Can We Still Believe in God?: Answering Ten Contemporary Challenges to Christianity
Written by Craig L. Blomberg
Narrated by Jim Denison
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Skeptics of Christianity often ask highly regarded biblical scholar and popular speaker Craig Blomberg how he can believe in a faith that seems so problematic. How can God allow evil and suffering? Isn't the Bible anti-women, anti-gay, and pro-slavery? Isn't the New Testament riddled with contradictions? What about the nature of hell, violence in Scripture, and prayer and predestination? Following the author's successful Can We Still Believe the Bible?, this succinct and accessible book focuses on what the New Testament teaches about ten key reasons people give for not believing in God.
Craig L. Blomberg
Craig L. Blomberg tiene un doctorado del Nuevo Testamento de la Universidad Aberdeen en Escocia, una maestría de la Escuela Trinity Evangelical Divinity y una Licenciatura de la Facultad Agustana. Es miembro del cuerpo docente en el Seminario de Denver y también fue profesor en la Facultad Palm Beach Atlantic. Además, ha sido autor y coautor de varios libros, entre ellos De Pentecostés a Patmos. Craig, su esposa Fran y sus dos hijas residen en Centennial, Colorado.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Starting with the preface of the book, I saw something I resonated with greatly in Blomberg. He talks about devouring literature and other forms of content to get to the bottom of questions that bothered him. I recall doing the same. I’ve read book after book, watched debates, lectures, listen to podcasts, and read many blogs. All of this was in an effort to come to a conclusion that satisfied me. I was never a fan of uncertainty.In the introduction, Blomberg goes over the various ways communication as evolved in the social media age. A particular quote stood out to me.“…we must exercise even more critical care in separating fact from fiction, event from interpretation, and scholarship from rant.”Fake news is a common phrase you might hear today. We are in a time where anyone can claim anything and it can go viral and if people don’t do their research, it will be believed. When it comes to religion, Blomberg argues, this is especially important because the stakes at hand. It reminds me a bit of Pascal’s wager, where when it comes to atheism, what am I losing? If I’m not an atheist and they’re right, I will end up six feet in the ground and that’s it. Perhaps someone would argue that well I’ve wasted my life by living life according to a Christian ethic, but I don’t think this is a wasted life. I prefer a live by a Christian ethic than my previously natural disposition. When it comes to other religions, however, we need to be very careful. There really shouldn’t be so much apologetic focus on atheism, you’re more likely to encounter a Christian who doesn’t take their faith seriously or a member of another religion than an atheist. Because other religious such as Islam also have consequences for not believing in their conception of God, we should take their claims more seriously as we understand what that’s like within our own worldview.Blomberg goes through ten key questions that he found the most pressing to respond to while searching the internet. In specific, he was seeing what people were saying about why they were not a Christian. I think this is a good method because we can often get stuck on theoretical issues such as a supposed biblical contradiction when most of the time these are just red herrings to real issues.I was going to go through all ten questions but I don’t want to spoil the entire book for you. You should get it yourself. I think it’s an accessible introduction to many of the key questions that skeptics will ask of you as a Christian. It is your duty and honor to contend for the Faith (Jude 1:3)I was given an early copy in exchange for an honest review.