http://www.garyhabermas.com/video/Habermas_Filling-Naturalisms-Void.avi

Gary is the leading scholar on the planet today for the resurrection. When he speaks he speaks with authority, a wealth of knowledge and having read thousands of books concerning matters of faith and evidence. He knows the field and the most influential players.

I recommend after you watch this video come back to it after a couple days and watch it again so you really get what's being said.

In a nutshell the trend today, naturalism and atheism are dead. Very few people are atheists or even naturalists today. If anything they are agnostic. What has arisen is their new form of Christianity unlike the Judeo-Christian heritage (though I tend to think there's nothing new under the sun since what the populace is attempting to do is what was tried in the "other books" written centuries after the NT was already completed in the 1st century). Names have been given to this mentality called New Age or even Neural Buddhism with an attempt at scientific underpinnings. It is open to the supernatural, prayer and worship, God or a type of God, acceptance of religion of its own construction, even an after life.

Whereas Christianity maintains specific revealed doctrine for salvation and eternal life (the fundamentals): incarnation, resurrection, deity of Christ, God of the universe who first revealed Himself to the nation of Israel, a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, Daniel's final seven otherwise known as the Tribulation, heaven and hell, initial salvation by faith alone (not by works), the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in our spirit those of us whom are saved, and the Trinity or Triune God.

In response, the neural Buddhist new ager or nominal Christian (a false one) will say these are additions Christians have added onto the evolutionary development of mankind. They say if you want to add these doctrines then PROVE IT!

The proof, obviously, is the resurrection proof that nobody is able to find a naturalistic explanation to account for the eyewitness testimony of the Apostles in various group settings; therefore, the evidence leads us inextricably to the fact that Jesus rose Himself from the dead as only God can do proving He is the 2nd Person of the Trinity.

Wake up people! What's the problem?