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Arguments ...

Tuesday, May 29, 2012. On Friday and Saturday last week I spent quite some time in a large bookstore. It had several sections on faith and philosophy. There was a section on “Christian insipration” - and also one on philosophy with books against Christian faith. So I spent several hours looking around and reading here and there …

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Arguments for and against faith …

One book caught my attention. The author was strongly writing against faith. He was strongly writing against the Christian God. He did not like the biblical stories - but disliked both the Old and the New Testament. And the purpose of his book was to summarise his arguments and thoughts.

It is interesting to start to think about arguments for and against faith. How can you understand particular actions, events or commands in the bible? What do they mean? How can you misunderstand them?

Sometimes we might think that there is a clean way of presenting the truth. But putting all different types of arguments on the table might lead us into a much deeper understanding of things. Arguments for and against faith might help faith more than just putting all the pro-arguments ahead!

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Scripture and Arguments …

The bible brings a lot of arguments for faith. It is a big invitation to believe in him. It is a book which writes about his people, about Abraham and Isaak and Jacob, about Jesus and Paul and John. It is about very concrete people and their faith, a book about history, about ideas, about life with all what it is.

Biblical arguments take place on many layers. It is not just our head. It is not just our emotions. It is also our heart. It is the whole of our life. Biblical arguments do not fear the counter arguments. They have the freedom to study and consider what people might have to say against faith. And they have the power and authority to overcome doubt.

Is God to be praised? He is, since he is just great! You can find many arguments: look what he has made. Creation is amazing. All humans are fascinating beings. We cannot claim we would fully understand his ways, though we might understand a lot of it. Still, a lot is hidden from our eyes. But there are also fantastic arguments to find in the biblical stories - let us study the scripture with our whole life! (Roland Potthast) ... more texts

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