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The world is experiencing a very fascinating resurgence in belief among Gen Z and Millennials, and filmmaker Michael Ray Lewis, a former atheist-turned-believer, has a new project to help further foster this dynamic.<\/p>\n
Listen to the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Lewis, director of the new documentary \u201cUniverse Designed,\u201d told CBN News about how his past atheism was driven by the fact many Christians simply couldn\u2019t answer his questions.<\/p>\n \u201cQuestions like, \u2018Well, evolution has disproven Christianity,’\u201d he said. \u201c[And], \u2018If there\u2019s an all-loving God, then there wouldn\u2019t be the existence of evil in the world.’\u201d<\/p>\n Lewis continued, \u201cI would have objections like, \u2018I can\u2019t believe in a God who would send me to an eternal punishment just because I have trouble believing in Him.’\u201d<\/p>\n With people around him unable or unwilling to answer these objections and questions, the filmmaker said he \u201cgravitated towards atheism\u201d and based his worldview on it.<\/p>\n \u201cOn top of that, I would watch documentaries by [atheist] Bill Maher. I remember I watched a documentary called \u2018Zeitgeist,\u2019 and both of those documentaries were showing how Christianity wasn\u2019t true and that Jesus was just a myth that was copied by all these other ancient myths.\u201d<\/p>\n But eventually, Lewis said something changed, and he found himself doing a double-take.<\/p>\n \u201cIt wasn\u2019t until I took a second look at Christianity and dug deeper than just the surface level questions that I really started to discover that there were answers to not only the questions that I was asking, but there were positive arguments for the existence of God,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n After he married his wife \u2014 a woman who had grown up in church but drifted away \u2014 something surprising happened. She approached him one day and said she felt Jesus was calling her back.<\/p>\n \u201cI remember thinking to myself, \u2018Oh, no. I don\u2019t want to deal with this. But you know what? I love her. So I\u2019ll go to church and I\u2019ll see what all this is about,’\u201d Lewis recalled. \u201cI figured all I have to do to stop going to church is just to show her that it\u2019s not true.\u201d<\/p>\n And it was in that process that Lewis came to a realization: the Christianity he assumed was fraudulent started to come to life.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s where I really started to discover the evidence,\u201d he said. \u201cShe ended up buying me a Bible. I remember I read through a few pages of Genesis. I pushed it away and said, \u2018This is nonsense,\u2019 but it was actually one particular video of an astrophysicist that popped up on my YouTube feed, and he was showing that science is not incompatible with Christianity. In fact, science actually shows that there\u2019s evidence for there being an intelligent creator. And I remember that was the first moment where it kind of piqued my curiosity.\u201d<\/p>\n Over time, Lewis began examining the evidence more fervently, reading books and consulting resources to delve deeper into these connections. Eventually, he came around to believe.<\/p>\n \u201cI remember, at the end of the three years, I was still pushing back,\u201d he said. \u201cEven though I had all this information, I was still skeptical. And I remember I started asking my wife questions about Scripture, specifically.\u201d<\/p>\n His wife connected him with a theologian, who then helped him cross the finish line in 2016 and embrace Christianity.<\/p>\n \u201cI realized that my reasoning for not believing in God wasn\u2019t based on evidence anymore,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cIt was the fact that I didn\u2019t want it to be true, and that was when I thought to myself, \u2018That\u2019s not a good reason.\u2019 I threw my hands up, gave my life to Jesus, and I am all in at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n He had been working in the film industry, working on horror films. After finding Jesus, he felt compelled to \u201cdo something for the kingdom,\u201d so he embarked on a journey toward creating \u201cUniverse Designed,\u201d his new movie exploring evidence of God.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew that I wanted to present a case for the existence of God, but I wasn\u2019t sure how I was going to structure it,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I just started collecting as much content as I could. I ended up with 36 hours of interview content that I ended up having to condense into an hour-and-25-minute film, have it make sense, have it tell a story, but not be too information-heavy to lose people. \u2026 I hope that that\u2019s what I\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n Find out how to watch \u201cUniverse Designed\u201d\u00a0here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The world is experiencing a very fascinating resurgence in belief among Gen Z and Millennials, and filmmaker Michael Ray Lewis, a former atheist-turned-believer, has a new project to help further foster this dynamic. 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