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Christianity Opium or Truth? David Gooding John Lennox Myrtlefield ENCOUNTERS MyrtlefieldHouse.com David Gooding and John Lennox have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Authors of this work. © Myrtlefield Trust, 1992, 2014 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher or a license permitting restricted copying. In the UK such licenses are issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9HE. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Cover design: Ben Bredeweg. Cover photo: © Alan Lesheim. Used by permission. First published 1992. Originally published as a series of articles in the Russian newspaper, Uchitelskaya Gazeta. Chapter 7 was previously published in The Bible and Ethics. Second English edition, revised and enlarged, 2014 Published by The Myrtlefield Trust, 180 Mountsandel Road, Coleraine, N Ireland, BT52 1TB w: www.myrtlefieldhouse.com e: [email protected] ISBN: 978-1-874584-53-7 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-1-874584-54-4 (PDF) ISBN: 978-1-874584-55-1 (Kindle) ISBN: 978-1-874584-56-8 (EPUB without DRM) Myrtlefield Encounters Myrtlefield Encounters are complementary studies of biblical literature, Christian teaching and apologetics. The books in this series engage the minds of believers and sceptics. They show how God has spoken in the Bible to address the realities of life and its questions, problems, beauty and potential. |v| Contents How to use this Myrtlefield House e-book 1. Christianity: opium of the people? 1 2. The Bible: myth or truth? 6 3. But hasn’t science made belief in God impossible? 32 4. But don’t all religions lead to God? 45 5. But if there is a God, why do so many people suffer? 60 6. The problem of pain 77 7. The evidence for the resurrection of Christ 105 8. The search for spiritual satisfaction 138 Bibliography 159 Scripture Index 161 General Index 165 Page Grid Other books by David Gooding and John Lennox 169 Myrtlefield Expositions Myrtlefield Encounters 171 About the Authors 176 Back cover text How to use this Myrtlefield House e-book This book contains all the material from the original print edition, but because e-readers don't generally support the more complex layouts of print some material is structured differently, and may be placed in a different position. If the book contains complex tables you will be given an external link to the Myrtlefield House web site to access a PDF document that contains the tables exactly as they appear in the print edition. Myrtlefield House e-books are best viewed with the publisher’s settings for fonts and styles. You may have to adjust the settings of your e-reader to get the best display. Navigation The principal means of navigation is by hyperlinks, but please be aware that not all e-readers support every kind of link. The Table of Contents page provides quick access to all the parts of the book (each chapter, bibliography, index, etc.). Each part is hyperlinked, and the titles of each part are hyperlinked to return to the Table of Contents. References in the main text to major parts or chapter section are also hyperlinked to the start of that part. References to page numbers are hyperlinked to the relevant paragraph on the original print page. As an aid to cross-referencing with the print edition, the position of the top of each page is marked in the main text like this: |99|. A hyperlinked list of pages is provided in the Page Grid section. 1 Footnotes are displayed in the text as hyperlinked, superscript numbers (e.g. ). Selecting the number will display the footnote text. The footnote number at the start of the note is hyperlinked to return to the location of the footnote reference in the main text. On some e- readers you may need to use the device's back button to return. Indexes from the print version are included, and the page numbers are hyperlinked to jump to the relevant paragraph in the main text. |1|

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Is Christianity just a belief that dulls the pain of our existence with dreams that are beautiful but false? Or is it an accurate account of reality, our own condition and God’s attitude toward us? Gooding and Lennox address crucial issues that can make it difficult for thoughtful people to accept
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