He immediately began attempting to share his faith with others in various evangelistic endeavors—door-to-door, street meetings, and jail service, rescue missions, and Youth for Christ venues.
His testimony, in my view (I was present during the entire trial), effectively demolished the most important thrust of the case by the ACLU.
Unfortunately, in my opinion, no testimony, and no effort by any team of lawyers, no matter how brilliant, could have won the case for the creationist side.
"[9][better source needed] Geisler was formerly a president of the Evangelical Theological Society but left the ETS in 2003, after it did not expel Clark Pinnock, who advocated open theism.
[13] Geisler was married to Barbara Jean Cate for 64 years, and together they had six children: Ruth, David, Daniel, Rhoda, Paul, and Rachel.
[8][14] He died of cerebral thrombosis at a hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina on July 1, 2019, 20 days before his 87th birthday.
Between 1970 and 1990 he participated in dozens of public debates and gained a reputation as a defender of theism, biblical miracles, the resurrection of Jesus, and the reliability of the Bible.
The appendix is titled "Reasoning to Christianity from Ground Zero" and in it we see a high-level view of the holistic system of classical apologetics he had been developing over the years.
"[23] The longer form of the argument in eighteen points is as follows: Geisler addressed the debate over biblical miracles in multiple works, including Miracles and the Modern Mind, Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, and Twelve Points Which Show Christianity is True.
[25][26][27] In I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be An Atheist, Geisler along with his student Frank Turek claim "since we know that God exists, miracles are possible.
[31] Concerning whether miracles are actual, Geisler makes the claim that "[t]he very cosmological argument, by which we know God exists, also proves that a supernatural event has occurred.
[36] Geisler was a conservative evangelical scholar who wrote a four-volume systematic theology which was later condensed into a 1,660 page one-volume tome.
The last book Norm wrote was Preserving Orthodoxy (Bastion Books 2017), which explains how to "maintain continuity with the historic Christian faith on Scripture" and gives Norm's perspective on the inerrancy-related controversies he had been engaged in with Robert Gundry, Clark Pinnock, and Michael Licona.
To explain how he understood his doctrine of election, Geisler used the illustration of a young man contemplating on if he would propose to one of two ladies.
Unlike some Calvinists, Geisler understood warnings in the New Testament such as that in Hebrews 10 as pertaining to a loss of eternal rewards, instead of speaking of false believers.
[44] In the first volume of his Systematic Theology, Geisler affirms Thomism as superior to atomism, Platonism, and Aristotelianism as it pertains to their respective responses to the Parmenidean dilemma of the one and the many.
[53] He provided his perspective on ethical options, abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, biomedical issues, capital punishment, war, civil disobedience, sexual issues, homosexuality, marriage and divorce, ecology, animal rights, drugs, gambling, pornography, birth control, and more.
That is why graded absolutism is also called the "greater good view", but is not to be confused with utilitarianism[55] (see also prima facie right).