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" All Christians should be able to articulate reasons why they believe what they believe - not just for the sake of our spiritually confused friends, but also so that we ourselves will have a deeper and more confident faith. "
Believe
Confused
Faith
" A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time. "
Time
Believe
Ideas
" Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture. "
Seek
Influence
Culture
" Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing. "
Historical
Religion
Testing
" Christians can have doubts and they can have questions, and the unhealthy way to deal with that is to keep them inside where they fester and grow and can undermine our faith. The healthy way to deal with it is to talk about it and be honest about it. "
Healthy
Questions
Grow
" I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium. "
Visual
I Am
Enjoy
" I certainly believe that God did create the world, yeah, absolutely I believe that. "
World
I Believe
God
" I do know plenty of atheists, agnostics and skeptics who have become Christians through the years. In fact, several of my friends were once strong atheists but are now committed followers of Jesus. "
Now
Become
Fact
" If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that's not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose. "
Problem
Purpose
Random
" Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator. "
Faith
Design
I Can
" I think it's very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems. "
Think
Evidence
Legal
" It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial. "
Difficult
World
Why
" Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive. "
Selfish
Suffering
Evil
" My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ. "
Relationship
Been
Marriage
" Nobody is beyond the reach of the Gospel. "
Gospel
Beyond
Nobody
" So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed. "
World
Food
Day
" The Internet has helped atheists and agnostics coalesce as never before. "
Never
Atheists
Before
" There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion. "
Saying
Reality
Pain
" Virtually every scientist now concedes that universe and time itself had beginning. So, whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe must have had a cause. "
Beginning
Time
Universe
" When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you. "
Love
Help
Care
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