[jeffporfirio]

Seems most of the posters are atheists, which I can understand, agnostics seem difficult to fathom for me.
I will throw this out there at the risk of being humiliated, mocked or insulted.
I'm a Christian, a Catholic to be exact, but didn't become one until into adulthood.
I didn't believe in God or had even the notion of a supreme creator. I came to be interested in the subject of God after talking to other Catholics, reading tons of books on the subject of Jesus, listening to podcasts and watching documentaries.
It is through knowing the person of Jesus that I came to believe in God, a creator, a heavenly Father.
I wont discuss the historical Jesus, as there no need to, one does not even have to read the bible to know that the historical Jesus existed. Plenty of non-Christian historians wrote about Jesus the man (Pliny, Tacitus, Josephus, etc.).
The question for me was; was Jesus who He claimed to be? And the simplest answer was the testimony of the aspotles and of the early church. You see, it could have been a lie, but nobody dies for a lie. Plenty of people die for lies they think are true (ie 9/11 so called martyrs), but nobody dies for what they know are lies (how many Koreshians are out there?). The apostles and early church knew Jesus, saw him, ate with him, and still went to horrific deaths proclaiming he whom they knew. For the first 325 years of the church, Christianity was an illegal superstition and still the church grew. For these reasons, the testimony of the early church and apostles, I believe in Jesus.
So I believe His word and preaching on God and the afterlife.
I believe C.S. Lewis put it best, "Jesus was either Lord, lier or lunatic", up to each what they believe.