Christian Meaning in a World Without Hope

Dr. Craig explains how Christianity pulled him out of the darkness and meaninglessness of life without God.

INTERVIEWER: I look around and I see how miserable Western society has become, and how limited and inward looking it is, and how we've cheated our children. I can't get over the raw data on their levels of anxiety and depression and self-harm.

DR. CRAIG: Yes.

INTERVIEW: And yet we have no narrative, and we're not prepared to . . . all we want to do (all our elites) simply want to mock the one narrative that seems to have provided a durable and lasting meaning and purpose in people's lives. But perhaps we're just talking to one another here and agreeing.

DR. CRAIG: Well, I've emphasized this in my work. As someone who comes out of a non-Christian background, I felt deeply the darkness and the despair of a life without God. And when I became a Christian that junior year in high school, the most profound difference that it made for me was not the joy or the love that it brought; it was the meaning. It gave meaning to my existence, and that life now was not simply doomed to end in death and extinction, but my life was infused with an eternal significance. And so for me that turned my life upside down. I became a disciple of Jesus and have followed him ardently ever since.