TESTIMONIALS

Hello,

I wanted to share a book review I wrote of William Lane Craig’s and Joseph Gorra’s A Reasonable Response that was published in June of last year with Convivium: Faith In Our Common Life (a Catholic Magazine).I have attached it to this email.

I am currently pursuing a PhD in theology at the Dominican University College in Ottawa, Canada. Much of Craig’s work and other Christian philosophers have deeply impacted my life and academic work. My thesis involves the Christian conception of God and Creation in understanding the origins and emergence of consciousness, it is closely tied to some of the work of J.P. Moreland.

I will be receiving a copy of Is Faith in God Reasonable? from Routledge for review in the coming weeks.

I also presented a paper recently titled, John Philoponus contra Aristotle: The Impossibility of an Eternal Universe and the Emergence of Consciousness in Light of Modern Science and Philosophy at a conference on Aristotle where I made use of Craig’s argumentation in the Kalam Cosmological Argument to help build my case.

I discovered Craig’s work in 2005 and never looked back.

If possible, it would be greatly appreciated if someone could forward this review and email to Dr. Craig, so he knows his work is impacting Canadian Christian academics as well.

Many blessings,

-Scott

Dear Dr. Craig

I just want to quickly tell you that you have been an immense source of inspiration for me and I thank you (and God) for that. Please don't ever stop doing your amazing work. I am from Namibia (if you don't know where the country is, please go look it up so that you can see how far your work is spreading!), and we are currently planning on starting debates here as well with the focus on apolegetics. Anyway the point is that I just wanted to thank you for your inspiration.

Have a good day.

Regards

-Hermann

Dear Dr. Craig and the Reasonable Faith team,

I understand that Dr. Craig is an incredibly busy man and I am grateful for that; however, I feel like I should share my testimonial with your organization.

I grew up in a small town in central Pennsylvania. My community was mostly conservative with a majority of individuals belonging to a religious faith. My family in particular brought me up as a young Christian boy, attending services here and there at the local Lutheran church. I was baptized, saved, and confirmed into the congregation at St. John's Lutheran in eighth grade like several of my friends; but we thought little of it.

Last winter, I saw my faith slipping away. A sophomore at the Pennsylvania State University, studying business, I was also enrolled in general science and philosophy classes. Both introductory philosophy and biology were of interest, yet the professors openly mocked religious faith and in particular, the Christian faith. I wanted to defend my beliefs amongst my peers, but I was a lamb amongst lions. Continuous scrutiny and attacks on my worldview eventually sent me spiraling downward. I could not sleep, I could not focus. I could only question the biggest issues; life, death, meaning, and afterlife. I was diagnosed with severe depression in January 2013 on the anniversary of my cousin's tragic fatal shooting.

Taking all sorts of medication, I felt like I was simply becoming a zombie and not approaching better health; I felt continuous, inevitable doom. February 4 came around, and Ken Ham openly debated Bill Nye concerning Creation. I knew nothing of the matter and I watched with my roommates as they wanted to mock my views even more. I felt it would be an embarrassing bombardment of evolutionary science upon my defenseless, hopeless faith. While watching, I was changed. I did not agree with everything Ham had to say; however, he was answering some of the questions I thought were impossible to answer.

Alas, I found myself on YouTube every night. I stumbled across William Lane Craig, leading Christian Apologist and accredited academic. That night, listening to Craig debate famous atheists, (and winning), was the first night on my recovery. To this day, over one year later, I find no better pleasure than searching the internet for Dr. Craig videos. Craig always has an intellectual response composed of solid philosophical arguments presented in the most beautifully linguistic manner. Craig's intellect, wit, humor, studies and answers kicked my severe depression and brought my life and soul to Christ. Dr. Craig kickstarted my overwhelming interest in apologetics and consequently established a faith so strong that no scoffer could shake my foundation.

I want to thank you Dr. Craig, and your team at Reasonable Faith, for saving yet another life and soul in the name of Jesus Christ. Please, continue your work and bring more people to the Lord as you have to me.

Sincerely,

-Alex

Dr Craig

I just wanted to pass on my heartfelt thanks for the short animated clips on the Kalam cosmological argument, fine tuning argument and the moral argument from Reasonable Faith. These have been a great resource for starting conversations with non-christians, and are much more accessible than sending them a link to an hour long debate.

For example, a christian friend of mine, who has no background in apologetics, was showing me an angry and rambling email that they had received from their atheist friend attacking faith. She did not know how to respond to it effectively, but having spent time listening to your debates I could recognise that the atheist was clearly just repeating what they had heard from Dawkins without giving it much thought.

Instead of having to craft a reply, I could just send my friend a link to your helpful animated clips. So for example when the atheist said "I don't need God to tell me what to do, I just make my own mind up based on science and logic" we were able to send them the clip of the Kalam Cosmological argument, which uses science and logic to establish God as the best explanation for the universe. To say that they were left spluttering in their follow up response was an understatement! They even got their scientifically trained friend involved to help to spot the fallacy in the argument - he said it was total rubbish but was unable to make any specific points about what was wrong with the argument. Needless to say we will be pressing the points home in follow up emails.

Given that the atheist was also wanting to make strong moral claims for what is right and wrong, then we also took the opportunity to send them the link to the moral argument. More spluttering resulted!

In Christ.

-J

Sehr geehrter, lieber Dr. Craig,

herzliche Ostergrüße aus München! I teach English and (Catholic) Religious Education at a High School near Munich and have frequently used your online resources in my classroom for students who are preparing to take their final exams and get their Abitur. We have watched talks on the arguments for the existence of God and the historicity of Christ’s resurrection. As I am a great fan of your work and your ministry I always refer to your arguments when questions about the existence of God come up in the classroom. This has inspired two of my students to write a short poem about the argument from religious experience and I promised them that I would share it with you. They took great pains to include stylistic devices and an intricate rhyming scheme. Here is the poem (which I only had to change very slightly for linguistic reasons):

Kann es begründeten Gottglauben geben?

Glaubt nicht nur dem, was zu sehen ist,

Fragt zum Beispiel auch William Lane Craig:

"Life with God is real, not a fake.

Therefore, God must exist!"

Der liefert die Antwort, eben!

Lieber Dr. Craig, die Hauptaufgabe dieses Religionskurses ist es tatsächlich, den Schülern einen auf der Vernunft basierenden Glauben an Gott näher zu bringen und Ihre unbestechliche argumentative Klarheit und die tollen Materialien im Internet mache mir diese Aufgabe sehr leicht. Vielen Dank dafür!

Nochmals herzliche Grüße aus München und Gottes Segen für Sie und alle Ihre Mitstreiter,

-Matthias