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What,
then, should be our approach in apologetics?
It
should be something like this: 'My friend, I know
Christianity is true because God's Spirit lives
in me and assures me that it is true. And you can
know it is true, too, because God is knocking at
the door of your heart, telling you the same thing.
If you are sincerely seeking God, then God will
give you assurance that the gospel is true. Now,
to try to show you it's true, I'll share with you
some arguments and evidence that I really find convincing.
But should my arguments seem weak and unconvincing
to you, that's my fault, not God's. It only shows
that I'm a poor apologist, not that the gospel is
untrue. Whatever you think of my arguments, God
still loves you and holds you accountable. I'll
do my best to present good arguments to you. But
ultimately you have to deal, not with arguments,
but with God himself.' [William Lane Craig, Reasonable
Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics, (Revised
edition, Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1994), p. 48.]
Therefore,
when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never
just because of lack of evidence or because of intellectual
difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because
he willingly ignores and rejects the drawing of
God's Spirit on his heart. No one in the final analysis
really fails to become a Christian because of lack
of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because
he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing
to do with God. [William Lane Craig, Reasonable
Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics, (Revised
edition, Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1994), pp. 35-36.]
Should
a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy
Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian
faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence,
then it is the former which must take precedence
over the latter, not vice versa. [William Lane Craig,
Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics,
(Revised edition, Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1994),
p. 36.]
The
Bible says all men are without excuse. Even those
who are given no good reason to believe and many
persuasive reasons to disbelieve have no excuse,
because the ultimate reason they do not believe
is that they have deliberately rejected God's Holy
Spirit. [William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith:
Christian Truth and Apologetics, (Revised edition,
Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1994), p. 37.]
Where
do I go from here?
- Get
a Bible and read John, Acts, and Romans. Then
read the rest of the new testament, then the entire
bible. Take your time, it could take you more
than a year to get through the entire text, but
you will be blessed for it.
- Pray
to God your Father every day, and Read from His
word daily.
- Find
a church that believes the Bible is the infallible
word of God, and that Jesus is the only way to
salvation; attend regularly.
- Make
friends with other Christians.
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