Testimonials

Hi there: I am a big fan of Dr. Craig's which has brought me from being a sort of agnostic deist to a confident Christian. So much so that I have taken on a theology university course. I am presently doing some work on Paul's letter to the Galatians and wondered if you could tell me if Dr. Craig has done any audio stuff on this in the defenders class? I cant see anything referring to this at present.Thanks for your time...

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My name is Jahir and I am from Panama (the country) but live in the U.S. I cannot thank you enough for you ministry and the great growth it has provided me in my Christian Life. Keep the good work Doc!! Now as a Christian I take the bible to be authoritative and very important when talking about philosophical matters.

— Jahir

Dear Dr. Craig

I am currently 19 years old. I grew up in South England, but moved to the United States almost three years ago. This year, I became a Christian. Having grown up in an atheistic household in a largely atheistic society, I had a genuine and at times rabid disbelief in God, although I often had doubts. My parents are not very happy with my conversion, as the Christian ideals of objective morality contradict their very subjective morality, influenced by secularism and relativism. I converted to Christianity of my own accord. Nobody recruited me. I was never approached. I came to the conclusion through a love of traditions and original Western culture. This of course, all eventually leads us back to the person of Jesus Christ.

I would like to thank you, because your debates, which I watch whenever I can, were part of the reason I converted. It not only felt right in my heart, but it was logical as you laid it out. I believe you are one of the most underrated philosophers today, and if there was justice in academia, you would go down with Socrates and others. I just wanted to let you know, you helped to change a life. I was miserable as an atheist. I am whole as a Christian. I am waiting a few years to affiliate myself with a sect, but I am a true believer. You also set an example to all debaters, as your respect even in the face of sneers, is admirable.

Jesus opened my heart, Dr. Craig. But you opened my mind, so that I could recognize Him. Never stop shining the light of truth. Godspeed. I'll see you in the next life if not in this one.

Sincerely

— Keanu

I think you should know, Dr. Craig, that your work has greatly influenced me. I first found out about you on YouTube, and then purchased your book, "On Guard." Your effort has strengthened my faith and understanding of God and Christianity. I also now have a stronger passion and desire to serve and change the world. Please continue doing what you do. May God bless you!

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I went through a low point in my faith where seemingly without reason, I was drawn into listening to the top attacks against the Faith from the top Atheists around the world. Listening to them really started to take a told that I believe, were it not for the Lord's strength, would have completely put down my Faith and left me clinging by my fingernails.

Eventually, well into this "search" of sorts, I found your material. I watched debates, I subscribed to the old youtube channel and I began to learn something that turned the tides of the war on my own personal front: Christianity is reasonable and Christians can rise to these challenges not only with answers in defense, but with questions and answers of our own that put us on the offensive.

I once viewed the Atheist assault on the Faith like a giant front plowing through and over those who would claim the Faith, but now I see it's much to the contrary. Now I understand why the Atheist assault is so loud and insulting, full of much boasting and pride. It's not more than how a cat will puff up its fur to appear larger and scarier (if that's possible?) than it is. In the end when you soak it down, it's just a three pound pussy. God bless you in all you do, may the days of your life be long and full of health as you not only carry your cross, but hoist it high in triumph for all others in the Faith to see and follow as you follow Christ.

— Jesse

I am a Nigerian and I have recently been watching your debates on youtube.I just want to say that I appreciate you for your contributions to the defense of the faith and I thank God for empowering you. Many Christians may not see the relevance of what you do because many Christians have either lost sight of our priorities or never knew what they are in the first place. Yours is a ministry that far exceeds that of the modern day fleecing ministers behind the pulpit. To God be all the glory.

What I must say to you, sir, is be diligent not to limit your work and life to the intellectual defense of our faith. We share in Christ if we hold fast our confidence TILL THE END. I pray that God Himself will sanctify you wholly and that your spirit, soul and body will be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord with His saints. I long for the day when we will applaud (if heaven allows applause) as you receive your reward for diligent and reasonable presentation of the faith. Walk carefully that you may not lose what you worked for but that you may gain a full reward. May He who is able to keep us from falling present you without fault before the presence of His glory with rejoicing.

— Uche

Dear Dr. Craig!
First of all I'd like to thank you for your great multitude of works. What you have done, and still do with words is stunning, and your courageous head-on confrontation with atheism and secularism is a source of great hope and inspiration. Your apologetic works were also the main reason for my abandonment of atheism, and embracing of Christianity. In April last year at the Craig-Kappel debate here in Denmark I had the honour of meeting you personally. That single event more than anything inspired me to study Christianity and apologetics. I now attend a protestant Church weekly, and I frequently hold you and Reasonable Faith in my prayers. Thanks to your books I'm also able to defend my faith with reason and precision (what a wonderful book!) amongst my friends with great success, I just can't stress how much finding Christ has done to my life, and how thankful I am for it and for people like you, Dr. Craig.

— Mikkel

Mr. Craig,

I am a former atheist. I was raised in the Christian faith and came to question my religion/faith, as most do, in adolescence. I asked questions to the church leaders, my parents, or anyone of apparent religious authority, and the answers I received were, “You’re too intelligent to have faith.”, “Your heart is not in the right place.” etc. etc. I left the Christian religion on the principles that someone who is religious must be ignorant to fact or the ability to prove an existence of God. . . . I came to studying science and the titans of atheism. Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett, and so on. So at the behest of my mother, who is a very religious woman, I came to Christian Apologetics. I must admit that I was absolutely blown away. Not in that there were intelligent Christians, but in that they could argue science, logic, and reason with these personally-defined “titans of atheism”. I came across a few debates featuring John Lennox and you, and I have to say, logically speaking, God must exist. I would also submit that atheism is not logical by practice. My theory is this... Atheism operates on a presupposed position that God does not exist. So, as we discover the fine tunings and workings of the universe and life, God is ultimately removed from probable solution. This fundamentally is not logical. To predetermine that a certain answer cannot be a logical one is illogical at the very core. One must accept any and all possibilities if one is to think in logic and reason. (The fundamentals of scientific discovery.) Thank you for opening my eyes to the fact that there are many more logical reasons for believing in God than not, and for showing me that a person does not have to submit to irrationality and “blind faith” to believe in a supreme designer. I now know that I can follow the tenets of science while still believing that said tenets were designed and not improbably random, and chaotic. Again, I thank you and wish you the best.

Yours,

— Eric

Dear Professor Craig,

I am an atheist and my heroes are scientists or scientifically-spirited people. I have watched many debates on the topic featuring people I respect: Profs. Dawkins, Atkins, Mr. Hitchens, among others. I have continually found pleasure in their battles against the religious side, for they have seemed reasonable. I say "seemed", because after hearing your argue against Prof. Flew, and then lots of other atheists, including Prof. Atkins recently during your tour, I cannot help but feel an enormous amount of respect for you not only as a great debater (and contrary to what some have said, a great sophist), but also as a clear thinker and an intellectually honest man. You even inspire me to study theology. This year I graduate (BA in philosophy) and because of you, there is one more discipline for me to try to study as a doctoral student. I have yet to learn the stuff to be able to check the soundness of your arguments, but their validity, clarity, and rigor have deeply moved me, an atheist, a person who is hoping that your arguments are wrong, but a person who nevertheless is extremely grateful to you for arguing where others appeal to emotion and intimidation. Should you ever change sides and decide to argue for the other side, I think you would have even greater success. But where you are you are much needed.

Thank you Professor Craig for your clarity, your rigor, and your patience with great minds but mean debaters like Prof. Atkins

p.s. Prof. Craig seems like a very busy man, so should he never read this message of a mere student I'll simply be happy that someone else knows how much I appreciate his presence in these debates.

— Hunan

When I was in my late forties, about 13 years ago, I began looking into whether Christianity is real. I'd turned away from it as a teenager and had never reconsidered it through the lens of a mature mind. I was aware of there being New Testament scholars who question not only that Jesus said and demonstrated that he was God, but also that the earliest Christians believed that he was. The media coverage of that viewpoint and the seeming confidence with which its adherents disseminated it certainly made an impression on me. And at some of the churches I tried out, many of the congregants and even a good portion of the clergy had clearly been infected by it to one degree or another (and of course by the naturalism that underlies it and is so popular in our current intellectual culture). So when I began reading transcripts of William Lane Craig's debates with skeptical New Testament scholars, it was a tremendous eye-opener. They were the main reason for my persisting for 13 years in looking into Christianity. Dr. Craig's arguments for the historicity of the resurrection were particularly important to me. I was wanting to ascertain not only whether Jesus is the son of God, but also whether God even exists at all. If the resurrection really happened, I would have the answer to both questions. (It would also mean that none of the difficult issues such as why God allows evil to exist or what happens to people who never hear about Christ could prevent me from becoming a believer.) I found Dr. Craig's arguments in debates on the existence of God to be very strong, but it didn't matter very much to me whether there was a God unless he was a God who has communicated with us. I focused on the question of who Jesus was. Early last winter I realized that, finally, the intellectual issues I'd perceived as standing between me and becoming a believer had all been resolved in my mind -- primarily via Dr. Craig's work and N. T. Wright's. Their analyses of the New Testament in its historical and cultural contexts had made it clear to me that it is more reasonable to believe that the resurrection happened than that it didn't. For a few months, however, I was held back by an imaginary scenario that would play out in my head of becoming a Christian and then one day encountering a skeptical New Testament scholar on the train or wherever who would raise some argument that I couldn't counter and that I'd end up never finding an answer to. I felt that to be safe against such an occurrence I'd have to keep on studying and studying until I'd personally ascertained that no such argument existed. I quailed before such a task. I wasn't on a foolish quest for absolute "proof." I just wanted to be confident that Christian faith is (to borrow Dr. Craig's phrase) "reasonable faith" -- that there wasn't a clear refutation of its reasonableness that I hadn't happened to run into yet waiting for me around the corner. But I gradually came to a huge realization: It was enough that well-credentialed scholars like Craig and Wright have looked into all the evidence, have presented assessments of it that are convincing to a large sector of the scholarly community and to me, and have engaged many times with people such as my hypothetical skeptic on the train -- and more than held their own. (Plus, I've realized that the strength of their arguments even exceeds what is needed as a foundation for reasonable faith, providing a kind of extra margin of reasonableness. That's because even if the overall result of the debates had seemed to be a draw, that result would still have been 100% a green light intellectually for becoming a believer. The reason is that it makes sense that God would not provide humankind continually with a level of evidence of himself that's impossible for anyone to deny, but rather would allow us to feel drawn to him and choose him. He did provide overwhelming evidence once, in Jesus and his resurrection, and that news was passed on to us -- but we're free to come up with reasons to reject it.) On March 18, I yielded my life to Christ. Marked changes took place instantaneously both in my inner state and in behaviors of mine. They included changes that I had not anticipated or even imagined and that I therefore consider to be objective evidence of the reality of Christ. Not that I feel a need for confirmatory evidence: I can't even begin to doubt what the source is of the deep transformation of myself that occurred and is still occurring, or of the amazing, absolutely new-to-me peace and joy that came and are still with me. Dr. Craig's work was a crucial instrument in the clearing of the way for me to accept God's grace.

— Lee

Previous to four weeks ago, I had a fair sense of why there is the presence of evil and suffering despite the world being created by an all powerful and loving God. I have worked in Mental Health for 7 years, and more recently I have been working with refugee's from Burma on the Thai-Burma border. The nightmarish horror and atrocities I have been privy to hear from deeply traumatized people are utterly intolerable. Due to the suffering of others I have felt urgency to understand the all important point of God and suffering since I started working in mental health. I have regularly searched the scriptures and Christian literature to help me make sense of this. I thought I had it all in the bag! Then four weeks ago my worldview completely crumbled in one foul swoop and Suddenly I could no longer make sense of anything and everything felt utterly pointless, despicable and hollow. Then four weeks ago a young woman from my neighborhood was abducted from a busy (read "safe") street while walking home, she was then raped and murdered by a seemingly ordinary guy who lived in the same neighborhood. I watched this macabre news story unfold on the internet from my home in Thailand. See the familiarity of my home, where this senseless atrocity unfolded, chilled me to the bone. After all the undeserved sadness I have witnessed, something in me broke. I cried for days. I cried for all my clients, current, future and past. I cried for that beautiful girl and her friends and family. I cried for the war in Burma, racial hatred, battered women, and sexually abused little children. I raged at God. I was so angry, devastated and completely overwhelmed. I told God he had some questions I needed him to answer. Finally, after several days, I felt assured that God was going to answer my angry, desperate questions. My prayer was answered last weekend when I discovered a podcast featuring Dr Craig discussing God and suffering. I still have some questions. But God has answered my prayer for revalation. Praise God! Without this I would not be able to do my work effectively and would end up on the 'previously a social worker' scrap heap.

— Jade

I am a junior in high school in Tennessee. As part of my homeschooling, I was required to prepare and execute a Lincoln-Douglas style debate. After finishing the debate my sister and I watched a recording of your debate with Dr. Ludemann in 1977, "Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?"

It was impressive to see how well you stayed on topic through all the red herrings that Dr. Ludemann brought up. You didn't overstate your conclusions and were very polite. But most importantly, you defended well one of the key doctrines, if not the key doctrine, of Christianity. It was a real encouragement to have clearly stated the many compelling reasons to believe that Jesus did rise from the dead, and vindicated His claims to deity.

I pray that God will bless you as you continue to defend the faith. I hope that you will continue to use your talents in critical thought to advance His kingdom.

— Daniel

Featured Testimonial - November 2012
I wanted to take a moment to give a very sincere thank you to Dr. Craig and the entire staff at Reasonable Faith. Dr. Craig's lectures, essays and books have literally saved my life. I'm a 50 year old man, with a wonderful wife, kids, cat, good job, and nice house. Until recently I would have considered myself an atheist, maybe an agnostic at best on a good day. My life was I am not afraid to say, miserable. Every day it was a chore to get up, get through work and face another night in which I believed that the only accomplishment I made that day was to get one step closer to death and nothingness. It was an extremely long, depressing time for me.

My friends started to notice how much more depressed and grumpy I had become and would often try to talk to me about it. I think my wife had just gotten used to it. Finally one day a Christian friend recommended I try attending a church service with him. I reluctantly attended and after my first visit thought to myself that it wasn't really that bad. I was expecting money grubbing, "you're going to burn in hell" types of people. But it was so much different than that. They could have cared less if I gave them even a penny and their friendliness and compassion was unbelievable. I decided to keep attending and eventually it occurred to me that I was enjoying it. I felt as if a heavy weight was being removed from my shoulders.

I started reading the bible and other historical documents and books by theologians. My research on the internet seemed never ending. There is so much information available. But...that is also what almost caused what I'll call a relapse back to atheism. When you search for phrases like "proof that God exists", or "is there life after death", you very quickly find out that atheists have found a haven on the internet. Many of the search results would bring me to an atheist website. Try as I might to simply ignore those sites, I found myself reading them. As I read them I felt the same dread come over me, the same miserable feelings, the same depression, that weight slowly being piled back on my shoulders.

Eventually it occurred to me that the reason I was feeling this way is because much of what you read on an atheist website comes directly or indirectly from some of the militant atheist scientists in the world. Most atheists are parrots for the more prominent atheists, scientists who believe that God and science are mutually exclusive of each other. They think if you believe in what science proves then you cannot believe in God. These scientists are extremely smart people. They have to be to do the work they do. But typically whatever they say I could never hope to dispute because I simply don't have the training they have. I am an engineer by trade, but my training is not in any field in which I could ever hope to debate or dispute what someone like Richard Dawkins might write or say. So it became very clear that what I needed to find was someone that could dispute and debate what the scientists say. I needed to find that person and find out what his/her thoughts were.

That's when I found Reasonable Faith. Finding your website has quite literally saved my life. As I started listening to some of Dr. Craig's podcasts I found myself actually crying I was so happy. Here was the answer to my prayers - someone that has the training and knowledge to speak to the atheist's claims, someone that can debate them with facts and proof and call them out on statements they make that the average person might not think to question. Once again, the weight is gone from my shoulders and I'm feeling better than I have in probably 30 years. I feel as if I have a reason to live now as if my life has purpose and meaning. I'm now an official member of my church, I've just been voted to chairman of the board of trustees, I love volunteering to help people in need and I have no problems at all telling people I'm a Christian. But my greatest pleasure comes when I'm alone and can read the bible or pray for God to continue to guide me and tell him that without him I am nothing. I truly believe now that God was working on me all these years. I had gotten to the point where my depression was so bad I just had to find something that would change my life, and deep down inside I had considered suicide. God didn't want that for me. I had never even considered becoming a Christian until that one conversation with a friend, a friend who was so understanding and caring.

My wife always did believe there was a God, she was not an atheist, but she was not a "practicing Christian" either. She now attends church with me, we read the bible and pray together and our marriage is better than it has ever been.

So once again - thank you so much to Dr. Craig and the entire staff at Reasonable Faith, and thank you God for helping me find them.

— Bill

Dr. Craig and Reasonable Faith Team,
Early in my high school career, I underwent and, thanks to God’s faithfulness, emerged from a deep crisis of faith. Strengthened in my relationship with Christ, I still saw what I thought was a deep, disparaging hole in the intellectual life of the Evangelical community and the world at large, and vowed to spend my life helping to change that state of affairs even if it was a long, lonely road. I was surprised and delighted, then, when early my sophomore year of undergraduate studies I discovered that philosophy is a thriving, academic discipline that one can pursue. (Where was the mention of the field during my formative high school years!?) But perhaps with equal joy came my subsequent discovery of Reasonable Faith after stumbling across your name, Dr. Craig, in my epistemology notes. In many ways, your personal testimony resonated and still resonates with my own life experiences and your treatment of divine providence enthralled me as it greatly expanded upon and refined my longstanding intuitions.

This was nearly three years ago, and ever since, I have been amazed as God has used you and your work to guide my thinking and shape my character. Time and again, a newly released RF podcast or academic work (most recently your treatment of divine aseity in Philosophia Christi) corresponds brilliantly with a newly acquired philosophic interest of mine or a subject that I have been discussing with my peers. Tangentially, in recent months, your work has helped put to rest the intellectual fears of one of my good friends from China. The discussion I had with him about arguments for God’s existence and Christ’s resurrection is but one link in an amazing chain that helped lead him to Christ! Praise God! He has since been devouring Christian literature and has helped lead another Chinese student to Christ. Praise God!

Or again, in 2011, I spent a summer in Germany and one evening feared that my new atheist acquaintances’ eyes might grow so wide as to pop from their heads! I had earnestly shared with them that not only did I have the internal witness of the Holy Spirit, but also in light of external evidences for God’s existence and Christ’s resurrection, I felt rationally compelled to accept the great things of the Gospel. With this comment, they leaned in with astonishment and said with no shortage of shock and incredulity, “Really?”and an edifying, three-hour conversation, not to mention a longstanding friendship, began. I believe they were rather stunned and perhaps pleasantly surprised to engage with arguments from natural theology. Were it not for your work, I do not believe I would have been able to engage and largely guide the conversation as I did. Your work is truly helping to reach the nations, Dr. Craig! Thank you.

Currently, I am on course to begin graduate studies in philosophy beginning fall 2013. It is my sincere wish not only to continue what you and others have aptly described as a Christian renaissance in Anglo-American philosophy, but also to bring this renaissance to other parts of the world, particularly China and Germany. I am fortunate enough to be in a prime position to begin this process, and so remain excited about your work throughout the world, and the work of other organizations like the EPS and their recent outreach to Christian, European academics. It has been very encouraging and helpful to hear what God has been doing through RF around the world as I consider where He may be leading me.

— Joshua

Thank you Dr Craig and everyone at Reasonable Faith,

I have been a theist all my life but the last years i've felt hard pressed by agressive atheists in the media and in my social network. But videos and written material by Dr Craig have strengthened my faith and helped me debunk all atheist arguments i've come across. I just finished watching the debate with Hitchens and Dr Craigs final words moved me so much i had to write this email. Thank you so much, what you are doing is so important for the world and help so many.

God bless you

— , Sweden

May God continue to bless you Bill and Jan, I would like to just say how thankful I am that God is using you, I have since "finding" your resources on the web, become so much bolder in my faith, suddenly I could step fearlessly into conversations with any atheist and feel that my faith had rock solid arguments upon which I could proclaim the Truth of God.

Of course Im not saying that I now have faith I never previously had, and have now only because of my discovery of sound arguments to belive, no what I mean to say is this, that now I can show the absolute rationality of my believing in God using the very tools and language that my atheist opponents think is their greatest weapon against me, its amazing to see their arguments collapse in light of the arguments Ive come to learn and use, Thank you Bill and Thank you Heavenly Father.

I want to share a little something that happened as the result of my new found ability to "take the rational,logical and philosophical inititive to the enemy", I happen to be a keen motorcyclist and on one of these biker forums I use theres a member whose signature under his avatar was "if you could reason with religious people, there would not be any religious people" well inevitibley after months of various subjects being discussed on the forum, the God subject came up he he ! Cutting a long story short it came down to just me and him posting and replying to each other in this "God thread" and all the time hundreds of members where watching it, well I sucessfully defended the Faith I have, defeating his many typical internet level objections and straw men arguments, It was with real joy and praise for God that when the very next day this guys signature about religious people not being reasonable changed! He had changed it to something about motorcycles! Praise God! Its was a small victory in the grand scheme I know but I took so much delight knowing that God is smarter than all of us and that all those other forum members who where following the thread would have seen what this guy saw, namely that there are very strong rational reasons to believe in God infact no strong rational reason to disbelieve.

God bless

— Duncan

I want to say thank you to Dr. Craig and his staff for standing up for truth, and providing resources for Christians who desperately need them.

I have long considered myself a Christian, since the time I was still in elementary, but I never took my faith too seriously. I hardly ever studied, never engaged anyone in conversation, etc. I was like a soldier who was lost in the middle of a war and decided to sit down and relax instead. It was not until I decided to take philosophy classes at college that my poor lifestyle finally dawned on me. Professors and students hijacked theist scientists, revised history, and spouted of ideas to match their made up reality. I knew deep inside they were wrong and I could not do anything about it. I had never felt so ashamed in my life.

It was at that point that I decided to either abandon Christianity altogether, or if it was true, act like it was. I started studying many different topics, but one really stood out to me - the topic of truth and morality. Craig's research on the subject really made sense and it became clear that non-theistic ideologies simply had no answer. In debates, atheists would simply rant about how horrible God was, even though they could not give a reason as to why they believed in good or evil to begin with. In fact, nearly all their positions were hilariously illogical and hypocritical, relying mostly on emotions rather then logic. Christianity actually made sense. It was logical, historically accurate, and it gave life real meaning.

Dr. Craig's YouTube debates, articles, and Q&A's really do a great service for Christians. After sharing articles from the website and watching debates with one of my friends, I also noticed him start to share the gospel and stand up for truth on a daily basis!

— Ted

My name is ____________ (the portuguese translation for ____________), 21 years old and I am a student of Philosophy (finished my bachelor last year and I am in graduation this year in the best university of South America) and a teacher of Philosophy for high school students in a public school here in São Paulo.

I read your books and articles since 2008 when my interest in the question whether God exists or not began (this question in special led me to study Philosophy in a higher level) and since than I have studied this question and read tons of works on this issue and I REALLY appreciate your GREAT work. Although I like whole Philosophy, my "favorite" areas are logic and epistemology (and, of course, philosophy of religion), which, by its turn, led me to analitic philosophy, your specialties.

Unfortunately, as someone rightly told you and you said in your lecture at Saint Benedictus, philosophy of religion and specially the question of the existence of God is not discussed in the philosphy departments of ALL our universities. Last year I tried to propose something like a debate or a lecture on this subject at my University and my professors replied that the question "has no importance" (?!), debates like these would be "pointless" (?!?!) because the question is "already solved" (?!?!?!). After the episode I asked myself: how can such great question has no importance? A question that almost all philosphers tried to answer? Even if the question could not be solved, debates about it are NOT pointless, they are, at least, a great oportunity to learn a lot about logic, ethics and epistemology, for example. And the last and most aberrant point, if the question is solved, what the heck is the answer??

P.O.: sorry by my bad english.

My best wishes,

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Thank you. The words are simple but their meaning more than sincere. I'll convey my story.

I was raised in a Christian home, and sent to a private Christian school for most of my pre-college education. The Christian school I went to taught us dogmatically what was and wasn't right, from the standpoint of pentecostal interpretation of the Bible. The problem was that not all of it was Biblically sound, and not all of it was in good manners. We were taught that we were right simply because we were right, and that Big Bad Atheists simply couldn't be reasoned with, so don't bother. On the other hand, when our Christian-themed science curriculum did speak, very one-sidedly, on matters such as biological evolution, not only was the slant akin to brain-washing, but the refutations of such things were scientifically unsound and based on completely outdated information and logic.

For instance, we were told that evolution could be disproven by asking the evolutionist "How do you date the fossils?", and according to our curriculum, he would smugly reply "We date the fossils by the geological layer in which we find them." We were then supposed to ask "And how do you date the geological layer?" to which he would say "By the fossils we find in them!" And then we must point out the circular reasoning. The problem is that, when we went on a field trip to the museum of natural history, and we discovered the poor elderly fellow doing the presentation on biological evolution, he did not respond with what we were taught to expect. He said "Oh, we date both via the carbon dating method!" And left us with our jaws hanging slack. We'd been defeated!

Instead of accepting that our science needed updating, we were encouraged by the faculty to IGNORE the defeat, unchanged, and assume that we were still correct. One can see how this ultimately lead me to be a very arrogant young adult by the time I had graduated. Over the next decade, I continued to flaunt reason and logic for dogma, and looked down my nose at anyone who wasn't like me.

It was a few years ago when I got a job where I made friends with several atheists, and suddenly my lack of logic was thrown in my face. Unlike most atheists I had been taught to expect, they were kind. Gentle. Loving. Moral. Intelligent. Open-minded. And they tore my beliefs apart. I remained faithful, but it became apparent to me that I had a lot of thinking to do.

Another few years go by, and I found that I could not stand against the intellectual onslaught of "God vs. Science". I fought it tooth and nail, but in the face of "There is no evidence for God!", my lack of knowledge only further breached the hull of my already sinking ship. Finally, persons like Penn Jillette and Richard Dawkins really had me questioning whether or not my own experiences with God were imagined. One night at my second-shift job, I cried out to God for a miracle. Something, ANYTHING, to show me that He was real. The only response I got that night was "Am I a magician, that I should do magic tricks for you every time you need proof?" I suspected whether or not I had even truly heard that or imagined it.

A month later, just after the Thanksgiving holiday, a group of my friends and I had gone out to our makeshift firing range to do some shooting. One of my Christian friends had found an atheist book in a bargain bin, and decided it would be fun to shoot it with his shotgun in the presence of one of our atheist friends, just to get a rise out of him. Our atheist friend wasn't phased, by the way. Later, as we posted about the days events on our group forum, my Christian friend posted a video of one Dr. William Lane Craig explaining how "the brights" weren't very bright. I watched this video several times, devouring your acidic critique of The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.

Afterwards, I decided I had to look up this William Lane Craig fellow, and see what else he had to say. Little did I realize just what I was getting into! Debates, interviews, commentary, and finally Reasonablefaith.org came up in my browser. Suddenly I had access to the Defenders podcasts! I cannot explain how utterly elated I was!

God had answered my desperate prayer. He didn't give me some sort of dog-and-pony magic trick in the night sky. He gave me evidence that He existed!

Needless to say, I spent weeks devouring the Existence of God series. I ordered On Guard and Reasonable Faith on Amazon.com. I started posting arguments on facebook, and even going into overtly secular forums and debating, getting a chance to practice logic and reason, and learning the ins and outs of the arguments and their refutations. My faith in God was strengthened, and my confidence to share His word was also strengthened.

Obviously, to God be the glory for this. It was in His timing that I felt the greatest need to cry out, and in His timing that I was shown your work. But, I say, thank YOU for your life of obedience and hard work. To me, and those around me, it has made a huge difference.

— Nicholas

I cannot express the gratitude that I have for your body of work, Doctor Craig. In listening to your speeches and reading your books it is increasingly obvious that God is the only reasonable explanation for almost every element of the world. I consistently see you leave the opposition with only anger and vague statements of the inherent invalidity of your argument.

I did initially suspect that this was a result of, as Richard Dawkins suggests, an advanced debate strategy. But the more I study your work, the more I am able to think philosophically in regard to the oppositions' claims. I constantly find myself using the phrase "The conclusion does not follow the premise."

Further, I constantly find myself rejecting atheistic arguments that I previously always considered unchangable. For instance, I never considered the possibility that I would be able to demonstrate that atheism is not the conservative or 'negative' worldview.

You are arming this generation of Christian apologists with what seem to be infallible argumentation to which not even leading atheists have an answer for. Further in adopting your philosophical method of thinking, it is increasingly easy to identify an atheist fallacy.

It is becoming more obvious that atheists are merely blowfish. They make claims of evidence, science and logic despite that they cannot demonstrate these elements. You have indicated that they give truth to the prophecy, "In professing themselves wise, they became fools."

— Richard

Currently, I am in a philosophy of religion class at a ____________ University, and as a part of our readings this semester, we'd been assigned to read:

William Lane Craig, "The Indispensability of Theological Meta-ethical Foundations for Morality," Afterall.net (November 1996)

This was by far the most lively discussion that we'd had in class this semester. My teacher took issue with your paper. He went on to accuse you of a false dichotomy between an objective foundation for morality in God and a subjective foundation of morality in a person. Further, he argued that the two horns of the dilemma presented in your paper were an objective foundation for morality and a subjective foundation. His escape route between these two horns was to posit a inter-subjective foundation for morality. Now, I'm known by my professors for being well versed in philosophy-No thanks to me; I have a great teacher his name is Bill Craig-so I was more than ready to answer his rebut his objection. My professor said, "Sean make the case for Dr.Craig." I accepted the challenge. I told the class and the professor, in a charitable manner and with Christian politeness, that the problem with inter-subjectivity grounding ethics was that people could have agreed on different values or even contrasting values (e.g., it could have been the case that rape was permissible.) He then objected stating that if God's commands determined what was good then one would still be left with a contingent and arbitrary foundation for moral values. Au contraire, the foundation for moral values is found in God's nature. His essential nature just is what Plato called "The Good." And with this, the class joined in and raised almost every objection possible, so to speak, to your argument, and one by one, I rebutted them.

— Sean

For quite some time I've been having the odd fall out with fellow atheists on different topics concerning Jesus and the Bible. The more they attacked the Bible and the rare Christian, mostly an ill equipped new convert who dared go into the atheistic lair (i.e. Atheist vs. Christian forums), the more I caught myself in the act of defending them. I felt and often still feel compelled to argue for the Bible, often dismayed and disappointed by the shallow, harsh criticisms and ad hominems my fellow atheists and other non-christians use from time to time. My defence of the Bible, which itself has increased over time, even lead some to believe I myself was a Christian, who had infiltrated their forum, just posing as an atheist to win their trust, before bamboozling them with some apologetics. I remember one day an Atheist asked me why I defended the Bible so often, seeing as I was a likeminded atheist myself. I had to smile to myself in amazement as I responded: "Because I read the Bible...."

Always on the lookout to test my own views, I continued to search for someone who was able to give me some sound reasons for believing in Christ - something I just could not find at all at that time, especially not in all the chatrooms or message boards, which I have unsuccesfully been visiting for all so many years....

Ever since it came to my attention early on in August of this year, I couldn't wait to see this amazing man live on stage, who has slowly started to change my attitude towards Christianity. For the last couple of months beforehand, I had been enjoying the many debates posted around the web and reading the odd article. Especially my fascination with the resurrection of Jesus, a subject which I've been totally engrossed in since last year, spurned my wish even more.

Of course many had written on this subject before, but none were capable of riveting my attention so much, by using such reasoning, eloquence and being able to clear away the debris of weaker naturalistic explanations with such ease. Every way I turned, sure enough, there was this man debating the leading skeptics and rightly being hailed as "the man who has put the fear of God into many of my fellow atheists", to quote Harris.

By chance and good fortune, you might say god-willed, I googled to see if this person was currently debating. Lo and behold he was - and much more! He was touring the UK!

Quickly I told my wife that I just had to see this man and, bless her heart, she gave me her consent, although she had her reservations. My work also allowed me a few days off. I booked my plane, my hotel and my ticket to the Bethinking Conference in August and counted the days, which never seemed to end. Finally the day arrived and I left Germany for the UK.

After a good nights sleep in the hotel and a slightly chaotic journey the next morning, thanks to the London Underground, I finally arrived at Westminster Chapel on time. It didn't take long until the first conversations with some Christians ensued. Everyone was in high spirits and my first reservations on telling someone I actually was an atheist, were quickly put to rest. Quite the contrary, this encouraged even more friendly debate. To cut a long story short the day started great.

What I never dreamed of though, was being able to meet this amazing person face to face, who has had such an impact on my life in recent months, let alone just see and listen to him live, I recalled all the ad hominems and blunt name calling I had previously encountered on the Web from atheists against this man, especially the recent attacks regarding a debate with Prof. Richard Dawkins and felt ashamed by the humility, the outspoken friendliness and the sincerity, even whilst speaking on the topic of his atheistic critics. When I plucked up all my courage to actually shake your hand to try and show you my appreciation and admiration, after your first presentation, I was taken aback by your down to earth, heartwarming welcome and kind words. I only wish we had had more time...Sadly it was all over too soon. The very next day I had to return home, exhausted but content and invigorated.

Setting my emotions aside, all I can say is that I will be reading your works, which are available to me, as diligently as is possible. My only criticism to date is that your book "Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus" is not available in paperback!

Even though I still am an atheist, with deep reservations regarding faith in a God, at least I am now convinced that the belief in the Resurrection of Jesus can be explained in such a way as to having to admit there are good, rational grounds for believing in it, thus relieving Christians from the ridicule I have felt and often sadly shown towards them in the past myself. It may not be much, but I think it is a good start towards a better, more honest communication and leaves me to deal with all the new implications such an admission brings with it.

It is with the upmost pleasure and well wishes that I thank you Dr. Craig. Please give my heartfelt regards to your wife and everyone else on your team who made it possible that we both meet in person. Who knows, maybe one day you will be able to tour Germany, or at least have a debate or two. I for one would be honored to have you as my guest anytime.

herzlichste Grüße,

— Robert

Thank you so much for your web site. I have been educating myself on your podcasts and articles and have even started debating with atheists. I want to share a story with you. Recently I was debating a Dentist who was a "friendly" open minded atheist.

After debating him we got along quite well. To my surprise and pleasure he asked what books I have read and what books I suggest. I mentioned Reasonable Faith. About a week went by and I received an email from him saying he had converted to Christianity.

Now, I was skeptical at first as he seemed to be committed to atheism during our debate. Later we spoke again in a conference room on head set microphones and in front of 30 other people in the conference room, atheists and Christians...he shared why he became a Christian.

As he spoke he mentioned the lack of evidence on the atheist side but the "garguntan" (to use his words) amount of evidence on the side of Christian theism overwhelmed the lack of plausible arguments for atheism. Even when other atheists questioned him in the conference chat room he was very confident. He said he did read your book "Reasonable Faith" and that was a big factor in his decision.

I have no debated a total of 50 atheists and some have actually converted to Christianity. I want to thank you for what you do. I believe that most Christians want to share their reasons they are Christian but they may not do so if they feel they are not equipped. Thanks for equipping us with the "full armor" to show that theism is clearly the more plausible, rational and truthful position.

— Rich

I just wanted to thank you for ministry. I am a missionary in France (for about 8 years) and have been listening to your podcast regularly. The podcast has become a regular part of my jogging routine and I really enjoy it.

I face many difficult questions from friends, neighbors and church members. As you know from experience (I believe you studied French at the same school as me), living and witnessing in Western Europe is a particularly hard because of its humanist context. I've been forced to to train myself more in evangelism and apologetics, much more than I was trained for in the small Bible college I attended. Your ministry is a big help.

By the way, before hitting the field in France, I worked in Christian Radio syndication (out of Nashville, TN). We worked with many popular Bible teaching programs of David Jeremiah, Alister Begg, and Michael Youssef. I would like to complement you (and anywhere credit is due) on your good format and quality sound engineering. This is a real uphill battle as the trend has been toward contemporary Christian music programming, but do not lose hope. I do pray that your audience grows as I passionately believe in the need to equip believers to understand and defend their faith in our rapidly secularizing world. If I can be of any help in this area, please feel free to contact me in the future.

Again... all my thanks and God bless!

— Tim

I am currently in the airport as I just previously wrote, but I thought with my extra time I would also like to send you a quick message regarding your effect on my life.

About 5 years ago, at the age of 19 years old, I was in school, and working as a security guard at a local Sprint Store in the Kansas City area. One night, as we were locking up the store, 3 gunmen approached myself and the store manager with semi automatic weapons positioned right into our faces. They screamed for us to re-open the door, and threatened to kill us multiple times. As the manager made his way back into the store to retrieve the cash from the safe, I had to listen to two other gunmen describe what they were going to do with the "bodies". Obviously it being a critical situation, all I could do was begin to pray. I truly thought that was going to be my last night on planet earth. But then suddenly after what seemed like an eternity, I heard the so often quoted 4 words in the movies. "Get your hands up!!" Amazingly, the Westport Security team showed up and had the men surrounded. The police, were no where to be found. Somehow, some random person, tipped off a nearby restaurant that some suspicious behavior may be occurring at the Sprint store down the street. Miraculously the restaurant employee phoned the Security team, rather then the police. An act that proved to be life-saving.

This experience changed my life forever. About a week after the experience, I could not stop thinking about death, and what is to come after I'm gone. The life after this one. It flooded my mind daily, to the point that nothing even mattered except embarking on an all out research project aimed at determining my eventual future. I went through one religious book after the next. Atheist texts, theistic texts, Buddhist texts, Muslim texts, and everything in between. I sought after books describing in detail "Near Death Experiences" and other related works. Undoubtedly philosophy began to become an important part of finding the "truth". I first came across your works in Lee Strobels "Case for a Creator", if I accurately recall. I remember finding your arguments very compelling, and intriguing. The problem I ran into though, is that the famous "Borders" and "Barnes and noble" don't carry too many of your books!! (maybe that's why Borders is going under now!) But eventually I found your primary book "Reasonable Faith" in a local Christian bookstore. The book was incredible. I think I have read it ten times now. After that read, I went on a year long investigation of God, and probably bought every book you have written on Amazon. I have read about all of them. I also got very into your debates, and would literally, grab my favorite food (chips and dip), and sit down on Friday and Saturday nights watching one debate after the next on youtube, or on your website. Since my investigation began, I have read over 100 books by numerous authors, including atheistic works, and theistic works. Your works have been nothing short of invaluable. I have almost completed my B.A at KU in philosophy and have challenged nearly every professor their with the knowledge that I have acquired from your works. Students in the classrooms have came up to me after classes asking where I learned what I learned, and I tell them about your works. I have changed my entire families outlook on life and on God. I have challenged all of my friends beliefs, if not changed them entirely because of your impact on my life. My dad listens to your pod casts every week now. The domino effect is hard to even explain because its so far and wide. I cant thank you enough for all that you do. I hope to eventually find a role in the field of apologetics, since there are so few who are up to the task. None of this would have ever been the case had your works not existed. Thank you!

— Wes

You have made such a difference for me. I have almost given up hope several times now on any Christian from any denomination actually rising up out of the trenches and meeting the new atheists head-on on the their own grounds, with compassion and respect. Thank you.

I have heard so much directed against the Christian faith lately that is overwhelmingly negative, mocking, jeering, insulting, and so on. I have seen friendship's thrown aside simply over the question of God, with the believer always being made the subject of derision.

But I have received your book, On Guard, and now feel like I have had a total boost to my confidence in terms of being able to actually defend my faith. Your book now occupies a proud position right alongside my favorite Christian thinkers like St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, and Blaise Pascal.

Thank you once again for giving me the strength to realize that I am not a "Dull", an idiot, a myth-lover, an evolutionary throwback, simply because of my faith. God bless you!

— Jason

I just wanted to offer my gratitude for your work and your faith. Although I came to Christ prior to encountering your work, I cannot even begin to tell you the tremendous influence you have had on my faith and my knowledge of God.

I feel as though I have been fully equipped to make a case for the faith and your work made the largest contribution to those convictions. The incredible amount of study and discipline you've placed into the work you do no doubt is shaking the gates of hell. I think many acknowledge your contribution to the intellectual world but perhaps have not mentioned the influence you are having in the spiritual realm!

Imagine, atheists are doubting their non-faith! I love it! I have been in incredible discussions with individuals much more qualified than I to teach in areas of philosophy and science and I cannot believe the reaction they are having when I present the arguments in the same fashion as you do. I've been diligently reading and reading and have gone through Reasonable Faith, Answering Critics, etc. and am moving on to the Blackwell Guide. Every single time I walk away astounded and eagerly reading scripture with a fervent desire to know God and His Son, Jesus.

Let this testimony be a simple reminder, Dr. Craig, that the work you do is not in vain and not just for academic excellence, but rather for the kingdom of Christ and for His glory. It is my sincere prayer that you continue to do more work and stand up for the faith that we all know, through the Holy Spirit, is true.

— Daniel

William Lane Craig has been the greatest influence on my spiritual and intellectual life to date. Soon after I became a Christian I began to ask questions and needed substance to base my faith on. I [randomly] found Dr. Craig's debate with Austin Dacey, which prompted me to listen to both sides carefully and to research more of Dr. Craig's work. If it were not for Dr. Craig and the Reasonable Faith ministry I'm convinced my faith and relationship with Christ would not be as strong as it is right now. I've since graduated with an undergraduate degree in Biblical Studies and I'm currently working on my Master's in Philosophy.

I appreciate Dr. Craig's transparence and passion for the gospel. When you listen to the Defender's Podcast (his Sunday school lessons) he will range from quantum mechanics and abstract objects to middle knowledge and tie it back to an application. It's more than lofty philosophical thought that suffices for comfortable theodicies. He addresses the honest questions of meaning, value, and purpose, questions that we all face and will question at some point. His work on the absurdity of life without God has allowed me to make sense of personal and existential questions of mine.

There's so much to Dr. Craig that we don't know about. I was privileged enough to meet him and know him better when he debated Michael Tooley at UNC Charlotte. I found out that he and his wife, Jan, pray for the users in the forum and was genuinely concerned and were prayerful for a certain situation that has been made known. He was personable and expressed care and attention to me while we spoke. He is a composed and tactful gentleman. (I need to learn from his patience when dealing with frustrating moments during debates and dialogues!) This fruit demonstrates that he's not a showboat. He's not in it for the money, publishing, or any other motivation. In his most recent newsletter, in closing, he stated, "In whatever circumstances you find yourself this Christmas, whether enjoying the warmth of family and church or perhaps alone serving God or country on a foreign field or facing times of economic hardship or struggling with health, we wish for you a Christmas filled with a consciousness of God's love, a love which would prompt Him to take on our broken human condition to bring us eternal life." This wasn't an impersonal "Merry Christmas," but an inclusive desire for relationship with God, for us to know his love. A love that overcomes our human condition and bring about atonement. He sympathizes with those who are serving (like my brother), with those who are facing financial problems, and with those who are sick or in pain. I always look forward to the monthly newsletters because I often feel as if it's a personal letter to me updating me on what he's up to.

Thank you, Dr. Craig, Jan, and the Reasonable Faith ministry, for making scholarship and ministry function together. You've been used by God for me (and I know many others) to have substance to my faith. Thank you for helping me have a reasonable faith. I'll be praying for you.

— Max

Last night as I was putting my firstborn four-year-old daughter to bed, she wanted me to stay next to her because she was scared of staying in her room by herself. I told her she needn't be afraid because God is everywhere, so He's there even with her. We then sang a relevant familiar Sunday school song. I also told her that God knows everything, even her fears. She looked at me with a very serious expression, obviously in deep thought. Then it was as if a light came on her face and she exclaimed: "Mummy, now I understand how God can know everything – it's because He created everything!" This serves to show, I think, that even a young child is capable of pondering these deep issues and can have considerable insight!

— Johanna

Your ministry has been the catalyst that has renewed my 'first love' and passion for my faith, apologetics, and a new zeal to get back on a path of sanctification, spiritual growth, and lay ministry.

I came to Christ at a young age (Fourth grade), become very passionate about my faith in late High School, participated in all kinds of ministry including Bible teaching, Children's church and adult Sunday School teaching/apologetics in my 20's. After a major moral failure of our pastor at that time, I myself lapsed into moral failure, divorce, and all kind of trials and tribulations for the next 3 decades. I never 'lost' my faith, but I lost the will to grow, mature, and exercise spiritual gifts in ministry.

A few years back my walk with Christ began a renewal and repentance phase. This phase brought me to a point of again seeking answers to all my questions about the nature of God, my relationship to Him, and the very difficult intellectual and philosophical issues that have been disturbing to me, and weighing on my faith for decades.

Having now encountered your ministry, read several of your books, gone through dozens of your systematic theological and philosophical expositions of various doctrines from the video and audio resources on your website, I'd like to thank you and thank God for using you, to bring my focus back to a passionate zeal to know God, know his purposes, understand his truth, and become another voice for faith in Christ, amidst a world that desperately needs genuine answers to life's most difficult questions.

I have especially appreciate the way that Dr. Craig provides logically, philosophically sound, in depth arguments and alternatives, for some of the very toughest questions that Christians and non Christians wrestle with.

The 'moral' argument for God for example, is an extremely compelling one when dealing with non believers, or believers who are struggling with their faith because they percieve that God allows too much evil, etc Just today, I came across an Atheist philospher article I am sure Dr. Craig is already aware of, which provides total confirmation of the points Dr. Craig has made in his debates, lessons, and books, about the moral argument for God.

Thank you so much for the excellent apologetics ministry, for which I know of no other such broadly scoped and deeply developed peer in Christendom. My hope and prayer is that you inspire hundreds, to thousands, to millions of believers to become a more effective witness in today's world and to renew their passion for knowing God, through Christ, in a deeper and more life changing way, as you have inspired me to do after decades of languishing.

— Mike

Hi, my name is Mitchell. I am a 17yo from Brisbane, Australia. Wasn’t sure exactly how to contact Dr. Crag but this is where I found myself. I would just like to thank him for everything he has done and continues to do. On Guard is THE best book I’ve ever purchased. I also bought Reasonable Faith and downloaded every podcast he has. I am now able to confidently debate my atheist friends and evangelize to others wherever I am. Often when I go to parties I often find myself debating or just answering questions from non-believers around me. I am trying to be a light in an otherwise dark place and would not be equipped to do it without his help. Thank-you Dr. Craig!!! Be blessed!

— Mitchell

Wow! I must say, I think that the ministry and revolution, that I think you are leading, is much needed in our society. I took an intro to philosophy class at my college a year ago, and ever since I have been studying it all the time. It wasn’t too long after that, I stumbled upon one of your videos on youtube, and I have been following them ever since hah. I have been studying the Ontological Argument and the Moral Argument for the past 6 months, and have been able to talk to about 20-30 people about them (Atheist, Naturalist, Agnostic and Christian alike). I’m also a part of a breakdancing website where I have quoted some of your arguments and expanded on other areas of our faith to talk to different Atheists and Agnostics about them. I pray almost everyday that I may reach people through the intellectual side of our faith, that so many Christians ignore or never even realize is there.

— Robby

Just wanted to give you a very heartfelt thanks for all you do. Your book, Reasonable Faith, was the catalyst on my journey towards becoming a true Christian. During my first semester of college I took a class on the New Testament, thinking it would be nice to see these books from a purely historical perspective. The textbook we used was written by Bart Ehrman, whom I did not know of at the time. Needless to say, as the semester progressed, my faith became smaller and smaller. I frantically searched for answers for around nine months, but I didn't know where to look. One day I happened across one of your debates on YouTube. I had never seen someone stand up for Christianity with such forceful logic and precision, it was a welcomed relief to say the least. To make a long story short, I have completely turned my spiritual life around to the point where I run a small blog defending Christianity (something I never would have dreamt of before). I now know why I believe the things I believe, which is priceless. There is no doubt that it was the Lord who took me through this journey, but your ministry was the tool He used. I'm sure my story is mirrored in so many other college students who go through this every year, especially in this increasingly secularized environment. You truly are a light in the darkness.

2 Cor. 1:4

— Kody

I just wanted to say how much I have enjoyed your website and learning from all your hard work! Thank you. I was feeling quite dry in my christian expereince, almost as though it has been too intellectually focused and lacking in spirit. But to my surprise after recently reflecting on the teleological and cosmological arguments as well as the argument from desire, I have felt an enormous boost in my spirit. When I go outside and look at something as simple as a mundane leaf, or feel a cold breeze, or the sunshine on my back, or when I see families together and people laughing and having fun, I actually feel a presence of God and a deep awareness of his goodness to me, and it makes me feel so thankful. So I no longer feel that the mind and the heart are so separate, I think God's Spirit brings the truth the life and it becomes even more beautiful! Keep going you're doing a great job!

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I just want to thank you for the site and the ongoing discussions that you make available. I am a Christian who has questioned the existence of God through out my life. Because I was not aware reasons for the existence of God I relied on my own pondering and emotions. During tough times I would conclude that God did not exist and during good time I concluded that He did exist. This was horrible... After discovering the site I am now able to remind myself of the Kalam and cosmological arguments and have a more steady walk with the Lord. While I don't have a philosophy background I do enjoy reading the content on the site. I really appreciate the tone used during debates and in answering questions. Sometimes, I can't follow the arguments (due to lack of philosophy background) but I am able to follow the tone in them. Thank you for making this available to the world and thank you for explaining things in the popular articles for the lay people like myself. Your work has truly impacted my life.

— Steven

On Wed. nights I host a group humorously called "Pick On Christian Wed." I use much of your material from the Reasonable Faith text (among others). One of the most powerful arguments that we discuss is the Kalaam Cosmological Argument. One of our young women traveled to China for an extended mission trip and reported back to us that the Chinese students were blown away by the KCA!!!! A few came to Christ and are seriously intrigued and have been impacted heavily (to say the least)!!! What great news to start the day with!! Thank you so much for your work and keep thinking, as to challenge us to keep up! Look at the impact! To God be the glory.

— Russ

I just wanted to pass on some encouragement to you. I am a junior at Texas A&M University and I am in an introduction to philosophy class. Yesterday, we were discussing the Teleological aggument as a basis for the existence of a all powerful God. It is a secular setting and can be very intimidating. My prayer walking in to the classroom was that through my voice or someone elses the truth would be spoken. Thanks to the Lord enabling me with resources from Reasonable faith and the talk Dr. Craig gave at Watermark Church in Dallas, I spoke the truth in my class with confidence. It is so freeing to know that Jesus Christ and our Lord has incredible amounts of explanatory power, even in secular academic classrooms.

Thank you for your time and resouces for a worthy cause. May we continue to be ambassadors of truth in a growing secular world.

— Cameron

Through a series of coincidences and serendipity, I somehow found my way to this site which I credit, at least in part, with yanking me from my stubborn agnosticism to theism and keeping me there. I have attended Lutheran church since I was five, but never honestly believed everything I was hearing. I would look up and peer around the church as we were singing a hymn or saying a prayer and wonder, "Are we all just sheep? Have I been brainwashed into a hoax?"

Then, somehow, I came across atheismisdead.blogspot.com. Now I don't exactly see eye-to-eye all the time with the admin there, but he linked this site in one of his most recent posts. I am slightly embarrassed to admit that I only first heard of William Lane Craig two weeks ago.

What finally drove me to search for answers was an internet forum debate about religion, which I lost horribly. It's like Dr. Craig said in one of his podcasts, some degree of apologetics must be combined with Sunday School if there is to be any hope of our children being able to defend their worldviews. I have actually downloaded every Reasonable Faith and Defenders podcast and put them on my mp3 player to listen to at my job which fortunately is a delivery job. What's amazing is that, not only do I learn something every podcast, I have one of my beliefs changed at a fundamental level every time.

The one that has affected me most so far was when he said to stop thinking that the point of this world is our personal happiness. It seems almost common sense, but you don't know how backwards my worldview was. I have ordered a couple things from the store, including the RF workbook that I am going to show my pastor when it arrives to see about setting up a chapter here, or at least incorporate apologetics into our Sunday School.

I can't really say enough. Thank you so much for making me feel less self-conscious about my beliefs and realizing that there are an enormous amount of logical arguments out there supporting them, even in the midst of so much bunk. Oh, and one more thing. I was lucky enough to nab a radio gig recently at a small podunk radio station in Central Jersey. Currently I just play country music, but I'm going to make a promise right now. Should I ever make it to the big time and get my own national program, Dr. Craig is going to be my first guest. I want to be part of this project and do whatever I can to help it along.

— Drone

This isn't a question. I just want to express my thankfulness to you and your ministry, including everyone involved in it. Your answer to the most recent question posed by Mark brought me to my knees and reminded me that I need to continually come before my precious Lord, my Creator and Saviour and stay connected in a right relationship to Him. Sometimes a hard heart can creep up on me without me realising it. Head knowledge is so important and I'm so grateful to you for the wealth of resources you offer but, also running through it all is clearly your love and tender heart toward our loving Father and the Holy Spirit's living waters flow through your words to me. For me, you strike a perfect balance. Thank you again.

— Jude

Thanks for the information. This simple attention shows how much you are serious about the Christian faith - and this motivates me to persist in the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Actually writing from Brazil, more specifically the city of Salvador in Bahia. I knew the work of Dr. Craig four years ago by one of his books had been translated into Portuguese. I was so early in the second year of theology at the Baptist College studying Brazilian modern liberal theology and especially the his torical critical Bible as if it were the best method for understanding the Bible.

It was a difficult period for me because I started to lose my faith in God and respect for the church. I began to criticize the Christian churches, with reason and without reason. Pastors have become the target of my jokes and rudeness. Allow me dive into the world of modern theology. I tried to read everything: Albrecht Ritschl, Oscar Cullmann, Karl Barth, Reinhold Niebuhr, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Rudolf Bultmann, Paul Tillich, Barth Ehrman and others.

I remember once, the teacher of Harvard University, Dr. Harvey Cox, was in Brazil to work. He spoke at the Baptist College of Salvador with the theme "Theology and class differences." One of his students, graduated from Harvard University, was my professor of systematic theology. I remember his lectures were just about the Theology of Liberation. We studied the thought of Jürgen Moltmann, Gustavo Gutierrez, Leonardo Boff, Martin Luther King - Classes of Theology more like philosophy classes - but a reductionist philosophy, only the Marxist philosophy.

As a seminary without a solid foundation began to hate God and reject it. However, the days went by, and my heart suffered the lack of me aning in all this. Although he had decided to reject God, while not find meaning in that choice. How could I reject God? How to blame God for the suffering in the world? How to criticize the Church because of past mistakes? I was transferring the experience of these men to my experience. That was cowardice on my part, because every year I lived in the church, was loved by all those people.

When God cast out of my life, feeling he no longer had any sound basis to determine something as right or wrong. In search of a philosophical basis plunged into the works of men like Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Feuerbach, Freud, Marx, among others. Although he learned a lot from all of them, you can not get rid of God. All this reading were important to my training, however, still can not agree with them. The book "The Antichrist", the German philosopher Nietzsche, I could see only a man angry at Christianity. I am not sure, it seemed to me that Nietzsche had some painful childhood experiences with religion, because their words were only hostility. I am not convinced of anything of what he was saying.

That was when reading the works of Christian thinkers such as C. S. Lewis, Norman Geisler, Ravi Zacharias, RC Sprull, Alister McGrath, and especially of Dr. William Lane Craig, I began to see that it is possible to reconcile faith with reason and it was possible to combat those arguments. I realized that it is possible to be a Christian and at the same time feed the intellect. It is possible to reconcile Christian faith with academic life. From there I went to change the view embraced the faith again.

As Dr. Craig 'the average Christian does not realize that there is an intellectual battle being waged in universities, in journals and in professional circles. Enlightenment naturalism and anti-realism postmodern joined in unholy alliance against a broadly theistic worldview, and specifically Christian '( CRAIG. William L. Philosophy and Christian Worldview. P.16).

I agree with Dr. Craig. I realize that this does not happen only in the United States but also throughout Europe, and strangely enough also in Brazil. Although it has been colonized by a Christian country (Portugal), the basis of Brazilian universities is markedly influenced by the French parent company. The motto 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity' is still remembered in the classrooms of universities in Brazil. The majority of Brazilian teachers are agnostics or atheists. Not by chance the Elite Brazilian (people of influence) are averse to religion, especially Christianity.

These are some of the problems we face. So I think we need an apology that also answers to th ese questions. These are issues of morality and ethics that has to do with the church and gospel. I accepted the invitation of Dr. Craig 'Christians can not remain indifferent to the outcome of this struggle. For the most impor tant institution specifies how Western culture is the University "( CRAIG. William L. Philosophy and Christian Worldview. P.16).

So I embraced this fight here in Brazil. I have tried to study the works of Dr. Craig and prepare myself as much as possible to present a gospel that dialogue with the reality and needs of the people. At the same time, a gospel that is supported by tools such as history, theology, philosophy, among others. We n eed an apology also here in Brazil.

My prayer is that this ministry continues to be a blessing in the lives of many, as it was in my life. Today I'm sure if it was the contact with the literature Christian apologetics, especially with the texts of Dr. Craig, he would have abandoned the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Soli Deo gloria!

— Ivan

I have plaigerized more from you, JP and Dallas Willard to the extent I should probably be in Gitmo. You guys have not only defended the faith but have armed a lot of Christians and made them very dangerous Pray that God continues to bless your ministry.

— Anon.

I just wanted to say I was happy to give the little I can to your website and it's causes. I can't say enough good things about William Lane Craig. When I first stumbled upon him I didn't even know what christian apologetics was by definition. What I did know is that it that it was exactly what I needed. The intelligence and articulation with which he spoke about christianity had my jaw dropped. I couldn't get enough of his videos and debates. For me nobody can compare with WLC in regards to defending christianity. I strongly believe he is exactly what christianity and these times need. I hope I will have the honor and privilege to meet him and shake his hand one day. I'm sure I'm only one of the many thousands hugely effected by his diligent work.

— Kurt

Back in April, Paula and I walked into Chase Gymnasium for what the front page of the next day's Whittier Daily News called "The Great Debate." Biola philosopher William Lane Craig and the popular anti-theist Christopher Hitchens, before an audience of over 4,000 on campus and thousands more watching "live" across the nation and internationally, debated the existence of God…. Biola University stood tall as we hosted what I believe to be one of the most significant events in our recent past. It was truly one of the university's more "electric" moments….I shared by letter with Dr. Craig my profound appreciation for his thoughtful articulation, his respectful demeanor, his keen intellect and his unashamedness of the gospel. This was Biola University at her best, engaging in the world of ideas without apology or cowardice.

— President Barry Corey

I finished my first year [teaching] at the University of Oklahoma today.  I taught intro to philosophy for both the Fall and Spring semesters. I ended each semester playing your debate with Austin Dacey (Part 1).  The students in class were so impressed with your arguments, your ability to respond charitably to Dacey's arguments (in such a short amount of time), and manifesting the true virtue of tolerance.  A lot of Christians were encouraged to see their worldview defended at Purdue and in our classroom. I was so happy to be able to refer them to your website for additional resources.  Even though I have been away from Talbot for a few years, you and your ministry are always close to my heart.  I find myself frequently thanking the Lord for all the ways He continues to use you to bless my life, in addition to countless others.

— Gary

Let me just add that I consume LOTS of MP3s on theology, Christian philosophy, and science & religion. I get materials from…random places across the Internet, and reasonablefaith.org is the site to beat. It should be the model for all of its peers in terms of its comprehensive coverage of Dr. Craig's teachings, the structure of its offerings, interaction with its consumers, integration of Dr. Craig's personality on the site, and, last but far from least, audio quality. Your obvious commitment to audio quality pays off. (And, in my opinion, Dr. Craig and N. T. Wright are the two most engaging and listenable voices in today's public theology discourse.) My hat's off to your team for providing a top-notch – and free! – resource to a hungry public.

— Greg

I am currently working through an 8 week intensive with our high schoolers in our small-rural church. The topic, apologetics. The primary resource,  Reasonable Faith.  I want to report:  they get it, they love it and are truly engaged. There's nothing more encouraging then hearing a college-bound, high school senior quote you, Dr Craig.  And today, looooong after class, I heard the kids still verbally working through concepts, telling one another their argument's reasoning was flawed, helping each other clarify points. And it was then, the Spirit moved upon my heart to write to you and say, thank you.  Dr Craig, thank you for your contribution.  It has truly made a difference!

— Michael

I just wanted to say that William Lane Craig, empowered by the Holy Spirit, rocks my socks off! It is so wonderful to be able to view/read his debates and articles. I've got the new RF 3rd ed. Thanks a ton. I hope Dr. Craig and his career live on until the Lord comes back. Hang in there. Take lots of multivitamins and such. And omega 3 fatty acids. You just keep think, think, thinking away and writing, and I'll be waiting here with my fork and knife. Thank you for your website and your work.

— Joshua

I am a sophomore at Ohio University. In April I attended the Veritas Forum where you spoke and my life changed. That day I went in to your lecture not knowing it had anything to do with God and the Lord Jesus--in fact I was invited by a Christian at work and we did not even know each others names! When listening I was shocked to hear the logical arguments you presented for there being a god and that Jesus exist. While you gave your testimony on the first night I knew my life would never be the same. Now I finally have true happiness and peace by knowing that the Lord exist and loves me.

— Steven

Greetings from Shanghai! We met last year when you are here speaking at Fudan University. Some amazing stories happened here after the symposium last year. We were able to follow up some of the interested students from the lectures. Several people who went to your final lecture came to faith afterward. I hope God will use you and your fellows in great ways to empower his work here in China.

— Ike

I just want to thank you for taking the time to answer my query concerning the moral argument. I was so shocked to discover that my question was actually chosen. I really liked your answer...so much so that I am even more of a fan of the moral argument than before. I gave some of your writings to an atheist co-worker. After reading your material I think his exact words were, "I couldn't believe it? Every criticism and question I had which my former paster could never answer THIS GUY ANSWERED! It was like he read my mind! He really messed me up, but I think I want to be a Christian now. He removed the biggest obstacle I have long had—thinking that Christianity was blind faith and could not exist in an intelligent mind."

— Matt