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Non-Belief and Disbelief

Dear Dr. Craig, Thank you for the ongoing work you and your team do at Reasonable Faith. It has been deeply meaningful to me and has brought me closer to Christ in my search for truth. I had a question regarding the distinction between nonbelief and disbelie...

atheism, belief, belief in god, philosophy

Faith Supported by Evidence

Dear Dr Craig, In many conversations with atheists and agnostics, they insist that "faith" means "belief without evidence". Virtually every atheist I've known defines faith in that way. It is like a axiom in the atheistic and infidel communities and it ...

atheism, belief, christian faith, evidence, historical, faith, reason

Why Wasn’t Saul of Tarsus Convinced?

Why didn't Saul of Tarsus find the evidence for the Resurrection convincing? He had access to all of it for three years.  He did not convert until he had a "heavenly vision". Doesn't that prove that even if one has all the evidence, it is not suff...

belief, evidence, faith, historical, paul the apostle, postmortem appearances

Late Creation

Hi Dr. Craig, Appreciate your work, it was eye opening in my own life to stumble upon you while reading lee strobel, "Case for Christ". My question revolves around a recent response you had which I thought your reply was not honest. You referenced a conversat...

belief, creation ex nihilo, empirical evidences, epistemology, young earth creationism

Raising and Lowering the Epistemic Bar

Hello Dr. Craig. In a recent podcast episode you answered a question from a caller named Kyle. He asked about epistemic confidence and whether He should abandon the faith if high epistemic confidence could not be achieved. You responded saying, quote, “i...

belief, belief in god, epistemology, religious epistemology, truth

From Belief in Jesus to Belief in the New Testament

I'm sorry that this has probably already been answered but key word searches tend to bring up other topics. Suppose I accept that Jesus rose from the dead based on a secular perspective (investigating the gospel evidence). How would I move from here to ful...

authority of scripture, belief, christian philosophy, epistemology, experience as source of knowledge, properly basic beliefs

Claims of an Indian Guru

Hello Dr.Craig, I'm from India. An Indian who popularly known as "Sadhguru" claims, "If we believe X, that means we don't know X. Believing is something people do when they don't know things." So he starts saying we should stop believing and start...

belief, epistemology, knowledge, logical fallacy, self-refuting, truth

What Must I Do to be Saved?

Hello Dr. Craig, Until the past few months I had abandoned my inherited faith in Christianity in favor of atheism. This was primarily due to a lack of serious engagement with Christianity. Recently though I slowly became overwhelmed by a feeling that the athe...

belief, calvinism, cardinal doctrines, christian theism, faith, gospel

"Am I a Seeker?"

Would God consider me a Seeker or someone who is just “hedging his bets”? This is a very personal question. This time last year I was as much an atheist as any. To be honest, I suppose I had a sense of arrogance in the belief that in exactly one re...

atheism, belief, religious seeker, salvation

Scientific Faith

belief, faith, science vs religion