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I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Stealing Standards from God

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.95.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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It's that time of year again! You're sitting around with family at the Christmas dinner table, and Uncle Joe insists on picking apart your Christian faith. What's the best way to respond? Ignore him while you play with your mashed potatoes? Or do you try to refute his objections? You know you need to give the reason for the hope that you have, but how can you engage with his statements without starting a family feud?
In this week's episode of I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, Frank explains that every objection to the Christian faith assumes a standard beyond the person who is making the objection and gives examples of simple questions you can ask Uncle Joe (and others like him!) to place a seed of doubt in his assertion that something is wrong with the Christian worldview.
Frank addresses some of the most common objections to Christianity, including:



God does immoral things in the Old Testament


There's too much evil in the world


Christians are hypocrites and do evil things


Christianity is too exclusive


God doesn't show himself enough


The Bible doesn't recognize LGBTQ+ rights


there's no evidence for God


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0:00.0

Does truth exist?

0:03.3

Because you have faith, does that make this book cool?

0:05.6

Does God exist?

0:07.4

So when someone says there is no truth,

0:09.8

if you apply the claim to itself, what should you say?

0:12.6

Is that true?

0:15.2

They don't think Christianity is true.

0:17.7

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.

0:24.2

Cross-exemining skeptical and atheistic views.

0:27.8

Welcome to Cross-exemining with Dr. Frank Turek.

0:32.8

Ladies and gentlemen, how do you deal with objections

0:39.3

to the Christian faith?

0:41.3

I mean, it is Christmas time.

0:42.8

You might get some objections from your relatives

0:47.7

around the Christmas dinner table about Christianity.

0:51.8

How do you deal with them?

0:52.8

How do you deal with objections like,

0:54.3

well, God does immoral things in the Old Testament.

0:57.8

Or God doesn't exist because there's too much evil in the world.

1:01.8

Or there's no good reason for God to allow this particular evil.

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