Belief
Agnosticism
What agnosticism is, including weak and strong forms and the agnostic theist and agnostic atheist, and how that differs from atheism.
Agnosticism answers a different question from atheism. Atheism is about what a person believes. Agnosticism is about what a person claims to know. T. H. Huxley coined the word. The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica dates that coinage to 1869.
What agnostics believe
What is agnosticism? is Huxley’s account, the weak and strong uses, and the overlap with belief: an agnostic theist believes God exists and does not claim to know it, and an agnostic atheist lacks belief and does not claim to know that no God exists. What agnostics believe is that page. It is not a second article.
An atheist and an agnostic
What is the difference between an atheist and an agnostic? keeps those two questions apart, then states the Christian claim.
The general question of God’s existence is Does God exist?. The Christian confession is the short list at the end of this page.
Common arguments in this conversation, with the texts and the article for each claim.
Articles
- What is agnosticism?
Agnosticism is about what a person claims to know. Huxley coined the word. It covers weak and strong forms, and both agnostic theists and agnostic atheists.
- What is the difference between an atheist and an agnostic?
Atheism is about belief. Agnosticism is about knowledge. A person can be an agnostic atheist or an agnostic theist. Christians say God has made himself known.
Christian answers you may want next
These pages state the Christian confession. They are not what this shelf is about.
- The Trinity
Christians confess that the one God is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit: not three gods, and not one person taking turns.
- The resurrection of Jesus
The Christian claim that Jesus was crucified, buried, and raised, and the main ways that claim is doubted.
- Was Jesus a Real Person?
Yes. Jesus of Nazareth was crucified under Pontius Pilate. Paul, the Gospels, Tacitus, and Josephus all place him there, while people who had known his family were still alive.
- My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?
Jesus was praying Psalm 22. The cry is the opening of a psalm in which God hears the sufferer, and it belongs to the Son bearing sin, not to a split inside God or to a crucifixion that never happened.