Leaving Christianity For Sex?

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Pastor and author Joshua Harris recently announced that he has divorced his wife and left Christianity. He also has denounced Christian sexual morality. What can we learn from this? Here are some of the questions Frank addresses: · What reasons did he give? Did he cite evidence that Christianity is false? · By leaving Christianity hasn’t he adopted a new faith? · By what standard does he support his new beliefs? · Should we call out false teachers? · According to the Apostle Paul and Thomas Aquinas, how does sexual immorality make us stupid and dismissive of those who disagree with us? · Is this a choice between Christianity and the religion of sex? · How is Mr. Harris being just as exclusionary as the Christians he now blames? We need to pray for Mr. Harris and his family. But all of us have to make a choice: Are you going to trust your life and eternity to the sinless Jesus or the sinful culture? If you want to send us a question for the show, please email us at Hello@CrossExamined.org. Subscribe on iTunes: http://bit.ly/CrossExamined_Podcast rate and review! Thanks!!! Subscribe on Google Play: http://bit.ly/CE_Podcast_Google Subscribe on Spotify: http://bit.ly/CrossExaminedOfficial_Podcast Subscribe on Stitcher: http://bit.ly/CE_Podcast_Stitcher

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0:00.0	Does truth exist?
0:03.0	Because you have faith, does that make this book cool?
0:06.0	Does God exist?
0:07.0	So when someone says there is no truth, if you apply the claim to itself, what should you say?
0:13.0	Is that true?
0:15.0	They don't think Christianity is true.
0:18.0	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.
0:24.0	Cross-exemining skeptical and atheistic views.
0:28.0	Welcome to Cross-exemining with Dr. Frank Turek.
0:33.0	Why do people, particularly in America, leave Christianity?
0:38.0	What reasons do they typically give?
0:42.0	And when they leave the faith, aren't they implicitly or even explicitly adopting a new faith?
0:50.0	We're going to talk about that here today.
0:52.0	In fact, sure, you've probably heard that there was a prominent author
0:57.0	and pastor by the name of Josh Harris back in 1997 or so.
1:02.0	He wrote a very popular book called Kissing or I Kiss Dating Goodbye.
1:07.0	I think that was the name of it.
1:09.0	And it sold 1.2 million copies and it helped many young Christians live a life of sexual purity
1:17.0	until, of course, they got married and up to that point, they had lived a life of celibacy.
1:26.0	They didn't have premarital sex.
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