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Of course, this is not the way witness works and such total efforts would not be successful if not led by the Spirit. And if we think people are going there, then we should do nothing but seek to win people to faith so they would avoid it. It seems barbaric to him that God would consign anyone to the torture of Hell forever. One of Piper’s objections to Evangelicalism is the doctrine of Hell, though it is the classic doctrine of Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Churches as well. Of course, design in the world and the miracles today are great confirmations. First, if anyone reads the Gospel of Luke and then Acts and honestly asks how these writings can even exist, they will, if honestly seeking the truth, conclude that these accounts are true. Today, my summary of apologetics is simple (I did write a text book on Apologetics). This has been brilliantly answered form Augustine to C. I find most of their objections to be emotion based, though we all have to deal with the question of why God allows evil. Today’s new skeptics, young adults and others who have left the faith are intellectually shallow at an amazing level. I found the objections they raised to be amazingly shallow, especially after what I had just been through. Some of my professors were ribald skeptics. Then in during my first year of marriage, I was hired to teach apologetics at Trinity College (today University). After returning to faith, I spent a wonderful second year of graduate school studying many subjects that confirmed my faith. I actually had a ten-inch card file listing objections.

I spent three very intense years in skepticism (1967-1970) and raised every kind of objection to biblical faith and belief in God that you can imagine.

His son has left the faith and has built up quite a following on Tik Tok and often includes anti-Evangelical diatribes.Īs an apologist and professor for almost 50 years, I often find the objections to biblical faith to be shallow.

Pastor Piper has been popular at Wheaton College, his alma mater, for his stimulating writing and preaching on loving and enjoying God. Abraham Piper is the son of one of the more famous Evangelical Pastors and scholarly writers, Calvinist John Piper.