How to Know God is Real

5 Reasons Why God Exists

Is God real? Does God exist? Can you know God is real? What evidence is there for God? Does science point to God? Is God the best explanation of design? Do our desires and longings point to God? In this video, author and speaker Jonathan Morrow explores 5 powerful pieces of evidence that are signposts to God. This video will show you how to know God is real.

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Explore this question further in my book with Sean McDowell – Is God Just a Human Invention? And Seventeen Other Questions Raised by the New Atheistshttps://amzn.to/3Qt4SNq

Who Chose the Books of the Bible? (VIDEO)

Where Did the New Testament Canon Come From?

Who Chose the Books of the Bible and Why? Where did the New Testament Come From? How was truth transmitted by the earliest Christians in a largely oral and illiterate culture? What did Christians read before there was a Bible? In this video, author, and speaker Jonathan Morrow shares about these questions and more at the Reasons to Believe AMP conference. This talk is based on the fuller discussion of these important issues in his book Questioning the Bible: 11 Major Challenges to the Bible’s Authority.

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Asking the Hard Questions About the Bible

All of us have questions about the Bible. At the end of the day, what we have to figure out is what we will do with those questions.

Will we keep them hidden and allow unanswered questions to slowly erode our confidence that God has spoken? Or will we courageously question the Bible in a way that actually builds our faith?

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Why the Ivy League Can’t Give Students a Life that Truly Matters

People want to live a life that matters. Nobody wants to waste their life right?

And many today think that a college education is necessary for living a good life. And if you can somehow get into the Ivy League, well, then that’s the golden ticket to the inside track.

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ivyleagueBut let the buyer beware. You should know that the Ivy league cannot deliver meaning and purpose. And to be fair…most colleges can’t either. Why?

They are simply not equipped to. And their inability is creating disillusionment and drift among this generation.

To see this, listen to the candid admission made by Harvard psychologist Stephen Pinker:

“Perhaps I am emblematic of everything that is wrong with elite American education, but I have no idea how to get my students to build a self or become a soul. It isn’t taught in graduate school, and in the hundreds of faculty appointments and promotions I have participated in, we’ve never evaluated a candidate on how well he or she could accomplish it.”

The fundamental question here is this: what is a human life for? How do you become fully human? And this is a worldview question.

The Problem with Colleges and Universities Today

The problem can be summarized in a word–reductionism.

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Not to worry, I will unpack this. But this concept is essential to grasp because it’s everywhere. It is the assumption that drives the whole show in modern education.

Here is what reductionism looks like: You take a human being and reduce him or her to merely an information and data container. As I have written elsewhere, this reductionism is why we are failing our students.

Is information important? Yes. But is it the whole enchilada? Not even close.

It doesn’t have to be this way. The Christian worldview provides the resources and holistic vision necessary for how you give a student–or any human being for that matter–a meaningful life. I have shared my thoughts on how to teach from a Christian worldview in another post.

However, just so I am not misunderstood, I think education is a great thing–especially for Christians. College is and can be a very important path to living well. But true education is not about testing well or finding a job that pays the bills–it’s about living well.

A diploma doesn’t guarantee human flourishing (i.e., what is classically understood as “happiness” before we completely emotionalized the term in the modern era). And the sooner we figure that out the better off we will all be.

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Why You Should Have Faith In The Bible (VIDEO)

Can the Bible be trusted anymore? Recently I was interviewed for CBN (along with Josh McDowell and Darrell Bock) on the reliability of the Bible in an age of skepticism. Here is a short segment that aired on the 700 club based on my latest book Questioning the Bible: 11 Major Challenges to the Bible’s Authority. I hope you find it encouraging and helpful!

You can watch the rest of my CBN interview videos on the reliability of the Bible and learn more about recent exciting archaeological discoveries here.

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