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Today wrapped up the “Reasonable Faith in an Uncertain World” apologetics conference. It was a great day which began with Craig Hazen’s “To Everyone an Answer” in which he made the claim that Christianity is unique among world religions in that it invites investigation into its truth claims. It is testable in a sense that no other world religion can claim.

In the first breakout session, I attended Dan Wallace’s session on “Is What We Have Now What They Wrote Then?” Wallace is one of the premier experts in textual criticism and provided strong evidence for the reliability of the New Testament.

In the last morning breakout session, Paul Copan presented “The Incarnation of Christ in Philosophical Perspective” in which he explicated the difficulties of the divine Christ becoming a human being. After lunch, Copan then presented “Hell and the Goodness of God.” He showed how Hell is compatible with the teaching that God is good.

In the final plenary session of the conference, Gary Habermas ably finished things up with a discussion of “The Resurrection of Jesus” in which he convincingly argued that one can establish the historicity of the resurrection accepting only those “minimal facts” which are accepted by 90 to 100% of all scholars (liberal and conservative).

With a full mind and a tired body, I make my way home to Lakeland tomorrow.