Foreword by David Limbaugh

I Don’t Have Enough

Faith

to Be an

Atheist

Norman L. Geisler

Frank Turek

CROSSWAY BOOKS

A DIVISION OF

GOOD NEWS PUBLISHERS

WHEATON, ILLINOIS

I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist

Copyright © 2004 Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek

Published by Crossway Books

a division of Good News Publishers

1300 Crescent Street

Wheaton, Illinois 60187

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ISBN-13: 978-1-4335-8075-8

ISBN-10: 1-4335-8075-6

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Geisler, Norman L.

   I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist / Norman L. Geisler and

Frank Turek.

      p. cm.

   Includes bibliographical references and index.

   ISBN 1-58134-561-5 (TPB: alk. paper)

   1. Apologetics. I. Turek, Frank. II. Title.

BT1103.G45     2004

239—dc22    2003023631

Contents

Foreword by David Limbaugh

Preface: How Much Faith Do You Need to Believe This Book?

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Finding the Box Top to the Puzzle of Life

1 Can We Handle the Truth?

2 Why Should Anyone Believe Anything At All?

3 In the Beginning There Was a Great SURGE

4 Divine Design

5 The First Life: Natural Law or Divine Awe?

6 New Life Forms: From the Goo to You via the Zoo?

7 Mother Teresa vs. Hitler

8 Miracles: Signs of God or Gullibility?

9 Do We Have Early Testimony About Jesus?

10 Do We Have Eyewitness Testimony About Jesus?

11 The Top Ten Reasons We Know the New Testament Writers Told the Truth

12 Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?

13 Who Is Jesus: God? Or Just a Great Moral Teacher?

14 What Did Jesus Teach About the Bible?

15 Conclusion: The Judge, the Servant King, and the Box Top

Appendix 1: If God, Why Evil?

Appendix 2: Isn’t That Just Your Interpretation?

Appendix 3: Why the Jesus Seminar Doesn’t Speak for Jesus

General Index