Table of Contents from Defending the Faith Vol 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction – Defending the Faith…………………………………………………………………………. 1
Lesson 1 – Blind Faith ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 7
Lesson 2 – Is Our Faith Irrational? ……………………………………………………………………….. 10
Lesson 3 – Is Science the Only Way to Know Things?……………………………………………. 12
Lesson 4 – Do Christians Use Circular Reasoning? ………………………………………………… 15
Lesson 5 – Do Science and Faith Contradict? ………………………………………………………… 18
Lesson 6 – What is Apologetics? Is it Biblical? Is Christianity Declining?………………… 21
Lesson 7 – Worldviews ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 25
Lesson 8 – What is Truth? …………………………………………………………………………………… 28
Lesson 9 – The Law of Noncontradiction………………………………………………………………. 32
Lesson 10 – Could Relativism Be True? ……………………………………………………………….. 34
Lesson 11 – Are there Any Absolutes?………………………………………………………………….. 36
Lesson 12 – Proof vs. Evidence……………………………………………………………………………. 38
Lesson 13 – Could All Religions Be True? ……………………………………………………………. 40
Lesson 14 – Creation of the Universe……………………………………………………………………. 43
Lesson 15 – Did the Universe Have a Beginning? ………………………………………………….. 47
Lesson 16 – Creation of First Life ………………………………………………………………………… 50
Lesson 17 – Fine Tuning of the Universe………………………………………………………………. 54
Lesson 18 – The Ontological Argument………………………………………………………………… 57
Lesson 19 – Does the Big Bang Theory Disprove God? ………………………………………….. 59
Lesson 20 – The Moral Argument………………………………………………………………………… 61
Lesson 21 – Are Miracles Possible? ……………………………………………………………………… 64
Lesson 22 – Who Made God?………………………………………………………………………………. 66
Lesson 23 – What Is God Like?……………………………………………………………………………. 68
Lesson 24 – Does God Have Middle Knowledge?………………………………………………….. 70
Lesson 25 – Is Evolution True? ……………………………………………………………………………. 73
Lesson 26 – Are We Descended from Apes? …………………………………………………………. 77

Lesson 27 – Thoughts about WLC’s New Book …………………………………………………….. 80
Lesson 28 – What Is Time? …………………………………………………………………………………. 84
Lesson 29 – Does the Multiverse Explain Fine Tuning?………………………………………….. 87
Lesson 30 – Why Does God Allow Evil and Suffering? ………………………………………….. 89
Lesson 31 – How is God in Control but We Have Free Will? ………………………………….. 93
Lesson 32 – Could Atheism Be True? …………………………………………………………………… 95
Lesson 33 – Recommended Reading…………………………………………………………………….. 97
Lesson 34 – How Do We Know the Bible is Reliable?……………………………………………. 99
Lesson 35 – Is It True We Have no Original Bible or Any of the Books?………………… 101
Lesson 36 – Is the Bible Myth and Legend and Written 300 Years after Jesus? ……….. 104
Lesson 37 – Does the Bible Have Hundreds of Thousands of Errors?……………………… 107
Lesson 38 – Do Scribal Edits Show the Bible Is Corrupt? ……………………………………… 110
Lesson 39 – Did We Leave Out Some Books from the Bible? ……………………………….. 112
Lesson 40 – Why All the Different Bible versions? ………………………………………………. 114
Lesson 41 – Is the Bible Inerrant? ………………………………………………………………………. 117
Lesson 42 – How Do We Know What They Wrote Is True? ………………………………….. 118
Lesson 43 – Should We Believe All the Stories in the Bible?…………………………………. 121
Lesson 44 – Does Prophecy Show the Bible Is True? ……………………………………………. 125
Lesson 45 – The Amazing Prophecy of Daniel …………………………………………………….. 127
Lesson 46 – Does the Canaanite Destruction Show God Is Evil? ……………………………. 129
Lesson 47 – Were the Exodus and Red Sea Parting Real Events? …………………………… 132
Lesson 48 – Are there Gospel Contradictions?……………………………………………………… 134
Lesson 49 – Is It Fair for God to Send People to Hell? ………………………………………….. 136
Lesson 50 – What Is the One Unforgiveable Sin?…………………………………………………. 139
Lesson 51 – How Are We Saved? ………………………………………………………………………. 141
Lesson 52 – Can We Lose Our Salvation? …………………………………………………………… 145