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Point: Sometimes when one engage in apologetics the issue of an unbeliever or alleged believer say they don’t like a Biblical doctrine because it isn’t “nice.” What they go on to say is they want doctrines that are sweet, “loving” and makes them feel good inside. How do you respond?
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Point: Sometimes when one engage in apologetics the issue of alleged Bible contradiction comes up. I just recently refuted an alleged contradiction; see my “Was Enoch the sixth or the seventh from Adam?” There are times when those who assert that there are contradictory verses in the Bible fail to a word in the context of authorial intent. But if one fail to recognize authorial intent, then a word in someone’s sentence can be taken out of context to mean something else so then a skeptic can easily assume there’s a Bible contradiction when there are none. Are there any examples of this error to get the point across to a skeptic of their foolish methodology and mistake?
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Point: Presuppositional apologetics is really a worldview apologetics that among other things, analyzes the foundational beliefs of those who challenge the BIblical worldview. In other words, Presuppositionalists engages in an internal critique against an opponent’s presuppositions to show how they cannot provide the “solid foundation” to make human experiences intelligible and meaningful. Sometimes people might not understand what the presuppositionalists is doing so an illustration is in order.
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Point: Presuppositional apologetics is really a worldview apologetics that among other things, analyzes the foundational beliefs of those who challenge the Christian worldview. In other words, Presuppositionalists engages in an internal critique against an opponent’s presuppositions to show how they cannot provide the “solid foundation” to make human experiences intelligible and meaningful. Sometimes people might not understand what the presuppositionalists is doing so an illustration is in order.
Posted in Apologetics, apologetics illustrations, christian apologetics, Christianity, counter-cult, discernment, Polyergus breviceps, tagged Apologetics, Christianity, Discernment ministry, Theology on June 14, 2021| 34 Comments »
Point: Sometimes during evangelistic conversations I notice various forms of the composition logical fallacies being committed. I thought this would be a good illustration to convey the point of how composition fallacies
Posted in Apologetics, apologetics illustrations, christian apologetics, Christianity, counter-cult, discernment, Polyergus breviceps, tagged Apologetics, Christianity, Discernment ministry, Theology on May 28, 2021| 31 Comments »
Point: Contrary to the spirit of our age, the New Testament has a lot to say about false teaching and false teachers. Believers are to be on the alert for them, to resist false doctrines , refute them, warn others about it and not to fellowship with false teachers. Sometimes Christians today lack discernment and often will just let false teachers go because they use Christian vocabulary with different meanings; that is, false teachers have a pass among some Christians because their false teachings are “sprinkled” with a little bit of Christianese even though the true meaning of their contents are not Christian at all. It might be appropriate to get the idea across that Christians must be aware of false teachers (be it in the form of a cult leader, compromiser, Liberal or secularists) with the following illustration.
Posted in Apologetics, apologetics illustrations, apologetics tactics, christian apologetics, Christianity, Presuppositional Apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, tagged Apologetics, apologetics illustrations, apologetics tactics, christian apologetics, Christianity, Presupposiitonalism, presuppositional apologetics, Reformed, Theology on May 10, 2021| 27 Comments »
Point: How often do you hear people say that Christianity can’t be true because they have already tried religion and their old religion has been disproven so therefore Christianity can’t be true. We must realize that this type of argument against Christianity though one hear it often during evangelism nevertheless it does not have that much weight as it might seem initially.
Posted in Apologetics, apologetics illustrations, Bible contradiction, bible difficulties, christian apologetics, Christianity, Presuppositional Apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, tagged Apologetics, apologetics illustration, Bible, Bible contradiction, christian apologetics, Christianity, God, presuppositional apologetics, presuppositionalism on April 29, 2021| 23 Comments »
Point: A few days ago I wrote Quick Thoughts on the Inter-relationship of Biblical Theology and Systematic Theology in which I mentioned there is a place for Systematic Theology in terms of looking at the inter-relationship of a biblical doctrine with other biblical doctrines. How does various doctrines which are clearly taught in Scripture inter-relate with one another? That’s the place of systematic theology. Also when we look at the Bible and an apologist works on harmonizing alleged Bible contradictions it involves seeing how various passages “fit” with one another. How can we illustrate the endeavor of harmonizing biblical doctrines and biblical passages?
Posted in Apologetic Links, Apologetics, apologetics illustrations, apologetics methodology, apologetics tactics, christian apologetics, Christianity, Cornelius Van Til, Presuppositional Apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, Van Til, tagged Apologetic Links, Apologetics, apologetics illustrations, apologetics methodology, apologetics tactics, christian apologetics, Christianity, Cornelius Van Til, presuppositional apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, Van Til on February 18, 2021| 29 Comments »
Over some years I’ve been slowly writing down illustrations that I thought might be helpful for sermons or evangelism that has apologetics’ thrusts.
Here’s 60 of them arranged topically. Which one was your favorite?
Posted in Apologetics, apologetics illustrations, Bible contradiction, bible difficulties, christian apologetics, Christianity, Presuppositional Apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, tagged Apologetics, apologetics illustration, Bible, Bible contradiction, christian apologetics, Christianity, God, presuppositional apologetics, presuppositionalism on February 9, 2021| 32 Comments »
Point: Sometimes when one engage in apologetics the issue of alleged Bible contradiction comes up. There are times when those who assert that there are contradictory verses in the Bible fail to acknowledge that words can have more than one meaning and thus a word used in one context does not mean the same thing in another context. But if one fail to recognize there are differences of meaning of the word being used in two separate contexts, a skeptic can easily assume there’s a Bible contradiction when there are none. Are there any examples of this error to get the point across to a skeptic of their foolish methodology and mistake?
Posted in Apologetics, apologetics illustrations, christian apologetics, Christianity, Cornelius Van Til, Presuppositional Apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, Van Til, tagged Apologetics, apologetics illustration, christian apologetics, Chrsitianity, Cornelius Van Til, presuppositional apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, Van Til on October 24, 2020| 23 Comments »
Point: Presuppositional apologetics as founded by Cornelius Van Til make the point that the evidence for Christianity is plentiful but the reason for the unbelief is because of man’s sinfulness that suppress the truth in unrighteousness. Sometimes people would object to the apologist and say that that is not true. As a Christian apologist we say that the reality is there’s times when people can have so much evidence before them and still don’t live it out though the signs of its truth is all around them. Can we think of an example outside the area of apologetics’ discussion where people chose not to believe the truth even though its obvious all around them but they chose instead to go ahead to live their life a certain way?
Picture: Here is a news story that illustrate the point of Presuppositional apologetics:
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Point: Presuppositional apologetics as founded by Cornelius Van Til make the point that to attack Christianity ends up being self-destructive to one’s worldview, making things unintelligible and meaningless. The bigger problem isn’t the “gadfly” of a Christian doctrine; but rather to try to remove it results in more serious problems.
Picture: Here is a news story that illustrate the point of Presuppositional apologetics:
Posted in Apologetics, apologetics illustrations, Bible contradiction, bible difficulties, christian apologetics, Christianity, Presuppositional Apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, tagged Apologetics, apologetics illustration, Bible, Bible contradiction, christian apologetics, Christianity, God, presuppositional apologetics, presuppositionalism on August 24, 2020| 28 Comments »
Point: Sometimes when one engage in apologetics the issue of alleged Bible contradiction comes up. There are times when those who assert that there are contradictory verses in the Bible fail to acknowledge that words can have more than one meaning and thus a word used in one context does not mean the same thing in another context. But if one fail to recognize there are differences of meaning of the word being used in two separate contexts, a skeptic can easily assume there’s a Bible contradiction when there are none. Are there any examples of this error to get the point across to a skeptic of their foolish methodology and mistake?
Posted in Apologetic Links, Apologetics, apologetics illustrations, apologetics methodology, christian apologetics, Christianity, Cornelius Van Til, Presuppositional Apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Reformed apologetics, Reformed Theological Seminary, Theology, Van Til, tagged Apologetic Links, Apologetics, apologetics methodology, christian apologetics, Christianity, Cornelius Van Til, presuppositional apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Reformed apologetics, reformed theological seminary, Theology, Van Til on September 19, 2019| 27 Comments »
Today I want to share a thesis that was completed for a Masters of Religion that was completed over at Reformed Theological Seminary. It was completed last year in 2018. It is titled “A Defense of Presuppositional Apologetics and Its Practical Application to the Public University Campus” and written by R. Shane Hartley. I have found Presuppositional apologetics when properly understood and properly employed to be a very helpful and powerful apologetic. I am also involved with college campus evangelism in which I will start back again next Lord willing (pray for me!). So this thesis obviously caught my attention.
What is this thesis specifically about? In his introductory paragraph to his thesis Mr. Hartley wrote the following summary:
Posted in Apologetics, apologetics illustrations, Bible, Bible contradiction, bible difficulties, christian apologetics, Christianity, Reformed, Theology, tagged Apologetics, apologetics illustrations, Bible, Bible contradiction, christian apologetics, Christianity, Theology on September 7, 2019| 24 Comments »
Point: I had to write down this analogy that I discussed in a podcast at Biblical Beginnings that is going to come out next week. Sometimes when one engage in evangelism and apologetics the issue of alleged Bible contradiction comes up and the example given of a Bible contradiction really isn’t a Bible contradiction. What I found helpful is to ask the skeptic to define what is a contradiction as the foundation for the direction of any further discussion of whether or not there’s a Bible contradiction. Here’s the definition I give for “contradiction:”
A contradiction occurs when two or more claims conflict with one another so that they cannot simultaneously be true in the same sense and at the same time. To put it another way, a Bible contradiction exists when there are claims within the Bible that are mutually exclusive in the same sense and at the same time.
Are there illustrations to help us think more critically and accurately of when there’s a contradiction and when there’s an apparent contradiction (that is, they really are not a contradiction)?
