E195: The Best Case for Christ w/Dr. Sean McDowell
The Lila Rose Show
Lila Rose
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
How do you share your faith with confidence—even when facing tough questions? In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Sean McDowell, a leading Christian apologist, to break down the strongest evidence for Christ and how to defend your beliefs with clarity and conviction.As the son of legendary apologist Josh McDowell, Dr. McDowell has spent years equipping Christians to engage in meaningful conversations with skeptics, lukewarm believers, and people of other faiths. Whether you’ve hesitated to speak up or felt unprepared in the moment, this episode will give you the tools to share the Gospel boldly.Sean's website: https://seanmcdowell.org/Sean's YouTube: https://youtube.com/@SeanMcDowellA big thanks to our partner, EWTN, the world’s leading Catholic network! Discover news, entertainment and more at https://www.ewtn.com/ Check out our Sponsors:-Good Ranchers: https://go.goodranchers.com/lila Purchase your American Meat Delivered subscription today and get a free add-on of beef, chicken, or salmon! Use code LILA for $25 off! -Seven Weeks Coffee: https://www.sevenweekscoffee.com Buy your pro-life coffee with code LILA and get up to 25% off!-We Heart Nutrition: https://www.weheartnutrition.com/ Get high quality vitamin supplements for 20% off using the code LILA. 00:00:00 - Intro00:02:14 - Dr McDowell’s Story and Trajectory00:09:37 - Good Ranchers00:10:41 - A Christian Walks Into a Hindu Temple…00:15:50 - “Inclusivist” View of Religion00:16:25 - Muslims having visions of Jesus00:18:50 - Infant Baptism00:24:42 - We Heart Nutrition00:26:04 - Best Argument for the Existence of God00:29:15 - Arguing God’s Existence from Morality00:37:00 - Seven Weeks00:38:06 - How to deal with moral disagreement?00:42:11 - The Case for Christ00:51:48 - How do Muslims convert?00:55:03 - Muslim visions of Jesus01:00:25 - Christian vs Muslim God01:05:37 - Even Jesus let him walk away01:10:15 - More than a carpenter
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| 0:00.0 | If Christians are just inventing this story, why do you invent that dishonorable death for your founder? |
| 0:06.4 | Dozens of former Muslims who become Christians. There is some kind of supernatural vision or dream that they have. |
| 0:13.7 | How have you seen Muslim converts to Christianity overcome that foundational objection about Jesus Christ as crucified God? |
| 0:20.6 | I've asked a hundred of the top Christian apologists, what they consider the best argument for the existence of God. |
| 0:28.6 | What would you say are the two biggest differences between the Christian God and the Muslim God? |
| 0:32.6 | Have you ever just read the Gospel of Mark or John and asked yourself, who is this person Jesus? |
| 0:42.5 | Welcome back to the Lila Rose show. |
| 0:44.6 | All right, guys, we have a treat today. |
| 0:46.3 | I'm sitting down with my friend and someone that I admire very much, Dr. Sean McDowell, |
| 0:50.4 | who's a PhD in Apologetics, over at the Talbot School at Biola. I hope I said that right. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm going to correct. He's going to correct me if I'm wrong here. That's the graduate program at |
| 0:59.7 | Biola to teach apologetics. Anyways, he's doing amazing stuff on YouTube. A lot of stuff with |
| 1:04.7 | regard to reaching out to non-believers or non-Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, people from academia who might be agnostic or |
| 1:12.1 | atheists, and he has some really phenomenal approaches to Christian apologetics. So this is going to be |
| 1:17.7 | a really great primer for anybody listening about making the basic case for God, for Jesus Christ, |
| 1:23.7 | and doing it to people that are maybe from a completely different worldview. Hope you enjoy this episode. |
| 1:28.5 | And don't forget to subscribe. |
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| 1:31.9 | I think it's over 80%. |
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| 1:36.2 | And we will see you at every episode. |
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