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Proper Motives for Faith
Dear Dr. Craig: Please forgive the prologue, but I think it's important to give a quick summary of how and why I've reached this point in my life. My father is a retired minister, and I attended church (and Christian school) my entire life, but like m...
Dealing with Doubt
Dr. Craig, What is your best advice for overcoming "what if" doubts? I find that this is my biggest struggle. I find a compelling argument, and then I ask, "but what if..." This constantly starts me over at square one. I know that this is partially due to my ...
christian evidences, doubt, epistemology of religious belief, faith
Facing Fear of Ridicule and Rejection
Dear Dr Craig My question is more of a personal one, I hope you can answer it as I think it may be useful to a lot of christians, particularly in heavily secular/non-christian environments. Along with the strength of your arguments, I think most people are s...
What Does It Mean to Have Relationship with God?
Dr. Craig, I am a philosophy student and an ex-Christian. I lost my faith during my undergraduate education upon realizing that I had accepted my faith without reflection. Like many others my age, I abandoned my worldview and embarked upon a search for answer...
discipleship, divine attributes, divine-human relationship, faith, holy spirit
Avoiding Apostasy
Dear Dr. Craig, Let me just say I love your work it has helped numerous times. Anyway my question is regarding spiritual failure. I have heard your recent reasonable faith podcast regarding this topic. You were talking about ex Christians losing their faith. ...
Christian Faith
Hi Mr. Craig,I am still struggling with this christian view because it seems to me logically incoherent. However you think otherwise. Here's some ideas that I can't get my head around.God is supposed to be infinite, but if he is, then how can he be described i...
christianity, divine attributes, epistemology, faith, philosophy, skepticism
Pascal's Wager and Belief in God
Dear Dr. Craig, My question concerns the infamous and much maligned ‘Pascal’s Wager’. While reading through the Religious Epistemology section of my copy of Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, I remembered Christopher Hitche...
blaise pascal, faith, religious belief in god, religious epistemology
Personal Testimony of Faith
Dear Dr. Craig- I was recently listening to your Defenders Podcast and in it you strongly encouraged your class to come up with a personal testimony as an apologetic tool when witnessing to unbelievers. In my 10 years as a follower of Jesus Christ it has bee...
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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...
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