The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity
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This keenly anticipated sequel to Lee Strobel’s best-selling The Case for Christ finds the leader investigating the nettlesome issues and doubts of the heart that threaten faith. Eight major topics are addressed including doubt, the problem of pain, and the being of evil.Amazon.com Review
Award-winning reporter and leader Lee Strobel (The Case for Christ) once again uses his investigative skills to take up the primary objections to Christianity. As a ex- atheist, Strobel understands the rational resistance to faith. He even names the eight most convincing opinion against Christian faith:
1) If there’s a loving God, why does this pain-wracked world groan under so much suffering and evil?
2) If the miracles of God contradict science, then how can any rational person judge that they’re right?
3) If God is morally pure, how can he sanction the slaughter of innocent children as the Ancient Tribute says he did?
4) If God cares about the people he made, how could he consign so many of them to an eternity of torture in hell just because they didn’t judge the right things about him?
5) If Jesus is the only way to heaven, then what about the millions of people who have never heard of him?
6) If God really made the universe, why does the evidence of science compel so many to conclude that the unguided process of evolution accounts for life?
7) If God is the essential overseer of the church, why has it been rife with hypocrisy and cruelty throughout the ages?
If I’m still plagued by doubts, then is it still possible to be a Christian?
These are mighty tough questions, and Strobel fields them well. Rather than write a weighty dissertation about the merits of faith, he brings us along on his quest as we meet leaders in the Christian community, such as Peter Kreeft and William Lane Craig. We also encounter his everyday friends and acquaintances that serendipitously fill in the holes in each of the eight opinion against faith. The use of dialogue from personal interviews and a scene-by-scene active narrative makes this an simple and engaging read. But, simple does not mean breezy. This is a book of substance and merit, one that will help Christians defend their faith, especially during the toughest of times, when they have to defend their faith to themselves in moments of doubt. –Gail Hudson
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I am a through-n-through athiest, yet I want to know how the smartest, deepest, most rational thinkers among the believers in Christianity answer questions that seem to show God et al. to be additional than loving, knowing, and just. That is what drew me to consider purchasing this book.
I didn’t expect a balanced or skeptical approach, but to include question 8, “If I’m still plagued by doubts, then is it still possible to be a Christian?” as one of the “8 most convincing opinion against Christian faith” is simply laughable because it is not an argument at all, is it?
I didn’t buy the book and you should not either. As a replacement for, read the reviews carefully and select something more intellectual.
scottie
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I recommend ‘Evidence That Demands A Verdict’ by Josh Macdowel or ‘Mere Christianity’ by C.S. Lewis. In this book, ‘The Case For Faith’, the chapter about hell claims that the bible is just a figurative book. It says there really is no crying, gnashing of teeth, or fire in hell. They then try to ‘prove’ the bible condtradicts itself by bringing up the verses where the bible claims that there is fire in hell, but also that it is a place of outter darkness. Therefore, they aver, since there cannot be both fire and darkness at the same time in the same place, then the bible is contradicting itself so we cannot know what hell is like. I personally do’nt judge the bible contradicts itself. If there is fire in hell, then there is also smoke. In fact, the bible says that “…the smoke of their torment (probably language of the leader and his fake prophet buddy) arose forever and ever.” Take a burning house, for example. When the fire department shows up, they use infra-red goggles to help them see through the thickness of the black smoke. There are additional reasons why there could be fire in hell as well as darkness, but I’m curious as to why the leader would be so willing to jump to the conclusion that the bible was merely contradicting itself. Also, I’m curious why he came up with the conclusion that the fire was the figurative part, but not the darkness. He was pretty selective with what he was trying to throw out.
They go on to tell about how they reflect that sinners would feel discomfort if they were in heaven because they are sinfull and God is Holy, so God lets them go to hell because He does’nt want them to feel any discomfort. Basically, heaven is for people who delight in walking around in fine clothes and going to church, and hell is for people who delight in watching the football game and doing naughty stuff.
I am an avid reader of Christian books and have been for the past 12 years, and I can say with all honesty before God that this is the most terrible piece of trash I have ever read.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
If you’re wondering if this book has any convincing opinion to make, there is a very simple way to find out.
Simply read the reviews.
If Strobel’s book open a levelheaded rational argument for believing in the Christian god, then the reviewers who write 5-star reviews will be able to tell you what it is. They would be able to clearly articulate the answers to questions like “how can a supposedly excellent and powerful god stand by and watch a child being raped and murdered?” But not a single one of these cheerleading reviewers can tell us what the book’s convincing opinion are. They all write vague things like “this will answer your questions”, “it’ll tell you everything you want to know”, “it questions and answers all the tough questions” — but not a single reviewer can provide a single point answer from the book.
If these reviewers can’t tell us what Strobel’s “answers” are, then we have to conclude that either a) the book provides no convincing answers at all, or b) the “answers” are so convoluted and weak, nobody can remember them or make sense of them enough to repeat them.
Try it yourself. Go through every glowing review and see if anyone can supply even a single convincing argument from the book. You will find exactly nothing. And nothing is exactly what this “Case” offers.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
If God really exists, then why do people have to write books to make it convincing?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Blabber disguised as critical thinking. The logical steps the leader and his “experts” take are disturbing. This is susposed to prove christianity??? Oh, and I like how his first “practiced” links atheism to communism, polished one there!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5