"Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?" debate with Richard Carrier, 2009.This is a position that is so extreme that to call it marginal would be an understatement it doesn't even appear on the map of contemporary New Testament scholarship. Richard takes the extremist position that Jesus of Nazareth never even existed, that there was no such person in history.The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic. While most of the original Enlightenment thinkers were themselves theists, the majority of Western intellectuals today no longer considers theological knowledge to be possible. It is the product of the Enlightenment, which introduced into European culture the leaven of secularism that has by now permeated Western society. In general, Western culture is deeply post-Christian.The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity. That counterbalances any improbability in the choosing of those numbers, so you're quite rational to believe in this highly improbable event. Okay, look at it this way: if the evening news has a very high probability of being accurate, then it's highly improbable that they would inaccurately report the numbers chosen in the lottery.
The Craig-Bradley Debate: Can a Loving God Send People to Hell? (1994)., quoted in Muehlhauser, Luke ().You have no way of knowing that possibility. Otherwise you don't know that heaven is an actualizable world. It may be that the only way in which God could actualize a heaven of free creatures all worshiping Him and not falling into sin would be by having, so to speak, this run-up to it, this advance life during which there is a veil of decision-making in which some people choose for God and some people against God. Heaven may not be a possible world when you take it in isolation by itself.But to pretend that people are not sinful and in need of salvation would be as cruel and deceptive as pretending that somebody was healthy even though you knew that he had a fatal disease for which you knew the cure. I truly wish with all my heart that universal salvation were true.If we reject Jesus’ offer of forgiveness, then there is simply is no one else to pay the penalty for your sin – except yourself. But if we reject Christ, then we reject God's mercy and fall back on His justice. In order to receive forgiveness, we need to place our trust in Christ as our Savior and the Lord of our lives.1.1 Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics (1994).
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