RC, why would a creator let the human race mess up his creation like we have and what about injustice?

Why doesn't he just step in and fix it?

Well the man who asked that question isn't alone. That's something people have always wondered and today on renewing your mind

Dr. RC's role is going to address that and other thoughtful questions.

This is the final session of a series we've been pleased to feature the past few months on classical apologetics.

It's called Defending Your Faith.

Now that we've completed the lecture part of our study of apologetics and defending your faith

we've asked our studio audience here if they have any questions within the realm of apologetics

and so we're going to spend this time now giving them the opportunity to raise particular questions that are on their mind.

These are questions I haven't seen. There's no rehearsal here so we're just add living as we go

and we're going to try to make this something that will be helpful to those who watch the program

and you have the microphone and what's your question?

RC, what are three good books? Two or three good books to prepare a young man, a young woman to be able to articulate their faith before they go to college?

Alright so we're talking about books for young people not heavy academic tones on the subject of defending your faith.

One of my favorites is Reason for Faith that Dr. John Gerstner wrote that I think is very helpful for students going off to college.

On the issue of the Bible, FF Bruce Little Volume, the New Testament documents are they reliable even though Bruce's an accomplished agonimition in the scholar.

I think that little overview would help them in that regard.

My book of objections answered was written as a specific response to people, late people who were engaged in evangelism and they kept track of the most frequently raised questions and objections to Christy Anadine and then gave me that list and asked me how I would answer those questions.

And there's a section after each chapter of summary, these are the points that you need to go over when you're answering the questions. And that's again those are designed to help trained people for these encounters.

RC, what is the number one intellectual objection that you've been given over the last 30, 40 years against the existence of God and how briefly have you answered that?

I would say that the number one objection to the existence of God that I've heard over the years is the problem of evil and the presence of evil in the world.

As John Stuart Mill said that Christianity affirms that God is omnipotent and that God is good. And according to Mill, he can't be both because with the presence of evil and pain and suffering and misery in the world.

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