Course Description

This popular teaching series has been newly enhanced and provides a step-by-step defense of the Christian Faith. It follows the book “12 Points that Show Christianity is True” and covers each chapter. Each topic flows logically from a Foundation of Truth through Theism, Miracles, the Reliability of the New Testament, the Claims and Proofs of the Deity of Jesus, and Jesus’ View of the Scriptures. This is a great foundational resource in Christian Apologetics for all who desire to defend their faith.

Co-Founder, NGIM

Dr. Norman Geisler

The late Dr. Norman Geisler is known as the premiere apologist of the 20th century. He developed a three-tiered model that integrates apologetics, philosophy, and theology, and over a more than 60-year career in ministry he mentored and discipled many of today's top Christian leaders.

Dr. Norman Geisler is the author of The 12 Points That Prove Christianity Is True and over a hundred other books that have impacted the foundations of modern Christianity. In practical terms, Dr. Geisler was the first to see the value of using a classic two-step apologetic approach, as opposed to a purely evidentiary approach, to witness to a postmodern generation.

As a prominent member of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy, his influence was crucial in building a foundation on which the church stood through the writing of the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy. He founded the International Society of Christian Apologetics and co-founded two seminaries: Southern Evangelical Seminary and Veritas Evangelical Seminary, now called Veritas International University. In 2015, Dr. Norman Geisler and his son David co-founded Norm Geisler International Ministries, and in 2018 they launched the ministry's discipleship arm, the Norm Geisler Institute.

Dr. Norman Geisler earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Wheaton College, a Master of Theology from Wheaton Graduate School, a Th.B. from William Tyndale College and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Loyola University.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Week 1. Truth About Reality is Knowable

    • a. Course Outline.

    • b. What Is True?

    • c. Can Truth Be Known?

    • d. Is Truth Absolute?

    • e. Answering Objections.
  • 2

    Week 2. The Opposite of True Is False

    • a. What Is Truth? What Is False?

    • b. Why Opposite Religions Can’t Both Be True.

    • c. Can One Religion Be True?

    • d. Biblical Illustrations.
  • 3

    Week 3. It Is True That the Theistic God Exists

    • a. The Importance and Definition Of God’s Existence.

    • b. The Cosmological Argument.

    • c. Theological Argument.

    • d. Moral Argument.

    • e. Religious Need Argument.
  • 4

    Week 4. If God Exists Then Miracles Are Possible

    • a. Why Miracles Are Important.

    • b. What Miracles Are Not.

    • c. What Miracles Are.

    • d. The Purpose of Miracles.

    • e. Why Are Miracles Possible? What Do Miracles Prove?
  • 5

    Week 5. Miracles Can Confirm a Message from God

    • a. Definition and Distinction of a Miracle from Other Unusual Events.

    • b. Primary Purpose of Miracles.

    • c. Criteria of a True Miracle.
  • 6

    Week 6. The New Testament is Historically Reliable

    • a. Evidence the New Testament is Reliable.

    • b. Evidence the Documents Are Recorded Accurately.

    • c. Evidence Early New Testament Authorship is Accurate.
  • 7

    Week 7. The New Testament Says Jesus Claimed to be God

    • a. The Biblical Basics.

    • b. Creedal Statements.

    • c. The Doctrinal Importance.

    • d. Some Unorthodox Views.

    • e. Answering Objections.
  • 8

    Week 8. Jesus’ Claim to be God Was Miraculously Confirmed

    • a. Confirmed by Miraculous Predictions.

    • b. Confirmed by Miraculous Life.

    • c. Confirmed by a Miraculous Resurrection.
  • 9

    Week 9. Therefore, Jesus is God

    • a. Argument for Miraculous Confirmations and Nature of Miraculous Confirmation.

    • b. Challenge to Miraculous Confirmation: Judaism, Buddha, Krishna, Apollonius.

    • c. Challenge to Miraculous Confirmation: Islam.

    • d. Conclusion.
  • 10

    Week 10. Whatever Jesus Teaches is True

    • a. Why God Cannot Err. Why Jesus Cannot Err.

    • b. Reply to Accommodation View.

    • c. Reply to Limitation View.
  • 11

    11. Jesus Taught the Bible is the Word of God

    • a. The Old Testament: Nature & Extent.

    • b. The New Testament: Nature & Extent.

    • c. Christ vs. The Critics.
  • 12

    12. Therefore, the Bible is the Word of God; Anything opposed to it is False

    • a. The Conclusion Does Not Mean.

    • b. The Conclusion Does Mean.