Neither a theist nor an atheist

It's the same as being a little bit pregnant.

How can you be just a little bit atheistic? Either you believe in a deity or set of deities, or you don't. It is just like being pregnant. You are either pregnant, or you aren't. There isn't some middle path where you are a little bit pregnant.

You can still have a firm belief in the face of 100% uncertainty. I think they call it faith. Atheism does not require a belief in the absence of God. All atheism requires is a lack of a positive belief in God which would make you 100% atheist.

Belief and knowledge are two different things. Belief is what you have in the absence of knowledge, in the absence of certainty. A lack of a belief is enough to get above the bar. Anything additional is just more clearance over that bar.Edited by Taq, : No reason given.

There is no faith if you have evidence that it is true. Faith is a belief held in the absence of evidence. Without evidence you do not have certainty. However, you can still have the convictions of your faith based beliefs. The problem seems to be that people are confusing conviction with certainty.Edited by Taq, : No reason given.

If you have evidence, why do you need faith? You don't need evidence in order to believe something is true. There is no such thing as personal evidence. When we say evidence, we meen objective evidence that is independent of a single subjective experience. If they are unseen or undetectable, then you have no evidence.You are so twisted around that you are defining evidence as not having evidence.Edited by Taq, : No reason given.Edited by Taq, : No reason given.

Those are also beliefs, not evidence. All you have offered in their support is "I believe". If you had mountains of evidence demonstrating that the message was accurate, would you need faith? No. Why would you need faith if you claim to have evidence that it is true? That is the biggest ball of nonsense in the Bible. If it is unseen, then it isn't evidenced. It's not that hard to figure out.

Like you said, you have to believe it is true. That is not evidence. That is belief. Evidence is something you can demonstrate independently of the person making the claim. You are putting your faith in John with no evidence that he is telling the truth. Then what evidence do you have that the gospels are true?

What is that evidence?All you have offered so far is that you believe God has certain characteristics. That is not evidence.