Question #4 Isn’t Protestantism’s major flaw that it leads to constant splintering and dividing? What do we do about it? Many denominations within Christendom are represented among RTB’s staff scholars and scholar community. Theologically conservative Christians who are Baptist, Lutheran, Wesleyan, Pentecostal, Anglican, or nondenominational could affirm and have affirmed the statement. RTB’s statement of faith, which I helped write, reflects a Protestant evangelical viewpoint. Question #3 Is RTB’s statement of faith based on a Reformed theology similar to what John Calvin advocated? Thus, the incarnation grounds the atonement. Representing both God and man in his two natures as the God-man, Jesus could reconcile God and man. Jesus Christ could only do what he did soteriologically (in terms of salvation) because he was who he was ontologically (in terms of being). Question #2 How does Jesus’s incarnation relate to his atonement on the cross? But Christian theism seems to provide the best explanation for these profound mysteries. I think it is fair to say that a large majority of people throughout history have believed in God and that many of them thought God’s existence was just a matter of common sense (in other words, they thought life unambiguously pointed to God).Ĭoncerning the origin of the cosmos, of fine-tuning, and of consciousness, I think atheistic naturalism’s explanatory power is quite limited. Question #1 If God exists, why doesn’t the universe unambiguously point to any kind of Creator God? I hope these brief answers will help you in your engagements with people who ask similar questions. Much more could be said on each of these topics, so please see the resource section for further information. My answers are intentionally concise, which reflects how I respond online. What follows are ten selected questions I was asked online over the last couple of years. I appreciate receiving a variety of questions from people of all backgrounds and stages of life. Today I answer questions online and on social media. In fact, back in the early 1990s I worked at the Christian Research Institute (CRI) and was one of the cohosts of the Bible Answer Man radio program, which has a question and answer format. As a college instructor and a Christian apologist, I have been asked thousands of questions in my 35 years of teaching and doing apologetics professionally.
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