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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

Does God Reward Ignorance?

I am currently an agnostic, though I was formerly a Christian. I have enjoyed much of your writing and am very much open to becoming a Christian again because of it. I have been discussing the issue of faith with my parents and have found that, though they ha...

agnosticism, divine grace, faith, salvation

An Agnostic Reaches Out

Hi, Dr. Craig. I hope you’re doing well! I’m an agnostic who is searching for the truth of whether or not God exists and Christianity is true. I started praying to God a while back, in case He will listen to me; even though I’m unsure of His ...

agnosticism, coincidence, existence of god, prayer, properly basic beliefs, warranted christian belief

Interpreting People Correctly

The atheist websites and atheists on the Christian/atheist debate websites are pumping out in meme form the following quotation, supposedly from you, Dr. Craig: "The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at...

agnosticism, arguments for the existence of god, atheism, natural theology, secularism

The Culpability of Unbelief

I have some comments on Mr. Craig’s answer to Question of the Week #728. From within the Christian point of view, it is not possible that someone be presented with the Holy Spirit, the Gospel, and Jesus and fail to be convinced of its truth, unless one s...

agnosticism, apatheism, arguments for the existence of god, christian evidences, christian theism, counterfeits

Are We Justified in Inferring Jesus’ Resurrection?

Dear Dr. Craig, I am an earnest seeker. I have become convinced by philosophers like Thomas Nagel, Edward Feser, John Searle, and Raymond Tallis, that the mainstream materialistic-cum-mechanistic understanding of the world is false (oddly enough, most of thes...

agnosticism, belief in god, miracles, philosophical materialism, postmortem appearances, resurrection

Is Christianity too Harsh?

Hello Dr. Craig, It’s an honor and privilege to write you, you are one of my favorite scholars, debater, and lecturer. I am an agnostic, but to clarify I believe in an all knowing and all powerful god, but I am not sure what religion has the best descri...

agnosticism, christian particularism, divine foreknowledge, divine love, divine omniscience, divine providence

Belief on the Basis of the Spirit’s Witness

Dear Dr. Craig, Since my devout Christian mother knows I long ago gave up Christianity in a fiery relinquishment that started me off first as a mean-spirited, nihilistic atheist, then as a humble agnostic, and finally, years later, as a confident Spinozan pan...

agnosticism, arguments for the existence of god, divine revelation, existence of god, holy spirit witness, properly basic beliefs

Can We Agree to Disagree?

Dear Dr Craig There has, recently, been a lot of academic discussion about the epistemic significance of religious disagreement. This has given rise to a fairly popular argument against theistic belief, and in favour of agnosticism. Roughly, the argument goes...

agnosticism, argumentation, religious epistemology

A Christian Musician Leaves the Faith

agnosticism, atheism, richard dawkins