Updated: 4-Point Case for Christianity

Just an update to a previous post, "4-Point Case for Christianity." I'm adding a You Tube video that was broadcast live last night, of Frank Turek speaking at Eastern Tennessee State University. He covers the 4-point case in more depth in this presentation, plus he takes questions from the audience.

(Original post on 1/14/17) A quick 4-point case for Christianity from Frank Turek that I copied down from "The 5 Minute Apologist." Frank asks and answers the following 4 questions to make his case.
Check it out:

Point 1: Does truth exist?

The Bible cannot be true if there is no truth. (By the way, if there is no truth, neither can any other book be true, including books written by atheists).

Obviously, it pretty easy to say truth does exist: if someone claims “Truth does not exist”, we simply ask, “Is that true?” The Bible claims to be true.

Point 2: Does God exist?

We can’t have a word from God if there is no God. If there’s no God, throw the Bible away, and every other book that talks about God.

But there is much evidence that there is a …

• Spaceless
• Timeless
• Immaterial
• Powerful
• Moral
• Personal
• Intelligent Cause of the universe out there. 

One piece of evidence: the universe exploded into being out nothing. Once there was no space, no matter, and no time, and the entire space-time continuum leapt into existence out of nothing, therefore whatever caused space-time-matter cannot be made out of space, time, or  matter.

• Spaceless-Timeless-Immaterial – we just covered that.
• Powerful – to be able to create the universe out of nothing.
• Moral – absolute, existential morality exists. Is it ever right to molest children for fun? No matter where or when, we know this is wrong. Why? Because God is an absolutely moral being.
• Personal – impersonal forces can’t choose to create anything, only a person can.
• Intelligent – to be able to fine-tune the universe to the degree that it is.

Point 3: Are miracles possible?

Obviously, the Bible can’t be true if miracles are not possible. But there are very good evidences that miracles have occurred, and certainly the greatest miracle in the Bible has already occurred, in the first verse: “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.” If that verse is true, then every other verse is at least believable.  We just went through an argument for this first verse in the Bible being true. If that verse is true, certainly every other miracle claim in the Bible could be true.

So when people tell me, “I don’t believe in miracles” I tell them, “Look around you – you’re living in one. This universe is a miracle.”

Point 4: Do the New Testament documents tell us the truth about history?

In other words, are they historically reliable? There is a lot of great evidence that they are telling us the truth. One of these evidences, certainly not exhaustive or conclusive in itself, is what is called “Embarrassing Testimony.”

Both the Old Testament and the New Testament are full of embarrassing details that no one would include if they were making this up. Moses argued with God to send someone else; Abraham was a liar; David was an adulterer and a murderer; the Israelites consistently refused to believe or trust God after seeing miracle after miracle; the disciples run away at the crucifixion, and who are the brave ones? The women! Is any man going to make that up? The men wrote these documents, and yet they wrote down that they were Mr. Sissy Pants, while the women were the brave one’s who went down to discover the empty tomb.

Now there’s other evidence too:

• Early testimony
• Eye Witness testimony
• Excruciating testimony (these people died for what they said they saw)
• Extra-Biblical testimony (other writers talking about this)
• Expected testimony  (dealing with Old Testament fulfillment of detailed prophecy)