Summary of Lee Strobel's The Case for Miracles

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I had come to visit the anti-church, a shrine to the science and reason that many skeptics believe squeezes out the legitimacy of faith. I was meeting my polar opposite: a skeptic who had turned from faith to doubt.
#2 I wanted to interview Shermer because I wanted to hear his side of the story about miracles. I wanted to understand why he was against them, and I wanted to learn how to be open-minded without my brain falling out.
#3 When high school senior Michael Shermer read John 3:16 - For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life - and put his trust in Jesus as his Lord and Savior, a coyote howled outside.
#4 I asked Shermer why he had lost his faith. He said that it had happened gradually, on his own, which is how it usually happens. He didn’t think you could reason people out of something they didn’t reason their way into in the first place.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Love
• Love (disambiguation)
• Apologetics
• Philosophie et théologie
• Christian Theology

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 25 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822549401
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Lee Strobel's The Case for Miracles
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had come to visit the anti-church, a shrine to the science and reason that many skeptics believe squeezes out the legitimacy of faith. I was meeting my polar opposite: a skeptic who had turned from faith to doubt.

#2

I wanted to interview Shermer because I wanted to hear his side of the story about miracles. I wanted to understand why he was against them, and I wanted to learn how to be open-minded without my brain falling out.

#3

When high school senior Michael Shermer read John 3:16 - For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life - and put his trust in Jesus as his Lord and Savior, a coyote howled outside.

#4

I asked Shermer why he had lost his faith. He said that it had happened gradually, on his own, which is how it usually happens. He didn’t think you could reason people out of something they didn’t reason their way into in the first place.

#5

The author’s faith journey was a bit different than Shermer’s. He was never really connected to a community of Christians, and instead saw people who were happy and successful doing their own thing. He began to see religion as culturally bound.

#6

The miracle that doesn’t happen can be the impetus for faith to dissipate to nothing. That’s what happened to Michael Shermer. He was extremely sincere when he prayed to God to heal his paralyzed girlfriend, but nothing happened.

#7

The universe has no higher purpose. We must create our own purpose. That is the only meaning we have in this universe.

#8

Science is the most reliable method we have for finding truth. It is a communal process that involves peer review and people looking over your shoulders when you conduct experiments.

#9

I asked Shermer whether he agreed with scientist Jerry Coyne of the University of Chicago, an atheist who said, It would be a close-minded scientist who would say that miracles are impossible in principle.

#10

The definition of a miracle is an event that is brought about by the power of God that is a temporary exception to the ordinary course of nature for the purpose of showing that God is acting in history. However, many miracles are just highly improbable events that look miraculous but are actually part of nature.

#11

The Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer, conducted under the auspices of the Harvard Medical School, was a ten-year, $2. 4 million clinical trial of the effects of prayer on 1,802 cardiac bypass patients at six hospitals. There was no difference in the rate of complications for patients who were prayed for and those who were not.