As I’m going over this with a group of guys from my church I thought the following questions might be helpful for individuals and small groups to facilitate discussions and learning based upon the apologetics’ book “Ultimate Proof of Creation” by Jason Lisle. It is a book that teaches Presuppositional apologetics that engages apologetics at the level of worldview. Cornelius Van Til was instrumental in beginning this form of apologetics and others have developed and applied it.
For discussion questions for previous chapters click on the following:
The questions in this post will be for chapter 7 of the book. Each question is followed by page numbers in parenthesis where the answer can be found.
Chapter 7
- What is a proposition? Give an example of one. (117)
- What is an argument? Give an example of one. (117)
- What is a premise and what is a conclusion? (118)
- What is the characteristic of a good argument? (118)
- What is a logical fallacy? (118)
- Why should we be familiar with the most common fallacies? (118-119)
- What are the two ways an argument can be faulty? (119)
- What are the two kinds of logic? (119)
- How are inductive arguments classified? (120)
- What are strong and weak arguments? (120)
- How are deductive arguments classified? (120)
- What are valid, invalid and sound arguments? (120)
- What is one of the differences between formal and informal logic (120)?
- What are the three broad categories of fallacies associated with ordinary language? (121)
- What are the six common fallacies listed under fallacies of ambiguity? (121-123)
- What are some examples of kinds of fallacies of presumption? (123-131)
- Why is internal critique important in helping us avoid begging the question? (125-126)
- What are some examples of kinds of fallacies of relevance? (131-137)
- What illustrations did you find helpful in this chapter?
May the Lord bless those studying Presuppositional apologetics!
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Thanks for the reblog! How are you?
Yankee Whiskey Bravo, I’m doing well my friend and you?
Thanks, Jim. I’m enjoying this book and currently working on chapter 9. I’ve seen these Logic terms bandied about for many years without ever having any kind of summary explanation so I appreciated the info. This is a challenge for a Theology 101 guy like myself but we need to stretch ourselves! 🙂
Wow Tom that is incredible that you devoured the book so fast! I’m going over this book very slowly with my church guys if you can tell how infrequent I post this. Brother Tom I commend you for working through it. This is very encouraging and I’m quite touched actually. By the way curious, which edition of the book do you have? I ask because I just started noticing some of our guys at church have different editions and the page doesn’t match the ones I posted on here.
Thanks, Jim! This book is really stretching me but I appreciate the information. I downloaded the Kindle edition which shows up as the 3rd printing, February 2010.
So thankful for these questions. Lord willing, one day I will be able to put it to use.
Seems like a very interesting subject. I would like to do some apologetics in the small group I lead sometime
I think presuppositional apologetics is hard to teach but I think this is the best book for breaking it down barney style along with the use of the discussion questions we posted. Given we are both prior military I think we see the importance of training where things are broken down sesame street way or shotgun style yes? =)
Yeah Barney style is probably the best way to go in such a setting as most people don’t have a knack for apologetics in the first place.
I was thinking more of common defenses of the faith and dig deeper if necessary.
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“Why is internal critique important in helping us avoid begging the question? (125-126)”
Wow that is a good point that what makes Presuppositionalism not begging the question in its Transcendental argument is the internal critique component