Apologetics

“Gavin Ortlund lays out the argument from eternal truths for the existence of God.” - YouTube

“More and more, it appears that life is well-designed—perhaps even optimally designed. And this is strong support for the idea that living things are the work of a Designer. But what is ‘optimal design,’ and how can we tell?” - Breakpoint

“The conquest of Canaan may be the most difficult part of the Bible for modern readers…. Those of us who are followers of Christ should take all concerns about evil and violence seriously.” - Gavin Ortlund

“Most Christians define apologetics… as ‘rationally persuading someone of the truth of the Christian faith through arguments and evidence.’ That approach is too blinkered, for it fails to account for the wider context where people are persuaded and beliefs are formed.” - TGC

Collin Hansen talks with Hans Madueme, author of Defending Sin: A Response to the Challenges of Evolution and the Natural Sciences. - TGC

“You have a psychologist and a scientist, an emphasis on myths and symbols versus an emphasis on facts and data” - Gavin Ortlund

“Bart Ehrman argues that Jesus didn’t, himself, claim to be God, but this was a belief that arose subsequently after his death, among his followers.” - Gavin Ortlund

“This trope, known as the ‘conflict thesis,’ was popularized by John William Draper’s 1874 book A History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science. He tells a familiar story: humanity, on its upward trajectory of progress, is continually opposed by a blind-faith peddling, power-hungry church.” - TGC

“Even those who reject the claims of the Christian worldview… should ask themselves whether, without realizing it, they sometimes borrow from the Christian worldview because their own worldview cannot provide a foundation on which to judge good and evil.” - Randy Alcorn

A conversation with the author of Priests of History: Stewarding the Past in an Ahistoric Age (Zondervan Reflective). - TGC