Defending Christianity as both true and rational
"but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense [Greek is apologia] to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect” (1 Pet 3:15)
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” CS Lewis
Here is a powerful essay by Timothy Paul Jones, the apologetics instructor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Worth reading in entirety. “for Augustine, the initial rise of the church functioned as evidence for the truth of the resurrection. To acknowledge the church’s initial growth without admitting the truth of the…
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Here is a powerful essay by Timothy Paul Jones, the apologetics instructor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Worth reading in entirety.
“for Augustine, the initial rise of the church functioned as evidence for the truth of the resurrection. To acknowledge the church’s initial growth without admitting the truth of the resurrection would have been to assert that the world somehow became convinced of a miracle in the absence of any miracles, which Augustine saw as absurd.”
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Christian Apologetics 
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