Those are all good enough reasons. But how does one jump from general rational agreement to it being the Truth. I never was able to drum up religious feeling from mere rationalization, and certainly not exclusively for one creed. I don’t even like always to be a conservative, let alone pin my eternal fate, if I have one, to one religion.
Maybe I am so constructing the argument that the only answer is the “leap of faith.”
“pin my eternal fate, if I have one, to one religion.”
You’re quite right. That question has to come first before any other. I believe that Christ himself built his Church and that he called for unity between himself and his Church and that his followers were called to be one with each other in a visible fashion. Ergo, the questio isn’t ‘pinning your eternal faith on one religion’, but the question is “which one is the closest to the truth”.