The Case for Faith

Just finished reading Lee Strobel's The Case For Faith. He structures this book pretty much as he did his The Case for Christ. Each chapter is an interview with a scholar who answers the question Strobel poses at the beginning of the chapter. Each chapter is an objection that unbelievers have against believing in God.

Although I liked this book, I didn't like it as well as his The Case for Christ. The reason is quite simple - this book was more philosophic in nature and the objections were not as easily dealt with as in the other book. The other book dealt with archealogy, manuscript evidence, and had concrete answers to the questions Strobel posed to each of the scholars.

I did like his chapter dealing with doubt. The interview was with Lynn Anderson, who preaches in the Church of Christ fellowship. I liked Lynn's suggestion that often when people claim to have doubt in the evidence they really have another issue keeping them from believing what they know to be true. It was a good chapter.

However, his last chapter in this book was quite good. He suggested that no one answer to any of the objections will cause one to believe but that when you put all the answers together they form a powerful reason together for believing.

Overall it's a pretty good book. I think that everyone should have both of his books (I haven't read his third book The Case for the Creator yet). The two may not answer every question that may come to the Christian but both are a powerful testimony to the evidence that exists for Christ and for believing in God.