‘Today there is a widespread embarrassment about confronting the role of the Christian church in the formation of the Western world… Yet there is a strong case to be made that our conception of society and of a just legal system cannot be fully understood apart from that debt. When we ignore it, we fail to understand ourselves’
Larry Siedentop
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There are many objections, challenges to Christianity that unbelievers make, two of the most common of which are-
‘You Can’t Believe the Bible’ and ‘Science has Disproved the Bible’.
A strategy and initial response that Christians can make are covered in the booklet-
‘Barriers to Faith – Equipping Christians for Mission in a Kaleidoscope World’ which can be seen and downloaded here Click this Link
There are of course two supreme ironies in these objections. Firstly, there are those who dismiss the Bible’s importance and relevance while at the same time enjoying the benefits of a western society that is actually the result of the biblical world view.
Secondly, there are those claiming that science has disproved the Bible, yet seemingly ignorant of the fact that modern science is to a major part the product of a western civilization founded on and shaped by the Bible they want to discount.
A fuller account of the reasons that even the unbeliever can’t discount the Bible is given in the essay How the West Was Shaped.
This provides a lot of information that is good for a Christian to know when responding to challenges regarding the Bible.
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