Lunch With Andy Carver

Today I had an inter­est­ing lunch with Andy Carv­er, all-around cool guy and for­mer con­gres­sion­al can­di­date (Lib­er­tar­i­an). He’s work­ing on his Ph.D. in Man­age­ment, Sci­ence, and Engi­neer­ing. He also dri­ves a real­ly nice motor­cy­cle.

Any­way, we had lunch to talk about God. Andy is some­where in the agnos­tic realm (he thinks there’s prob­a­bly some­thing out there, but despairs of know­ing exact­ly what it is–he’s just does­n’t see how you can choose between the major world reli­gions).

We talked for about 2 or 3 hours. We’ll have to get togeth­er again some­time soon, we both seemed to real­ly enjoy our­selves!

Here’s the thumb­nail ver­sion of my half of our dis­cus­sion:

Why choose Chris­tian­i­ty?

1) God exists
2) God is good
3) God has revealed Him­self in Jesus
4) The Bible is God’s trust­wor­thy mes­sage

We spent a lot of time talk­ing about the dif­fer­ent rea­sons I find each tenet plau­si­ble (and have in fact cho­sen to base my life upon them).

At the end, Andy allowed me to pray a sim­ple prayer for him: God, I know you love Andy. Please reveal your­self to him in a way that makes sense to him and is per­sua­sive to him. Bless him in his stud­ies, in his rela­tion­ship with Glo, and in every­thing else he puts his hand to. In Jesus name, Amen. He seemed to gen­uine­ly appre­ci­ate it.

Towards the end of our con­ver­sa­tion I asked his per­mis­sion to make a lit­tle post­ing about our meet­ing. He grant­ed it, and you just fin­ished read­ing the result.