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Faith Is a Response to Evidence

Demolishing Doubt – Cliffe & Stuart Knechtle

Cliffe Knechtle repeatedly insists that biblical faith is not blind faith. Our culture often defines faith as believing something without (or against) evidence. Biblical faith is different. It is a reasoned trust — a response to the evidence God has given in creation, in history, in the person of Jesus, and in the reliability of the New Testament. Cliffe is clear: if the evidence for Christ were weak, he would not trust Him. Faith does not require the absence of reasons; it requires the presence of good ones.

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Strong corrective against the idea that Christianity asks people to turn off their minds.

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