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This book addresses many skeptical arguments concerning Christianity in easy to understand language... I highly recommend this book to any Christian!
Author Paul Chamberlain wrote in the first chapter of this 2018 book, “There is a new and increasingly aggressive breed of skeptic today. It is made up of people who have studied Christianity and, in the past, were devout members of the Christian community, themselves. This group includes people who were once pastors, those preparing for ministry, theologians, Christian apologists, authors, church planters, and theological seminary graduates. Over the past decade a wave of such skeptics has sprung up across the continent, supported by a growing number of organizations devoted to providing support and encouragement for Christians who choose to leave the faith… Increasingly, their goal is to persuade other Christians to join them in their rejection of Christianity, or at least provide a save haven for Christians who become disillusioned with their faith. This book is a response to critics to this group.â€He explains, “I have found it difficult to establish neat and tidy categories for why people leave the faith. In some cases there has been a traumatic negative experience while in others there is a sense of having been let down by members of the Christian community. At times a series of unresolved doubts has eaten away at one’s confidence in the basic truth claims of Christianity, or there has been a moral failure coupled with difficulty finding renewed acceptance among former Christian friends a colleagues… there is a variety of causes and motivating factors, and usually a combination of them.†(Pg. 3) He continues, “However… what is clear is that a number of former Christian leaders have put forward actual reasons, arguments, against Christian faith which they now say compelled them to leave, and those reasons are the primary concern of this book.†(Pg. 5)He outlines, “Our overriding question in this book will be the following one: ‘are the reasons these particular critics give against Christianity as compelling as they say they are? Do they constitute good reasons to abandon the Christian faith?’ To explore this question, we will spell out a number of the most foundational arguments given by Christian leaders who have rejected Christianity… Secondly, this book will engage these arguments and provide responses to them… Thirdly… we will suggest tips for engaging in productive conversations… with those who once embraced Christian faith but no longer do.†(Pg. 9-10)He acknowledges, “What makes the challenges coming from these critics different from any others we may encounter?... First, and most importantly, these critics bring a greater knowledge of the Bible, theology, and church history than many Christians themselves possess… Secondly, the way these critics formulate their objections against Christianity often moves beyond the way these challenges are normally presented…. [they] easily anticipate the typical responses they will hear to their objections since they used to give these same replies themselves… Thirdly, these arguments come with increased credibility in the eyes of the public since those making them were once Christian leaders themselves… Fourthly, the reasons presented by these critics come in many forms. Some are philosophical… Still others are scientific…. Others are textual… Finally, some are historical alleging that the Christian Church … has switched its positions on key issues…†(Pg. 6-7)He presents one objection: “In heaven … our lives will be perfect… So then, why didn’t God just create this perfect life to begin with, ask the critics… If we can be free creatures in heaven and still have a perfect existence there, then surely it could happen here, too… To say… that God created this perfect world but then the angels rebelled … raises the question whether this could happen all over again in heaven… Either way, if God will create heaven for his people later, he could have done it right from the start. He did not, and the consequence is horrific…†(Pg. 32-33)He continues, “What about the heaven dilemma? Will there be free will in heaven? … [Canadian theologian D.H.] Lunn… proposes a solution… [He suggests] that in heaven, those who chose to align themselves with God while on earth may well be rewarded by him with a nature something like that of Jesus. He, too, faced temptation while on earth and acted freely but, due to his nature which was repulsed by evil, doing wrong was unthinkable to him and he remained sinless though it all… People there would act freely but, for them, doing wrong would be unthinkable. The end result would be free agents living in a free setting.†(Pg. 43-44)He notes, “Suppose we still wonder, couldn’t God have made even a few of these changes to make the world at least a little bit better? Yes, and there is reason to think he is doing precisely this, namely, intervening at certain times to hold back evil in the world, maybe even a great deal of it… The exact amount of restraint is being decided by God who is omniscient. He alone is in a position to know the precise consequences of each act of restraint, and how much is possible while, simultaneously retaining genuine freedom and intent on the part of the people he created.†(Pg. 46-47)He points out, “virtually all of us accept the highly intuitive maxim… ‘out of nothing, nothing comes’… One of the most telling illustrations of our deep conviction concerning this principle I’ve heard came from the prominent… atheist philosopher, Kai Nielsen. In the middle of a public lecture… he asked the crowd to consider their reaction if they all suddenly heard a loud bang out in the hallway and wondered what caused it, only to be reassured by him that nothing did, it just happened. He then told his audience bluntly that they would not believe him … It’s hard to find fault with Nielsen’s analysis here, and theists simply believe that if his reasoning applies to little bangs, it would also apply to big bangs. In other words, it would be no more intelligible to believe that the universe as a whole was uncaused, that IT just happened, than it would be to think a small bang was uncaused.†(Pg. 65)He admits, “If the authors of these four Gospels were all there, on the scene, watching and listening to Jesus, or hearing directly from others who were, then why are there differences or discrepancies in their reports of what he said or did? Why do they not all tell it in exactly the same way?... How could such differences exist … if these Gospels were all inspired by God? When they differ, which ones are we supposed to believe? The challenge concerning these discrepancies is being made passionately by certain Christian leaders who have rejected their faith. Indeed, it is one of their stated reasons for making this radical turn.†(Pg. 133)He suggests, “it is important to ask whether the accounts in question are truly contradictory or merely DIFFERENT in such a way that they could both be correct. Many alleged discrepancies in the four Gospels can be resolved by applying this principle… Some, however, are more difficult. One of the most commonly cited by the critics is the presence of serious discrepancies in Matthew and Mark’s accounts of a group of women going to visit the tomb of Jesus… William Lane Craig … is actually struck by how faithful Matthew is to Mark’s account… First, the part about the guards is new and independent information Matthew brings to the story; there is no contradiction here since Mark never says there were no guards. Second, the person Mark calls a young man is intended to be ‘the angel’ in Matthew as is evident from his white robe and the women’s reaction of fear… Matthew mentions two women by name, Mark mentions three… It would only be a contradiction is Mark had said ONLY two; he didn’t… Is this harmonization POSSIBLE? Yes… But is it also PLAUSIBLE or CONVINCING?... I’ve found that plausibility is in the eye of the beholder…†(Pg. 140-141)He notes that [Craig] Blomberg is willing to admit… that there are a number of differences in the Gospels which do no lend themselves to easy solutions… When Jesus sent his disciples out as itinerant missionaries, were they explicitly instructed to take a staff as Mark reports [6:8-9] or were they NOT PERMITTED to take a staff as both Matthew and Luke write [Mt 10:9-10; Lk 9:3]… if one is concerned about the details, this is a sticky one… The key question is this: if we found discrepancies in the Gospel records which were hard to neatly harmonize, would we have cause to doubt that the events recorded in them ever took place?... Even if there are outright contradictions among multiple historical sources, their presence would not weaken the credibility of these sources. It would actually STRENGTHEN it… when we find verbatim parallelism, it proves only that one writer has copied from another… while these differences may leave us with unanswered questions about certain detail, they actually strengthen our basis for believing the core events happened.†(Pg. 154-156)He adds, “Doesn’t that still leave a glaring question, however? …the New Testament… is not just another historical document. Christians say it is inspired by God… How can discrepancies exist in a document like that?... To say that Scripture is divinely inspired… does not mean that God overruled the human authors nor does it rule out the possibility of different human authors relating their reports in different ways… God, in his wisdom, used the normal process of producing historical documents, complete with … differences among parallel accounts.†(Pg. 160-161)This is an excellent, honest, and detailed work that will be “must reading†for anyone seriously studying Apologetics.
Paul Chamberlain does a phenomenal job addressing concerns objectively, and straight forward. He doesn't avoid the hard questions. Great read if you're interested in, and open to consider, thought-provoking concepts.
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