I’m Epistemic Faith Crisis, the eponymous author of this blog. I’m a Christian, but I am having some issues with Christianity.

My core problem is simple: in every ordinary aspect of my life, I prefer evidence to faith. When I write here, for instance, I don’t just have faith that my spelling is correct, but I run a spellchecker and proofread my text. By day, I’m a programmer. When my manager asks me if my code works, I don’t tell him that I have faith in it; I tell him that I ran tests on it and it passed all the tests.

Isn’t God supposed to be infinitely more important than any of the mundane things I do in my everyday life? If so, why does he require that I lower my epistemic standards to believe in him? Why should my whole life operate according to evidence, not faith, except that one little slice that believes in God? What sense does it make for something so important to rest on such an apparently flimsy defense?

What I need is either a good reason to accept God’s existence and Christianity’s description of him on faith, or I need stronger evidence for these things. I’m looking for help in either of these tasks.