We're back one more time with guest, Don Carson, and one of the things that impresses me

about you and your ministry is your eagerness to share the gospel on college campuses.

And given the difficulty of communicating biblical truth to post-moderns, here's my question

for you.

And as question we get quite frequently from listeners and from ministers, and is this?

Is it possible to explain original sin to an audience of non-Christian college students

without appealing to biblical evidence?

How would you do it?

Where would you begin?

And you sense this challenge yourself?

The hardest thing to get across on a university campus today is a nature of sin, by far.

If you start talking about patrinity or the incarnation or the resurrection of Christ,

and you explain as best you can in the time you've got what you mean, then the people

who are biblically literate there will say, oh, is that what Christians believe?

Well, that's pretty weird.

But yeah, I understand what you're saying.

And they're not going to push back on it particularly.

The people who ask the hardest questions at those sorts of meetings are not the non-Christian.

They don't know enough to ask the tough questions.

They're the Christians who show up and then try to use that form to get their theological questions answered, you know,

which is not the best form.

But if you start talking at all about sin and evil, then you get immediate push back.

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