Belief/Faith as a concept, poses a fatal flaw to veracity of Christianity

Focusing on the Scope of this Argument: First off, you did not begin to address my point that belief is not a choice. This is the whole argument. You spit off a bunch of irrelevant comments about what is told through the Bible, but did nothing to convince me that I have a choice to believe that any of that happened. That is what this debate is about. Please review my claim and feel free to ask any clarifying questions in the comment section so you can fuel yourself with the information needed to further this debate. You begin by asserting, "We have a choice to follow God" and "We have a choice to accept God based on his track record". But as I stated, you give absolutely no evidence and are just throwing assertions out there without any backup. This is terribly lazy and does not further this debate at all. You define happiness as internal versus external. It"s well stated, but I"m afraid it does nothing to counter my point. You state, "an individual can be happy in a chaotic environment". I agree! You don"t need materialistic things to be happy. Yes, some millionaires are unhappy and some poor people are happy. But you are missing the point. The point is I don"t think anyone just decides to be happy regardless of their situation. There is something fueling this happiness. Maybe it"s family, maybe it"s being driven by a cause. Whatever that reason may be, happiness is the result of those circumstances. There is no conscious choice on anyone"s part. Think of it this way: Let"s say your family is what makes you intrinsically happy. Now imagine going through a rough period of time where you cannot find work to feed your family. Finally, after busting your butt to find work you land a killer job and you can now provide for your family. How would you feel if this happened to you? You"d be very happy about it, right? I certainly would too. But, did we decide to be happy about it? Or did it happen outside our control? If you think you had any control over that feeling, you"d be wrong. The only control you had was on your actions to attain the desired result - happiness. Belief works the same way as happiness " which was just one example " in that they are both results that occur outside of our control. Like I said in my opening, we can"t decide whether we are happy or whether we believe in anything, we can only take action (like busting our butt for a job in my example) to reach the desired result (happiness). Same goes for belief. We can only take action (read Bible, research how credible and likely it is that Christianity is true) to attain a desired belief, but the result is not in our hands. Maybe another example of a different belief will make this more clear. Let"s think about something both you and I cannot believe in. How about Santa Claus? We know too well he doesn"t exist because the evidence tells us otherwise. When you are a kid, eventually you figure this out even though you might really wish he were true. Once this happens, you cannot simply just decide to believe in him. You"d only be lying to yourself, right? That proves that belief is not a choice, it is a result. In this example, despite your action (trying to believe) you are unable to. That is what I meant in my opening when I stated that "The result (belief) is not a guarantee". This comparison parallels my struggle with Christianity because the evidence is overwhelmingly against it being true. You can say all you want about God said this, God said that, but any follower of any other religion can say the same thing, it does nothing to provide evidence of truth. You failed to address this main point of my argument and instead decided to state what the Bible says as if it"s any sort of relevant argument. I don't have any more space to counter your other errors, but since they are not directly related to my main point, I'll just let them go for now. Again, please focus your argument on how belief - in any context - can be a choice.