Rational Faith: Why We Believe | Week 21 | First Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

Rational Faith: Why We Believe | Week 21 | First Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

Believers and non-believers alike often accept a myth that Christians set aside reason to trust in the Holy Bible. In reality, if God did not exist, reason could not be possible. If you are the mere product of random, chance forces, you have no real basis on which to trust your reason at all. You're merely a moist robot or bag of chemical reactions.

A false definition of faith is believing in things in spite of contrary evidence. Our choice is not between rationality and faith. Every worldview relies on faith. The debate is actually between rational faith and irrational faith. Jesus took away our sins, not our brains. Materialists (atheists) must rely on blind faith in many things.

In this course in 2022 the members of First Good Shepherd Lutheran Church are walking through the evidence that God is the foundation of reason, that only God can make sense of the scientific evidence of a finite universe and its fine-tuning, as well as the origin of genetic code and life itself, and that the Bible itself is testably reliable: Jesus really did take on human flesh and pay the price for your sin, and He really did rise from the dead to show He conquered sin, death and the devil.

In short, we're studying what we believe, why we believe it, and how we can communicate it to non-believers in a winsome way.

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