Answering Objections to Developing an Evidential Faith
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 25 May 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast, J. Warner responds to three common objections to "evidentialism," the approach toward Christian belief that he describes in his book, Forensic Faith: A Homicide Detective Makes the Case for a More Reasonable, Evidential Christian Faith. Why should we use the word "faith" if belief is actually the most reasonable inference from evidence? Why should Christian s make the case to others if God is in control and is ultimately the reason why anyone believes? J. Warner answers these objections and more. Be sure to check out Forensic Faith and the accompanying curriculum.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cold Case Christianity broadcast, the only Christian case making program hosted by a Cold Case Homicide Detective. |
| 0:07.0 | Jay Warner Wallace has been investigating Cold Case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade. |
| 0:12.0 | His work has been featured on Fox News, |
| 0:14.4 | Court TV, and Dateline. For more information about Jim's work and the case for |
| 0:19.6 | Christianity, please visit coldcase Christianity.com. |
| 0:23.0 | Now here's your host, Jay Warner Wallace. |
| 0:26.0 | Thanks for joining us at Cold Case Christianity. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Jay Warner Wallace. |
| 0:31.0 | Today I'm going to do a show that is going to talk about, |
| 0:35.2 | a little bit about how we might respond |
| 0:38.3 | to people who might push back, |
| 0:40.0 | believers who would push back, |
| 0:41.8 | when we offer a different form of Christian faith, a more |
| 0:45.9 | evidential form of Christian faith. I've just written a book about this which you may be |
| 0:50.6 | familiar with. It's called Forensic Faith. |
| 0:53.0 | And in Forensic Faith, I try to make this case |
| 0:56.2 | that we need to have a more reasonable, |
| 0:58.3 | evidential Christian faith. |
| 1:00.5 | And as I do this across the country, I will occasionally get some pushback. |
| 1:04.3 | As a matter of fact, after writing cold case Christianity, one of the first reviews I got of that |
| 1:09.9 | book was a very negative view, rather, from somebody who was a Christian, who really was |
| 1:16.5 | opposed to the entire approach that someone like me or Lee Strobel or other evidentialists |
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