Yes, this has been a good discussion and like you said it will not be solved here. One thing I’ve learned from this is that I have fairly quickly reached my limit of knowledge on the matter and I plan to read a few books and do more research since it is such an interesting subject.
PD: There is a good book out there called The Case for Christ that may interest you. It was written by a Yale educated lawyer and former atheist Lee Strobel. He also wrote the follow-on book A Case for Faith. He approaches the topic of Christianity and faith in a very methodical and lawyer-like manner, and debates all of the common arguments you hear against Jesus and Christianity. Since he is now a Christian, there may be a certain amount of bias towards Christianity in his analysis, but overall he does a better job than anyone at presenting both sides of the debate, approaching it as a skeptic and providing answers other than ‘just have faith.’
