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I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

3 More BIG Questions: Fine-tuning? Feeling God? Inerrancy?

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

4.85K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Does the scientific evidence fall short of proving the fine-tuning of the universe? Should Christians regularly "feel God's presence"? And since there are minor differences in the Gospels, does that disprove biblical inerrancy? In this midweek podcast episode, Frank tackles three more BIG questions from our listening audience along with question like:* What are the 3 levels of fine-tuning and does it only occur here on planet Earth?* Can the fine-tuning argument alone actually prove Christianity is true? And can all truth be explained through science?* Where exactly are Heaven and Hell?* What's the true meaning of Christmas?* Is loving God an emotion, a feeling, or a decision?* If God chooses not to reveal Himself to us is that proof that He doesn't exist?* What's a great question to ask your skeptic friends?Have a question you’d like Frank to address in a future episode? Send it to hello[at]crossexamined.org (http://crossexamined.org/), and stay tuned for Friday's podcast to hear more about his recent trip to Egypt and Saudi Arabia!Resources mentioned during the episode:BOOK: Hollywood Heroes - https://bit.ly/3Or82Ax (https://bit.ly/3Or82Ax)BOOK: Stealing From God – https://bit.ly/41hLt91 (https://bit.ly/41hLt91)BOOK: Decision Making and the Will of God - https://a.co/d/gQhMD3m (https://a.co/d/gQhMD3m)OCC Course: How to Interpret Your Bible - https://bit.ly/3BoEhxD (https://bit.ly/3BoEhxD)ARTICLE: Does God Whisper? Part 1 – https://bit.ly/3P0KW47 (https://bit.ly/3P0KW47)ARTICLE: Does God Whisper? Part 2 – https://bit.ly/3ZY3hVJ (https://bit.ly/3ZY3hVJ)

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, just on Friday, I was privileged enough to make it to the peak of what we think is the real Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia.

0:14.2

With about four other climbers, I'm not going to tell you about it today.

0:19.4

It's going to be on the Friday show or the Saturday

0:23.8

morning American Family Radio program. So you're going to have to tune in for that. But it's been a

0:28.8

blur of two weeks. We spent two weeks basically in the desert, the first week or so in Egypt,

0:34.3

the second week in Saudi Arabia and verified some things that I thought

0:39.7

were true and discovered some new insights, both from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, evidence for the

0:48.3

Exodus in Egypt, that the Jews were there, the Hebrews were there, and evidence for what we think

0:53.5

is the real Mount Sinai.

0:55.0

And as I say, it was a privilege to make it to the peak. It took over three hours to get there.

1:01.8

And it was actually a seven and a half hour round trip because we also hit Elijah's cave on the way down.

1:08.9

We'll tell you more about that on this coming Friday. But if I start

1:15.0

making less sense than I normally make, it's because I'm still suffering from jet lag. I just

1:19.8

landed on Sunday. And we're recording this on Tuesday morning, the 17th of December. I woke up at 3 a.m. last night, you know, you're

1:29.4

Saudi Arabia is eight hours ahead of the East Coast time I'm in, the Charlotte time I'm in.

1:34.9

So I'm still a little blurry. But I wanted to get to some questions that came in over the two

1:40.7

weeks that I was out in the Middle East because we try and get to your questions.

1:45.3

I know we can't get to them all, but I want to spend a little bit of time on three big questions that have been asked.

1:51.0

One has to do with fine-tuning in the program we just had with Jay Richards just a few days ago.

1:56.1

And then there's a question about why don't I feel God?

2:00.4

I want to believe, but I don't feel his presence.

2:03.2

And there's also a question about inerrancy. You've got events that the New Testament

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