Apologetics

To define it... a branch of theology devoted to the defense of the divine origin and authority of Christianity. That's a mouthful. Basically, it's defending Christianity. Today in class we read something rather interesting about whether or not to believe in God, and how if your smart, you shouldn't believe in God. I have included it below. 

I usually hate talking about my faith to people, because when i explain it, i don't always realize how the idea of faith might not make sense to others. I mean, people always ask for the evidence! What proves that Christianity is the right faith?! personally, even though i'd love to, i haven't come across any hard evidence proving Christianity. As much as this makes Christianity sound fake and completely made up, there is a certain important element they miss in the article. It's called Faith. 

Faith is believing in what you cannot see. Faith is the final test, and is what makes you a christian. It would be far to easy if God gave us evidence! then everyone would have to believe, and no one would be believing for the right reasons (the ones God wants us to believe for). Hope that makes sense :). 

Intelligent People Don’t Believe in God 

“My friends and I were celebrating at an Italian res'taLu'anl aero ss the street 

from the University of Missouri. I was set to graduate in a few days, and I 

had just accepted aj ob offer: a three-rnonth internship at the Chicago Tribtuze, 

with the promise that if I performed weil, I’d get a permanent job as a 

reporter. At one point during the  somewhere between the bread sticks 

and the Neapolítm ice cream, my best friend, Ersin, made an offhand remark 

about how my internship was  a great gift from God. 

His comment startled me. During the four years I’d known Ersin, I don’t 

think we’d ever talked about religion. 

‘Wait a minute, let me get this straight,” I said. ‘Are you telling me that 

someone as intelligent as you  valedictoiiall, science Whiz, and all that-tliat 

you actually believe that God exists? I always figured you were beyond tha-1t!’ 

It was clear that Ersin was equally surprised. ‘What are you trying to tell 

 he said. ‘Are you saying there isn ’I a God? Are you telling me that 

someone as intelligent as you doesn ’t believe in God? You’ve got to be 

kiddingl’ 

We Were both genuinely astonished. I couldn’t believe that a Sharp person 

like Ersin had actually bought into a fairy tale like the existence of an all-

powerful, all­knoWing Creator ofthe universe. Hadn’t he learned anything at 

college? 

if you cold  my attitude toward God, that would be it: 

Intelligent people didn_`t heli eve in him. All it took was a quick look at the 

evidence to know that Chrisatianìty was nothing but superstition and wishful 

thinking. 

But to be honest, that’s all I had ever really given the evidence: a quick 

look. And I was happy to keep it that Way for years-until one day, my life 

took a strange turn, pushing me into an all-out investigation into the facts 

surrounding the case for Christianity.”