Don't give up on God. Why not?
Because of the evidence.
Mainstream scientific consensus is not powerful enough to explain the evidence for survival:
Here is one example of high-quality evidence of the survival of the personality:
Dr. James Hyslop, professor of Logic and Ethics at Columbia University, and one of the most distinguished American psychical researchers, reported the following incident.
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As Sir Wiliam Barrett concluded in his review of the case: "The simplest and most reasonable solution is that the information was derived from the mind of the deceased person."
2 page PDF:
http://www.aeces.info/Top40/Cases_51-75/case56_soule-soul.pdfIs mainstream science going to give us any information at all on this subject? I challenge anyone to explain this evidence using consensus theories.
Reincarnation is a core teaching of many spiritual paths and it has evidence to support it. This may be related to theism in some indirect fashion.