Reason #1: To defend the invisible, mysterious and miraculous in a culture where science is the ultimate authority for truth
Reason #1: To defend the invisible, mysterious and miraculous in a culture where science is the ultimate authority for truth
Reason #2: To strengthen family ties The groundbreaking Catholic apologist Karl Keating describes this hypothetical situation in his book, The Usual Suspects:
“No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.” —St. John Paul II
All Catholics are called to evangelize. It is our supreme duty, says the Church’s newest canonized saint. To evangelize is to propose the truths of Christianity with love – not impose them. It is an invitation – not a confrontation. And it always begins with a clear and simple offer to accept Jesus Christ as who He claimed to be. That is step one. But anyone who has not been baptized or who is not practicing the Christian faith has made their decision for a reason. You, therefore, will be required to give an answer to the questions and objections to your proposal that will surely arise. Therefore, apologetics is the “handmaiden” of evangelization.
For Christianity to be true, the existence of Jesus of Nazareth must be a historical fact. Still today some skeptics suggest that the life of Christ is a mere myth. They insist that the globally adored Jesus of Christianity who worked miracles, died by crucifixion and resurrected from the dead is only a fairy tale. But how strong is their evidence to back their claim? Is Jesus really only the protagonist of the world’s greatest fairy tale? Is the Jesus of Nazareth that we find in the Bible a true historical figure or a man-made fable with no real grounding in ancient history? Or is he who he said he was?
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