Here are links related to Presuppositional Apologetics gathered between June 15th-21st, 2021.
1.) Cave to the Cross’ Why? For God’s Glory! – Ep.181 – Scott Christensen Interview On What About Evil – Part 2
2.) Bible Contradiction? Who appeared to Moses in the burning bush?
3.) Our Evolving, Thinking, Learning Universe?
4.) Dutch Windmill, Van Til and Thoughts on Inter-disciplinary Theology and Innovations
5.) Biblical Case for Presuppositional Apologetics in 7 Minutes | Dr. James White
7.) How Ephesus causes problems for Skeptics
8.) Facebook Meme
9.) Analogical knowledge of God, and the Clark-Van Til controversy
11.) What is the Problem of Induction, and Why are Christians Uniquely Situated to Answer It?
Missed the last round up? Check out the re-blogged post from a friend and another reblog here
The Domain for Truth 
As always, thanks for the great resources. This looks interesting “Biblical Case for Presuppositional Apologetics in 7 Minutes | Dr. James White”
Shalom!
I especially liked link 7 on John C. Whitcomb.
Thanks! Wondering if have you posted a review or read on “Why I Trust the Bible” by William Mounce? Just wondering your thoughts on if it is worth the time investment to read and share with someone with questions? Thanks
I have not head of that book nor knew Bill Mounce wrote a book like that since often he’s written more on New Testament Greek, which he is good at! I imagine as a NT professor he would know his stuff. There’s a book called In Defense of the Bible edited by Steven Cowan that I’ll be writing a review of later this year but it’s 400 pages and might be hard for discussion and reading along with someone in discipleship context unless the person really is motivated. Is this person a believer?? Praying for your ministry and for the person right now
Thanks for your response…the person is a believer but don’t think 400 pages will get it and also needs every day language. Thanks for your prayers…the Lord will lead me. Thanks much!
I thought this book was good for discussion and friendly to readers for Christianity in general https://veritasdomain.wordpress.com/2019/11/27/review-why-should-i-believe-christianity/
With the Bible in particular have you seen this one from Sproul? https://www.ligonier.org/store/can-i-trust-the-bible-epub If the person uses electronic device to read it is free as an e-book.
Great! Thanks so very much! 🙌🙌🙌
Reblogged this on My Logos Word.
Thanks, brother! I listened to the C2TC guys while grocery shopping this morning. Good part 2 interview with Scott Christensen. I just have to “put pen to paper” regarding my post about fictional stories and how they relate to the Biblical “meta-narrative.” The post is already half-written in my head.
I can’t wait for that post. Do you listen with ear piece while shopping? Also bought any local NY delicious goodies? 🤓
Thanks! I’ve been talking up that future post for too long. Do you write down ideas for future posts? Did you ever have an idea for a future post that you just couldn’t seem to get to?
Yup, I listened via my cheap ear pods. Christensen spoke directly about those same narrative and meta-narrative topics that caught my attention in the discussion about one of the early chapters in the book.
Nope, can’t say I bought any regional favorites.
How is your Thursday going?
I had a chance to read two more of these, Pastor Jim. I read the one about Ephesus and then went long for the touchdown with the article about the Clark – Van Til controversy.
I won’t pretend to understand all of it after a first reading but I found it very interesting.
When discussing incomprehensibility Van Til writes (footnote 9):
“No longer is the incomprehensibility identical to the anti-Christian view of the incomprehensibility of the universe (as we cannot reduce everything to logical relations).”
I seems to me that there are many anti-Christians who think they have it all figured out and, thus, would not fit into Van Til’s category here. It is more likely that I don’t understand his point. So much more important than that is what he has in quotes which I give a hearty “amen” to!
This was my introduction to how he uses the term “Analogical.” I may take some time to chew on that and, if I get the chance, will have a second reading when possible.
Thank you for sharing!
Oh…and I see that Van Til lived into the postmodern era. I wonder what he thought of that? (I think I sorta know but maybe he didn’t have time for such nonsense.)
Wow that’s the deep end of the pool you wade into! Van Til would be no friend of postmodernity and I think he would see it confirming his thesis that unbelief always swings back and forth from hard rationalism (that ultimately isn’t rational) to irrationalism (that is inconsistent too with sneaking back rationality). Van Til points out nonbelievers and believers don’t have the same idea of incomprehensibility with the irrational/rational dialectic. Versus believers see God is always rational and comprehend things but we are finite as creatures and due to sin we don’t see things comprehensively and even if things are mysterious we still know it’s rational because of God. There’s so much more to say! I’m hoping I make sense lol.
That makes a good deal of sense, Pastor Jim. After reading this article, I’m sure with you that Van Til would be no friend of postmodern thought. I bet he has a quote about it somewhere. I think I’ll spend some time checking that out and will leave another comment here if I find anything.
After a quick check I did find this quote by John Frame:
“Frame proposes that postmodernism be viewed in terms of Van Til’s analysis of the history of non-Christian thought as the working out of a kind of dialectic between a rationalistic impulse and an irrationalistic impulse. If Van Til were alive today, Frame comments, “he would say that the ‘new thinking’ of our time is really nothing drastically different from what has been going on since the Garden of Eden. Essentially, it is rationalism and irrationalism.”
I’ll look a bit longer but Frame probably knows Van Til as well as just about anyone.
Hey Chris! Super glad that you read my article. It is a tough topic, but it seems like it sparked the right things in your mind. I’m glad that you come off reading the article knowing that “Van Til was no friend of postmodernism”.
I am trying up a bit of traffic on the blog – I would appreciate it if you could leave some of your comments on there as well 😀
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