Simple Trusting Faith

by W. Carl Ketcherside

At the time Simple Trusting Faith appeared, in 1969, the author published the following in the April issue of his journal, Mission Messenger: "For a number of years I wanted to write a book in which I affirmed my personal faith in God, Christ and the holy scriptures. I wanted it to be a volume of apologetics written in popular style so that college young people would read it. When the time came to write I decided that I would deal with the theme of God's existence, the manifestation of the Word in flesh, the virgin birth, the question of miracles, and the present possession of eternal life. I do not hold that we must discard all the values of the arguments made by our fathers for the genuineness and authenticity of the word." The thesis of the book, he had explained in a pre-publication announcement, is "that we need not surrender all of the apologetic approaches of the past in this intellectual age with its theories of relativism and liberalism." Its intention, he further explained, is "to build faith and strengthen conviction" by providing "a clear depiction of the reasons for our belief in God, the genuineness and authenticity of the scriptures, the miracles by which the claims of the apostles were validated and other related matters." The year following the book's first publication, a student enrolled at a university in Illinois wrote: "If there has ever been a better book of Christian philosophy written, I have yet to see it. Not since the Bible have I read a book that has given me the strength that your book has given me. Simple Trusting Faith is a masterpiece. Many answers for which I was looking are contained in it." To the original work, the e-publisher has added a publisher's preface and an article "About the Author," for those unfamiliar with the life and work of W. Carl Ketcherside. For other works by this author, search this site for "SCM e-Prints."

127 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 26, 2011