Arguments for God
This argument claims that everything that begins to exist has a cause, and the universe began to exist.
What is the Kalam Cosmological Argument?
According to the Gospels, these people discovered Jesus's empty tomb, a detail that strengthens its historicity because of their low legal status in first-century Judaism.
Who are women?
This parable is commonly used to argue that all religions contain partial truths about the same spiritual reality.
What is the parable of the blind men and the elephant?
The verse that commands us to “always be prepared to make a defense” for our hope.
What is 1 Peter 3:15?
This is the definition of “apologetics.”
What is the defense of the Christian faith using reason, logic, and evidence?
This argument observes the fine-tuning of physical constants in the universe as evidence for a designer.
What is the Teleological Argument (or Fine-Tuning Argument)?
This hypothesis, nearly universally rejected by scholars, claims Jesus merely fainted on the cross and later revived in the tomb.
What is the Swoon Hypothesis?
This philosophical position claims that all major religions are equally valid paths to the same ultimate divine reality.
What is religious pluralism?
According to 1 Peter 3:15, these two qualities should characterize our defense of the faith.
What is gentleness and respect?
This worldview holds that only natural causes exist and supernatural explanations are invalid.
What is naturalism (or materialism)?
Name two attributes that the cause of the universe must have according to the Kalam argument.
Timeless, spaceless, immaterial, powerful, and/or personal (any two)
The apostles claimed Jesus appeared to this many people at one time, making it one of the largest group sightings recorded.
What is 500?
Someone says: “All religions are basically the same.” How is this objection flawed?
Religions make contradictory truth claims about God, salvation, the afterlife, etc. They can't all be true. This view doesn't take different religions seriously.
In Acts 17, Paul uses this structure in Athens to reason about the “unknown god.”
What is the Areopagus (or Mars Hill)?
This philosopher wrote "The God Delusion" arguing against theism.
Who is Richard Dawkins?
How does the Kalam argument respond to the objection "Who made God?"
The argument is about what BEGINS to exist. God is eternal and didn't begin to exist, so doesn't need a cause.
These four books of the New Testament are primary sources for Jesus's life and teachings.
What are the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John)?
This view holds that all religions are true, but none of them is exclusively true.
What is religious inclusivism?
Romans 1:20 says this is “clearly seen” and leaves people “without excuse.”
What are God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature— understood from what has been made?
This apologist wrote "The Reason for God" and pastored Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City.
Who is Timothy Keller?
What does the Second Law of Thermodynamics tell us about the universe's beginning?
Entropy always increases. If the universe were eternal, it would have reached maximum entropy already, proving it had a beginning.
This Jewish historian from the first century mentioned Jesus in his "Antiquities."
Who is Josephus?
This four-part framework includes Scripture, Tradition, Reason, and Experience as sources for understanding truth.
What is the Wesleyan Quadrilateral?
This is why apologetics is not just about winning arguments but about loving people.
What is our goal to help people see God's truth and come to faith in Christ, not just to prove we're right?
Someone says: “Faith and reason are opposites.” How would you respond?
Faith and reason work together. Biblical faith is trust based on evidence, not blind belief. Christianity encourages us to love God with our minds.