QUESTIONS
Asking questions is intertwined in the DNA of humanity.
There are so many things about our world to ask questions about.
As little kids, we sometimes look up in the sky and wonder. And there are a lot of deep and weighty issues to wonder about. The following short videos ask great questions about the nature of God, Jesus, and Christianity. They present logical arguments to some of the biggest questions that have been asked since the dawn of time. From one of the video’s notes: “Reasonable Faith features the work of philosopher and theologian Dr. William Lane Craig and aims to provide in the public arena an intelligent, articulate, and uncompromising yet gracious Christian perspective on the most important issues concerning the truth of the Christian faith today.”
The keyword is reasonable. We must go for humble, sensible, and wise discussions that seek understanding and build confidence. Too often Christians share their faith with a standard of certainty and it’s often communicated in demeaning arrogancy. Certainty is only a standard that God can attain to. We finite humans can only get to a standard of reasonableness with humility. We are always learning to make sense of our reality.
The current milieu or atmosphere in America is to cancel voices with which you disagree instead of listening, engaging, and dialoguing. Christians often complain about cancel-culture but that has been in our history forever. Let’s listen, engage, and always love.
These videos are to get you talking, thinking, and asking more questions. They are NOT proof of God or Christianity. They are logical propositions. They raise questions. They get us thinking. All information must be interpreted. And all humans are biased to their own interpretive filters. The videos can help us arrive at REASONABLE answers to some really hard questions. For others, these videos won’t be convincing. And that’s okay. Let’s keep talking.
By the way, winning intellectual arguments often doesn’t change lives. There are other dynamics at play. Changing minds usually only happens through changing hearts through love, listening, and allowing others to connect the dots.
To loosely paraphrase I Corinthians 13: And now these three remain: proof, arguments, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
A scientific case that the universe began to exist—and therefore must have a cause beyond itself—based on evidence from cosmology (study of universe), physics, and the nature of time.
A philosophical case that the universe must have a cause beyond itself, where “cosmological” refers to reasoning about the origin and existence of the universe as a whole, grounded in logic rather than scientific observation.
A case that the precise physical constants and conditions of the universe are so finely calibrated for life that they strongly suggest intentional design rather than chance.
A case that the universe’s life-permitting conditions are so extraordinarily precise and improbable that their existence points beyond chance to an intentional cause.
An exploration of how the abstract, ordered, and universally consistent nature of mathematics points beyond the physical world to a rational, transcendent source.
A philosophical argument that because everything in the universe is contingent (dependent on something else), there must ultimately be a necessary being that explains why anything exists at all.
A philosophical argument that defines God as the greatest conceivable being and reasons that such a being must exist in reality, not just in the mind.
A philosophical response arguing that the logical problem of evil fails because it relies on unproven assumptions, showing that it is not logically inconsistent for an all-powerful, all-loving God and suffering to coexist.
A philosophical response arguing that while suffering may seem to make God’s existence unlikely, our limited perspective, broader evidence for God, and key Christian doctrines together show that it is still reasonable for God and suffering to coexist
A philosophical argument that objective moral values and duties require a grounding in God’s nature, and since we clearly experience real moral truths, God must exist as their ultimate foundation.
A philosophical argument that without God, life ultimately lacks objective meaning, value, and purpose, but if God exists, our lives are intentionally created and deeply significant
A philosophical argument defending Christian particularism by showing that religious pluralism is logically inconsistent and fallacious, while affirming that Christ alone is the true way to God and that God provides hope for all people
A historical and philosophical case that, based on standard analysis of ancient sources, Jesus understood and claimed himself to be the Messiah, the Son of God, and ultimately divine
A historical argument that key facts surrounding Jesus’ death—such as the empty tomb and post-resurrection appearances—are best explained by his actual resurrection, pointing to the existence of God
A historical argument that the best explanation of the empty tomb, post-resurrection appearances, and transformed disciples is that God raised Jesus from the dead, since alternative naturalistic theories fail to account for the evidence
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