That's Just Your Interpretation Responding to Skeptics Who Challenge Your Faith

Name: That's Just Your Interpretation Responding to Skeptics Who Challenge Your Faith
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ISBN: 9780801063831

ISBN-10: 0801063833

ISBN-13: 9780801063831

Edition: 2001

Authors: Paul Copan

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In our relativistic society, Christians more than ever are bombarded by tough questions about their faith. Author Paul Copan has observed that many of these questions emerge as "anti-truth claims" that are part of todays skeptical mind-set. Christians defending their faith often hear slogans and questions such as: Its all relative Everything is one with the Divine; all else is illusion The Gospels contradict each other Why would a good God create hell?This book provides incisive answers to slogans related to truth and reality; theism, pantheism/Eastern religion, and naturalism; and doctrinal issues such as the incarnation and truth of Scripture. Each of the twenty-two chapters provides…

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Baker Books
Publication date: 11/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Paul Copan is Professor and the Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics at Palm Beach Atlantic University, FL, USA. He is the co-editor (with Paul Moser) of The Rationality of Theism (Routledge), (with Chad Meister) of The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion (Routledge), and Philosophy of Religion: Classic and Contemporary Issues (Blackwell), and co-author (with William Craig) of Creation Out of Nothing: A Biblical, Philosophical, and Scientific Exploration (Baker Academic).



Introduction



Challenges Related to Truth and Reality



It's All Relative



That's Just Your Interpretation



That's Just Your Reality



Reality Is Shaped by Forces beyond Our Control



Challenges Related to Worldviews



Everything Is One with the Divine; All Else Is an Illusion



Why Not Believe in Reincarnation?



If God Made the Universe, Who Made God?



If God Knows What We're Going to Do, Then We Don't Have Free Will



If God Predestines Some to Be Saved, What Choice Do I Really Have?



The Coexistence of God and Evil Is a Logical Contradiction



Why Would a Good God Send People to Hell?



Religion Is Nothing More Than the Human Wish for a Father Figure



Challenges Related to Christianity



How Can God Be Three and One?



Isn't the Idea of God Becoming a Man Incoherent?



If Jesus Is God, How Could He Really Be Tempted?



The Genesis Creation Account Contradicts Contemporary Science (Part 1)



The Genesis Creation Account Contradicts Contemporary Science (Part 2)



How Could a Loving God Command Genocide?



Doesn't the Bible Condone Slavery?



The Gospels Contradict Each Other



Old Testament "Prophecies" Are Taken out of Context in the New Testament


Conclusion


Notes