Surprised by the Power of Daniel (Special Iona Edition): The Miracles that brought a Skeptic to Faith - Paperback

by C. S. Morrison (Author)

What would it take to convince you that the Gospel of Jesus Christ really was the work of a God? What evidence would remove all your doubts forevermore?In this groundbreaking and highly persuasive book, Scottish philosopher C. S. Morrison recounts the amazing miracles that brought him from a sceptical position on all things religious to unshakable certainty. Beginning with a surprising childhood experience that gave him a naïve confidence in the power of prayer, he explains his teenage rejection of Christianity (and all faiths), and how his studies in science reopened his mind to the possibility of a theistic God. This led to a renewed interest in Christianity, but no great conviction that the teachings of Jesus Christ were the work of a nonhuman mind. An astonishing coincidence changed all that. It was another immediate and meaningful answer to prayer, but a million times more dramatic and unlikely. It gave him a spooky sense that a real God was steering him towards Christianity. His witnessing of a medical miracle in circumstances that appeared to him to rule out fraud, secured that faith for many years. However, in his forties he became far more sceptical about the world. What saved his faith was that by this time he had found objective evidence that the claims of Christ were correct.That evidence is as surprising and convincing as those earlier miracles. It consists of the historical fulfilment of certain prophecies in the book of Daniel in the Bible. Morrison makes a very persuasive case that, due to scholarly biases, the most justifiable interpretation of these prophecies has not been fully identified before. Yet if you agree with him about their meaning, you will be forced to concede that they really did come true long after the latest possible date of writing. And intriguingly, the events that fulfilled them are not of the sort that could have been orchestrated by man. If you are looking for a powerful testimony, robust answers to the hardest questions a Christian might be asked, or even the perfect justification for faith in Christ, this rare combination of personal testimony and investigative scholarship is unlikely to disappoint.