Purpose : To logically express my own philosophy and to explain and answer the questions, of christians, atheist and myself, about God and christianity.
I am not a philosophy or church authority and have had no formal training in this area. I am just a thinking person who wants to explore the logic and philosophy behind what I have chosen to believe. I do not believe that I can use logical debate to convince someone to give their life to Jesus. Only the changing of a heart through grace can do that. However, I do think that what I believe must be logical and understandable. I am certain this will be quite a journey for me, and I hope and pray I am taking this journey with the Holy Spirit as my guide.
Remember, that my answers to these challenges are designed to show that the philosophy I believe and outline above can reasonably answer the questions. I am not hoping to explain or prove that the tenets of my Christian philosophy are obviously true. In other words, I hope to show that Christianity and the Christian God cannot be rejected because it is unreasonable, illogical or unloving. I am not attempting to scientifically prove it to be true. That is another logical discussion completely. For example: I do not intend in these exercises to explain why I believe there is a God. I intend to explain why the God I believe in could act, or not act, as I he does in our world. I hope you can see the difference. Perhaps I will attempt to discuss the scientific merits of Christianity in another series.
My Basic Christian Beliefs
Challenges
- Atheist: How do you explain away the empty tomb and the four Gospels? (email exchange with atheist friend)
- A Discussion Of Perspective: it makes all the difference.
- How can an all-good, all-powerful God allow disasters like hurrican Katrina, famines, and war?
- Why believe in the Christian God when all the gods of all the world’s religions seem so similar? People feel their presence and claim there are answers to prayers. etc. etc.
- Two of the gospels disagree on who Joseph’s father was. How can that be if God is all-knowing?
- How can God be just if he “chose” the Israelites to be his “chosen people”?
