Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith (2nd Edition) - Douglas Groothuis Audiobook
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People are hungry for hope. They want to understand our human condition—its origin, nature, purpose, and destiny. The Christian faith offers hope for individuals and the entire universe, grounded in absolute truth. But how can we know that Christianity is true? And how can Christians confidently present their beliefs in the face of doubts and competing views?
In this comprehensive text, Douglas Groothuis makes a clear and rigorous case for Christian theism. Demonstrating how apologetics must be both rational and winsome, he addresses the most common questions and objections people raise regarding Christianity. After laying a foundation with the biblical basis for apologetics, apologetic method, and a defense of objective truth, he presents key arguments for the reality of God, a case for the credibility of Jesus, and evidence for the resurrection. Groothuis also evaluates alternative views and responds to challenges such as religious pluralism and the problem of evil.
The second edition of this landmark work has been updated throughout to address current issues and sources. It includes new chapters on topics such as doubt and the hiddenness of God, the atonement, the church, and lament as a Christian apologetic.
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This post has 10 comments with rating of 4/5
November 10th, 2023
thank you!
November 10th, 2023
LOL!!
November 10th, 2023
Indeed, joyful thanks, P. Choose life, baby!
November 10th, 2023
lol.
November 12th, 2023
The best way to show your faith is through your actions. If you are a good loyal trustworthy person who follows their words through actions and is never false. Then people will see your faith as a good thing.
On the other hand, if your actions do not follow your faith then no amount of words no matter how well-reasoned will move people to believe your faith.
The Christianity I see now has a lot of words yet very little following of those words. Their actions do not match what they are saying.
If I were a Christian I would be very upset with the people who use it for their gain. Yet I see very little of this as if calling out false Christians is Taboo.
If you wonder why you need books like this when your example should be more than enough. Then you only need to ask yourself am I doing enough to put an end to those that use your faith for profit or twist the meaning?
Christians always say that they are upset about how people are treating them yet say little or nothing about why people treat them badly. That treatment is earned bought and paid for by every bad Christian.
People leave the faith for a reason. No amount of books words or arguments will change that until your faith changes the narrative.
November 12th, 2023
Indeed, all people are ambassadors for their beliefs, whatever those beliefs are. We ought not support anyone’s hypocrisy. As for individuals, we all have a flawed nature, perfection is not possible. Consequently, all of our institutions will reflect those flaws - writ large.
When anti-theists & ideological atheists achieved political power, they immediately implemented their own moral ideas, & committed unprecedented genocide, introduced planned famines & created oppressive slave states. And Christians & Jews were indeed targeted.
When we assert that such treatment is earned, we are engaging in nothing more than victim-blaming.
November 13th, 2023
Good point.
I tend to use the United States currently as my frame reference. I tend to discount the communist system as it went deep into the stupid and dictatorship was the result.
The anti-region movement was throwing the baby out with the bath water so to speak. A great amount of good was done by organized religion. Yet also harm was done. Any large organization can cause harm when unscrupulous people gain control of that organization no matter how good that organization that organization is or was.
The fallback point many religious people use is that without religion you have no morals so oppression will automatically occur.
Just like they believe without the fear of god no one will be good. Personally, any all-powerful being that relies on fear to motivate people should be treated as an ultimate evil, not an ultimate good.
Yet to say without organized religion humanity will fall into disorder and oppression is a false assumption. Dictators happen to any large organization whether they are religion-based or not. You just need to read about the bad Popes to find that out.
So in closing, I will say that under the American system as we have now Christians are to blame for the anger directed at them. I do not blame the victims of oppression yet I do look at the roots of the oppression. For the Jews, it was because they were outside of the normal Christian and Muslim beliefs and were an easy target.
Yet to say that Christians are oppressed just as much as Jews was. That is to say, a scratch is the same as a gunshot to the chest with a mushrooming bullet. Yes, they are both wounds to the body yet are different by orders of magnitude. The last point I want to make is the only way the Jews could stop the oppression was to give up their beliefs. Yet all the Christians have to do is truly follow the teachings of their saviour.
November 13th, 2023
Just to say that there are places in the world - where Christianity is not the majority, & has never been the majority tradition - & they are subject to appalling repression. Equally so the Muslims in China & Burma (Uyghur & Rohingya people & others). And Jewish people were expelled from Islamic countries in the 1940s.
“Any large organ can cause harm when unscrup peop gain control…no matter how good that organ is or was” - Absolutely; our flaws writ large again. I don’t think there’s a solution to this problem, given our human nature.
“fallback point many relig use is w’out relig u have no morals so oppress will automatic occur” - I used to oppose this idea as well, now I’m just not sure. I don’t think a sustainable civilisation can be grounded or built without objective moral facts. It has been tried within living memory, & has a 100% rate of catastrophic failure. This factual history is there for all to objectively evaluate.
And, as ever, the best predictor of future conduct is past conduct. We all know this.
In Judeo-Christian cultures, people who have no religion can & do act morally - superlatively so (I personally know many). However, undeniably, they are living in that Judeo-Christian context, with the inherited culture of values & ethical tradition; & that standard of morality to support proper, fair conduct - to be able to speak truth to power, all power.
Yes, “fear of god” is not a sufficient orientation. The appropriate dynamic is love, forgiveness, tolerance & charity.
November 14th, 2023
Very good point!
Yes, our moral base currently can be organized religion. What we believe is right or wrong. Yet that also comes with some difficulties. Like the unwillingness to change when new systems and technology occur. This is minor though.
I do agree that some sort of looking outward is very important and religion does that very well.
The ability of a religion to adapt and grow with the changing times will be much more important than any proof or argument that you might offer. That which can’t change with the times is doomed to fail.
I will give you a good example of that. My grandfather told me in the 1930s during the Depression the church was the center of most people’s lives. If you needed help they were there. Every mass had a full meal open to all. He said those meals saved them.
He complained to me before he died that the church had lost its way. No free meals just tea and coffee. Only old people who wish to get in good with god before death would show up. He said that sure the church did charity yet it was to starving people far away or if done locally it was done out of site of the regular members. As if to hide the poor from view. His words, not mine.
The church gave up local charities to let the government take over. In some way, I feel it was a wrong move.
Well, you can see the results now. Is the church growing or declining that will tell you if it is adapting to modern society or not.
Again yes good points ty.
November 14th, 2023
Yeah, during the 19th & 20th centuries Western countries all started providing social services, welfare & charity, and these were indeed some of the works traditionally provided by churches. They still engage in these services, domestically & abroad. (They’re also still involved in healthcare, education, etc. - indeed the Church created the university & the hospital.)
On the issue of providing food & poor relief, here in Ireland during the Great Famine, the occupying British state was reluctant to provide famine relief, and that role was filled by the Catholic Church & the Quakers, most notably. The death toll would have been even greater otherwise.
Concerning the necessity of religions to adapt & grow, we can look again to the example of history, in addition to the modern situation. Judaism is almost 4,000 years old & still going strong, relevant to its people around the world. Christianity is 2,000 years old & the largest religion in the world (bigger than it’s ever been). There does seem to be an adaptive feature & tendency built in. Each new generation, of necessity, comes to it fresh. There is also a large presence in new technology (across the internet).
In parts of the West, Christianity is declining, but population is also declining. And we are far more atomised & isolated than we ever were before (another function of the new tech). We are far less likely to engage in all kinds of community activities than ever before (”Bowling Alone”) - social, political, charities, cultural, etc. etc.
By contrast, all around the world, Christianity is growing exponentially (even in China!) - the hospitals, schools, seminaries, & universities can’t be built fast enough.
So, it’s a tale of 2 whatchamacallits. Perhaps the West, in its decline, is not as important & indispensable as it used to think it was.
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