I am reading Antony Flew’s book, There is a God. In an appendix written by Roy Varghese, he relates what appears to be an apocryphal, but nevertheless insightful exchange between a skeptical student and his wise professor. The student asks his teacher, “How can I be sure I even exist,” to which his teacher responded, “Who’s asking?” Classic!
November 16, 2009
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November 16, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Good reply. The same exchange is also found in Ravi Zacharias’ Can Man Live Without God? — a very good introductory apologetics work.
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November 17, 2009 at 9:21 am
Can Man Live Without God. Good reading.
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November 17, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Scalia,
Is it presented as a fictional story in Zacharias’ book, or as a historical event?
Jason
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November 17, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Jason, it appears Zacharias is relating an actual conversation. Here’s what he says:
Zacharias neither identifies the student nor the professor.
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November 17, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Thanks for that quote. It looks to me like Zacharias is meaning to convey the story as apocryphal. Even if he isn’t, whenever someone speaks generically of “a” professor and “a” student without any historical context at all, I tend to think it must be apocryphal. I was actually hoping it was a real historical event. Although I’m pretty sure something similar has probably played itself out in a philosophy class somewhere in the world!
Jason
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April 19, 2017 at 6:48 pm
@Jason and Scalia, he actually identified them through his podcast “In the Course of Human Event, part 1”
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April 20, 2017 at 9:46 am
A consciousness with sensory awareness knowledge does not know from whom the question comes or from whom the answer comes, yet seeks the nourishment of knowledge, like the hair root of the seed; it struggles to know the destiny of its journey and the journey of its destiny. The human quest is a double quest: from whenceforth it came and thenceforth it goes.
To seek immortality is to have come from immortality and does not this biblical quote mean as much?
“And no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.”
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