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Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.

William Lane Craig

No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with God.
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Argument Darkness Failure God Light Love Yourself
Reason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding.
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Better Faith Help Ourselves Reason Seek Understand
Faith is trust or commitment to what you think is true.
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Commitment Faith Thinking True Trust Yourself
The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus’ resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city where he was executed and buried is powerful evidence for the historicity of the empty tomb.
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Belief Existence Found Himself History Powerful Simplicity
The Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common sense and history, or to make a leap of faith into the dark. The rational person, fully apprised of the evidence, can confidently believe.
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Darkness Evidence Face Faith Mindset Myself
Successful evangelism involves not only harvesting, but sowing and watering, too. We must never think that because a nonbeliever remained unconvinced by our case that our apologetic has failed. For one encounter is not the end of the story.
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Apology Failure Harvest Success Thinking Water
It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.
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Chance Combination Independent Myself
I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.
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Myself Parliament Politics
In the 20th century philosophy of time for a great many theorists became part of science because it was time as is studied in physics that became the object of philosophical speculation. That’s very different from the way time has normally been understood.
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Greatness Philosophy Physics Science Time Understand
Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.
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Creation Help Man Option Scripture Thinking Woman
It’s no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.
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Enough Need Teaching Yourself
The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.
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Atheist Best Flinch Follow Person Pursuit Reason
The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong do not exist. As Dostoyevsky said, “All things are permitted.
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Existence God Object Right Wrong Yourself
Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.
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Belief Evidence Fundamental Holy Rise Spirit
More often than not, it is what you are rather than what you say that will bring an unbeliever to Christ. This, then, is the ultimate apologetic. For the ultimate apologetic is: your life.
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Apology Believe God Life Yourself
Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal.
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Ideal Realistic Thinking

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