Apatheism: Who Cares if God Exists? with Kyle Beshears
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The Christian Research Institute
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🗓️ 23 June 2021
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
As Western culture becomes increasingly indifferent to questions of faith, diverted by secularism, comfort, and distraction, Christians today encounter many people who don’t so much doubt the existence of a God, but are more or less apathetic about God. For maybe the first time in human history, many apatheistic individuals today are too busy to bother with pondering the existence of God. Kyle Beshears joins Hank Hanegraaff to discuss his book Apatheism: How We Share When They Don’t Care, the origins of apatheism, how it has grown to epidemic levels in society today and most importantly, how Christians might impact the indifference of apatheists and impact them with gospel truth.
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Topics discussed include: What is apatheism? both a belief and a feeling towards theism (5:45); what are the conditions under which apatheism flourishes in a society? (7:00); how attempts at evangelism made Kyle Beshears aware of apatheism (10:25); Christians increasingly being influenced by the culture and experiencing apathesm as well (14:45); the importance of apologetics (21:15); similarities between apatheism and practical atheism (25:15); how our post-truth culture relates to apatheism (27:40); the continued impact of the enlightenment on the growth of apatheism (32:35); what is “appiness”? (35:35); are we too comfortable to care about God? (39:00); is the Bible still relevant today? (43:20); what is the difference between joy and happiness? (49:25); why the problems with the prosperity Gospel (55:20); how a failure to embrace spiritual disciplines can lead to apatheism in our lives (57:30); Apatheism: How We Share When They Don’t Care—the key to evangelism in our modern apatheistic environment (1:04:30); the impact that scientific materialism has had on our culture and belief in God (1:12:30); truth claims in a pluralistic society (1:16:55); do we need to repent of our sins of distraction? (1:23:05).
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| 1:38.5 | Today is no exception. |
| 1:39.9 | We're going to be talking about a subject that goes under the rubric of apotheism. We'll explain |
| 1:46.0 | what that is in just a few moments, but recent polling data demonstrates conclusively that |
| 1:54.1 | the popularization of pseudoscience has played, well, an enormous role in the embrace of both atheism and agnosticism. |
| 2:06.3 | Think about this. |
| 2:08.1 | More than two-thirds of the atheistic public and at least one-third of all agnostics |
| 2:15.8 | now hold that the advance of science makes the existence of God |
| 2:23.8 | highly unlikely. |
| 2:27.3 | And the two most influential scientific ideas that have contributed to this precipitous |
| 2:33.2 | denial of an uncaused first cause are |
| 2:37.9 | popularized notions of unguided chemical evolution as an explanation for the origins of life |
| 2:46.2 | and unguided biological evolution as well a pretext for the development of that life. |
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