Exactly eleven years and two days ago on this blog I started a series slowly writing down illustrations that I thought might be helpful for sermons or evangelism that has apologetics’ thrusts.
Here’s 80 of them arranged topically. Which one was your favorite?
Illustrations in Defense of the Importance of Doctrines and the need for Discernment of False Doctrines
- The school bell that was a bomb and importance of being able to identify bad doctrines
- Secret Service do train with false currency as well with true currency
- Beware of parasitic false teachers and Polyergus breviceps Parasitic ants
- Why Doctrinal Details matter and the case of Kenyan accidental flight to North Korea rather than South Korea
- Marines’ Body Armor and Trust or Criticism of What One Believes
- Messianic Prophecy And A Red Carpet Premiere
- Why we warn against false teachers and a registered sex offender in a retreat for sex assault survivors
Illustrations Explaining and Defending the Gospel
- Rejection of man-centered theology/philosophy
- Poor excuses against rejecting Christianity
- Bad excuses for rejecting Jesus and Christianity and the analogy of dental care
- Rejecting Christianity because of bad religious leaders and the analogy of rejecting dental care because of a bad orthodontist
- There are Too Many Religions Which One is True and Counterfeit Currencies
- Hypocrisy, Christianity and the Case of Patrick Rock
- Hypocrisy, Christianity and the Drunk Police Officer
- Does a Fake Police Officer disprove real Officers Exist and Disproof of Christianity
- False assumptions, Composition Fallacy and Malaysian flag mistaken for American flag with ISIS symbols
- Will Smith Oscars’ 10 year Ban and Duration of Hell
- Handling Bible Contradictions
- Bible Contradictions and Fitting Puzzle Pieces
- Idioms of Love and Bible Contradictions
- Whoppers and Bible Contradictions
- Bible Contradiction and Gold Medal at the Cambrian Patrol
- Bible Contradiction and the Word “Left”
- Bible Contradiction and Louisiana Purchase
- Bible Contradiction and Thanksgiving Story
- Refuting Contradictions and Martial Arts Punch
- Defining Contradiction and Dalmatian
- Bible Contradictions and September 11th
- Bible Contradiction and Lyrics in Context
- Bible Contradiction and Contronyms
- Bible Contradiction and Mistaking ‘poppers’ for Candy
- Contradiction and the Word with the Most Definitions
- Water Connect Puzzle and Harmonization of Doctrines and Bible Contradictions
- Bible in context and Florida man flies banner as marriage proposal mistaken for racism
- Bible Contradiction and Multiple Meaning of “Watch Your Back”
- Old Meaning of Art, Science and Philosophy and the mistake made by those who thinks Christianity is contradictory
- Our sins and the problem with self-righteousness before a Good God
- Defense of Sharing the Gospel
Illustrations of Presuppositional Apologetics
- On methodology
- Without God’s Word in Apologetics is like being in a military combat role without guns
- Electric Circuit and Circularity of Worldview
- Shape Sorter Toy and how epistemology shape Metaphysics
- Javelin Missile and Laying out Biblical Doctrines for Apologetics’ Methodology
- Flamethrowers and Refuting Presuppositions
- The Person who denied the Sun
- Man blows up part of house while chasing fly
- Motorcyclist dies while protesting without a helmet against helmet laws
- Attacking Corporations and Banks while depending on Corporations and Banks to even attack it
- Why we question alleged disproof that mathematics or Christianity are not true
- Blackouts and one’s dependence on Electricity and man’s dependence on God
- Using Rights to Hand Guns While Critical of Rights to Hand Guns
- Transcendental Arguments and Chelsea Clinton’s Suicidal Argument
- Bad foundations of worldviews and Louisiana Sinkhole
- Self-refuting arguments and Soviet Anti-tank dogs
- Snake Biting Self and Self-Refuting Arguments
- Don’t believe Oxygen exists? What If The World Lost Oxygen For 5 Seconds?
- Torching A Safe Full of Fire Works and Self-Destructive Arguments
- Trying to Kill A Spider by burning down the House and how atheists argue
- Going Against God While Relying On Him and man who stole ambulance sent to help him
- Transcendental Argument illustrated with Would-be robber breaks leg, calls ambulance with shop’s payphone
- FBI going after terrorist network and not just individuals and importance of refuting worldviews
- Transcendental Argument illustrated with Anti-Cop Rapper Has Life Saved by Cops
- Refuting Presuppositions and Ant Bait
- Refuting Presuppositions and Handling ISIS Drones
- Refuting Presuppositions and Fighting Terrorist Financing
- Three Little Pigs and Apologetics’ Methodology
- Riot Glass and a Sure Foundation
- Refutations
- Doing Math with Dice and Atheism’s Destruction of Knowledge
- Spin the Bottle for Multiple Choice Homework and Atheism’s Destruction of Knowledge
- Accidental and Stolen Stop Signs and Source of Morals
- Blindfold Ear-Plugged Pig Catching and Epistemic Virtue
- Sentences from Spin the Wheel and the destruction of information in Non-Theistic Worldview
Psalm 86:6-7
Hear, LORD, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions. In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me. (Shows faith)
Thank you for that passage! How did your Fourth of July go??
It was a quiet day for me so this means it went well. 😊 And yours?
My day went well on the 4th! With kids and wife! And fireworks…I do like fireworks lol. Have a blessed day! I’ll email back after my teaching tonight with church
No hurry to email back and no pressure at all. Take your time. I just returned from Bible Study. 😊
The image of the electric circuit connecting epistemology, metaphysics and ethics stood out for me. Thank you for posting that.
Thanks! I really enjoyed writing that one and using it to teach worldview apologetics
Thanks for organizing these resources. Very helpful.
Shalom!
Jim, I latched on to the very first post. I found the illustration very real, and it definitely connected to the falsehood of doctrine . . . especially when it just might be right under our noses.
Thanks for reading this and sharing it spoke to you; may we be discerning and yet gracious
Wow! What a great resource! Thanks for compiling this list. I appreciate all of your hard work to help equip the saints!
Thanks Tom! How did your post-4th Day go? Recovering???
RE: post-4th day
Thanks! My oldest sister from Arizona is visiting next week, so my wife and I were tag-teaming cleaning the windows today. Started at 11AM and quit at 5PM with 4 windows left. Harder than working at L3H. Have to clean the garage tomorrow in addition to finishing the windows. I’ll be going to work on Friday to rest up.
How is your post-4th day going?
Congrats on yet another milestone!
I won’t try to pick a favorite–because then I’d have to read and re-read them all for comparison!
lol. Thank you for reading them in the past Craig!
The poppers mistaken for candy. Was baby yoda/grogu part of this series? That was a good one too!
I don’t remember the Yoda analogy do remind me! Glad to see you tonight! I am in chapter two of Kruger’s book; wow it’s super good!!!
Baby Yoda eating eggs and the outrage that ensued. https://veritasdomain.wordpress.com/2020/11/14/baby-yoda-eating-eggs-and-the-state-of-our-society/ Glad you’re liking Kruger!
Thanks for sharing your hard work! God Bless!
Thanks Andy!!
A great set!
Thanks much! 🙂
You are welcome! Thanks sister for dropping by and also reading various illustrations on here over the years!
Thanks for posting…🙌👏
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That’s a lot of helpful analogies this will help me with my witnessing to my coworkers and family