Have You Read "Atheism, The Case Against 'God'"? p2?

Question

I wanted do answer 'brokentogether' who asked in return if I read The Case for Christ, written by Lee Strobel.
Yes I have, when I began my bible study I wanted sources far and wide.

To be honest, I was disappointed by this Strobel, he came across like an Elementary school teacher reading to children about Santa. His methods were similar to the way Jehovahs Witnesses speak. Something like "when i read that passage from Paul I felt it was awe inspiring, how could this not be true??!!" Hardly convincing.

Aleks : exactly, i also wondered how he could be a journalist. He seemed more like a sunday school teacher who was trying to seem unbiased but failing miserably as he jumped to one early false conclusion after another

Answer 1

lol, i read the case for christ too.
i stopped at about 45 inaccurate conclusions.
i try to get my kids (i'm a teacher) to understand exactly how to draw conclusions from evidence. how you can only tell what MUST be true as opposed to what MAY be true. this guy simply jumps too far in his conclusions. its not logical in the least.
i had a really hard time believing that the guy was a journalist.

but it was an easy read. won't change an atheist's mind though since there's nothing particularly convincing in it.

Answer 2

Faithful Christians are unlikely to look beyond the bible for answers about the human purpose and future. Instead, they recognize that God's thinking is superior to any originating from man (or from Satan).

(2 Timothy 4:3-5) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.

(2 Thessalonians 2:1-3) We request of you not to be quickly shaken from your reason nor to be excited either through an inspired expression or through a verbal message or through a letter... Let no one seduce you in any manner, because it will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness gets revealed

(2 Peter 2:1) However, there also came to be false prophets among the people, as there will also be false teachers among you. These very ones will quietly bring in destructive sects and will disown even the owner

(1 John 2:18) Young children, it is the last hour, and, just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now there have come to be many antichrists; from which fact we gain the knowledge that it is the last hour.

Answer 3

I wasn't that pleased with the arguments given in 'The Case Against God'. I am an atheist, so my problem isn't his message, it was the fact that I don't agree with his philosophical position, which is fairly close to Aristote's views. He could have done a much better job without using a very outdated philosophy to support his arguments. The worst part was in his discussion of the arguments from first cause. he actually came out and said that the universe has always been around! He seemed to have no knowledge of the Big Bang or what Quantum Mechanics might say about the use of cause and effect.

OTOH, Strobel is just stupid.

Answer 4

No, but I bet it's pretty funny.