The Atheist S Fatal Flaw

Author : Norman L. Geisler,Daniel J. McCoy
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441245915

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The Atheist's Fatal Flaw by Norman L. Geisler,Daniel J. McCoy Pdf

Most critiques of atheism focus on refuting head-on the claims of atheists. Instead, this unique book faithfully represents what atheists say they believe and stands back to watch as the natural inconsistencies in that worldview inevitably rise to the surface. Norman L. Geisler, the apologetic giant of our time, is joined by Daniel J. McCoy, highlighting two inconsistencies in particular. First they examine the atheist's assertion that God cannot exist because there is evil in the world and that if God truly existed, he would intervene. These same people then turn around and say any intervention on God's part would impose upon human autonomy, and thus would be unjust. Second, these very interventions that would be considered immoral if imposed upon the earth by God are lauded when they stem instead from some human institution or authority. Geisler and McCoy highlight this kind of "doublethink" step by step, showing readers how to identify such inconsistencies in atheistic arguments and refute them--or rather show atheists how they refute themselves.

Author : Jerry Garloch
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781449777838

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The Fatal Flaw by Jerry Garloch Pdf

Does it not seem strange that these patrons of truth have no actual base for the truth they espouse? Should not these champions of reason offer some plausible foundation for the rational thought they employ? Who can but doubt these adversaries of God who cannot even account for the moral sense by which they denounce Him? What shall we say of masters of science who would deprive science of the undergirding of truth and reason? These are not lords of their own domain, as they might suppose. They are squatters on a land belonging to another—mere pretenders, plagiarizers of values not their own. Like the Prodigal Son, they have taken the resources bequeathed by a loving Father and squandered them in futile meanderings. No one should take these men as seriously as they take themselves. They are not reaching for the far horizon line. Rather they are trapped in their tiny, cramped valley called physicality and have chosen to ignore every other doorway to reality. They are not men reaching for the stars. They are rather like those who wade through muck and mire, stirring up more as they go.

Author : Frank Turek
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781612917016

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Stealing from God by Frank Turek Pdf

If you think atheists have reason, evidence, and science on their side, think again! Award-winning author Dr. Frank Turek (I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist) will show you how atheists steal reason, evidence, science, and other arguments from God in trying to make their case for atheism. If that sounds contradictory, it's because it is! Atheists can't make their case without appealing to realities only theism can explain. In an engaging and memorable way,Stealing from God exposes these intellectual crimes atheists are committing and then provides four powerful reasons for why Christianity is true.

Author : Rhodes, Ron
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780736932516

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Answering the Objections of Atheists, Agnostics, and Skeptics by Rhodes, Ron Pdf

Author : Gregory Koukl
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310139140

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Street Smarts by Gregory Koukl Pdf

Street Smarts by Gregory Koukl helps Christians better engage in productive conversations with those who challenge their convictions on a variety of issues. A follow-up to Koukl's best-selling Tactics, this book focuses on revealing the fundamental flaws in common, current challenges to Christian beliefs and values. It then provides individual strategies to exploit those shortcomings by offering model questions and sample dialogues to help guide believers in genial, yet persuasive, conversations. Koukl begins by explaining the important difference in evangelism between a harvest approach (reaping) and a gardening approach (sowing). He then provides an overview of the tactical game plan he uses to have fruitful "gardening" conversations with those who are not yet Christians. Subsequent chapters tackle specific areas of challenge that Christians frequently face in discussions "on the street," as it were--in those conversations with friends, family, or critics that believers often avoid because they feel out of their element, vulnerable, or exposed. With the specific challenges he addresses, Koukl shows precisely how and why each falters. instructing the reader in a lucid, well-organized, and easy-to-follow fashion. He then provides a specific set of questions--the same questions Koukl uses in his own encounters--that are embedded in sample mini-dialogues the Christian can use to exploit those flaws in an amicable, yet incisive, way. Some questions are used to get the discussion moving forward in a disarming fashion. Others are aimed more directly at the flaws or liabilities of the typical challenges people raise. Questions encourage challengers to think more carefully about their objections or consider problems with their own views that they may not have considered or even have been aware of. Street Smarts equips Christians to handle tough challenges in a straightforward and user-friendly way. It provides the practical tools they need to keep them in the driver's seat of otherwise difficult and discomfiting conversations. It enables them to stand up for Christ in a safe, genial, yet effective way.

Author : Gregory Koukl
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310139171

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Street Smarts Study Guide by Gregory Koukl Pdf

Building on Street Smarts, this study guide by Gregory Koukl will take you deeper, teaching you the strategies for productive conversations with those who challenge your convictions on a variety of issues. The focus is on revealing the fundamental flaws in common, current challenges to Christian beliefs and values. It then provides individual strategies to exploit those shortcomings by offering model questions and sample dialogues to help guide believers in genial, yet persuasive, conversations. Lessons are coordinated with the available Street Smarts Video Study, and both make an ideal resources for groups use.

Author : Hank Hanegraaff
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781418537449

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Fatal Flaws by Hank Hanegraaff Pdf

As more and more so-called experts challenge what the Bible says about the creation of man, we must take aim with straightforward, Christ-centered answers. Today's generation is bombarded with theories about humankind and its origins. In Fatal Flaws, now in paperback with a study guide included, Hank Hanegraaff keeps Christians from falling prey to corrupting scientific speculation about the origins of life and reminds us that we are God's creation. This common-sense approach puts the concept of evolution in the grasp of everyday Christians and reminds us that ultimately the key to our purpose in this life comes from understanding whose we are and who created us.

Author : Alister McGrath
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307424174

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The Twilight of Atheism by Alister McGrath Pdf

In this bold and provocative new book, the author of In the Beginning and The Reenchantment of Nature challenges the widely held assumption that the world is becoming more secular and demonstrates why atheism cannot provide the moral and intellectual guidance essential for coping with the complexities of modern life. Atheism is one of the most important movements in modern Western culture. For the last two hundred years, it seemed to be on the verge of eliminating religion as an outmoded and dangerous superstition. Recent years, however, have witnessed the decline of disbelief and a rise in religious devotion throughout the world. In THE TWILIGHT OF ATHEISM, the distinguished historian and theologian Alister McGrath examines what went wrong with the atheist dream and explains why religion and faith are destined to play a central role in the twenty-first century. A former atheist who is now one of Christianity’s foremost scholars, McGrath traces the history of atheism from its emergence in eighteenth-century Europe as a revolutionary worldview that offered liberation from the rigidity of traditional religion and the oppression of tyrannical monarchs, to its golden age in the first half of the twentieth century. Blending thoughtful, authoritative historical analysis with incisive portraits of such leading and influential atheists as Sigmund Freud and Richard Dawkins, McGrath exposes the flaws at the heart of atheism, and argues that the renewal of faith is a natural, inevitable, and necessary response to its failures. THE TWILIGHT OF ATHEISM will unsettle believers and nonbelievers alike. A powerful rebuttal of the philosophy that, for better and for worse, has exerted tremendous influence on Western history, it carries major implications for the future of both religion and unbelief in our society.

Author : Martin G. Poulsom
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567575920

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The Dialectics of Creation by Martin G. Poulsom Pdf

This book investigates the philosophical components of Christian faith in creation, by analyzing the distinction and the relation between creation and its Creator.The writings of Edward Schillebeeckx and David Burrell supply a terminology of distinction and relation that shapes the discourse, following in the footsteps of Aquinas. Poulsom elucidates the relational dialectic in the thought of Schillebeeckx as a way of thinking about the Creation and offers a helpful comparison with the thought of David Burrell. Relational dialectic is an organizing principle, not only of Schillebeeckx's account of creation, but of his philosophical theology more generally. It can operate as a hermeneutic for his material on praxis and humanism, in a way that resolves some problems noted by other Schillebeeckx scholars. Poulsom's interpretation of Schillebeeckx enriches current approaches to this thinker and offers a significant contribution to thinking on the doctrine of Creation and issues surrounding the 'ontological distinction' which is of major concern in philosophical theology today.

Author : Claude Heater
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781602664944

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Fatal Flaws of The Most Correct Book On Earth by Claude Heater Pdf

Born in Oakland, California in 1927 the author received his High School education in California before joining the Marines at 17 before the end of WW 2. While pursuing vocal studies in Los Angeles he accepted an LDS Mission starting in Buffalo, NY. Finding many inconsistencies among missionaries he concluded to get his own witness. With 3 days of fasting and prayer he read the BOM relying on Moroni's promise of asking God to reveal the truth of the BOM. Positive confirmation never came. The Mission President advised him to complete his mission saying he needn't teach anything he didn't believe. A missionary chorus was formed and the choice made to tour his final months as soloist with the Utah Centennial Chorus. After his mission he appeared in a Broadway Musical. He left for Milan, Italy in 1952 meeting his future wife on the ship. After his operatic debut in Spain, successful engagements followed that soon led to Berlin and a three year contract at the Vienna State Opera. While singing in Rome a screen test led to Director William Wyler choosing Claude for the role of Jesus in the Academy Award film 'Ben Hur'. After the 'Ben Hur' experience Claude made another BOM attempt with a 3 day fast/prayer at the Holy Trinity chapel of St. Catherine Monastery at Mount Sinai, Egypt. As Dramatic Tenor he sang opposite such sopranos as Birgit Nilsson, Renata Tabaldi, Joan Southerland; as Tristan, Otello, Siegfried, Parsifal etc; at Bayreuth, La Scala and most major European opera houses. After retiring, he attended his local Ward with family, becoming counselor in the Sunday school until he felt enough was enough. Conducting a Testimony meeting he bore his lack of testimony publicly asking for excommunication as the only way to remove oneself from church rolls.

Author : Thea Spitz
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781512703306

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Activate by Thea Spitz Pdf

Ever wish you could easily lead others to a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ but feel inadequate and ill-equipped to accomplish the task? Activate un-complicates the process of reaching out and sharing your faith, leaving you with every confidence that YOU TOO can be an active part of the Great Commission. An excellent balance between theology and personal experience, Activate is an “easy read” while providing strong meat for serious study. Not only a personal motivator, Activate is also a particularly useful instruction manual for group leaders wanting to prepare and encourage others to go into the harvest field. Let this book help you be part of the Great Commission, so you too can confidently say “Here am I, Lord, send ME!”

Author : Julian Baggini
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191501043

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Atheism: A Very Short Introduction by Julian Baggini Pdf

Atheism is often considered to be a negative, dark, and pessimistic belief which is characterized by a rejection of values and purpose and a fierce opposition to religion. Atheism: A Very Short Introduction sets out to dispel the myths that surround atheism and show how a life without religious belief can be positive, meaningful, and moral. It also confronts the failure of officially atheist states in the Twentieth Century. The book presents an intellectual case for atheism that rests as much upon positive arguments for its truth as on negative arguments against religion. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Norman L. Geisler,Frank Turek
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433581441

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I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist by Norman L. Geisler,Frank Turek Pdf

To some, the concept of having faith in a higher power or a set of religious beliefs is nonsensical. Indeed, many view religion in general, and Christianity in particular, as unfounded and unreasonable. Norman Geisler and Frank Turek argue, however, that Christianity is not only more reasonable than all other belief systems, but is indeed more rational than unbelief itself. With conviction and clear thinking, Geisler and Turek guide readers through some of the traditional, tested arguments for the existence of a creator God. They move into an examination of the source of morality and the reliability of the New Testament accounts concerning Jesus. The final section of the book deals with a detailed investigation of the claims of Christ. This volume will be an interesting read for those skeptical about Christianity, as well as a helpful resource for Christians seeking to articulate a more sophisticated defense of their faith.

Author : Duncan Howlett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015032238720

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The Fatal Flaw by Duncan Howlett Pdf

Howlett argues that Liberalism's fatal flaw has been the inability to hold to its central principles of freedom of thought, and proposes a new Liberalism with no exceptions to the standards of inquiry that religious Liberals inherited from the Enlightenment and from science. He details the positive beliefs of a self-consistent Liberalism and the demands those beliefs would place on religious Liberals. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Michael Palmer
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718896911

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The Atheist's Creed by Michael Palmer Pdf

In The Atheist's Creed a prominent and widely-read contemporary philosopher, Dr Michael Palmer, presents the most comprehensive anthology of the major philosophical arguments for atheism now before the public. While the so-called 'new atheism' of RichardDawkins and others has attracted considerable publicity, it is these philosophical arguments that have down the ages provided the principal landmarks in the unfolding and increasingly widespread belief that no God exists. Using a combination of extracts,detailed introductions, biographies and extensive bibliographies, the author guides the reader through the history of atheism, from the time of the early Greeks down to the present day. In this analysis particular attention is given to the writings of Hume, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud. The Atheist's Creed requires no specialist knowledge of philosophy. Each chapter is structured around a single theme and the various authors coordinated to allow the full force of the particular atheistic argument to emerge.The result is a compelling and powerful assessment of the case for atheism, which will be essential and fascinating reading for student and non-student alike and for all those concerned with the fundamental question: whether or not there is a God.