Welcome back to reasonableasonable Faith with Dr William Lane Craig. It's Kevin Harris and

we're going to continue looking at an essay by JD Vance, he writes,

Bassal Mitchell's response received less attention in class,

but his words remain among the most powerful I've ever read.

I've thought about them constantly since.

He begins with a parable about a wartime soldier in occupied territory who meets a stranger.

The soldier is so taken with a stranger that he believes he's the leader of the resistance end of quote

Now Bill let me try to synopsis the parable of course you know give your synopsis as well

but you know Kevin if I just might interrupt I didn't catch this before but I guess this is the meaning of the title of Vance's article, how I joined the resistance.

Yes.

He aligns himself with the stranger here, whom he believes to be the leader of the

resistance. This is in a sense a

parable for Vance as well. Yeah, isn't it interesting? You just never know what's

going to reach someone, Bill? No. know this was this was not even to the Mitchell's view was was scarcely discussed, but he's still thinking about it to this day

Incredible but the the soldier meets a stranger and becomes convinced the stranger is on his side in the war.

In fact, the stranger claims he's the leader of the resistance.

Even though the stranger sometimes acts mysteriously or of the The soldier's actions sometimes seem to count against his trustworthiness.

Nevertheless, the soldier has committed himself to the stranger.

So regarding this, wrote quote at the time I tried my best to

dismiss Mitchell's response. Flu had described the faith I discarded perfectly

but Mitchell articulated a faith that I had never

encountered personally. Doubt was unacceptable. I had thought that the proper

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