On Guard

If God does not exist, then life is futile. If God does exist, then life is meaningful. Only the second of these two alternatives enables us to live happily and consistently. Therefore, it makes a huge difference whether God exists.

arguments and evidence will help to create a culture in which Christian belief is a reasonable thing.

God’s existence has profound consequences for our lives and that therefore we cannot afford to be indifferent about it.

our faith is not based on emotions, but on the truth,

Parents must do more than take their children to church and read them Bible stories. Moms and dads need to be trained in apologetics themselves and so be able to explain to their children simply from an early age and then with increasing depth why we believe as we do.

Without immortality there is no moral accountability, and your moral choices become inconsequential.

Good apologetics involves “speaking the truth in love” (Eph. 4:15).

Many mathematicians think that numbers, sets, and other mathematical entities exist in this way. They’re not caused to exist by something else; they just exist by the necessity of their own nature.

If God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is meaningless; so in order to be happy he pretends life has meaning. But this is, of course, entirely inconsistent—for without God, man and the universe are without any real significance.