I keep seeing this silly atheist claim that if Christians read their Bibles, they'll stop believing. As if God's Word can testify against God. It's the exact opposite. The more I study scripture, the more my questions are answered, the stronger my faith, the greater my peace.

I experienced something similar in physics. As a freshman, I'd been swayed by alternative physics that flew in the face of conventional science. Agitated, I asked one of these renegade scientists how I could proceed in my university studies if what I was being taught was wrong.

He said it was necessary to master conventional physics before I could reject it, and encouraged me to study hard. So, I did. And through that I realized that conventional physics was actually quite sound. Far from rejecting it, I came to embrace it, and ended up going for a PhD.

I'd rejected conventional physics, because I knew almost nothing of it. Same with Christianity. Once I studied both, I realized there were excellent reasons to embrace them.

The moral: never take anything a critic says at face value. Heed Paul's advice, and test all things.