Are You Defending THE Faith or YOUR Faith? (Part 1)

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

What happens when "Christians" deny a core doctrine of Christianity? It seems that many people in our culture today are creating their own versions of the Christian faith based on their personal preferences and don't care whether something is true or not. For them, it boils down to one simple question: "Is this going to work for me?"
In 1945, C.S. Lewis did a presentation for a group of Anglican ministers which later turned into an essay called 'Christian Apologetics'. In it, Lewis makes clear that the Christian faith has certain boundaries, and if you decide to step outside of those boundaries, "you must change your profession." On today's podcast, Frank goes through different sections of the essay to illustrate the different lessons we can learn from Lewis' musings today—even though he voiced them over 75 years ago!
In fact, there is so much to learn from this one essay that it wouldn't fit into one episode, so be sure to watch out for Part 2 during the midweek podcast next week!
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Does truth exist?
0:03.3	Because you have faith, does that make this book cool?
0:05.6	Does God exist?
0:07.4	So when someone says there is no truth,
0:09.8	if you apply the claim to itself, what should you say?
0:12.6	Is that true?
0:15.2	They don't think Christianity is true.
0:17.7	They're talked out of it.
0:20.0	You know why they're talked out of it?
0:22.0	Because they've never been talked into it.
0:24.2	Cross-exemining skeptical and atheistic views.
0:27.8	Welcome to Cross-exemining with Dr. Frank Torek.
0:32.8	Do you believe in the faith or just your faith?
0:38.8	Is there a difference between the faith and your faith?
0:44.4	Because if you're just having faith in whatever you like,
0:52.0	whatever you just want to believe,
0:54.8	that may not be the faith.
0:58.8	You might have faith in your own idea of Jesus
1:03.2	rather than the true Jesus.
1:06.8	Now why am I bringing this up?
1:08.0	Because a couple of months ago,
1:10.0	I went to see a play by my friend Max McClain.
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