Did the Resurrection Happen?: A Conversation With Gary Habermas and Antony Flew by Gary R. Habermas & Antony Flew & David J. Baggett

Author:Gary R. Habermas & Antony Flew & David J. Baggett
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Religion, Christology, Christian Theology, Apologetics
ISBN: 9780830837182
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2009-04-28T16:00:00+00:00

In "Open to Omnipotence," chapter ten, Flew summarizes that his case for God's existence centers on three philosophical items: the origin of the laws of nature, the organization of life and the origin of life. What about the problem of evil? Flew states that this is a separate question, but he has two chief options: an Aristotelian God who does not interfere in the world or the free-will defense. He prefers the former, especially since he thinks the latter relies on special revelation.84

Closing the main portion of the book with some further shocking comments, Flew states, "I am entirely open to learning more about the divine Reality," including "whether the Divine has revealed itself in human history." The reason: everything but the logically impossible is "open to omnipotence."85

Further, `As I have said more than once, no other religion enjoys anything like the combination of a charismatic figure like Jesus and a first-class intellectual like St. Paul. If you're wanting omnipotence to set up a religion, it seems to me that this is the one to beat!"86 He ends the chapter a few sentences later: "Some claim to have made contact with this Mind. I have not-yet. But who knows what could happen next? Some day I might hear a Voice that says, `Can you hear me now?"'87

Two appendices close the book. The first is an evaluation of the "New Atheism" of writers like Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris. The author of the first appendix, Roy Varghese, argues that "five phenomena are evident in our immediate experience that can only be explained in terms of the existence of God."88 These five are rationality, life, consciousness, conceptual thought and the human self, each of which he discusses. Varghese concludes that by arguing from "everyday experience" we are able to "become immediately aware that the world of living, conscious, thinking beings has to originate in a living Source, a Mind."a9

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