In a world gone indignant with creep, slant, subterfuge, and political correctness of all kinds in all fields, THE CASE FOR FAITH, breaks all molds, taking on Christianity’s biggest questions and thorniest challenges with fearless
honesty and sublime humility. It is, I enjoy, the most unbiased, most doughty Christian film ever made, bracing in its aspiration and fascinating in its conclusions. Lee Strobel is obviously a thinker, but he is foremost a seeker of truth, and in this film Lee Strobel, while obviously a proponent of “faith in Christ,” dodges nothing. This DVD stirs the mind and touches the heart. If you are not happy with cheap answers, superficial dogma, and peripheral paradigms of faith, if you want to catch accurate at the heart of the faith breeze, even to places where knotty questions vex and suffering swells, this film takes you there. This film drives straight into the Faith’s darkest tunnels and leads the traveler to the other side, bathed in current light and original hope.
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THE CASE FOR FAITH
4 Stars – Uplifting
The visual presentation of Lee Strobel’s book “The Case For Faith” is compelling. As a follow-up volume from his first book, The Case For Christ, the award-winning journalist applies his investigative skills once again to the questions of Christian beliefs by taking on the doubts that inevitably plague the thoughtful believer.
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Using the loss of faith of Charles Templeton as a model for the procedure doubt can rob the mind, Strobel questions this personal friend and contemporary of Billy Graham. Noting that he was one of the greatest evangelists during the 1940’s, Templeton explains in his contain words the two doubts that cost him his faith. The first is what he calls “the insufferable claim that Jesus is the only correct method to God” and the second is the dilemma of believing in a salubrious God when the world is burly of suffering.
Further researching the demand of what are the most approved doubts that disturb Christians, Strobel finds that these issues are not recent to Templeton. Both are accepted not only to new Christians but are also found in the writings of major theologians of the past, including St. Augustine who lived in the 4th century. Quoting Augustine, he expresses the second doubt in this way: “If there is no God, why is there so distinguished suitable? If there is a God, why is there so considerable faulty? ”
In presenting the best answers to the “quandary of putrid” and the universal experience of suffering, Strobel takes us to conversations with leading theologians alive today as well as to some of the best Christian writers, such as C.S. Lewis. The list of scholars includes N.T. Wright, Bishop of Durham, England, Craig Hazen of Biola University, Gregory Koul, author of Stand to Reason, J.P. Moreland of Talbot School of Theology and Ben Witherington of Asbury Theological Seminary. Additionally, Joni Eareckson Tada presents her enjoy experience as a person living with suffering and experiencing God’s larger purposes working through her and her disability as a quadriplegic person. The final representative is Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church who provides a pastoral presence.
This documentary blends scripture throughout the eye and honors the shiny misfortune of answering these questions. Struggling with doubt is section of the nature of faith and the film neither shies away from the questions nor assumes that every person will get the answers satisfying. Explaining that he sent a copy of the manuscript to Templeton shortly before his death in 2001, Strobel recognizes that he may not have found his design assist to the Jesus who Templeton honestly admits he misses.
The thoughtful presentation of the questions and answers of current doubts results in a film that is satisfactory of both the believer’s and the skeptic’s time and consideration. It is only available on DVD.
Discussion:
1. The claim by Jesus that He is “the intention, the truth and the life” and that “no one comes to the Father except by Me” is seen by Christians as a statement of fact. Therefore, it is not seen as an irregular claim but a truthful explanation. What do you fill about this statement? What ogle have you done to encourage your understanding?
2. The explanation that God must allow human freedom because without it, esteem is not possible also explains what happens when some humans resolve to not care for but rather to harm: people suffer. This “inappropriate”, which is the inversion of the word “live”, is therefore only the misuse of human freedom and an inversion of the purpose of the lives we live. Does this reply satisfy you or not? If not, what is a more satisfying explanation to you for the suffering in our world?
3. The respect that Strobel shows Templeton is how Christians should treat all people with or without objective doubts. Do you own this is the well-liked draw that Christians treat others? Why do you retort as you do?
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Cinema In Focus is a social and spiritual movie commentary. Hal Conklin is aged mayor of Santa Barbara and Denny Wayman is pastor of the Free Methodist Church. [...]
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