Why I Decided to Believe in God

What if the strongest case against God came from a man desperate to disprove Him?

For twelve years, Dr. Alfred Basta—cryptographer, mathematician, scientist, and lifelong skeptic—tried to break the case for God's existence. He approached faith like a code to crack: attack every angle, question every assumption, trust only what survives brutal scrutiny.

Then the evidence refused to cooperate.

Drawing on cosmology, physics, biology, philosophy, and the historical case for the resurrection, Why I Decided to Believe in God traces one man's stunning journey from determined atheism to Christian conviction.

But this isn't just a book of apologetics. It's the story of three graves.

Basta lost his father in 1994, his mother in 2024, and his wife Nadine in 2025 after her eight-year battle with brain cancer. Grief forced him to confront the question every theological argument must eventually face: Can faith survive suffering that defies explanation?

With rare honesty, he wrestles with Christianity's toughest challenges—the problem of evil, the reliability of Scripture, the origins of the universe, evolution, and the reality of suffering—before revealing why these objections ultimately fell short.

He offers no easy answers. He admits the weaknesses in his own position and refuses to fake certainty where none exists. His faith wasn't built by avoiding hard questions—it was forged by chasing the evidence wherever it led, even into grief.

Part investigation, part memoir, part meditation on love, loss, and hope, this is the story of a man who spent twelve years trying to demolish a case for God—and found it unbreakable.

For skeptics, seekers, and believers wrestling with doubt, Why I Decided to Believe in God extends one challenge:

Don't believe out of fear of questioning. Question everything. Test it all. Then see what still stands.