The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

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Lee Strobel, a former atheist and an award winning legal editor for the Chicago Tribune, uses his investigative skill to tackle the "The Big Eight"... (show more)

Lee Strobel, a former atheist and an award winning legal editor for the Chicago Tribune, uses his investigative skill to tackle the "The Big Eight" toughest questions about Christianity. The questions and answers are to the point, open and honest and allow the reader to determine if they come to Lee's same conclusion that, "Refined by the rigors of intellectual scrutiny, my faith has emerged deeper, richer, more resilient, and more certain than ever." Indeed, I have found that the dialogue within this book has at the same time strengthened my own personal faith while also giving me new directions to further my own personal apologetic studies in order to deepen my own intellectual understanding of my faith. I encourage others, whether Christian, Muslim, Jew, Atheist or Agnost to read this book with an open mind in order to explore their own thoughts about the tough questions about Christianity. (show less)

 

 

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Its at times like this I wish I had the wit of a great literary critic...hell, even a Roger Ebert at his best would be sufficient...I've read all o... (show more)

Its at times like this I wish I had the wit of a great literary critic...hell, even a Roger Ebert at his best would be sufficient...I've read all of Strobel's books (except the Christmas one, I'm hoping to read that at some point) and I got two words: Harold Hill. Now, the guy can't write above a second grade level, or maybe he's just trying to dumb things down for his audience, but either way the arguments in these books are as insipid and ridiculous as anything I've run across in the world of Christian apologetics. He makes Alvin Plantinga look like Plato or Kant.
Now granted, this book is from the year 2000, so maybe Strobel just wasn't aware of the silliness of his arguments regarding, say, evolution and cognitive science...but when I see the vapid nature of his theodicy arguments, I gotta think he knows how full of it he his and he's purposefully lying to his audience because he knows they'll eat it up. There's no way an adult human who has done as much investigation as he supposedly has done can come to the conclusions he has, is there? (show less)

 

 

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  Former atheist Chicago Tribune reporter Lee Strobel tackles 8 big questions that are challenges to Christianity. These questions include: the problem of evil; miracles contradicting science; the theory of evolution; verses in the Bible that depict God ordaining the slaughter of men, women and children; Jesus claiming to be the only way to Salvation; the problem of a loving God sending people to a eternal torment in hell; church history being filled with oppression and violence; and can s... (show more)

  Former atheist Chicago Tribune reporter Lee Strobel tackles 8 big questions that are challenges to Christianity. These questions include: the problem of evil; miracles contradicting science; the theory of evolution; verses in the Bible that depict God ordaining the slaughter of men, women and children; Jesus claiming to be the only way to Salvation; the problem of a loving God sending people to a eternal torment in hell; church history being filled with oppression and violence; and can someone be a Christian and still have doubts. Strobel interviews several Christian scholars such as William Lane Craig, JP Moreland, Norman Geisler and Peter Kreeft.

  Although the questions brought up are really great questions and to wrestle with them is important, I do think that some chapters don't satisfactorily deal with the immensity of the issues at hand. This especially rises to the surface in the problem of evil chapter (really, who can solve this one), God slaughtering women and children in the Bible and the issue of hell. Part of this may be Strobel's intended audience. He doesn't seem to dive to deep into the complex waters of these issues perhaps because he would be scaring off his very wide audience.

  The chapter about Jesus being the only way or God being the only God is, of course, an easy case to make from Scripture in a number of places. I also thought the last chapter was important and good talking about the nature of faith and doubt. Indeed, by implying to have faith, one also implies having doubt. These are important issues to raise in Christian thinking. (show less)

   

   

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  As a former atheist, journalist Lee Strobel addresses the doubts and uncovers the answers to the most commonly asked questions concerning the Christian faith. I loved every single page of this book and would recommend it to any atheist, antagonist, strong believer or a believer in 'pieces of every religion.' It is factually and historically based, with quotes and discoveries from microbiologists, archaeologists and neuroscientists to world-renown scholars, philosophers and historians. The fac... (show more)

  As a former atheist, journalist Lee Strobel addresses the doubts and uncovers the answers to the most commonly asked questions concerning the Christian faith. I loved every single page of this book and would recommend it to any atheist, antagonist, strong believer or a believer in 'pieces of every religion.' It is factually and historically based, with quotes and discoveries from microbiologists, archaeologists and neuroscientists to world-renown scholars, philosophers and historians. The factual information that I attained from this book only increased my faith and trust in the history of Jesus as the son of God. It was an unbelievably great book and I cannot wait to read Strobel's other books: The Case for Christ and The Case for a Creator. (show less)

   

   

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