Book Study Group: Not Enough Faith to be an Atheist (Norman: friendly, firm)

[hurricanedavid]

I'm wondering if there would be any interest from other Christians if I were to volunteer to lead a book study through a relatively new book, I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist by Norman Geisler and Frank Tourek...

One possible place to get the book: eStore - equip.org
It defends Christianity as the "most reasonable" faith choice of all. Here's a breif synopsis from the site above...

All worldviews, including atheism, require faith. "I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist" argues that Christianity requires the least faith of all because it is the most reasonable. The authors lay out the evidence for truth, God, and the Bible in logical order and in a readable, non-technical, engaging style. A valuable aid to those interested in examining the reasonableness of the Christian faith, Geisler and Turek provide a firm challenge to the previous beliefs of doubters of all sorts.

It's a great book, but I'll bet there are Christians out there that are intimidated by this kind of information. Perhaps you might be interested in learning how to defend your faith in a logical way, if you had someone to help you understand those concepts.

Or maybe you've gone to church all your life, and feel a little defenseless in terms of your knowledge of why Christianity is a good choice. You know you should share your faith, but you don't feel like you know enough. This book can really help you.

Anyway, if anyone might be interested in this kind of guided learning thing... where we all read the same text and then meet together to discuss it... then I might think about organizing something.

Just kinda bouncing the idea around in my head...

Caveat:
This is not a class in any particular church.

[Miss Blue]

http://www.city-data.com/forum/relig...allenge-7.html

Hurricanedavid, here is where we discussed this book and the God Delusion..It was a very interesting and intelligent and friendly discussion.

[hurricanedavid]

I should have made a note that requested that this post not turn into a discussion about who is right, etc. As such, it would probably would belong in a different forum.

However, I just wanted to discuss if anybody wanted to meet regularly to walk through the book. And organizing/pondering on that meeting is relevant to this forum.

[hurricanedavid]

Originally Posted by blue62

http://www.city-data.com/forum/relig...allenge-7.html

Thanks for the link. I'll have to check it out.

[june 7th]

Moderator cut: Hi everyone! I have attempted to clean up this thread, as the original post is an INVITATION to read and discuss this book. As such, I would like to respect his/her opportunity to invite others to do so. Thanks, June

[hurricanedavid]

Here is a bit of the Contents page, for those of you that don't have the book...

Again, especially for those of you infuriated that some people think there's a God... let's not discuss the book in this forum, just the interest in a meeting.

I threw a quickie web page together that lists the contents for you...
http://jgg.lists.googlepages.com/bookstudy%3F

[DanielChang]

hurricanedavid, I'd be interested if schedule accommodated.