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If you’ve ever asked yourself the big questions of life, you’ve probably taken a spiritual journey involving the great mystery of whether God exists. Are there good reasons and evidence to believe in God? Trading Gods will help address many of your deepest spiritual questions.
I’ve spent my professional career trying to make complicated things easier to understand. So, if these questions sound scary, or the vast shelves of books on these topics look intimidating, Trading Gods is a digestible survey of wisdom collected over years of study.
Follow my journey from agnostic, to seeker, to Jesus-follower as I tackle the big objections to faith raised by skeptics.
Top 5 questions about Trading gods
A: It was the terrorist attacks on 9/11 that prompted me to walk into a church for the first time as an adult. I was desperately searching for answers to life’s biggest questions. Essentially, the book is my spiritual journey from agnosticism to belief in Jesus. Along the way to faith, I had to confront the most challenging questions from the New Atheists—an anti-religious movement that also began after (and in large part due to) the 9/11 attacks. They brought up challenges regarding the perceived conflict between science and religion, faith and doubt, and the role of evidence and reason. This book is a summary of how I arrived at a decision of faith by tackling tough topics like cosmology, evolution, miracles, morality, final judgment, and more.
In another sense, the book is about providing good reasons for believing in God. Ultimately, I conclude that faith in the God of the Bible provides the most comprehensive answers to life’s biggest questions.
Q: What is your book about?
Q: Who is the book for?
A: It’s primarily for spiritual seekers trying to weigh the evidence for and against a belief in God. When writing the book, I had my pre-9/11, twenty-something self in mind. It’s written to someone who wants to better understand theist and atheist perspectives (and their ultimate conclusions) regarding the questions that matter most in life.
Considering that apologetics and traditional Christian doctrine is so poorly understood by many Christians (and infrequently taught at many churches), I also wanted to write a book accessible to the average church-goer. So, if you don’t have time to read the dozens and dozens of books on these topics, then I hope this book is a great summary.
Q: What inspired you to write such a book?
A: My spiritual journey was greatly blessed by travelers and teachers who had gone down a similar path and reported back on their findings. I had tons of spiritual, scientific, moral, and historical questions after 9/11. Thankfully, the church I started to attend had a vast library that helped me think through these topics. I was shocked to discover that there were very good responses to my toughest questions. And I found the dialogue between Christian and skeptics to be fascinating. So I continued to study these issues, ultimately creating a teaching series for my church that eventually turned into this book.
Q: Why is the title of the book called Trading Gods?
A: I was only a year into my professional investing career when the 9/11 terrorist attacks shook my world. I’ve spent my entire career in the investing world, managing billions of dollars and instructing trades of about a trillion dollars. Prior to 9/11, I was a religious “none,” which is a shorthand classification for anyone who would answer “no preference” if asked to identify with a particular religion. I was spiritual but not religious, believed all religions led to God, and thought that morality was subjective. At best, I was an agnostic. After a multi-year spiritual journey, I decided to trade the fake god of my own creation for the real God.
Q: What qualifies you to write a book about the existence of god?
A: I’m an armchair theologian with a deep passion for understanding the tough questions of life. I spend most of my free-time learning about spiritual things and the case for God’s existence. However, I’m not a trained theologian. While I certainly attempt to do justice to the topics at hand, my hope is that my layman’s perspective will be helpful to the average reader.