If God Made the Universe, Who Made God? 130 Arguments for Christian Faith
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Perhaps you remember being in a university class, feeling frustrated when the respected professor dismissed questions from a student because of her religious faith. Or maybe over a business lunch one of your colleagues referred to Christianity as a fairytale, and you said nothing.
Many Christians find themselves in such situations but don’t speak up because they don’t fully realize the strength of their own position. They feel incapable of giving reasons for the hope that is theirs.
Christian apologetics is the discipline and growing body of knowledge that equips believers to address their own doubts, to converse with seekers and critics from a position of strength, and to bear witness to Christ with confidence.
In the spirit of the title question, If God Made the Universe, Who Made God? collects 130 essays written in defense of the Christian faith. Contributors include some of the pre-eminent apologists of our time, from Lee Strobel and Charles Colson to Hank Hanegraaff, J. P. Moreland, and Ravi Zacharias. The content is grouped into ten topics:
Apologetics: Introductory Issues
Jesus Christ
Science and Faith
Cults and World Religions
The Existence of God
Ethics
Theology
The Scriptures
Heaven and Hell
Evangelism
- Makes use of apologetics to approach a variety of polemic topics related to God, the Bible, life and faith
- Seeks to defend the faith by equipping believers to explore their own doubts so they can hold a firm position as they converse with seekers of truth and critics
- Offers 130 essays by various authors to explore nine topics of apologetics
Top Highlights
“A worldview is the total of answers people give to the most important questions in life. The five most important questions any worldview must answer are God, ultimate reality, knowledge, ethics, and human nature. Every human being has a worldview, even though many people are uninformed about the nature and content of worldviews and the power that worldviews have over the way we think and behave.” (Page 6)
“Third, why think everything needs a cause, since an uncaused entity is logical and intelligible?” (Page 38)
“People change their minds on important subjects for a bewildering variety of reasons (or non-reasons). When faced with a choice among competing worldviews, we should choose the one that, when applied to the whole of reality, gives us the most coherent picture of the world. Helping people in this comprises one of the most important tasks of apologetics.” (Page 7)
“Even if we don’t always get things right, we can discern that some perspectives better approximate the truth than others” (Page 63)
“Biblical genealogies must be understood in the context of how genealogies functioned in the ancient Near East” (Page 71)
- Title: If God Made the Universe, Who Made God? 130 Arguments for Christian Faith
- Publisher: Holman
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Apologetics; Christian faith
- ISBNs: 9781430071754, 9781433676017, 143367601X, 1430071753
- Resource ID: LLS:9781433676017
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-09T18:53:52Z