From Doubt to Belief: The Factors Involved in Journeys to Faith in Jesus – with Randy Newman

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In this episode of the Theology for the People Podcast, I speak with Randy Newman.

Randy grew up in a secular Jewish home, but through relationships with Christians, as well as through a series of personal events and realizations, he became a Christian. Randy is now a senior fellow for apologetics at the C.S. Lewis Institute, and over the past several decades he has talked with many individuals, and studied their journeys of coming to faith in Jesus. 

In his recent book, “Questioning Faith” – he tells some of these stories, and looks at the factors in what he calls “indirect journeys of belief through terrains of doubt.”

In this episode, Randy and I speak about his story of coming to faith in Jesus, and we talk about some of the factors that Christians face today in sharing their faith, and how we can do that more effectively. 

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From Doubt to Belief: The Factors Involved in Journeys to Faith in Jesus – with Randy Newman – Theology for the People

Randy Newman grew up in a secular Jewish home, but through relationships with Christians, as well as through a series of personal events and realizations, he became a Christian. Randy is now a senior fellow for apologetics at the C.S. Lewis Institute, and over the past several decades he has talked with many individuals, and studied their journeys of coming to faith in Jesus.  In his recent book, “Questioning Faith” – he tells some of these stories, and looks at the factors in what he calls “indirect journeys of belief through terrains of doubt.” In this episode, Randy and I speak about his story of coming to faith in Jesus, and we talk about some of the factors that Christians face today in sharing their faith, and how we can do that more effectively.  Make sure to check out the Theology for the People website at nickcady.org — Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theologyforthepeople/support

6 thoughts on “From Doubt to Belief: The Factors Involved in Journeys to Faith in Jesus – with Randy Newman”

  1. conversion stories are used by most, if not all, religions and they do little since people constantly convert between religions, from atheism to a religion, and none of that shows your claims to be true. 

    that C.S. Lewis himself said to lie to potential converts so they don’t know about the contradictions and splintering of christianity, it seems quite a failure for your religion.

    “I should have been out of my depth in such waters: more in need of help myself than able to help others. And secondly, I think we must admit that the discussion of these disputed points has no tendency at all to bring an outsider into the Christian fold. So long as we write and talk about them we are much more likely to deter him from entering any Christian communion than to draw 3 him into our own. Our divisions should never be discussed except in the presence of those who have already come to believe that there is one God and that Jesus Christ is His only Son.” preface, Mere Christianity

    A lie of omission is still a lie.

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    1. Hi there again! The point of this is not to say that these conversion stories themselves prove anything, but that they can be studied to see the factors involved in conversion.

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      3. Curious how you seem to be ignorant about what atheism is, typical for a christian.

        Atheism is a single conclusion, that a particular god or gods don’t exist. Since you are an atheist, are you in the “cult”, Nick?

        A cult is a set of beliefs that make up a worldview. Atheists are notoriously varied when it comes to our worldviews.

      4. I’m not an atheist. Curious how you seem ignorant of the religious nature of your faith commitment – especially in spite of the fact that you are acting as an apologist and evangelist for your metaphysical beliefs.

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