Is Christianity true? Answering the hardest questions about God, Jesus, and the Bible

Is Christianity true? Answering the hardest questions about God, Jesus, and the Bible

From Faith & Clarity - Biblical Perspectives and Biblical Wisdom on News & Cultural Issues by Denison Forum

June 3, 2026 · 1h 8m · Season 5 · Episode 22

About this episode

The episode discusses challenging questions about faith and how Christians can confidently engage with a skeptical culture.

In this episode of Faith & Clarity , Dr. Mark Turman is joined by Ryan Denison and Dr. Jim Denison for a wide-ranging conversation about the hard questions of faith and how Christians can engage a skeptical culture with confidence and grace. Jim opens up about the spiritual questions that have shaped his life—from his father's WWII trauma and early doubts in the church pew to the transformative influence of C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity . Together, they unpack the difference between proof and evidence, making the case that faith is less like a math equation and more like a relationship, assessed by the weight of what we know to be true. The conversation explores why belief in God is so often questioned in prosperous cultures, how to distinguish deism from theism, and four compelling tests for the Bible's trustworthiness: manuscripts, fulfilled prophecy, internal consistency, and archaeology. They also take on some of the bigger cultural challenges to faith such as Jesus' claims to deity, the logic of the atonement, and whether dinosaurs or extraterrestrial life pose any real threat to Christian belief before turning to the question suffering raises that reason alone cannot…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Mark Turman

Guests: Ryan Denison, Dr. Jim Denison

Topics covered

  • Christianity
  • faith
  • skeptical culture
  • Bible trustworthiness
  • C.S. Lewis
  • suffering
  • God's presence

Keywords

  • Christianity
  • faith
  • Bible
  • C.S. Lewis
  • suffering
  • God
  • trustworthiness
  • deism
  • theism

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Mere Christianity

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