Slides to accompany Bristol Vineyard podcast dated 17th April 2016.

1. ‘Christians claim they’re
right and everyone else is
wrong. Isn’t that
arrogant?’

2. Sam Harris

3. “There is, in fact, no worldview more
reprehensible in its arrogance than that of a
religious believer:
‘the creator of the universe takes an interest in
me, approves of me, loves me, and will reward
me after death; my current beliefs, drawn
from scripture, will remain the best statement
of the truth until the end of the world;
everyone who disagrees with me will spend
eternity in hell …’ ”

4. “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one
can come to the Father except through me.”
John 14: 6

5. ‘Christianity makes
exclusive claims’

9. ‘All religions are equally
true’

10. ‘No single religion has
the whole truth. They
each see part of the
truth.’

11. ‘How could you possibly know that no religion
can see the whole truth unless you yourself
have the superior, comprehensive knowledge
of spiritual reality you just claimed that none of
the religions have?’
Tim Keller
The Reason for God

12. ‘All religions are false.’

13. All the knowledge
that humanity will
ever possess.

14. All the knowledge that I
will ever possess.

15. All truth-claims are
exclusive

16. ‘There’s no such thing as
truth.’
Or
‘The truth cannot be
known’

17. ‘If you insist that no-one can determine which
beliefs are right and wrong, why should we
believe what you are saying? The reality is that
we all make truth-claims of some sort, and it is
very hard to weigh them responsibly, but we
have no alternative but to try to do so.’
Tim Keller
The Reason for God

18. Tolerance

19. The way we argue is even
more important than
what we say

20. ‘In Christianity there is an elitism of ideas and
an egalitarianism of people.’
Ravi Zacharias

21. Ahmed Deedat