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Your Faith is in Danger: Prepare for the Assault Dr. Rich Knopp Prof. of Philosophy & Apologetics Coordinator, Room For Doubt www.roomfordoubt.com VIDEO INTRO TO THE ROOM FOR DOUBT PROGRAM Your Faith is in Danger: Prepare
Coordinator, Room For Doubt
www.roomfordoubt.com
VIDEO INTRO TO THE ROOM FOR DOUBT PROGRAM
Coordinator, Room For Doubt
www.roomfordoubt.com
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Extremely Weak Couldn’t be stronger
“Danger, Will Robinson, Danger. No, Will Robinson. Danger!”
“Lost in Space”
Letters from Senior Demon: Screwtape to Nephew, Wormwood Instructions for the damnation
Doubt can be a very GOOD thing! Doubt can be a DANGEROUS thing. “Unexpressed” doubt is especially dangerous.
“I believe that unexpressed doubt is one of the most powerful destroyers of faith” (Y
David Kinnaman
Doubt can be a doorway, either to deeper belief or to greater DISBELIEF .
Greater DISBELIEF Deeper BELIEF
Felt Like Rejecting Their Parents’ Faith
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Significantly Doubted Their Faith
Can’t Ask Most Pressing Questions in Church
David Kinnaman, You Lost Me
David Kinnaman, You Lost Me
Moral Doubts Self Doubts Spiritual Doubts Intellectual Doubts
“Most common answer” (32%): Because of intellectual skepticism or doubt.
“It didn’t make any sense anymore.” “Some stuff is too far-fetched for me to believe.” “I think scientifically and there is no real proof.” “Too many questions that can’t be answered” (p. 89).
Moral Destruction Self Doubts Spiritual Doubts Intellectual Doubts V
Richard Dawkins, Oxford University,
The God Delusion (2006)
“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called
suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.”
Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2007)
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (2014)
Bart Ehrman
Bart Ehrman
Forged: Writing in the Name of God—Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are (2011)
“Change is always one generation away. So if we can plant the seeds of doubt in our children, religion will go away in a generation, or at least largely go away. And that’s what I think we have an obligation to do” (Solon [Nov. 4, 2014])
Lawrence Krausse
Atheist and Physicist/Cosmologist, Arizona State University
“When our participants were asked to cite key influences in their conversion to atheism—people, books, seminars, etc.—we expected to hear frequent references to the names of the ‘New Atheists.’ We did
videos they had watched on YouT ube or website forums.”
Larry Taunton, “Listening to Young
Atheists: Lessons for a Stronger Christianity” The Atlantic (June 6, 2013).
Christian Prayer Christian Peers Christian Parents Christian Publications (e.g. websites, videos, books)
Christian Prayer Christian Peers Christian Parents Christian Publications (e.g. websites, videos, books) Christian Professors
Coordinator, Room For Doubt rknopp@lincolnchristian.edu