But Is It Real?
Publisher: Inter Varsity Press UK
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Nottingham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 81
ISBN-13: 9781844746637; 9781844743018
Table of contents: title: But is it real?; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; 1. What about other people's genuine experience of God?; Buddhism; Christianity; Islam; Tolerance; Arrogance; Exclusion; 2. Your 'experience of God' is delusional, not real; God; title: a delusion?; Science dispensing with God; Religion and evidence; God as a virus of the brain; Conclusion; 3. Your relationship with God is just a psychological crutch; God as a psychological projection; God as talisman; Only for the weak and inferior; 4. How can you say you have found the truth if you haven't tried all the alternatives?; title: Logical positivismSearching for truth; Intolerance; An accident of birth; 5. If Christianity is about A relationship with God, why does he let bad things happen to his friends?; Naturalism; Eastern philosophy; Islam; Christianity; If I am suffering, is it because I have sinned?; Persecution; Suffering in the cause of justice; A time of trial; Why doesn't God always intervene?; 6. If Christianity is about a transforming relationship with God, why are Christians so bad?; Why do Christians sometimes fail so spectacularly?; What does my life say about me?; title: 7. If God is so loving and relational, why did he go ahead and create when he knew people would end up in hell?Justice and judgment; Retribution and revenge; Is hell disproportionate?; Sacrifice; Christ the victor; Ransom; Justification; 8. Belief in God is dangerous; What kind of God don't you believe in?; Belief in God as cruelty to the self; The death of God; Fundamentalism; Tolerare malus; 9. I used to believe, but I've given it all up; 'I've grown out of it. I'm more sophisticated now'; 'I don't believe it's true any more'; Searching for truth; The resurrection of Jesus; Encounter.; title: 'I drifted away''I struggle with Christian ideas about sex'; The most important reason to return; 10. How can I know?; Is it all in the mind?; But can we really know anything?; Immanuel Kant; Relational knowledge; Blaise Pascal; Notes; Chapter 1: What about other people's genuine experience of God?; Chapter 2: Your 'experience of God' is delusional, not real; Chapter 3: Your relationship with God is just a psychological crutch; Chapter 4: How can you say you have found the truth if you haven't tried all the alternatives?; title: Chapter 5: If Christianity is about a relationship with God, why does he let bad things happen to his friends?Chapter 6: If Christianity is about a transforming relationship with God, why are Christians so bad?; Chapter 7: If God is so loving and relational, why did he go ahead and create when he knew people would end up in hell?; Chapter 8: Belief in God is dangerous; Chapter 9: I used to believe, but I've given it all up; Chapter 10: How can I know?