How Do You Know the Bible Is True? Brett McCracken on Scrolling Ourselves to Death, and a Question About AI and Apologetics
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An idea from me
A quote from somebody else
Something to think about
AN IDEA FROM ME
The Bible is true because if it weren't, you couldn't even make sense of investigating truth claims in the first place. The impossibility of the contrary forces you to assume the Christian worldview just to have a rational conversation. And thankfully, the Bible actually does tell us so — it teaches Christianity, not something else.
—From my Livestream Q&A on Friday, April 25, 2025 (this morning!): watch it here
A QUOTE FROM SOMEBODY ELSE
“Consider how frequently and rapidly in the course of any twenty-minute period we shift our attention from one thing to another. We scroll through various apps and task-switch constantly from one browser window to another. We read and try to reply to emails having nothing to do with each other. We usually have multiple screens on, with countless apps open, and our attention constantly toggles between it all. It’s no wonder our capacity to think coherently is severely atrophied.”
—Keith Plummer, “Apologetics in a Post-Logic World,” in Brett McCracken and Ivan Mesa Jr., Scrolling Ourselves to Death (Wheaton: Crossway, 2025), 111.
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
Will the rise of AI ultimately be good for our attention spans, or bad? Will it aid in the work of apologetics, or hinder it? What do you think?
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Joel Settecase
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