A Visual Guide to Biblical Apologetics: A One-of-a-Kind Resource for the Everyday Apologist
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Overview
Sharing Your Faith Just Got Easier
The intersection of Christianity and secular culture is commonly filled with disagreement, tension, and complicated issues, leading many Christians to avoid talking about their faith entirely. But when we discover the astounding ways Christianity is both true and transformative—the goal of apologetics—everything changes!
Clear, concise, and easy to use, this introductory guide to apologetics takes the fear out of sharing your faith and biblical truth. As a visual guide, this one-of-a-kind resource features engaging infographics, charts, and tables that make difficult concepts a breeze to understand. You will find accessible explanations about all the major apologetics topics, including
Regardless of your age, background, or learning style, A Visual Guide to Biblical Apologetics will equip you to address many issues with clarity and conviction. As your confidence in the good reasons for belief grows, you won’t be able to help but share them with those around you!
- Takes the fear out of sharing your faith and biblical truth
- Features engaging infographics, charts, and tables that make difficult concepts easy to understand
- Equips you to address many issues with clarity and conviction
- Part 1: Understanding Apologetics
- The Need for Apologetics
- The Apologetics Task
- The Guiding Principles of Apologetics
- The Case for Christianity
- 4 Methods of Defending the Faith
- The Relationship Between Faith and Reason
- Faith and Reason Working Together
- Part 2: God and Apologetics
- 5 Ways to Show God Exists
- 8 Questions Atheists and Evolutionists Cannot Answer
- Grasping the Trinity
- If God Exists, Why Does He Allow Evil?
- Theodicy: A Christian Perspective of Evil
- Part 3: Worldviews and Apologetics
- Worldview Fast Facts
- Arriving at a Worldview
- How Is the Biblical God Different from All Other Gods?
- How to Share the Faith with the Top Four Worldviews
- World Religions at a Glance
- Cults at a Glance
- What Makes Christianity Different from the Other Monotheistic Religions?
- Part 4: The Bible and Apologetics
- 6 Reasons the Bible Is Different from Other Religious Books
- How We Got Our English Bible
- Can We Trust the Bible?
- How Does the Bible Compare to Other Ancient Books?
- Responding to 5 Common Objections to the Bible
- 15 Examples of How Archaeology Confirms the New Testament
- How Does Archeology Confirm the Old Testament?
- Top 50 Old Testament Persons Confirmed by Archaeology
- Old Testament Persons Confirmed by Seal Impressions
- New Testament Persons Confirmed by Archaeology and Non-Christian Sources
- Historical Reliability of the Bible
- Part 5: Jesus and Apologetics
- How Do We Know Jesus Existed?
- The Deity of Christ
- Minimal Facts on the Resurrection Everyone Agrees On
- Supporting the Resurrection of Christ
- Did Christ’s Resurrection Borrow from Earlier Legends?
- Is Jesus the Only Way to God?
- How Jesus’ Substitutionary Sacrifice Makes Salvation Possible
- Part 6: Culture and Apologetics
- 8 Truths About Truth
- What Is Logic and Why Is It Important?
- How to Recognize and Answer Logical Fallacies
- 7 Objections to Absolute Truth
- Are Morals Relative or Absolute?
- Are the Unborn Fully Human?
- Is It Ever Right to Disobey the Government?
- Evaluating Whether a War Is Just
- Understanding Three Views of Culture and Justice
- Responding to the Top Eight Objections to Christianity
- Part 7: Science and Apologetics
- 10 Major Problems with Evolution
- Responding to Popular Myths About Science and Faith
- Does the Fossil Evidence Support Human Evolution?
- 7 Powerful Evidences that Show the Universe Was Designed
- Christians Who Contributed to Key Scientific Discoveries
- Part 8: Eternity and Apologetics
- What We Know About Hell
- How to Avoid Hell and Go to Heaven
- What We Know About Heaven
- Bibliography and Recommended Resources
- Notes
“I love this book! What sets it apart is its exceptional blend of user-friendliness and information density. It’s like having a comprehensive apologetics library squeezed into one visually stunning volume. The book features striking charts, concise summaries, and clever acronyms that make even the most complex concepts easy to digest. Highly recommended!"??
-Ron Rhodes (ThD), president of Reasoning from the Scriptures Ministries, author of numerous books?
”I have more than 75 different books on apologetics in my personal library, but I have never had one as accessible as A Visual Guide to Biblical Apologetics. Our world is ?becoming increasingly visual and the need to buttress truth concepts visually is imperative. Finally, we have a resource that will help us quickly grasp as well as communicate truth to skeptics and seekers. This book is a welcomed gem!"??
-Skip Heitzig, pastor-teacher of Calvary Church, Albuquerque, NM; author of The Bible from 30,000 Feet?
"This valuable guide-filled with concise and comprehensive apologetics charts-will no doubt help produce great fruit for the kingdom! By using everyday language for the everyday apologist, along with an engaging layout design, it promises to equip all ages of believers with evidence and reasons for the Christian faith. Keep this book at your fingertips, such as beside your computer or in your car. Then you will always be ready to give an effective answer for the hope that is in you, with the ultimate goal of leading unbelievers to the cross."?
-Marilyn Joy Tyner, founder of TRUE-WAY TRACTS and author, blogger, and conference speaker??
"It is an honor to write an endorsement for A Visual Guide to Biblical Apologetics. This is an imaginative way to set forth the various aspects of apologetics and the philosophical and methodological viewpoints of biblical apologetics. Anyone who desires easy-to-understand charts to grasp the nature and process of apologetics needs to look no further."??
-H. Wayne House (ThD, JD, PhD), Distinguished Research Professor of Theology, Law, and;Culture, Faith International University and Seminary
"Joe and Sarah have a wonderful gift for making complicated issues easy to understand-this is a great tool for defending the faith. I highly recommend A Visual Guide to Biblical Apologetics!"
-Don Stewart, Christian speaker and apologist, author of more than 70 books
"Because our age is awash with information, we need?to get to the heart of things quickly. This book does just that for the field of apologetics. I’m blown away by the breadth of this book, which touches on so many important ideas within Christian apologetics. Granted, as an infographic resource, it cannot go deeply into any one topic. But to those who want to go deeper, it provides a wonderful springboard."
-William A. Dembski (PhD, PhD, MDiv), Founding?and Senior Fellow of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture; author of?The Design Inference? and other books on intelligent design
"So many Christians separate faith from reason as if the two are somehow incompatible. Because of this, the necessity of defending the biblical worldview and the remarkable claims of Jesus Christ to be God in the flesh are given little attention or ignored altogether. Such has led Western civilization into a post-Christian era. A Visual Guide to Biblical Apologetics has given us a way to inject Christian apologetics (the defense of the faith) back into the lives of young and old alike. This book will help many Christians engage unbelievers with the gospel of Christ."
-Steven Collins (PhD), dean of archaeology and biblical history, Veritas International University
-Ron Rhodes (ThD), president of Reasoning from the Scriptures Ministries, author of numerous books?
”I have more than 75 different books on apologetics in my personal library, but I have never had one as accessible as A Visual Guide to Biblical Apologetics. Our world is ?becoming increasingly visual and the need to buttress truth concepts visually is imperative. Finally, we have a resource that will help us quickly grasp as well as communicate truth to skeptics and seekers. This book is a welcomed gem!"??
-Skip Heitzig, pastor-teacher of Calvary Church, Albuquerque, NM; author of The Bible from 30,000 Feet?
"This valuable guide-filled with concise and comprehensive apologetics charts-will no doubt help produce great fruit for the kingdom! By using everyday language for the everyday apologist, along with an engaging layout design, it promises to equip all ages of believers with evidence and reasons for the Christian faith. Keep this book at your fingertips, such as beside your computer or in your car. Then you will always be ready to give an effective answer for the hope that is in you, with the ultimate goal of leading unbelievers to the cross."?
-Marilyn Joy Tyner, founder of TRUE-WAY TRACTS and author, blogger, and conference speaker??
"It is an honor to write an endorsement for A Visual Guide to Biblical Apologetics. This is an imaginative way to set forth the various aspects of apologetics and the philosophical and methodological viewpoints of biblical apologetics. Anyone who desires easy-to-understand charts to grasp the nature and process of apologetics needs to look no further."??
-H. Wayne House (ThD, JD, PhD), Distinguished Research Professor of Theology, Law, and;Culture, Faith International University and Seminary
"Joe and Sarah have a wonderful gift for making complicated issues easy to understand-this is a great tool for defending the faith. I highly recommend A Visual Guide to Biblical Apologetics!"
-Don Stewart, Christian speaker and apologist, author of more than 70 books
"Because our age is awash with information, we need?to get to the heart of things quickly. This book does just that for the field of apologetics. I’m blown away by the breadth of this book, which touches on so many important ideas within Christian apologetics. Granted, as an infographic resource, it cannot go deeply into any one topic. But to those who want to go deeper, it provides a wonderful springboard."
-William A. Dembski (PhD, PhD, MDiv), Founding?and Senior Fellow of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture; author of?The Design Inference? and other books on intelligent design
"So many Christians separate faith from reason as if the two are somehow incompatible. Because of this, the necessity of defending the biblical worldview and the remarkable claims of Jesus Christ to be God in the flesh are given little attention or ignored altogether. Such has led Western civilization into a post-Christian era. A Visual Guide to Biblical Apologetics has given us a way to inject Christian apologetics (the defense of the faith) back into the lives of young and old alike. This book will help many Christians engage unbelievers with the gospel of Christ."
-Steven Collins (PhD), dean of archaeology and biblical history, Veritas International University