Welcome, Christians and Skeptics!

Welcome to P-Dunn's Apologetics!

This is the first post of what I see to be a big project of mine. So before I start off "doing" apologetics, let me say a little bit about myself and my spiritual life.

About Me:

• I was born on May 25th, 1989
• Some of my hobbies include compsing/arranging/playing music, going to youth group events, video games (Currently, Call of Duty 2 for Xbox 360 and Resident Evil 4 for Gamecube), apologetics (obviously), hanging out with friends, and singing in chorus
• I play seven instruments. In order of skill from best to worst: piano, drums and all things percussion, guitar, bass, violin, and cello. And, since it's in a separate category but still considered an instrument, vocals. I don't know where that goes on the talent scale.
• I'm very active in the chorus at my school. I'm in three choirs, one a select chamber choir called "Madrigals", one a mixed show choir called "Debut", and one a Barbershop quartet called "Most Wanted," where I sing baritone.
• I like meeting new people and I'm fairly outgoing. I can get along with practically anyone, too.

About My Spiritual Life:

• I have no credentials as an apologist other than being a Christian since I was about 4 years old and having been researching many sides of the issues since September 2005
• Around that time, I became incontent with my blind faith. I formed an opinion that it is unacceptable to believe in just anything preachers say, buying into the modernized, pop Christianity that is so oftenly promoted, and not always true.
• I began to formulate what I truly believe about Christianity, not what other people told me I should believe.
• The first atheistical website I encountered was WhyWontGodHealAmputees.com, formerly, Why Does God Hate Amputees? (Hmm. Wonder why he changed...). It initially made me struggle with a lot of what I'd believed in, because I'd never been asked the questions it asked before. But then, I realized, Marshall Brain (the author) too was just buying into the modernized, pop Christianity that I found unacceptable, and some of his claims were laughably out there. I'll be writing an article in response to him and his questions soon.
• I'm a member of the Youth Leadership Council at my church, along with the praise band (vocals and, occasionally, with the possibility of becoming frequently, keyboards) and an evangelical group called the "e-Teams"
• I'm a member of a Baptist church. Compared to others, we're contemporary. But compared to contemporary churches, we're not. I've been going there, essentially, since the day I was born.
• I've been in several debates around the internet, only a few of which have been particularly promising. Most of which have been with atheists who are very stubborn in their beliefs and won't admit they are wrong, ever, even if it's a really small issue. Some of them have been with respectable people who weren't militant ignoramuses. I won't claim victory or admit defeat in any of them, though.

I'm making a separate article about each individual area of Christianity I believe.

So, I hope that you'll bear with me as I start my "career" in "doing" apologetics. I'm not perfect, and I know there will be many others who are better than me. But, as I've said, this is just a side project in preparation for perhaps other things, like a minor in philosophy in college or something.