Patrick Hines is the pastor of Bridwell Heights Presbyterian Church in Kingsport, Tennessee and often teach on Presuppositional apologetics. Here in this series Patrick Hines teaches on Presuppositional apologetics’ on Youtube. This is a fairly recent series.
I am sharing this also because I have seen some recent misrepresentation of this methodology or it being trivialized and misrepresented. While there’s a place to refute misrepresentations it might be more fruitful to understand what is Presuppositionalism is in the first place. Enjoy these videos!
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Thanks, Jim. I watched the first video and found it informative. The debate between the different schools of apologetics is a bit of a blur to this Theology 101 guy but I’m beginning to catch on!
There was one point in the first video Patrick Hines mentioned about theology driving one’s apologetics. Even if one tries to have it where theology is not shaping one’s apologetics, there will be theological assumptions being made. I think that’s the crux of the issue that everything flows from. Presuppositionalism though is not just saying the Bible is true and that’s it; it shows how other foundations besides the God of the BIble end up destroying everything. But I’m so glad you watched this and catching on! For me it took a while before I finally understood it and resisted it in the beginning since it seems so counter-intuitive.
Right. Lane Craig’s “neutral” approach makes more sense intuitively. I’m catching on a little bit but still have no motivation yet to borrow Van Til’s book from the library. 🙂
Just to clarify on the neutrality issue: Patrick Hines makes the point that the non-Christian is in rebellion against God, so he is not going to neutrally interpret evidence. He will be biased against a Christian interpretation. That’s true, but there is more to it. There is no neutrality because God is sovereign. He created all facts, so there are no religiously neutral facts. All facts are God-laden. Those who reject the Calvinist doctrine of God’s absolute sovereignty are not going to recognize this in their approach to apologetics. The Arminians will want to appeal to some neutral common ground to get the conversation going with the non-Christian. The Arminian, if asked, will affirm that God created everything, but then they backtrack when the issue comes to the choices humans make, and that comes out when they choose their method of apologetics.
Thank you for that clarification. I think Hines will agree with you brother. It seems this Youtube series was more impromptu than his series he did with his church some years back hence your need to clarify. Thank you brother, appreciate your website immensely. Do you want to do a guest post with our blog sometime in August when I’m gone overseas teaching?
Right, I was just clarifying for Tom.
Sure, I would be honored to do a guest post in August. Just let me know the details on when and how you want it done.
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