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Revised and updated edition of this Geisler favorite provides a scriptural framework for how real human freedom can exist alongside God's sovereignty.

This comprehensive volume offers readers clear and concise answers to every major Bible difficulty from Genesis to Revelation, staunchly defending the authority and inspiration of Scripture.

Every believer has questions about God, the Bible, Jesus, and the purpose and meaning of life. The vexing problem is that so few believers are able to answer even the most basic ones. Without answers, doubt creeps in and the future of the church is in jeopardy.With insight and precision, Geisler and Jimenez address one hundred penetrating questions that the culture asks and Christians must be prepared to answer, including both controversial questions raging in the public sphere and personal questions about family issues, the purpose and meaning of life, and the future of the world. Christians from every walk of life, especially young believers, youth workers, and parents, will treasure this comprehensive resource. Foreword by Josh and Sean McDowell.

The Big Book of Christian Apologetics is a comprehensive resource designed to equip motivated believers with information to help defend and explain their faith. Examining nearly every key issue, person, and concept related to Christian apologetics, this book clarifies difficult biblical passages, clearly explains various philosophical systems and concepts, examines contemporary issues and challenges, and offers classic apologetic arguments, all with the aim of giving readers the background to intelligently and persuasively talk about their Christian faith with skeptics. An expertly abridged version of the Baker Encyclopedia on Christian Apologetics, this resource brings leading apologist Norman L. Geisler's seminal work to the masses.

Forty-six percent of Americans polled by Barna Research believe that the Quran, the Book of Mormon, and the Holy Bible all lead to the same Spiritual Truth. This claim is counter to each religion's traditions, it fails logically, and it is biblically unsound.All Roads is an essential resource for everyone interested in God, religion and Heaven. It will help you shore up your faith and share your faith in our post-modern, New Age world. All Roads addresses religious pluralism in a short, concise space. It focuses on how our culture is being used by the New Age Movement to advance a one-world religion by attempting to disprove the uniqueness of Jesus Christ. This book shows that truth and evidence overwhelmingly stand on the side of Jesus Christ as the exclusive road to Heaven. The author takes on the daunting task of defining truth for the layperson and proves that God is the Truth, the Life, and the Way-the only way-to Heaven."If you are seeking a clear and direct way to forcefully attack religious pluralism and relativism, look no further. This is it. Steven Garofalo musters both logical and biblical arguments in favor of the exclusive claims of Christ. But he does not reason in a vacuum; he does so against the backdrop of the most widespread form of religious pluralism of our times-the New Age Movement. As popular as it may be, the pluralistic New Age view of God does not stand the test of logic or Scripture. Steven clearly shows that all religions do not and cannot lead to the same Spiritual Truth. Few have tackled this topic in a more consistent and biblical manner."- DR. NORMAN GEISLER Distinguished Professor of Theology and Apologetics, Southern, Evangelical Seminary Author of over 100 books, including The Big Book of Christian Apologetics, When Skeptics Ask and The Big Book of Bible Difficulties "Garofalo has written something that is a unique, concise, and yet potent tool in addressing one of the greatest challenges to modern Christianity: religious pluralism. This book is a great resource for campus ministries, with middle and high school students, and the church. All Roads is a vital resource for the Christian community in the new age, as an inoculation against the false belief in a one-world religion. Its timing is perfect."- JOSH MCDOWELL Founder, Josh McDowell Ministry Author, The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict"All Roads Don't Lead to Heaven provides a great service to Christians in post-modern, post-Christian America. Steven Garofalo has marshalled the biblical, evidentiary, and philosophical arguments against the spiritual plagues of moral relativism and religious pluralism. This deceptively small, but extremely helpful book will spiritually edify and intellectually fortify Christians to share their faith boldly with those so confused by the false and malicious worldviews afflicting our culture."- DR. RICHARD LAND President, Southern Evangelical Seminary Author, The Divided Dates of America"Steven Garofalo has done a service to the body of Christ in provid¬ing a concise and readable refutation of the religious pluralism and relativism that seems to permeate our day-largely as a result of the New Age penetration of western society. He provides convincing ar¬guments-biblical, logical, and historical-as to why we ought to trust the biblical account of Christ's exclusive truth claims, and, by contrast, why we ought to reject the claim that all religions lead to God. Highly recommended." -RON RHODES, Th.D.President, Reasoning from the Scriptures Ministries Author of over 70 books, including The End Times In Chronological Order

Dr. Norman Geisler continues the battle for the orthodox doctrine of the resurrection by correcting the recent unorthodox views of other evangelical seminary professors. The book that started the controversy was Murray Harris's book Raised Immortal (1985). Norman Geisler responded with The Battle for the Resurrection (1989). Harris responded with the book, From Grave to Glory (1990). In 1993, Geisler published the first edition of In Defense of the Resurrection as a response to Harris. Now in this third edition (2015) there are slight revisions and a new epilogue added by Dr. Geisler.

There is a trojan horse inside the evangelical camp. A battle has broken out, and the enemy is on the inside, not the outside. In fact, the enemy has secretly placed dynamite at the evangelical foundation which supports the whole superstructure of Christian truth. Alarming? Yes, but true. Who is the enemy, and what is the evangelical foundation of truth?The answer emerges from recent significant actions by some evangelical schools and denominations. For example, one of the largest Protestant denominations in the world retains on the faculty of its school a professor who has denied in print that Jesus rose from the tomb in a literal, physical body. He contends Paul was convinced that the Christ who appeared to him be¬longed to another order of existence than the Christ the disciples had known in the flesh. The risen Christ has not a physical but a spiritual body (emphasis mine).A smaller influential denomination that sponsors a well-known evangelical seminary in America has just pronounced orthodox a professor who denies what the Apostle's Creed af-firms: "I believe . . . in the resurrection of the body [flesh]." He wrote of Christ: This suggests that after his resurrection his essential state was one of invisibility and immateriality. It will be spiritual also in that it is . . . neither fleshly nor fleshy. From this point of view the new body is qualitatively and numerically distinct from the old body (emphases mine).These developments signal a new and crucial battle inside the evangelical church-the battle for the resurrection. Fighting for the resurrection is not new; fighting for it inside evangelical circles is. Once it was only liberals who denied the physical, material resurrection; now some evangelicals have joined them. Traditionally, the historicity of the resurrection was denied; now it is the materiality of the resurrection body that is denied.Suppose you were in Jesus' tomb on that first Easter morning. What would you have seen? Jesus' dead body literally come to life and leave the tomb? No. According to this new departure from orthodoxy, you simply would have witnessed Jesus' body vanish before your eyes! In short, you would have observed the annihilation of His material body, not its resurrection.The implications of this new doctrinal departure are far reaching. They threaten the very foundation of our evangeli¬cal faith. The Bible declares that the resurrection is the very heart of the gospel (1 Cor. 15:1-3) and is even a condition of salvation (Rom. 10:9). Thus, to tamper with this foundation of faith is to undermine the whole superstructure of Christian truth.This book is an attempt to sound the trumpet of concern about this current trend in evangelical doctrine. It reveals alarming information about the latest attempts to redefine historic biblical truths to suit contemporary inclinations. It is an earnest plea to alert the body of Christ to one of the most significant doctrinal deviations of our time-one that hits at the very essence of the Christian faith.The Trojan horse is within and the dynamite has been placed. The battle for the resurrection is now within the evangelical church!

Synopsis:Believing the fundamental Christian claim that the purpose of the Bible is to present the Savior, Geisler focuses on Christ as the unity and unfolding message of the whole of Scripture. Christ is the tie between the Testaments, the content of the canon, and the unifying theme within each book of the Bible.This book is basic to both Bible study and preaching and serves as an excellent guide to the Bible''s central theme. It encompasses far more than a study of types and the Old Testament prophecies. Each chapter takes seriously the affirmation of Jesus: "Everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled" (Luke 24:44).Related to Geisler''s central thrust - that Christ is the clue to the whole Bible - is the clear assertion concerning the inspiration of Scripture and the deity of Christ. Chapter topics include: (1) Christ Is the Key to the Bible; (2) Christ in the Old Testament; (3) Christ in Both Testaments; (4) Christ in Every Section of the Bible; (5) Christ in Each Book of the Bible; (6) The Word of God; Personal and Propositional. Also included are a bibliography, subject index, and Scripture index.Author Biography:Dr. Norman Geisler is author or coauthor of some fifty books and hundreds of articles. He has taught at the university and graduate level for nearly forty years and has spoken or debated in all fifty states and in twenty-five countries. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Loyola University and now serves as President of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, NC.

"The chain of communication from God to us is strong. It has several solid links: inspiration, collection, transmission, and translations. Together, these four links provide the contemporary Christian with the moral certitude that the Spirit-inspired original text of Scripture has been providentially preserved by God, so that for all practical purposes the Bible in our hands is the infallible and inerrant word of God."The Bible was written in multiple languages by dozens of authors whose lives spanned a period of more than fifteen hundred years. How did it all come together? Best-selling authors Norman Geisler and William Nix thoroughly answer this question and many more in this revised and expanded edition of a classic which has sold more than 78,000 copies. Helpful charts, photos, and indices have been added, rendering this book ideally suited for Bible students, pastors, and professors. Major topics addressed include: inspiration, canonicity, major manuscripts and recent discoveries, textual criticism, Greek and Latin translations, and modern English translations. The entire field of general biblical introduction is covered. "Throughout history God has given to us an inspired and inerrant word written in the languages of humanity. The Bible is the collection of that record of 'God-breathed' Scripture." - Norman Geisler and William NixNORMAN L. GEISLER (Th.B., William Tyndale College; A.B., Wheaton College; M.A., Wheaton College Graduate School; Ph.D., Loyola University) Distinguished Professor of Apologetics at the Veritas Evangelical Seminary in Murrieta, California (www.VeritasSeminary.com). He has authored or co-authored somewhere in the vicinity of eighty books, including A General Introduction to the Bible, Baker Dictionary of Christian Apologetics, Christian Ethics, and Systematic Theology. WILLIAM E. NIX (A.B., Wayne State University; A.M., University of Michigan; Ph.D., University of Oklahoma) is an editorial and educational consultant based in Dallas, Texas. He has taught at several colleges and seminaries, and served as Dean at Southern Evangelical Seminary. Dr. Nix currently serves at Veritas Evangelical Seminary as Professor of Historical and Theological Studies and Director of Master of Theological Studies.

Two noted experts in the study of cults and apologetics identify and respond to the misuse of Scripture by adherents of religions seeking validation for their own doctrines.

Understanding the New Testament is a daunting but exciting task. Our world is so different from that of the first century. Yet it is important to understand the context and content of the New Testament if we are to be faithful followers. Now in paper, this survey addresses the who, what, where, when, why, and how questions that readers of the Bible may have, such as: How can we tell if what is written in the New Testament is true history or just mythology? When were these books written and why? and What can today's believers get out of letters addressed to people who lived two millennia ago? Written in an easy, informal style, this survey is accessible and enjoyable to anyone who wants to better understand the New Testament.

Most critiques of atheism focus on refuting head-on the claims of atheists. Instead, this unique book faithfully represents what atheists say they believe and stands back to watch as the natural inconsistencies in that worldview inevitably rise to the surface.Norman L. Geisler, the apologetic giant of our time, is joined by Daniel J. McCoy, highlighting two inconsistencies in particular. First they examine the atheist's assertion that God cannot exist because there is evil in the world and that if God truly existed, he would intervene. These same people then turn around and say any intervention on God's part would impose upon human autonomy, and thus would be unjust. Second, these very interventions that would be considered immoral if imposed upon the earth by God are lauded when they stem instead from some human institution or authority.Geisler and McCoy highlight this kind of "doublethink" step by step, showing readers how to identify such inconsistencies in atheistic arguments and refute them--or rather show atheists how they refute themselves.

Trusted Theologian Presents a Case for Christian Faith in Easy-to-Understand LanguageSeminary professor and bestselling author teams with a seminary-trained apologist and teacher to give readers basic, solid evidence for the Christian faith. This book is ideal for both teens and adults. Lay leaders and teachers as well as students will be equipped to explain the basics of Christianity to unbelievers and new believers. The accessible and topically organized book is easy to understand and use.

World-famous apologist Norman Geisler offers a new edition of his bestselling apologetics text, which has sold consistently for over thirty years (over 125,000 copies sold). This edition has been updated throughout and includes three new chapters. It offers readers a systematic approach that presents both the reasons and the methods for defending the claims of Christianity. Topics covered include deism, theism, Christ's authority, and the inspiration of the Bible.

A comprehensive bibliography, glossary, and subject and author index make this a valuable textbook as well as a resource for further study. The major purpose of this book is to make the reader think more clearly and deeply about the important issues discussed between its covers.

The world of the Old Testament can seem hard to understand, especially for people living in times and places so far removed from the ancient Middle East. It's not just that we wear different clothes and hold different jobs--people in the West just don't have the same history, the same culture, or the same way of thinking as Old Testament characters like Abraham and David. And this disconnect can make studying the Old Testament an arduous and confusing process. A Popular Survey of the Old Testament is designed to help ordinary people enrich their understanding of Old Testament people and events. Well-illustrated with color photos, charts, and maps, and written in an easy, informal style, this survey discusses the themes of the various groups of Old Testament books. Here is a solid, evangelical, and uniquely Christ-centered survey. Two introductory chapters -Christ: The Key to the Inspiration and Canonization of the Bible -Christ: The Key to the Interpretation of the Bible Lay the groundwork for the study, which is continued in four sections -The Books of the Law: The Foundation for Christ -The Books of History: The Preparation for Christ -The Books of Poetry: The Aspiration for Christ -The Books of Prophecy: The Expectation of Christ Norman L. Geisler is dean of Southern Evangelical Seminary and Bible College. He is the author of more than sixty books, including the Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

According to the authors, the doctrine of inerrancy has been standard, accepted teaching for more than 1,000 years. In 1978, the famous "Chicago Statement" on inerrancy was adopted by the Evangelical Theological Society, and for decades it has been the accepted conservative evangelical doctrine of the Scriptures. However, in recent years, some prominent evangelical authors have challenged this statement in their writings.Now eminent apologist and bestselling author Norman L. Geisler, who was one of the original drafters of the "Chicago Statement," and his coauthor, William C. Roach, present a defense of the traditional understanding of inerrancy for a new generation of Christians who are being assaulted with challenges to the nature of God, truth, and language. Pastors, students, and armchair theologians will appreciate this clear, reasoned response to the current crisis.

Bestselling author and apologist takes on one of the most difficult questions Christians face. How can an omnipotent, loving God preside over a world filled with evil and suffering? The author's approach is concise, systematic, and clearly communicated, just what Geisler fans have grown to expect. In addition to relying on time-tested solutions to the problem of evil, the author also presents a compelling new way to think about this puzzle.

Apologetics experts show readers how to answer objections to classic Christianity. Now revised and updated to address current issues and recent attacks on the faith.

A clear, biblical perspective on pressing issues such as abortion, euthanasia, divorce, and others.

Readers will find a new way of looking at the message and miracles of Christ and will be revived by Christ's caring approach to dealing with doubters.

Readers are challenged to think biblically and critically through several specific ethical issues, such as war, poverty, ecology, capital punishment, stem cell research, human cloning, and more.

Now with a new chapter on "Why I Am Not a Muslim" by an ex-Muslim, Why I Am a Christian is an even more helpful resource in our global times.

A comprehensive and readable survey of the central issues of Christianity that will help Christians to stand firm in a changing world.