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Available
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Collection
Call number
239 LIT
Publication
IVP
Description
Know Why You Believe will help you think through the answers to such questions as: How do I know there's a God? Are miracles possible? Why is there pain and evil? Know Why You Believe is a thinking person's book by a man regarded by many as one of the best communicators of Christian truth in our day.
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LibraryThing member mwhel
I was originally attracted to this title because it just felt wrong, disingenuous and backwards. Shouldn't we already know why we believe before espousing a belief? Must we be instructed about why and how to believe? Isn't this putting the cart before the horse? Why must faith be forced in this
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way? The title unwittingly reinforces a feeling that many skeptics hold; that our adopted faith is an accident of geography. We inherit our deepest beliefs and values from our families and our culture, and works like this just help to reinforce and fill in the missing pieces. The arguments presented herein are predictably one-sided and absent of the opposing arguments asked by alternative belief systems. It's topics span the usual arguments about the authenticity of the Bible, God's involvement in and responsibility for pain and suffering, the threats from modern science, the authenticity of miracles, archeological evidence of scripture and a few others. It is a good summary of the Christian stance on most of these issues, although one gets the impression that mainstream Christianity has moved beyond many of the simplistic answers presented here and that this is a Sunday School variety of apologetics. Show Less
LibraryThing member jimocracy
The author really tried to make a reasoned case for Christianity but just failed miserably. It didn't help that Little veered off on too many irrelevant tangents. This was a difficult read; not for its content but because it was so flawed.
LibraryThing member Fellowshipwc
People ask you, and you wonder too--Do science and Scripture conflict? Are miracles possible? Is Christian experience real? Why does God allow suffering and evil?
These questions need solid answers. That's what a million people have already found in this clear and reasonable response to the toughest
These questions need solid answers. That's what a million people have already found in this clear and reasonable response to the toughest
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challenges you face. This edition, revised by Marie Little, updates the discussions of science and archaeology and sharpens the answers for out world today. Show Less
Original publication date
1967
ISBN
9780830834228