CHRISTIAN EVIDENCES
Donald R. Fox
Over the years, I have been a student of Christian Evidence, also known as Christian Apologetics. Belief in the God of the Bible and Jesus Christ the Son of God is a paramount doctrine of Christianity. Evidence thereof has been orally debated in a formal fashion as well in a written form since the very early beginnings of Christianity. In my mind, it all boils down to a few questions or propositions: (l) Does God Exist? (2) Is the Bible the inspired Word of God? (3) Is Jesus Christ the Son of God? (4) Was Jesus Christ crucified upon the cross and arose the third day? (5) Must men be obedient unto our God in order to be saved? For a long time now, all these questions for me are most certainly, yes.
There are many more questions that men have pondered, such as: (1) Did order and our earth come into being through the “Big Bang” explosion? Alternatively, worded a different way, did chaos become orderly, creating all life, etc. through an explosion? (2) Did all life upon this earth come into being by chance? (3) Is it necessary for life to begat life or in other words, can life begin by chance via dead matter? Such like questions demand examination.
Most atheists scoff at questions brought up by Christians, who believe the biblical account of creation and our faith in Jesus Christ. Some atheists and the like believe honestly that there is no God. They believe that given enough time that evolution is the answer for all questions concerning “In the beginning…” (Genesis 1:1). However, the axiom, from nothing comes nothing still stands. We remember that during the Warren-Flew debate on the existence of God, September 20-23, 1976, Thomas Warren asked Mr. Flew, paraphrased, “Was there ever a human baby born without a human mother.” Mr. Flew answered, “No." I believe Mr. Flew showed great honesty in answering in such a manner.
The Warren-Flew debate can be viewed on line, see:
I believe the following is a pretty good answer to the question “What is the goal of apologetics?” “A: According to Van Til, apologetics aims to defend the Christian faith by answering the variety of challenges leveled against it by unbelievers, thereby vindicating the Christian philosophy of life (worldview) over against all non-Christian philosophies of life (worldviews).” (Reference:answersingenesis.orgdated April 25, 2009)
LOGIC DEMANDS: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” (Genesis 1:1-2 KJV)
“The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.” (Psalms 14: KJV)