Animated Apologetic Videos (They’re pretty good) (Copy)
Asking questions is intertwined in the DNA of humanity.
There are so many things about our world to ask questions about.
As little kids, we sometimes look up in the sky and wonder. And there are a lot of deep and weighty issues to wonder about. The following short videos ask great questions about the nature of God, Jesus, and Christianity. They present logical arguments to some of the biggest questions that have been asked since the dawn of time. From one of the video’s notes: “Reasonable Faith features the work of philosopher and theologian Dr. William Lane Craig and aims to provide in the public arena an intelligent, articulate, and uncompromising yet gracious Christian perspective on the most important issues concerning the truth of the Christian faith today.”
The keyword is reasonable. We must go for humble, sensible, and wise discussions that seek understanding and build confidence. Too often Christians share their faith with a standard of certainty and it’s often communicated in demeaning arrogancy. Certainty is only a standard that God can attain to. We finite humans can only get to a standard of reasonableness with humility. We are always learning to make sense of our reality.
The current milieu or atmosphere in America is to cancel voices with which you disagree instead of to listen, engage, and dialogue. Christians often complain about cancel-culture but that has been in our history forever. Let’s listen, engage, and always love.
Check out my It Doesn’t Look Good On You blog entry that deals with how we engage others on these major questions.
These videos are to get you talking, thinking, and asking more questions. They are NOT proof of God or Christianity. They are logical propositions. They raise questions. They get us thinking. All information must be interpreted. And all humans are biased to their own interpretive filters. The videos can help us arrive at REASONABLE answers to some really hard questions. For others, these videos won’t be convincing. And that’s okay. Let’s keep talking.
By the way, winning intellectual arguments often doesn’t change lives. There are other dynamics at play. Changing minds usually only happens through changing hearts through love, listening, and allowing others to connect the dots.
To loosely paraphrase I Corinthians 13: And now these three remain: proof, arguments, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
The Kalam Cosmological Argument-Part 1: Scientific: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CulBuMCLg0 [4:12 min]
The Kalam Cosmological Argument-Part 2: Philosophical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vybNvc6mxMo [5:32 min]
The Fine-tuning of the Universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE76nwimuT0 [6:22 min]
Impossible Universe: The Reality of Cosmic Fine Tuning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk1pEHXnPsE [5:53 min] (Oct 2020)
God and Mathematics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJBOiZXkKu8 [5:03 min]
Leibniz’ Contingency Argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPCzEP0oD7I [5:14 min]
The Ontological Argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBmAKCvWl74 [4:40 min]
Suffering and Evil: The Logical Problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k64YJYBUFLM [4:47 min]
Suffering and Evil: The Probability Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxj8ag8Ntd4 [8:19 min]
The Moral Argument (Can you Be Good Without God): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxiAikEk2vU [5:01 min]
Is There Meaning to Life? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKGnXgH_CzE [5:38 min]
How Can Jesus Be The Only Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRyq6RwzlEM [5:19 min]
Who Did Jesus Think He Was? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSQDov6NNp0 [6:35 min]
Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? Part One: The Facts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qhQRMhUK1o [6:42 min]
Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? Part Two: The Explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SbJ4p6WiZE [6:46 min]
What Degree of Evolution Do You Allow For Given The Genesis Account (Dr. Craig answers a question) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raCC7PSrG4I [5:37 min]
How Do You Reconcile the Science Data and the Genesis Data? (Dr. Craig answers a question) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeBnS0jY3i8 [3:20 min]
What about Adam? What are the Predominant Views? (Dr. Craig offers the four current views on Adam) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-v40m3TCSo [3:07 min]
Why Is the Traditional View of Adam Being Challenged? (Dr. Craig responds to the reasons behind the new ideas) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2AYSM3_NZU [1:57 min]
If you are interested in learning more or asking other questions, check out Room For Doubt
