Most of us take it for granted. We just do it, whether it’s trusting that the sun will come up tomorrow, that the lunch we are about to eat is not poisoned or that our religious beliefs are not ill-founded.
But why should we believe any of these things?
Why should anyone believe anything at all?
With insight and humor, James Sire takes a look at the actual reasons people give for believing what they do. He then probes further to suggest more satisfying and compelling reasons for belief. Having explored the issue of belief in general, he turns to the question of believing that the Christian faith is true. Central to Christianity’s truth claims, he argues, is the person of Jesus Christ. What can we know about him? Why should we believe what we read about him is true?
Not content just to suggest reasons for belief, Sire tackles the chief reason against it—the problem of evil. No mere armchair theologian he responds to this tough question personally as well as philosophically. Here is a book to challenge the skeptic and reassure the doubter in us all.