J Warner Wallace (Cold-Case
Christianity) has written Forensic Faith which has been endorsed by Gary Habermas among others. Habermas is known for his great work
defending the resurrection of Jesus.
Wallace makes the case for evidential apologetics. Habermas considers the old earth/young earth debate
a peripheral issue. However, God's
sovereignty implies a youthful world.
Habermas & Wallace should read our book YES - Young Earth Science.
Love God with your mind!
We read in Mark 12:30, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and
with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” We should be willing to think hard on the
difficult objections to those who doubt the Bible. Here is a longer article we have written on the
defense of the faith (Apologetics 101). How
do see evidence in Scripture? Recall the
encounter between Jesus & Thomas:
Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see
my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not
disbelieve, but believe.” Thomas
answered him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because
you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
(Jn. 20:27-29)
Thomas was clearly confronted with evidence. Consider when the Assyrians about to attack
Jerusalem. Isaiah prophesied against the
king of Assyria. Listen to Hezekiah’s prayer:
It is
true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these
nations and their lands. They have thrown their gods into the fire
and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned
by human hands. Now, Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the
kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, Lord, are God. (2 Kings 19:17-19)
God's
actions in history prove the reality of the true deity. Likewise, regarding the destruction of the
Egyptian army in the Red Sea:
Pharaoh
will think, "The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion,
hemmed in by the desert." And I
will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them. But I will gain glory for myself through
Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.
(Ex. 14:3,4)
Do you have
an Apologetics Study Bible? It has many
valuable notes and articles. It's weak on
Creation In Six Days (CISD), a Global Flood and a young earth, but quite
helpful in many other areas.
Our assurance
of salvation is a kind of apologetic:
Whoever has
the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe
in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal
life. (1 Jn. 5:12,13)
