My name is Tyler Peterson, I spent so much time trying to prove god did not exist that I proved to my self he did.

I am 19 years old, and I go to UW Lacrosse, WI. My major is Business Management and I am involved in intermural basketball, and Campus Crusade for Christ.



My Testimony

When I was young I was an avid believer in Christ, and my beliefs were based on what my parents had told me. I never questioned god until my freshmen year when one of my close friends introduced me to the idea of atheism. We hung out a lot, and we spoke more and more about religion, and eventually I came to his conclusion there must be no god from not only a logical, but also a moral stand point. After this transformation of belief I became obsessed with proving it to my self and others. My core friends soon consisted of the morally apathetic or atheist kids. While I couldn’t see my self transforming I was along with my belief system. I was extremely cynical most of my high school carrier, and this same attitude resonated into the beginning of my freshman year.

I soon became friends with Casey Tolzman and we decided we wanted to make an ultimate Frisbee team, but we didn’t have enough girls so we decided to go door to door and get some girls to join our team. Well we had just gone to Alex’s room, and they said they couldn’t join because they had cru on Thursday nights, the same time our games were scheduled. I confronted them and said you believe in god?? And basically bashed their beliefs. A few days later Tony Fredrickson stopped by my room, and I took it upon my self to challenge his beliefs as well. We debated for at least an hour and he left with us at a philosophical stale mate. Then about a month later he came back, and got me to concede that there was a possibility of a god, and then challenged me to search for the truth my self. This proved to be a challenging part of my journey. For at least three months I read books such as “case for faith” and wrote down various arguments against and for a god. I worked through them and thought about what made any of my arguments truly valid. This was supplemented by long talks with Tony and other friends around campus, and eventually I saw how Christ really could be the answer to my life I was looking for in drugs, and women and liquor.

I made my decision for Christ because logically and morally it made sense to me. I asked Christ to be in my life because I knew he was the savoir to mankind, and he sacrificed his life for me to experience eternal life, and not recognizing him would be spitting in the face of a man who was the greatest gift to man kind our caring and loving god could give.


Since I've been involved in CRU at lacrosse I've seen many changes in attitudes of freshman, and even a few sophmores that I've been able to interact with. However, there is a huge need on this campus and everyother in this country for people to be excited about god. I feel it is up to us to appeal to our fellow students to allow them to see god as we do. As our savior, our confident, and the purpose for our lives. Hopfully with our combined efforts we can make a large impact not only on our campuses, but a worldly impact through the people we choose to share the word with. I'm excited to see this happen and to see all of your posts.

I'm sorry about my first post but I don't know how to delete it, or edit it.