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- Page 11 and 12: Forewordby Lee StrobelWilliam Lane
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B. Biblical Christianity thereby af
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Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried
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impossible for them not to exist. M
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of its existence. Why? Because the
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I hope you begin the grasp the powe
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To see the point, think about your
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Leibniz’s Cosmological ArgumentPr
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Personal InterludeA Philosopher’s
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history of Jewish, Muslim, and Chri
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word for medieval theology). Today
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Abû Hâmid Muhammad ibn Muhammad a
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Metaphysics is the branchof philoso
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traditionally said about the univer
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about actual infinites. But it does
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made it out to be. For just ask you
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This is easy to see in the case of
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elements in the set {0, 1, 2, 3,…
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This “redshift” in the light wa
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space and time. Space and time can
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MultiverseSome cosmologistsspeculat
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Boltzmann’s Many Worlds Hypothesi
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becomes dark, cold, dilute, and dea
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energy could travel to spawn baby u
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the temperature is below 0 degrees
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The Kalam Cosmological ArgumentProC
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The Kalam Cosmological Argument (co
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AristotleAn even more magnificent s
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Constants ofNature’s ConstantsNat
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A Fly on the WallThe philosopher Jo
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Physical Necessity?According to the
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Now alter slightly one or more of t
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The AnthropicPrincipleWe can observ
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credible, some plausible mechanism
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that this book, your body, the eart
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First Problem with Step 3: You Don
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ConclusionTherefore it seems to me
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The Design Argument (cont.)ProConNo
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professor of moral philosophy at Ca
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Values and DutiesMoral value refers
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But on the atheistic view there doe
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It’s about God’sExistenceThe mo
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The EuthyphroDilemma1. Is something
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HumanismHumanism is the view thatma
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isn’t characterized by the sort o
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He responded with a fog of theologi
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Even Gentiles, who do nothave God
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The moral Argument (cont.)ProCon2.
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Craig: “There is evidence for God
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Key TermsTheism: “God exists.”A
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She was dying before our very eyes,
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having to prove nothing. This may b
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The Freedom of the WillThe notion o
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This is a much more powerful versio
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But the most interesting part is th
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Although at a superficial level suf
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case that suffering is part of the
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So God abandoned themto do whatever
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Doctrines aboutGod and SufferingThe
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problem of suffering? In one sense,
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I think how good He’s been to me.
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The problem of sufferingProConLogic
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Personal InterludeA Philosopher’s
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She said, “I’ve always wanted t
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in the language. With my postdoctor
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CHAPTER 8WHO WAS JESUS?And he asked
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writings contained in the New Testa
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first began to appear in the second
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2. The gospels are not analogous to
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When Professor Sherwin-White turns
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literally; it was just a literary d
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sources, which are near to the time
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claims to be the Messiah, the uniqu
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one who is to come” harks back to
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of the Blessed One?” (Mark 14:61)
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First, consider Jesus’ parable of
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fact that although Matthew reproduc
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the criteria of independent sources
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incompatible with the view that He
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His TeachingFirst, His authority co
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could presume to speak for God on t
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Jesus is referring here to Himself
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A CASE FOR JESUS’RADICAL SELF-UND
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CHAPTER 9DID JESUS RISE FROM THE DE
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The Evidence of Jesus’ BurialFirs
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1 Cor. 15:3-5 Acts 13:28-31 Mark 15
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The Independent Reports of the Empt
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six, and some of these are among th
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the empty tomb, and the gospels fai
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himself also saw an appearance of J
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In Galilee thousands had gathered t
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6. Appearance to Saul of Tarsus. Th
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The Bodily Nature of the Appearance
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distinction between a vision and an
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God. If God exists, there’s no go
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The only point of serious disagreem
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so well in meeting others, figuring
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semblance of belief on the disciple
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pagan myths about dying and rising
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5. Disconfirmed by fewer accepted b
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6. Exceeds other hypotheses in fulf
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1. Explanatory scope. The hallucina
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3. Plausibility. Lüdemann attempts
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The Resurrection HypothesisWe’ve
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throw up one’s hands and say, “
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A CASE FOR THEHISTORICITY OF JESUS
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CHAPTER 10IS JESUS THE ONLY WAY TO
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is no other name under heaven given
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Fallacious Arguments for PluralismW
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fallacious arguments are often give
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Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?N
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among that percentage of the world
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Is There an Inconsistency?But now w
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As a good and loving God, God wants
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providentially places there persons
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ConclusionIn conclusion, then, plur
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religious pluralism objection (cont
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