The God Delusion

Can anyone recommend a good book that specifically counters the book "The God Delusion"? I have searched the forums. But perhaps I've missed something already posted?

 

Yes I did realise after I posted that it was probably unlikely that there was a book that specifically counters Dawkins. But those seem like good books nevertheless, especially the one entitled The Case for Christ. This is always useful as I am also witnessing to Muslims.
However, concerning Dawkins, I haven't yet met an atheist who has been able to give me an original argument. They have always said near enough the same things, although in different ways. Thank you both for your input.

 

Thank you one and all. :thumbs:

 

Yes,that goes without saying. I haven't got very far into the book as yet. But I was just curious as to whether someone has actually attempted to answer it. I have also read an article about it in the Evangelical Times. That was what got me thinking about it in the first place. Some bits of the book are worded aukwardly and put in scientific language though.

 

I've been reading Dawkins' book and quite franky he is just another unbeliever with the same old objections as to why he rejects the gospel. So far I haven't found one original argument in it. All he has done is couch it in intellectual and scientific language. But the bulk of the book is the same old carping about how unjust God is and how violent the Bible is. What really makes me laugh is how he admires our Lord's sermon on the mount as being original and years ahead of Ghandi and Martin Luther King. Yet completely overlooks the fact that it was from The Lord Jesus Christ that they both got their ideas from in the first place.

And how anyone can admire the words of Christ and then to reject the person of Christ, beats me. For that in itself is a contradiction in and of itself. It is like worshipping the creature more than the creator.
He then goes on to ask why men are good. Well I should think that a more pertinent question would be, "why are we bad?" He then goes on to show that morals existed long before the New Testament and before Jesus himself. Well if only these fellers would read their Bibles before they take it upon themselves to criticise it, they would find most of their idle questions answered for them. One just has to look up Romans 2:14 to see that the word of God is way ahead of the thinking of unbelieving man

What these atheists don't seem to cotton on to is that whilst they speak about morals and the like and then to go on to judge Christians as being the perpetrators of evil, they seem blind to the fact that if they follow their philosophy through to its logical conclusion, then there is no good or bad, but just that which is the consequence of developing man through the process of evolution.

Dawkins to my mind is just another unbeliever grasping at the same old boring questions. An unbeliever who needs his eyes opening and his heart changing and his sins washed away by the cleansing blood of Christ as do we all of course.
What is new, is that he is an evangelist of sorts. Not of course in the real sense of the word. But he is out to make converts and unfortunately he will get them. "Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time." (1 Jn2:18)

 

Of course I agree that some things he does have a point. For instance he said that he sawit as very strange how a religion that professes great love could come out with such vicious names to call him. And I would also agree that the fact that there has been so much war and hatred amongst Christians, when the message of the gospel is a message of love and hope and of self sacrifice. Strange that such a message that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son could generate such hate. That, I suppose is one of Dawkins' strongest arguments as to why people should forsake religion and it is one that is very difficult to answer.

 

I did that when I was an Arminian and became a Calvinist. :smilewinkgrin: