Why Do You Need to Work so Hard to Defend Christianity if It’s True?
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Why Do You Need to Work so Hard to Defend Christianity if It’s True?
April 27, 2023
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Questions from non-believers about why we need to work so hard to defend Christianity if it’s true, whether we’re just pushing the truth we chose on others while keeping them from evaluating it, and how many other gods we ruled out when determining Christ is the one true God.
* Why would you need to put all this work into apologetics if this were really the one truth?
* If Christianity were true, would you have an apologetics website?
* I don’t feel like your material brings me closer to truth; I feel like you’re picking truth without me and then making a profession out of cleverly keeping me from evaluating it.
* In determining Christ is the one true God, how many others did you rule out?
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