Is your truth safe?
Will locking the door to science with Christian faith stop this dangerous situation?
We invite you to a “dialogue” where we rediscover old truths as truths of today.
Recommended by Jo Young-heon (Professor of History Education, Korea University) and Kim Geun-ju (Senior Research Fellow, Nehemiah, Christian Research Institute)

This book objectively compares and examines the claims of Christianity and atheism from the perspectives of science and philosophy.
It contrasts the uniqueness of Christianity's theistic perspective with humanity's long ideological history of seeking to uncover the truth, and presents the emergence of modern atheism based on science and the corresponding logic of Christianity.

There are many different types of questions among questions.
There are questions about our daily lives, as well as questions about policies and directions.
There are questions about facts, and there are also questions about values ​​and meaning.
Of these, the question of existence and truth is perhaps the most universal, the oldest, and yet the most difficult to answer.

---From "Opening a Conversation"

What is clear is that the experience of existence is not limited to scientific experience.
The experience of encountering things that exist includes, but is not limited to, scientific experiences that can be quantified with data.
For example, we are amazed and moved when we see a great work of art.
Sometimes I feel joy when I listen to the performance of a genius musician.
Just because an experience cannot be scientifically proven or disproved, it does not make it false or fiction.

---From "Encounters with Existing Things"

Why is the universe we live in not a chaotic, capricious, or chaotic mess created by ghosts and magicians, but rather a universe neatly described by mathematics? The fact that the universe is mathematical gives rise to the idea that some intelligence is at the origin of the universe.
In fact, many scientists and philosophers have speculated that the universe was created and governed by some infinite intelligence.
---From "Mathematical Properties of the Universe"

The universe we experience now is a very accidental result.
The emergence of life in this universe, and even the birth of intelligence, is accidental.
That is to say, the universe did not necessarily have to produce intelligence.
The universe could have become a universe without life, a universe without the birth of intelligence like humans who would question the meaning of the universe.
Nevertheless, the fact that intelligence was born in the universe is so amazing that it deserves to be called a miracle.
The contingent events of the universe could have caused the history of the universe to flow in any direction, but as a result of these successive contingencies, the universe has flowed in its present direction, and intelligence has finally emerged in the universe.
---From “The Contingency of the Universe and the Emergence of Intelligence”

Neither atheism nor Christianity's answers to the nature of the universe are scientific.
Although both atheism and Christianity equally embrace science, they are forced to offer answers that cannot be proven scientifically, namely, metaphysical answers.
Science cannot discern whether God existed from eternity or whether matter existed by itself from eternity.
The mathematical properties of the universe, its resonance with human reason, and even the contingency of the universe are all metaphysical realms that cannot be explained by modern science.
---From "Questions of the Universe, Human Responses"

We are questioning beings.
We humans are beings who cannot sit still without asking questions.
Because, before we ask, before we question, the things around us, the things that exist, are already given to us.
If we were in a state of emptiness, a state of nothingness, a state of nothingness, we would not ask questions.
Because in that state, there is nothing to ask and no one to ask.
---From "Questions about Existence"

For quite some time, there has been a misunderstanding that accepting evolution means denying creation, and accepting creation means denying evolution.
It is probably undeniable that there is still a strong atmosphere within the Korean church where the choice between the two is strongly enforced.
This atmosphere not only contributed to the misconception within the church that modern science was anti-religious and atheistic, but also to the perception of Christianity as an anti-science group among those outside the church.
---From "Three Ways to Answer Questions"

“Why does something exist rather than not exist?” This question is related not only to the origin of existence, but also to the purpose of existence and the meaning of existence.
The Christian theistic answer to this question is that because the triune God created us, and because God has a purpose and way of life for us.
The apostle John writes in his letter, “God is love” (1 John 4:8, 16).
The Christian faith tradition has continued to tell the story of how God, who is love, created this world through Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit, and how God, who is love, redeems and restores the world, which has been distorted and damaged by sin, through Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit.
If ‘creation’ is a response to the call of God who is love, ‘sin’ is a rebellion against that call, and ‘redemption’ through Christ is an event in which humans recover, in the Holy Spirit, the life of response to God’s call that they had failed to live.
---From “The Meaning of Theism in Relation to Learning, Truth, and the Meaning of Life”

Clement said, “All truth is God’s truth.”
With that attitude, Christians have pursued intellectual pursuits related to science, philosophy, history, etc.
This is a long-standing tradition in Christianity.
Calvin also continued this tradition.
Calvin also expressed his conviction that if what the pagans discovered was true, then it was truth from God.
Calvin believed that even if a liar tells the truth, it is true.
In his commentary on Titus, Calvin said, “All truth comes from God.”
Calvin was able to say this because he believed that God's grace, the mercy that is given to all people, including unbelievers, operates in common, enabling humans to discover and create what is beautiful, noble, and true.

---From “All truth is God’s truth”