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School of Apologetics

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Are You Ready to Defend What You Believe?

We live in a world where Christians face challenging questions every day. Does God really exist? Can we trust the Bible? Is Jesus truly the Son of God? Is Christianity reasonable? How can we know what we believe is true?

You do not have to be intimidated by these questions. Daniel King’s School of Apologetics will equip you with answers.

Dr. Daniel King has written the book Proof God Is Real, along with a companion study guide, to walk you through the evidence for the existence of a Creator and ultimately reveal the identity of the Creator. 

Starting with logical premises and objective evidence, Dr. King builds the case layer by layer. You will examine why the universe points toward a Creator, why that Creator is the God revealed in Scripture, and why the evidence leads us to the astounding truth that Jesus Christ truly is who He claimed to be: the Son of God and the Savior of the world.

Christian faith is reasonable faith. Our confidence in Christ rests upon the truth of God’s Word and evidence that can be examined, discussed, and defended. Scripture tells us to “always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you” (1 Peter 3:15 NKJV). This course will help you get ready.

Through the School of Apologetics, you will learn how to explain why you believe in God, answer common objections to Christianity, point skeptics toward the truth of Scripture, and confidently talk about Jesus with people who question the Christian faith.

You can take the course at your own pace, working through each video lesson alongside Proof God Is Real and the accompanying study guide. Study individually, go through the material with a small group, or use it to equip your youth group or church.

By the end of the course, you will have more than answers. You will have a stronger foundation for your own faith and greater confidence to share the Gospel with others.

The world is asking questions. It is time for Christians to be ready with answers.

Sign up for Daniel King’s School of Apologetics today and discover the evidence behind what you believe!

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What Will You Learn?

  • By the end of Daniel King’s School of Apologetics, you will be equipped to:
  • Know the Evidence God Is Real: Discover seven convincing arguments for God’s existence based on cause, design, logic, morality, Scripture, miracles, and religious experience.
  • Explain Why Creation Points to a Creator: Learn how the existence and design of the universe provide evidence for an intelligent Creator.
  • Defend the Truth of the Bible: Understand why you can trust the Bible as an accurate and reliable revelation of God.
  • Know Why Jesus Is the Son of God: Examine the evidence for the identity, claims, miracles, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
  • Defend the Resurrection of Jesus: Learn the historical evidence that supports the Christian claim that Jesus truly rose from the dead.
  • Understand the Evidence for Miracles: Explore whether miracles are possible and how supernatural events provide evidence of God’s activity in our world.
  • Answer Common Objections to Christianity: Become better prepared to respond when skeptics, atheists, friends, or family members ask difficult questions about your faith.
  • Understand Why God Allows Suffering: Learn how Christians can respond to one of life’s most difficult questions: “If God is good, why do bad things happen?”
  • Know That God Cares About You: Discover what the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus reveal about God’s love for you personally.
  • Explain Why You Believe: Develop the confidence to clearly communicate the reasons behind your faith in God and Jesus Christ.
  • Share Your Faith With Greater Confidence: Learn how apologetics can open doors for meaningful conversations that point people toward Jesus.
  • Take Your Own Step of Faith: Move beyond simply knowing arguments about God and discover how you can personally know the God who created you, loves you, and has a purpose for your life.
  • The School of Apologetics will help you answer these questions and equip you to give a reason for the hope that is within you.

Course Content

Introduction

  • Start Here
  • What are the Three Greatest Questions Ever Asked?
  • What is Apologetics?
  • What is a Worldview?
  • What is a Christian World View?

Is God There?
7 Proofs God is Real Proof #1: You will master the Cosmological Proof, or, the evidence from cause, which states that everything that exists must have a cause, that cause must have an ultimate cause, and that cause must be God, proving that He exists. Proof #2: You’ll learn about the Teleological Proof, or, the evidence from design, that what is designed cannot randomly exist. If “something cannot come from nothing, then there must be a designer who created all things. Therefore since the universe and life have a designer, that designer must be God. Proof #3: You will be able to explain the Ontological Proof, or the evidence from abstract reasoning. In this proof, all perfection belongs to God, existence itself is a perfection, therefore, God is real. You will consider what great minds like, philosopher Alvin Plantinga, and Anselm about a “maximally great being” that must exist in every possible world. You will come to see that being is God. Proof #4: You will wrestle with Morality Proof, the evidence from right and wrong. Drawing from the greatest thinkers of the past such as C.S. Lewis, and of the present, such as philosopher, Dr. King starts with the incontestable fact that humankind was born with an innate sense of morality. Since objective moral values exist, then the God of morality exists. Proof #5: Dr. King dives into the Scriptural Proof, the evidence from the Bible. If you have never approached the Bible from the vantage point of an investigative journalist, you will now. Dr. King makes a profound case for believing that the Bible is a book that is true, and that we can believe what it says about itself. He also deals with the usual critiques of this argument and demolishes any claim that this is merely circular reasoning. Additionally, if you have never considered the sheer amount of accurate historical information contained in Scripture, these chapters will bring you face-to-face with it. Dr. King also stacks up the enormous mountain of prophecy in the Old Testament that was fulfilled in Jesus Christ. This alone will be enough to give any true, thinking atheist pause. Proof #6: Even for rationally minded Westerners, the next chapter, Supernatural Proof, the evidence from miracles, will be convincing. Like in the rest of the book, Dr. King does not build straw men from his opponents, but faces their most compelling arguments against the existence of miracles. He takes on David Hume, the atheist philosopher, and destroys his every argument against the existence of miracles. The fact is that God used miracles many times in history, and still today in order to authenticate the gospel. Dr. King even tells exciting personal stories of God’s miraculous work in his own ministry. Proof #7: You will consider Redemptive Proof, the evidence from religious experience. It is a fact that many people in history and today have experienced the life-changing power of God. Their transformation forces one to consider the source of this great change. If we can bear witness to the metamorphosis we have seen in a person, it stands to reason that a life-changing God is behind it. Even the fact that humans throughout history have been religious and searched for supernatural realm and a god shows that we are made for the God who truly exists.

Does God Care?
Proof #11: Dr. King tackles the problem of evil. So much unbelief is grounded in the question, why do bad things happen, or “why is there so much pain and suffering in the world?” If God was good and powerful, wouldn’t he put a stop to all evil? Dr. King does a masterful job of explaining that God absolutely does care. He is all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good, but He has given humankind the gift of free will. Humans have taken that gift and used it to disobey God time and time again since the first sin of Adam. “All evil in the world can be traced back to sin. Sin is an abnormality” (pg. 104). Because of sin, there is general evil, and specific evil in the world, and this is the source of all pain and suffering. Proof #12: You might think that God would deal with sin and evil by taking away the cause, free will. But that is not what God did, and Dr. King reveals God’s solution. Jesus was and is the answer to the problem of evil. First, he is the proof that God cares for us. The birth of Jesus, the life and miracles of Jesus, and the death and resurrection of Jesus are incontrovertible proof that God cares for us, and has a plan to eradicate evil from the world. Proof #13: Not only does the existence of Jesus prove that God cares for us, but the recorded history of the life of Christ adds further proof that God is real. Dr. King shows that there is more evidence for the existence of the true, historical Jesus than for any other in ancient history. Beginning with this fact the author moves into the next chapter with the argument that since we know Jesus existed, and that hundreds of witnesses corroborated the fact of the resurrection, we must take his claim to divinity seriously. Dr. King brings up the argument made by C.S. Lewis that for Jesus to have claimed to be God he must have been either a liar, a lunatic, or indeed, God the Son. Showing that Jesus was not a liar, nor was he a lunatic, Dr. King concludes with Lewis that Jesus was divine. Proof #14: You will consider the resurrection of Jesus. By giving the evidence and by pointing out that only God could rise from the dead, King draws the only possible conclusion that Jesus is God. Every argument in part 2 (as well as the rest of the book) is eloquently and systematically laid out so that anyone can follow the logical conclusions. Every objection is raised, and then expertly dealt with until one is left with only two choices: ignore the obvious, that Jesus Christ is God the Son made flesh, come to seek and save sinners and restore the world, or lay down one’s life and follow Him as Lord.

Do I Dare to Follow God?
Proof #21: You will consider the very existence of truth. In this age of relativity and subjectivism, few want to seriously consider reality, resulting in a lack of choosing and a floating through life with no real convictions until one day you face the end and objective truth catches up to you. But the reality is there are timeless and unchanging truths, and this chapter will prove that these truths are the product of a timeless and unchanging mind who is Truth itself. As Dr. King points out at the end of the chapter, “Jesus is truth personified.” To choose Jesus is to choose Truth. Proof #22: You will think about the necessity of choosing faith. Dr. King explains again that the faith of Christians need not be blind faith. We have all of the evidence and logical proof already laid out in this book. Nevertheless, it does require the choice to leap into the arms of the God who you reasonably believe to be there. It requires the will to choose to follow and trust Jesus. There are still those who will see the evidence, will know they cannot refute it, and for some reason, fail to choose salvation. Proof #23: Finally, you will consider the high stakes of the most important choice a man or woman could ever make. As God says, ” I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life.”—Deuteronomy 30:19

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