Trailer: Tim Keller introduces Questioning Christianity

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spk_0 Hi, I'm Tim Keller, and I was a pastor in New York City for nearly three decades.

spk_0 And in that time, I spoke to so many skeptical New Yorkers who had strong doubts and unanswered

spk_0 questions about the Christian faith.

spk_0 I want to thank you for taking the time to explore the claims of Christianity.

spk_0 This podcast series is called Questioning Christianity and contains seven talks I gave in 2019,

spk_0 addressing some of the toughest questions people have about the Christian faith.

spk_0 If you say, nobody can know the truth because all truth is culturally constructed, well,

spk_0 that statement would have to be culturally constructed, and that means you wouldn't be

spk_0 able to know that.

spk_0 And what you're actually doing is you're saying, everybody's got their own truth, but

spk_0 what you're saying there, you would think that escapes the scalpel and it doesn't.

spk_0 Because if everybody's got their own truth, then that very statement is something that

spk_0 you've just made up and you have no reason why I should believe it.

spk_0 And so what burger says is ultimately complete relativism, the idea that nobody can know

spk_0 the truth always undermines itself.

spk_0 Because you get to the place where, well, how can you be sure of that?

spk_0 And he says, in the end, we have to go out and try to figure out which of these belief

spk_0 systems is most likely true.

spk_0 Do it humbly, do it in a, you know, be chastened, don't be arrogant.

spk_0 But you can't stop back and say, nobody can know the truth.

spk_0 You've got to get out and find out what the truth is.

spk_0 And in critical realism, we know that you can't prove any one of the sets of beliefs,

spk_0 but what you can do is you can ask at least three questions.

spk_0 Which of the sets of beliefs are the most consistent with our experience?

spk_0 Which of these sets of beliefs are most consistent with itself?

spk_0 And which of these sets of beliefs are the most consistent with the evidence?

spk_0 QC, as we like to call it, was a safe space for doubters and skeptics to ask questions

spk_0 and process the claims of Christianity in conversation.

spk_0 So I hope you find the talks and the Q&A sessions that follow each topic useful.

spk_0 And then when you hear something, you'd like to process further, that you seek out a friend

spk_0 who is a Christian and have a conversation with him or her about what you've heard.

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