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New Keller Video

Keller Roundtable with WTS Faculty

Keller at UPenn: The Reason for God 

Keller at UPenn: Q&A

God's Problem is Our Suffering

Terri Gross of NPR's Fresh Air recently interviewed Bart Ehrman, author of God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer (also author is Misquoting Jesus). 

Ehrman was a "born again believer" and is now an agnostic.  It's an interview worth hearing as we consider how to respond to those around us who suffer and find no satisfactory answers. 

The Reason for God: Introduction Quotes

From the introduction of The Reason for God by Timothy Keller...

Only if you [believers] struggle long and hard with objections to your faith will you be able to provide grounds for your beliefs to skeptics, including yourself, that are plausible rather than ridiculous or offensive....But even as believers should learn to look for reasons behind their faith, skeptics must learn to look for a type of faith hidden within their reasoning.  All doubts, however skeptical and cynical they may seem, are really a set of alternate beliefs....Every doubt...is based on a leap of faith.
- p. xvii

The only way to doubt Christianity rightly and fairly is to discern the alternate belief under each of your doubts and then to ask yourself what reasons you have for believing it.  How do you know your belief is true?  It would be inconsistent to require more justification for Christian belief than you do for your own, but that is frequently what happens.  In fairness you must doubt your doubts.  My thesis is that if you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs--you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.
- p. xviii