Lecture 3 - Thinking for Yourself in Religion
This is the third Lecture from Lectures on the Evidence for the Authenticity of BASIC CHRISTIANITY by
Stanley D. Walters, Ph. D., a book we're editing for distribution by
Nineveh's Crossing or a more prominent publisher. You can read a brief
background of the project at the beginning of the first lecture HERE.
Independent Thinking
The lecture for this morning is on the general subject: Think
for Yourself in Religion!
Most of us, by the time we are college students have
developed a lot of uneasiness about accepting things just because we are told so.
If we have some self-awareness, we know that we cannot totally divest ourselves
of our childhood training, nor do most of us want to. And at the same time, we
begin to think that we ought to understand why we are supposed to believe
things, why they are true, on some more substantial ground than that our
parents or the pastor says so. And perhaps even more substantial grounds than
that the Bible says so, although that’s really an answer of a different sort.
Now, I want to raise the question this morning and try to
answer it. “How much independent thinking...
