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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Apologetics and Academia Part Two

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Craig continues his response to secularists on the direction of New Testament scholarship and work being done among elite scholars.

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0:00.0

This next clip begins with your comment on our podcast. Bill, let's check this out.

0:19.2

And that these secular scholars don't read books that are published by Zondervan

0:27.0

and Moody and Crossway and so forth.

0:32.0

And that is why Kevin Christian scholarship is so important. Both

0:38.0

Nicholas Woltersdorf and Robert Adams taught at Yale where Miller says he had never heard of or interacted with Christian

0:49.2

scholars.

0:50.2

I think that he just did a bait and switch here.

0:53.0

We started off with apologist.

0:55.0

Now it's turned into just any Christian scholars.

0:58.4

And Richard C. Miller, admittedly,

1:01.2

he confesses himself, he says,

1:03.0

hey, I am on the full secular humanist critical side.

1:08.9

And I think that faith-based research scholarship is just not going to get you the answers.

1:16.9

Because if you're a Christian who believes Jesus really did rise from the dead, that's part of

1:21.0

something you believe, you can't not believe it, you believe it, and he didn't rise from the dead. That's part of something you believe. You can't not believe it. You believe it. And he

1:24.2

didn't rise from the dead. Then how can you be accurate if he didn't rise? Let's say the

1:28.5

answer was he didn't rise from the dead. But you believe he did. How can you come to the conclusion that he didn't

1:34.3

if you have to believe that in your mind?

1:36.6

Like it's something that you aren't challenging,

1:38.3

you're not interested in actually finding out the truth on

1:40.8

or not, and what makes the most sense here. The scholars he's

1:43.9

naming here are philosophers irrelevant to the field that we're talking about here

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