5 Minute Apologist : Maximum Truth in Minimum Time

by Cornish, Rick

• ISBN13: 9781576835050
• ISBN10: 1576835057
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-04
• Publisher: Navpress Pub Group

Summary

In daily, five-minute readings, learn powerful yet humble words to defend your faith and provide answers to the difficult, honest questions you face.

Author Biography

Rick Cornish is a former marine officer with an earned doctorate degree from Denver Seminary as well as a master's in Greek and history from the University of Nebraska. He has experience as a pastor in the United States and is the founder and president of Teaching Truth International. Rick teaches systematic theology, New Testament, and church history at several international universities and pastoral training centers.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD	11	(4)
INTRODUCTION	15	(6)
PART 1 THINKING
1. Ideas Have Consequences	21	(3)
2. Divorcing Faith from Reason	24	(3)
3. Is Truth Knowable?	27	(3)
4. Is Truth Absolute or Relative?	30	(3)
5. Introducing Logic	33	(3)
6. Thinking Versus Feeling	36	(3)
7. Is Morality Relative?	39	(3)
8. Should Christians Do Philosophy?	42	(3)
PART 2 THE BIBLE
9. The Bible Is from God	45	(3)
10. How Did the Bible Originate?	48	(3)
11. Missing the Cut	51	(3)
12. Can I Trust the Old Testament?	54	(3)
13. Confirming the Old Testament	57	(3)
14. Can I Trust the New Testament?	60	(3)
15. Confirming the New Testament	63	(3)
16. The Bible's "Errors and Contradictions"	66	(3)
17. Did Those Prophecies Come True?	69	(3)
18. What About All Those Translations?	72	(3)
PART 3 WORLDVIEWS
19. What Is a Worldview?	75	(3)
20. One Infinite, Personal God	78	(3)
21. Many Finite Gods	81	(3)
22. All Is God	84	(3)
23. All Is in God	87	(3)
24. God Turned Away	90	(3)
25. No God at All	93	(3)
26. I Don't Know About God	96	(3)
27. Just Choose and Act	99	(3)
28. We're Number 1	102	(3)
29. Economics Rules	105	(3)
30. They're All the Same	108	(3)
31. The Anti-Worldview	111	(3)
PART 4 GOD
32. Does God Exist?	114	(3)
33. Who Made God?	117	(3)
34. How Can God Allow Evil?	120	(3)
35. How Could God Send Anyone to Hell?	123	(3)
36. What About Those Who Never Heard?	126	(3)
PART 5 JESUS
37. Did Anyone See Him?	129	(3)
38. One of a Kind	132	(3)
39. Who Does He Think He Is God?	135	(3)
40. Is He Who He Said He Was?	138	(3)
41. What a Show!	141	(3)
42. They Called It; He Did It	144	(3)
43. Others Knew	147	(3)
PART 6 THE RESURRECTION
44. Did Jesus Really Die?	150	(3)
45. Why Is Jesus' Tomb Empty?	153	(3)
46. He Just Keeps Showing Up	156	(3)
47. More Resurrection Evidence	159	(3)
48. Was It Really Him?	162	(3)
49. A Prophesied Resurrection	165	(3)
50. He Called It	168	(3)
51. So What?	171	(3)
52. Here We Go Again	174	(3)
PART 7 SCIENCE
53. How Do Scientists Think?	177	(3)
54. Is There a Philosophy Behind Science?	180	(3)
55. The Worldview Behind Science	183	(3)
56. Has Science Made Christianity Irrelevant?	186	(3)
57. Introducing the Origins Debate	189	(3)
58. Intelligent Design Theory	192	(3)
59. Is Design Theory Science?	195	(3)
60. Did the Universe Begin?	198	(3)
61. Is It Soup Yet?	201	(3)
62. From Aardvarks to Zebras	204	(3)
63. Only the Strong Survive	207	(3)
64. Darwin's Theory Mutates	210	(3)
65. The Fossils Speak, but What Do They Say?	213	(3)
66. Still Missing After All These Years	216	(3)
67. The Sum of the Parts	219	(3)
68. From Shrewsbury to the World	222	(3)
69. Do the Heavens Declare the Glory of God?	225	(3)
70. Could Complex Speech and Abstract Thought Have Evolved?	228	(3)
PART 8 MIRACLES
71. The Supernatural Calling Cad	231	(3)
72. God's Special Intervention	234	(3)
73. When Is a Miracle Not a Miracle?	237	(3)
74. The Source of Miracle Reports	240	(3)
75. Applying the Right Test	243	(3)
76. Did Miracles Really Happen?	246	(3)
PART 9 HISTORIC RELIGIONS
77. Christianity's Wellspring	249	(3)
78. In Allah's Name	252	(3)
79. Gentle Intolerance	255	(3)
80. It's Not About Zoro	258	(3)
81. The Heart of India	261	(3)
82. A Hindu/Muslim Mix	264	(3)
83. We Wouldn't Hurt a Fly	267	(3)
84. The "Enlightened One"	270	(3)
85. Following the Sage	273	(3)
86. Yin and Yang	276	(3)
87. Thoroughly Japanese	279	(3)
88. Spirits Everywhere	282	(3)
PART 10 NEW RELIGIONS
89. Can God's Prophet Err?	285	(4)
90. Joseph's Kids	289	(4)
91. Neither Grapes nor Nuts	293	(3)
92. New but Old	296	(3)
93. Watching the Moon	299	(3)
94. Passive No Longer	302	(3)
95. Dreams Fulfilled	305	(3)
96. Science Fiction	308	(3)
97. Which Way Is the Right Way?	311	(3)
98. Knock, Knock. Who's There?	314	(3)
99. I'm Out of Here	317	(3)
100. Whose Family?	320	(3)
EPILOGUE	323	(4)
APPENDIX A INDEX OF TOPICS	327	(6)
APPENDIX B RECOMMENDED BOOKS	333	(8)
NOTES	341	(8)
AUTHOR	349

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