously assess my faith and I will continue doing so for the rest of my life! This is important, for if you believe in something firmly without questioning it's validity, it will indeed become a blind faith. Hence, for this I can assure you that I really know what I believe, and it is not a blind faith! And finally, it is not because I believe in it, therefore it becomes the truth. But because it is the truth, therefore I shall believe in it. Maintaining this mind-set is important throughout the whole journey.