Why People Stop Believing
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Why People Stop Believing

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Why People Stop Believing

About this book

This book addresses a growing need in apologetic literature. It is a response to the growing wave of Christian leaders who are rejecting Christianity and becoming some of its most ardent critics, often supported by a plethora of new organizations arising to encourage such people to cut ties to their faith. This is a new challenge from a different breed of critics who are using their instant credibility and insider's knowledge of theology, the Bible, church history, even apologetics, to debunk the faith they once believed and promoted. They have taken aim at the foundations of Christianity, including God, the Scriptures, miracles and the supernatural, and Christianity's perceived inherent prohibition on free enquiry. Readers will be introduced to arguments against Christianity by these critics, which they claim compelled them to leave, followed by responses that use examples, questions, and nontechnical language to make the reasoning accessible. Every issue addressed has been raised by a former Christian leader, and special attention has been paid to their precise formulations. The book makes the case that, however convincing the critics' arguments may appear at first glance, further analysis reveals them to be weaker than they appear, and in many cases entirely unpersuasive.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Chapter 1: A New Kind of Critic
  3. Chapter 2: Encountering a Critic Who Once Believed
  4. Chapter 3: Christianity and the Freedom to Think
  5. Chapter 4: Why Would God Do That?
  6. Chapter 5: An Extra Problem for the Case against God
  7. Chapter 6: The Changing Face of Atheism
  8. Chapter 7: Undermining the New Testament
  9. Chapter 8: How Did We Get the New Testament?
  10. Chapter 9: But Can I Trust My Bible
  11. Chapter 10: Undermining the New Testament Authors
  12. Chapter 11: Who Really Wrote the Gospels and What If We Don’t Know?
  13. Chapter 12: Discrepancies among the Gospels
  14. Chapter 13: Why Aren’t There More Outside Sources about Jesus?
  15. Chapter 14: Naturalism
  16. Chapter 15: Questioning Miracles
  17. Chapter 16: Three Arguments against Miracles
  18. Bibliography