Bethinking 5/6: William Lane Craig on Secularism & Islam (The Apologetic Task)

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The Bethinking National Apologetics Day Conference: "Countering the New Atheism" took place during the UK Reasonable Faith Tour in October 2011. Christian academics William Lane Craig, John Lennox, Peter J Williams and Gary Habermas lead 600 people in training for how to defend and proclaim the credibility of Christianity against the growing tide of secularism and New Atheist popular thought in western society.
In this session (Part 5), William Lane Craig closes the conference by addressing the challenges faced by the UK Church, from both the rise of secularism and the spread of Islam, arguing that apologetics must be front and centre to ensure the church's survival.
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www.bethinking.org/craig
www.premier.org.uk/craig
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@ttimetotroll 3 жыл бұрын

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@megalopolis2015 6 жыл бұрын

This was a delightful talk. I especially loved how Craig, as an afterthought, brought up his own website's Defender lessons as an answer to what to do to introduce Christian Apologetics to churches. I also thought it was a wise answer he gave regarding Darwinism and Islam, to speak reasonably with evidence for Jesus, His ministry, life, death and resurrection to change the hearts and minds of curious--even skeptical--people, rather than trying to pick apart their belief systems, from an evangelistic standpoint. Of course, I tend to take everything two or more steps too far, thus my record, as I understand it, still stands at zero converts to Christ.

@muziekBELL

God bless William Craig and his ministry and the committe that conductbthis event. Love from indonesia

@Willzyx88 11 жыл бұрын

Good stuff. Thanks for stopping by, Dr Craig. I really hope younger people watching this go to their pastors, priests, ministers, reverends, etc... and launch an apologetic class. I'd recommend investing in a projector, a laptop and a sound system - watching apologists like Ravi Zacharias, John Lennox, Timothy Keller, William Lane Craig, or whoever you know to be interesting - and then discuss the ideas openly, and perhaps get a hold of some of their published works and reflect upon them too.

@jamalkhan3708 3 жыл бұрын

I was a Muslim and as a Muslim I was spiritual blind, but now I can see through Christ Jesus ✝️❤️

@zionbound5801 10 жыл бұрын

"Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I WILL PRESERVE THEE,AND GIVE THEE FOR A COVENANT TO THE PEOPLE , to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;" --Isaiah 49:8

@clarkjr6 11 жыл бұрын

I think this is very important for the current generation of Christians and the generations to come. It is sad to say but your average atheist knows more about the Bible than your average Christian. It is time for that to change!

@darlameeks 4 жыл бұрын

I much enjoyed this. However, Dr. Craig said in the thesis of his talk that he was going to address impediments on the right as well as the left. He really only discussed the left and Islam. I would like to hear him discuss the harsh American "Christian" political conservatism that is driving so many young people away from the church in the U.S. Popular conservative ministers publicly excoriate their brothers and sisters, showing zero tenderness or forgiveness for them...rather, they're competitive and seek to protect their "market share" among the faithful. They build arguments for why it's okay to ignore systemic injustices that perpetuate poverty, racism, misogyny, and xenophobia. Please see Isaiah 58:1-14; Matthew

@carmeister_ 11 жыл бұрын

What's the song that's played for the the intro?

@clarkjr6 10 жыл бұрын

I too once thought as you did, so I completely understand where you are coming from. Choosing to believe in the god of the Bible does not come down to a matter of intelligence, it comes down to a matter of morality. The Apostle Paul gave a reply to your comments almost 2000 years. You can find his comments at 1 Cor 1:18-26.

@realCaptainSanta 10 жыл бұрын

If you ever meet a ghost you will find that to be good evidence for the existence of ghosts. In the same way, if you actually seek God instead of looking for the evidence of His existence, He will reveal Himself to you, in fact He promises to do just that.

@bluebird2426 9 жыл бұрын

I LIKE AND ADMIRE W. L. CRAIG HE USES HIS INTELLIGENT MIND FOR THE GLORY OF GOD , UNLIKE GODLESS EVOLUTIONISTS/SCIENTISTS WHO USE THEIRS FOR THEIR OWN GLORY

@anotherdoseyt 2 жыл бұрын

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

@EPU01 10 жыл бұрын

So how is Islam's view on salvation (good deeds plus faith) different from Catholicism (good deeds plus faith)?

@JCESClem 10 жыл бұрын

No one can say that separation of church and state is an absolute truth (history says it wasn't!) and be believed; therefore, it can be criticized as wishful thinking. What we find instead is that political ideology HAS triedf to supplant religion as the "official" religion-of-state.. Did "religion" go away?! O course not!! It's still, here whether one's "religion" has a place for God in it or not. Who knows what stupidity LURKS in the hearts of men? (THE SHADOW KNOWS!!)

@rinos7902 2 жыл бұрын

I think what christianity has become today is not the same teachings of jesus and early christians a lot of changes occurred along the way

@hwd71 4 жыл бұрын

31:05

@ASeventhSign 10 жыл бұрын

The main difference would be Jesus. good deeds plus faith plus accepting Jesus as one's personal savior.

@BeyondEvent 11 жыл бұрын

I know this is a few months late, but I'd also like to add that there is a 3rd group. This is the group of atheists who are atheists because it's the "cool" thing to be. They are the younger generation and usually have little to no knowledge of the Bible and hardly any knowledge of recent or ancient history.

@Jsatchel2010 11 жыл бұрын

They know enough to criticize God, but they seem to lack any desire to have God's actions explained, which in fact the text itself does. I think they only know what set arguments are invented by the one at the top (Dawkins/Hitchens/Harris/Dennett)