Christian Apologetics: The Value of Saying 'I Don't Know'
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“Since God has attributes that have no analogy in us (Berkhof’s ‘creature’), it stands to reason that we cannot fully comprehend God, much less explain aspects of Him.” - John Ellis
Responding to Criticisms of Christianity
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“Hardly any comment thread on this blog is without someone blaming Christians and Christianity for war, slavery, oppression, sexism, intolerance…. Bring up the value of Lutheran theology and you can count on accusations that Luther is responsible for Hitler and the Holocaust. So how should Christians respond to such criticisms?” - Gene Veith
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Nearly half of young adults with ties to Christianity say church can’t answer their questions: survey
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New Barna Research: “Forty-seven percent of respondents with some connection to Christianity say they feel the Church ‘cannot answer their questions’ or spiritual doubts. According to the study, one in three young adults (32 percent) said ‘hypocrisy of religious people’ causes them to doubt things of a spiritual dimension.
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“There is no oughtness in a world that just is.”
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“He wrote me an eloquent letter in which he used his training in philosophy to wonder out loud if Christianity is merely a set of Jungian archetypes, a set of myth-making stories that echo something deep in the human psyche that somehow over evolutionary millennia we have found useful. …Here was my response.” - Mark Ward
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Is the Bible pro-slavery? Context is important, apologist says
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Gavin Ortlund: “you have to look at the whole of scripture to say that there might be something that’s accommodated to in one passage, but the whole of the Bible gives you a different picture.” - Christian Post
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Ravi Zacharias, Christian scholar, answers ‘toughest’ question for faith today
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Video: Ravi Zacharias on the problem of suffering - Fox News
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William L. Craig and Christopher Hitchens: Does God Exist?
On April 4, 2009, William Lane Craig and Christopher Hitchens met at Biola University to debate the question of God’s existence. Craig is one of the world’s foremost Christian apologists. The late Hitchens was a leading spokesman for the “new atheism” movement.
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Norman Geisler, noted apologist and theologian, dead at 86
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“The Norman Geisler Ministry Page on Facebook announced Monday that he died peacefully earlier that morning, twenty days shy of his 87th birthday.” - Christian Examiner
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Mark Ward reviews Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion
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“As a presuppositionalist (who doesn’t like to ride the label, and who believes in the value of evidence because Paul does in 1 Corinthians 15), I observe that my own tribe’s arguments don’t always get that kind of honing… I don’t seem often to run into people who can really understand what I’m saying when I go presupp on them; it’s all too philosophically demanding.” -
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