Comparison Between Truth Matters And God's Not Dead

Truth Matters: Confident Faith in a Confusing World (by Andreas Köstenberger, Darrel Bock, and Josh Chatraw) is a guide to students on how to support and defend their Christian faith against attacks from people like Bart Ehrman. Compared to the film God's Not Dead (directed by Harold Cronk) which is about Josh Wheaton a college student who's philosophy professor Radisson challenged him to prove that God was not dead as the professor had previously stated. While both of this works have many things in common there are subtitle difference that may not be agreed upon by all Christians. In addition to these things there are subjects that were discussed in the film that were not in the book and vice-verse. Firstly the book and film go hand-in-hand. The book is a guide on how to defend and support Christian faith, moreover the film is an …show more content…
This is where the ideas of book and film agree and disagree the most. This was the last debate between Josh Wheaton and professor Radisson about presence of evil. The film claims that the source of evil is free will its self; yet, evil will be only temporary till God returns. Josh Wheaton's debate leads to the realization that if there is no God than there is no reason to be moral. There would be no guideline of what is right or wrong only people surviving. The book also shared this view in chapter two” Why should we be good to another... if we are competitors in an ongoing struggle where the only rule is that we must survive?”(23). The book gives multiple reasons for the presence of evil including free will. “A refusal to see God as having divine rights over his creation, and a minimization of the extent of human rebellion against our Creator”(34). God's Not Dead failed to mention the rebellion of humans against God; furthermore, it could be said that with free will rebellion would eventually