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Blind Faith?

On October 21, 2013, you responded to a question by a lifelong Christian who said they were having trouble believing because of reading material from people like Richard Dawkins, and from discussions they had with their atheist friends (/garbage-in-garbage-out...

discipleship, faith, personal development, reason

What Is the Point of Prayer?

Dear Dr Craig, I have recently moved on from Christianity to agnosticism, but I regularly check out your Q and A section as much of the content there is more sensible and thought provoking than the kind of thing I hear from a lot of Evangelicals. So I figure...

counterfactuals, divine omniscience, divine-human relationship, faith, omniscience, prayer

Faith and Works

Dear Dr. Craig, This is with reference to Q # 303 (Brazilian fire and Salvation through work) and evangelical doctrine of Salvation through faith alone. I quite agree with your analysis that Salvation through works alone does not make much sense. If a person ...

faith, islam, salvation

Does the Holy Spirit Exist?

Let me being by first thanking you so much for all your work on the philosophical foundations for Christianity. Your work has helped me immensely in my own personal intellectual journey with our heavenly father. My question is about the Holy Spirit. I underst...

faith, holy spirit, theology, trinity

Dealing with Physical Ailment

Dear Dr. Craig, thank you for your great work at Reasonable Faith. My question is one borne from a sense of sadness and resentment towards God for His seemingly indifferent attitude to my pain. I have struggled for years with bad eyesight and floaters in my ey...

faith, healing, personal development, suffering

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Why Would God Create People He Knew Would Go to Hell?

Dear Dr. Craig, I am a man in my twenties living in Korea, and although I have not yet come to faith, I believe that Christianity is true and that the God of Christianity truly exists. I also have a clear understanding of the gospel as Christianity presents i...

evil, faith, fear, feasible world, free will, salvation

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

Can an Agnostic Be a Christian?

Dear Dr. Craig, can an agnostic also be a Christian? For context, I was born in a devout Christian family that slowly fell into disarray because of various spiritual and emotional abuses. In the fallout, all of us lost our faith. Years later, as I grew older ...

agnosticism, epistemology, faith, rationality, theological rationalism

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

Two Reactions to my Interview with Alex O’Connor

Question 1 Dear Dr Craig, Your recent interview with Alex O'Connor on Richard Dawkins and the slaughter of the Canaanites has created a lot of discussion in the blogsphere. I was amazed to find an apparently serious intellectual like Dawkins to use your...

apologetics, canaanites, divine command theory, ethics, faith, o’conner, alex