I would like to hear from the everybody(Christian Community) on who is the best apologist? I want to know, who is good apologist I can study up on to answer some of my questions?
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Here are some Christian Apologists that I would recommend
1. Ravi Zacharias – http://www.rzim.org/resources.aspx
This is his website – http://www.rzim.org/resources.aspx
2. John Lennox – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHiGsL4bzmM
http://fixed-point.org/index.php/video/35-full-length/164-the-dawkins-lennox-debate
I have heard a lil bit of Lennox, he does have a real strong British accent, but I might be partially inclined/bias to favor him, because he also studied mathematics, like I have.
John Lennox was born in Northern Ireland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennox
oops my bad, strong Irish accent
3. Thomistic Bent – http://humblesmith.wordpress.com/
yes i am already following him, very helpful blog
4. I also found this to be a useful website –
http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/bible.htm
Please, let me know what you think regarding how this website answers alleged Bible contradictions
very useful sight, I’m actually using it; in reference to one of my upcoming post that I will probably have out in a few. It is resourceful, helpful, detailed, and informative.
However it never answered my first blog post, the main question that i still never got answered and the fundamental reason why I started this blog.
Why did John the Baptist say he was not a prophet and that he was not the Elijah? Who is telling the truth Jesus or John the Baptist?
http://bittersweetend.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/whos-the-liar-contradiction-1/
There is also Alister McGrath
although I personally don’t necessarily agree with all his conclusions I think his study and publications are worth reading
http://alistermcgrath.weebly.com/
A few suggestions, a non-exhaustive list:
William Lane Craig, of course:
http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/PageServer
Then you might want to check the Christian CADRE:
http://www.christiancadre.org/purpose.html
Victor Reppert is also a good Christian philosopher:
http://dangerousidea.blogspot.com
I’m still a great fan of CS Lewis. It is common to dismiss him these days, but as I get older, he makes more and more sense.
The best straight apologetics book I have ever read is William Lane Craig’s Reasonable Faith – very comprehensive and well argued, as you’d expect. His website of the same name is well worth checking out.
John Lennox is a very smart man, an engaging speaker, but his books are not (in my limited experience) as rigorous as Craig’s.
I’m a great fan of Aussie historian John Dickson. He writes very simply and effectively about the historical Jesus, and covers some other apologetics issues as well.
I do intend to purchase and read CS Lewis book, mere christianity, however even though it is one of the most highly regard books on the apologetic-atheism issue. From my understanding, a significant portion of his is dedicated to the argument of morality, which in my opinion is irrelevant towards the argument of inerrant of the bible. Nonetheless, I still think it is a must read on reputation alone.
“a significant portion of his is dedicated to the argument of morality, which in my opinion is irrelevant towards the argument of inerrant of the bible”
You are right, and if you are interested in Biblical inerrancy rather than apologetics, then don’t bother with CS Lewis – like me, he didn’t believe in it.
Francis Collins and Karl Giberson are important Christian apologists to counter the overall tendency of apologists to Intelligent Design. William Lane Craig moderately supports ID and so does John Lennox seem to do recently, so some counterweight is crucial in any reading.
William Lane Craig is actually my Favorite apologist to date, I actually think he won the argument against hitches. I will definitely buy his book. (However it was actually one of my first debates I ever watched.)
I do intend to research his five points of argument. I wanna see if his arguments are logical and can stand up to criticism.
They can’t. http://wiki.ironchariots.org/index.php?title=Kalam
He makes a lot of assertions without demonstrating their validity.
you “actually” think he won against hitchens? man, he destroyed hitchens, i thought everyone would agree on that.
Norman Geisler and Josh McDowell are worth checking out. I’ve never seen them debate, but I’ve read their books. Just be warned that they only give one side of the issue.
If you want to discuss apologetics you can get in touch with me. I have several thoughts and resources.
Well thats why I started the blog, so it can be an open forum to talk about apologetics and things of that sort.
Now I do know, I probably won’t be able to get all my questions answered because I could never know the mind of God, but the way I see it is –Let’s atleast to get an understanding and answer the relevant questions.
I do believe it has helped ….I feel like the answers I have gotten for
http://bittersweetend.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/did-michal-have-any-children/
http://bittersweetend.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/did-jesus-just-misquote-the-bible/
*However in Did jesus just misquote the bible, even though it was answered, the answer ended up raising a different question/issues.
I still think my first contradiction has not been answered…
http://bittersweetend.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/whos-the-liar-contradiction-1/
1. Francis Schaeffer
2. Cornelius Van Til
3. Abraham Kuyper
4. Herman Dooyeweerd.
5. Nicholas Wolterstorff
Not necessary in that order; these represent a school of thought.
Also, Stanley Jaki; Thomas Kuhn, not a Christian, but raises problems for 20th century positivism.
Hmm , I’ve never heard of any of these guys. But I’ll check them out
also, God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God (Cornell Paperbacks) by Alvin Plantinga
Cornell University Press (1990), Paperback, 277 pages
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Craig has to be the best apologist I have heard. His incessant drone, pitched a semi-tone above -barely tolerable’, he has perfected to an art form. It distracts his opponents as much as his encyclopedic knowledge of bullshit.
He can reason himself out of almost any logical argument, even when it is obvious he is talking tripe he still manages to come out sounding authoritive and smelling of roses.
He could moonlight as a politician; no problem.
Craig may be popular but not the best apologist. I would argue that Van Til or G.H. Clark are much better. Clark in particular is a first-rate philosopher and held the Chair of the Philosophy Department at Butler University for a number of years.
There are many great Christian apologists
James White Alpha and Omega Ministries is by far the greatest as far as depth of the knoweldge of the Word of God the Greek Hebrew aramaic Arabic islam and so forth. James white has handled the toughest guys out there… mostly islamic apologists. James White,Ravi Zacharias,William lane Craig, the best top 3 I suggest you look up James White Alpha and Omega Ministries. God bless you all in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ
LOL. Shows what happens when you don’t read the blog properly. I don’t think Marcus needs the blessings of any god these days!
Jesus Christ
I can’t believe people here think that Van Til and other presuppositional apologists are good. They’re annoying and utterly unconvincing. The whole of their arguments can be summed thusly:
“I assume God exists. I assume that God is the only way to think rationally. Therefore, if you want to think rationally, you have to believe in God. Because you claim that rationality exists, you secretly believe that God exists.”