General Apologetics Resources Books Timeless Truth - George Bassilious Evidence for Christianity - Josh McDowell The Resurrection of the Shroud Intelliigent Design 101 The Historical Jesus The Case for Christ The Case for a Creator The Case for Miracles Videos George Bassilios CYC Series What is Morality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBEPxVjV9Zo   Tolerance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4DT4jgBnow   Moral Neutrality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzqWzNNkfV4   Truth I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0YblIzKwr4   Truth II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5mC37b7WRg   Truth III: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhLxEGzSLCs   Apologetics Overview I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvTSyd5RNSU Apologetics Overview II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpCLfNS8Bfw Apologetics Overview III: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ZVAZgiVfg Existence of God I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V71GKCw4C6o Existence of God II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xvppTglKbQ Existence of God III: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywvNWYgVUgQ Pascal's Wager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZZ1tqFQopE Postmodernism I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zRwZVe6PVA Postmodernism II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_0svXLp0Lk Postmodernism III: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U82nKoXSsGQ Evangelism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvqneo8zijI Biblical Apologetics - Internal Evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=807yY69QyXY Biblical Apologetics - External Evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cEQEB2AVWU Resurrection of Christ - Fact or Fiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLotPvJ3OsI CYC Timeless Truth Series: The Problem of Evil and Suffering The Free Will Response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54uhFqPJYlM The Nature of Evil Response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ_W-T9dyJQ The Attributes of God: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KNugwt1FOA The Logical Perspective of the Problem of Evil and Suffering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiYXCOaBtLQ The Emotional Perspective of the Problem of Evil and Suffering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmbdvtSRokE The Problem of Pleasure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iORstM_SRy0 Apologetics Strategies: Fr Matthias Shehad Challenge the Premises Don't assume that their arguments are rooted in intellectual grounds. They may have many false assumptions. When you hear someone speaking negatively about Christianity, they don't really understand what it is... they say things like "God is teaching you to kill your enemies." Anyone who is Christian knows that it isn't true. The number one reason people don't believe in God is the problem of evil. You say God is the creator of everything Evil is something Therefore, God is the Creator of evil and is not worthy of my worship What problem does this argument have? The second premise! Evil is not something... evil is the absence of good! Darkness is not something... it is the absence of light. Evil is the absence of God. When God is rejected, there is His absence. When Adam and Eve rejected God, there was evil. What goes with this assumption is whether or not we have Free Will. There must be a choice between good and evil for there to be Free Will. The ability to reject God is the evidence that we have Free Will. Human beings do evil actions when they choose to reject God, who created good (c.f. Genesis 1). For example, the story of Jonah When God commanded the storm, the storm obeyed. When God commanded the fish, the fish obeyed. The only one that did not obey was Jonah, himself! Because he has free will. The storm, fish, tree, worm, etc. obeyed regardless of their nature... it is not in the nature of a fish to swallow a human without digesting him. But Jonah did not obey. Reverse the Burden of Proof Typically, an atheist may say "unless you prove to me that God exists, I won't believe in Him" - but we can reverse the burden of proof by asking them for answers to life's essential questions; answers that are coherent and correspond to reality.