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The overall truth or rationality of Christianity, Christian conversion, salvation, atonement, hell, grace, and purgatory.
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Kyle Butt vs Dan Barker — Does the God of the Bible Exist? · 2009
Dan Barker narrowly wins through stronger natural alternatives and direct corrections, while Kyle Butt delivers the best single rebuttal on testimony but leaves key biblical identification bridges unsupported.
Kyle Butt: 75 · Dan Barker: 78. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Andrew Pyle — Does the Christian God Exist? · 2007
Pyle’s burden-sensitive critiques expose decisive identification and probability gaps, while Craig presents a clear cumulative case whose resurrection bridge remains contested.
William Lane Craig: 75 · Andrew Pyle: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
John Lennox vs Michael Tooley — Atheism and Christianity · 2013
Tooley wins by separating atheism from anti-Christian critique and pressing evil and prophecy; Lennox offers strong compatibility replies but leaves key positive warrants underdeveloped.
John Lennox: 73 · Michael Tooley: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Eli Ayala vs Dan Barker — Does the God of the Bible Exist? · 2026
Barker won by exposing the gap between transcendental theism and the biblical God, while Ayala effectively qualified prayer claims and challenged Barker's moral foundation.
Eli Ayala: 72 · Dan Barker: 78. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
William Lane Craig vs Massimo Pigliucci — Does the Christian God Exist? · 2001
Craig prevailed through cumulative structure, sharper historical replies, and key conceptual distinctions, while Pigliucci led on scope and pressed serious evidential alternatives.
William Lane Craig: 78 · Massimo Pigliucci: 72. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Trent Horn vs Dan Barker — Does the Christian God Exist? · 2018
Horn narrowly prevailed through stronger metaphysical replies and a resilient resurrection case, while Barker excelled on institutional accountability, scriptural morality, and textual conflict.
Trent Horn: 73 · Dan Barker: 71. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Matt Slick vs Aron Ra: Is Christianity True? · 2014
Slick excelled on foundational challenges and expert-reference precision; Aron prevailed on belief versus truth and explanatory accountability, producing an exact overall tie.
Matt Slick: 73 · Aron Ra: 73. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Stuart Knechtle vs Matt Dillahunty: Is Christianity Rational? · 2023
Knechtle offered cumulative historical, moral, and experiential support for Christianity; Dillahunty prevailed by demanding stronger links from reports and effects to supernatural conclusions.
Stuart Knechtle: 68 · Matt Dillahunty: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Richard Dawkins vs Alister McGrath: Is Christianity Rational? · 2006
Dawkins wins by pressing evidence, complexity, Christian specificity, and selective providence more successfully, while McGrath offers a thoughtful but incompletely warranted integrative worldview.
Alister McGrath: 71 · Richard Dawkins: 82. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Is the Doctrine of Purgatory True? Trent Horn vs. James White · 2024
White wins by one point because his contextual exegesis and Romans argument slightly outweigh Horn's definitional clarification, purification syllogism, and historical continuity case.
Trent Horn: 79 · James White: 80. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Does Christian Conversion Establish Truth? Ayaan Hirsi Ali vs. Alex O'Connor · 2024
Hirsi Ali established sincere transformation and cultural attraction, but O’Connor decisively separated those benefits from evidence for Christianity’s supernatural truth claims.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 71 · Alex O'Connor: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Why Be a Christian? Trent Horn vs. Alex O'Connor · 2022
Alex O'Connor wins 84-74 by pressing suffering and hiddenness more precisely than Trent Horn warrants Christianity's cumulative explanatory bridges.
Trent Horn: 74 · Alex O'Connor: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Is Belief in God a Delusion? Richard Dawkins vs. John Lennox · 2007
Dawkins prevailed narrowly by pressing natural explanations, evidential scrutiny, and secular accounts of morality, while Lennox answered strongly on evidential faith, science's limits, and Christian distinctiveness.
Richard Dawkins: 76 · John Lennox: 72. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
James White vs Shabir Ally: Sin and Salvation in the Qur'an and the Bible · 2013
White grounds forgiveness in Christ’s law-satisfying atonement; Ally defends direct, equitable mercy and accountable deeds while challenging inherited guilt and biblical continuity.
James White: 79 · Shabir Ally: 79. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Peter Singer vs John Lennox: Is There a God? · 2011
Lennox presents a cumulative Christian explanation of reason, value, hope, and Jesus; Singer answers with naturalistic alternatives, evidential demands, and suffering.
John Lennox: 75 · Peter Singer: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Matt Dillahunty vs Lewis Howitt: Is Christianity True? · 2023
Howitt develops a necessary Logos and Trinitarian metaphysics; Dillahunty challenges its evidential standards, Christian specificity, divine coherence, and treatment of classical logic.
Lewis Howitt (PerspectivePhilosophy): 71 · Matt Dillahunty: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Ray Comfort vs Matt Dillahunty: Does the Gospel Make Sense? · 2020
Comfort defended guilt, substitution, and faith-based salvation; Dillahunty pressed stronger challenges concerning responsibility, atonement, evidential method, and testability.
Ray Comfort: 68 · Matt Dillahunty: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Jonathan McLatchie vs Alex O'Connor: Is Christianity True? · 2019
McLatchie defended Christianity through resurrection testimony and contextual reconciliation; O'Connor challenged source sufficiency, theological inference, biblical morality, and animal-suffering explanations.
Jonathan McLatchie: 83 · Alex O'Connor: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Michael Jones vs Alex O'Connor: Does God Send People to Hell? · 2023
Jones defends hell through self-chosen degeneration, corrective grace, open escape, and possible annihilation; O'Connor challenges agency, proportionality, misinformation, universalism, and atonement.
Michael Jones: 80 · Alex O'Connor: 87. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Stephen Woodford vs Justin Brierley: Is Christianity Rational? · 2019
Woodford pressed consistent evidence, naturalistic alternatives, and inference gaps; Brierley defended cumulative Christian warrant through experience, explanation, morality, reason, and testimony.
Stephen Woodford: 82 · Justin Brierley: 77. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle vs Aron Ra and TJump: Is Christianity True? · 2023
The Knechtles defend Jesus through Gospel reliability, resurrection, grace, love, and worldview fit; Aron Ra and TJump challenge miracle testimony, biblical contradictions, religious borrowing, and evidential standards.
Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle: 66 · Aron Ra and Tom Jump: 76. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Braxton Hunter vs Matt Dillahunty: Does the Christian God Exist? · 2019
Hunter builds a cumulative Christian case from freedom, causation, and resurrection; Dillahunty presses underdetermination, evidential discrimination, hiddenness, and revelation inconsistency.
Braxton Hunter: 77 · Matt Dillahunty: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Miles K. Donahue vs James Fodor: The Case Against Christianity · 2025
Donahue defended Christianity cumulatively, while Fodor pressed comparative objections from divine psychology, suffering, religious confusion, informed dissent, and observable moral outcomes.
Miles K. Donahue: 81 · James Fodor: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Kyle Butt vs Michael Shermer: Does the God of the Bible Exist? · 2023
Shermer’s calibrated skepticism and natural alternatives consistently challenged Butt’s ambitious causal, design, moral, historical, and suffering-based case for the biblical God.
Kyle Butt: 71 · Michael Shermer: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Cliffe Knechtle vs Matt Dillahunty: Is Christianity True? · 2023
Knechtle offered cumulative historical, moral, and relational warrant for Christianity; Dillahunty consistently pressed whether those methods distinguish supernatural truth from preservation, fiction, and alternatives.
Cliffe Knechtle: 73 · Matt Dillahunty: 90. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Derek Lambert vs Michael Jones: Atheist and Christian Discussion · 2021
Jones defended Christianity through cumulative evidence and qualified theology; Lambert pressed disclosure, comparative testimony, scriptural development, sincere nonbelief, and historical insufficiency.
Michael Jones: 79 · Derek Lambert: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle vs Alex O'Connor and Phil Halper: Does the Biblical God Exist? · 2024
The Knechtles argue that morality, creation, Jesus, resurrection, and lived experience point to the biblical God; O'Connor and Halper argue that animal suffering, biblical errors, divine violence, and hiddenness count strongly against that God.
Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle: 76 · Alex O'Connor and Phil Halper: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.