Question to the religious people on here, what lead you to your religion and what makes it true in your eyes? As it stands I currently lean to atheism however I enjoy hearing about other's experiences and hope to learn something.
If your own grandpa encountered God (that's before you were born), how can he provided you with the information. Can he evidence his encounter? He can't only stupid humans would ask for evidence in this case. The only thing your grandpa can do is to write down his experience and the information given by this God for you to believe. Humans lack the ability to get to evidence of past events, especially in terms of individual activities. To put it another way, can you evidence the humans ever encountered by your own grandpa. You can't! You can't because it is out of human capability to evidence this kind of truth. If you can possibly evidence most humans ever encountered by your own grandpa, it simply means you can evidence nothing even when he encountered God.
To put it yet another way, humans rely on testimonies from eyewitnesses accounts to get to a truth, especially historical individual activities such who ever encountered by your own grandpa. He wrote down the info he chooses to let you know and for you to believe, this is the only way you can possibly get to who he ever encountered in his life. The more far away in history the more it is so. It is more difficult if you would track the down the same, say, encountered by the grandpa of your grandpa.
Bible is a book, like history books, composed of testimonies from those claimed to have encountered God and gathered info from Him. Most holy books are not written this way (the way how your grandpa would write down his encounters). For example, Mohammad is not even an eyewitness to write down the Quran based on his encounter of God and what God has told him. He acquired his info from a self proclaimed angels instead. It's like your grandpa wrote to you not about his encounter of God and what God showed Himself up to pass the info to him, but rather a hearsay from a ghost. So if what your grandpa wrote down is not his direct experience but a hearsay from someone whose identity can't even confirmed by himself, then he's at least not an eyewitness whatever he wrote is not a testimony from an eyewitness account. It's like in a car incident, you witnessed and wrote down what you saw and experienced, then it's your first hand testimony. If however what you wrote down is not what you saw but someone else told you so, then you need to do one more thing, you need to confirm his identity to be sure that either he's an eyewitness his info is ultimately from an eyewitness account.
From another perspective, if the US government has a crucial message for its citizens what would it do. It delivers the message to only one or two states, or it should deliver it to all the states? Similar, if a God has an important message for humans, should He delivers the message to all nations or just India. Hinduism is about the gods delivering messages to only Indians locally. The God of Christianity puts effort in preaching the gospel to each and every nations as the human facing mission since day one!
From yet another perspective, humans need a God because it is out of human capability to get to a future, especially the one beyond our physical death. Only a God can have such an info. The importance of religions is to get to such a future which could possibly impact us by means of a God who knows. Or otherwise humans have no way to get to such an info even when such a future exists.That's where humans need a God for in terms of our dead or alive. If a God would like to keep humans informed of such a future, He at least should have a human audience base. For example, Zeus doesn't have any human followers, so if he has a message for humans his message can only effectively reach his followers which you can count with your fingers as the number of his followers is literally 0. The possibilities are, if a God loves humans to keep them informed of his message, His message must be human facing as mentioned above plus He must have a popularity for His message to convey.
By the criteria above, only Christianity is possibly holding the truth.
