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The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

Quick Shot Responses to "If God exists, he wouldn't be so hidden"

The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

ColdCaseChristianity.com

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast, J. Warner offers a number of brief, rhetorically powerful responses to the objection: "If God exists, he wouldn't be so hidden." Why doesn't God make his existence known in a more persuasive way? These Quick Shot responses are designed to help you remove intellectual obstacles when talking about God with your friends and family members. They are also available on the Cold-Case Christianity Phone App so you can access them as you are interacting with others.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Cold Case Christianity broadcast, the only Christian case-making program

0:06.2

hosted by a Cold Case Homicide Detective.

0:09.2

J Warner Wallace has been investigating Cold Case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade.

0:16.0

His work has been featured on Fox News, Court TV, and Dateline.

0:22.0

For more information about Jim's work and the Case for Christianity, please visit

0:26.8

Cold Case Christianity.com.

0:29.9

Now here's your host, Jay Warner Wallace.

0:35.0

Welcome to Cole Case Christianity.

0:38.0

My name is Jay Warner Wallace.

0:40.0

Okay, we're going to continue answering the objections that are usually

0:45.3

leveled against Christianity. We've isolated the top 25 or so and we have listed

0:50.4

those and we call these responses quick shot responses. Quick shots are

0:55.0

simply brief rhetorically powerful ways to hopefully continue conversations

0:59.4

even when you've hit an obstacle that's been offered by somebody who's simply offering an objection.

1:04.8

And you're thinking, how am I going to answer that, right?

1:06.8

How am I going to move beyond that objection?

1:10.2

This happens a lot in conversations, especially on social media.

1:14.2

So we wanted to offer you something that you could either say back,

1:18.0

look, if you wanted to cheat, I suppose you could cut and paste these

1:20.6

into your social media, but I wouldn't suggest doing that. I would suggest

1:23.4

internalizing these answers. In other words, reading through these answers to the

1:27.9

point where you now can respond as though in your own language even as a slightly different way than you might

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