MP3s of Historical Apologetics from Presuppositional Apologetics

In terms of teaching apologetics my Unit 1 are lessons on Worldview, Unit 2 here is on historical apologetics but from a Presuppositional Apologetics angle.

I thought I put together the MP3s in a table of content of unit two below.

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Mid to Late April 2024 Presuppositional Apologetic Links

Here are the links on Presuppositional apologetics from April 8th-30th, 2024!

1.) Cave to the Cross’ Apologetics: Summary Of Presuppositional Reformed Apologetics – Ep.269 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Apologetics And The Authority Of Revelation – Part 1

2.) Apologetics Sermon Illustration # 94: Beware of parasitic false teachers and Polyergus breviceps Parasitic ants

3.) Introduction to Apologetics Series: Methods I (10 of 31)

4.) Back to Basics of Presuppositional Apologetics

5.) Evolution, Creation, and Legal Rights for Trees

6.) Guest Post: Understanding Van Til’s Trinitarian Apologetics in a Baptist Context

7.) Can Evolution Explain the Origin of Lungs?

8.) Guest Post: Faulty reasons not to believe

9.) The Myth of the Given & Its Presup Apologetic Application

10.) Free Audiobook: The Word of Flux: Modern Man and the Problem of Knowledge

11.) Panda Thumbs and Bad Atheistic Theology

12.) Pros & Cons Of Presuppositionalism Reformed Apologetics – Ep.270 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Apologetics And The Authority Of Revelation – Part 2

13.) Kant and Van Til | A reply to the Reformed classicalist

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Question: What is “Spirit of Christ” referring to?

This post addresses a question that came up during a Question and Answer period.

From 1 Peter 1:11:

seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

The question is what is the Spirit of Christ referring to?  Is it the Holy Spirit or the Spirit within Christ?

I share my thoughts below:

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What does Thomas Watson mean when he said “GOD IS THE SWEETEST FRIEND, BUT THE WORST ENEMY”?

I thought I share some quick thoughts on a question that arose from someone overseas: “What does Thomas Watson mean when he said ‘GOD IS THE SWEETEST FRIEND, BUT THE WORST ENEMY.’”

Here’s my quick take:

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Question: When will I have to preach from the Book of Joshua?

I am teaching online on Sunday afternoons for a group that train pastors.  Specifically I am teaching Old Testament survey.

Someone yesterday asked a good question: When will be an opportunity a pastor might have to preach from the Book of Joshua in one’s church?

I share my thoughts below:

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Question: Does 3 John 2 teach Prosperity Gospel?

I thought I share some quick thoughts on a question that arose when I taught overseas: “Does 3 John 2 teach Prosperity Gospel?”

The verse states:

Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers.

Here’s my quick take:

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Answering questions about the Scripture in a succinct manner

There’s a long way of answering questions with nuanced; there’s also sometimes one need to have rapid answers in a succinct manner.

This is one that is in a succinct manner.  I think that’s important to be balanced.

Here’s my exercise

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Question: How does the Antithesis impact Apologetics Methodology?

I thought I share some quick thoughts on “How does the Antithesis impact Apologetics Methodology?”

Here’s my quick take:

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Question: How do you Presuppositional Apologetics respond to this question about certainty in knowledge?

Someone asked:

It seems like some of the lower level Presupps here think that the atheist cannot Know anything with absolute certainty. I don’t think that is true at all.

I cannot Know something if I do not believe something. To Know something for this example at least, simply means to have a justified true belief. So there is no Knowledge without 3 parts, you must believe p, have a justification for the belief in p, and p must be true. If one of those criteria is not true then you cannot know p.

I know with absolute certainty that the proposition p ( I Know that I am omniscient) is false.

I know with absolute certainty that the proposition p2 (I know I am fluent in 15 languages) is false.

I know with absolute certainty that the proposition p3 (I know I am 7 feet tall) is false.

I know with absolute certainty that the proposition p4 (I know that 2+2=5 is true) is false.

Those propositions are false because I do not believe them to be true. So given the above definition of knowledge, I know those propositions are false with absolute certainty. (How would you respond)?

Here’s my quick take:

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Question: How do you apply Presuppositional Apologetics to the notion that perhaps we are in a simulation?

I’m getting ready for an apologetics podcast I’ll be on next week.

One of things we hope to do would be answering some objections to Presuppositional apologetics, and also the perpsective of Presuppositional Apologetics with certain difficulties.

Someone asked:

How do you apply presuppositional apologetics to the notion that perhaps we are in a simulation?

Here’s my quick take:

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Question: How does God know without sense organs?

Someone asked:

The presuppers say our senses are generally not reliable and this is somehow a problem for our epistemology. But are they forgetting that God has no senses? No eyes, no ears, no sensory organs. He’s made of nothing. How does a disembodied mind, made of nothing know anything other than their own internal self knowledge? This disembodied mind with no senses knows all true propositions? How? ‘He just does, by definition, blah blah blah’. It’s ridiculous. (How would you respond)

Here’s my quick take:

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The Apologetics Implication of Romans 15:4

Last week I wrote “What is the reason/defense for the faith that Peter have in mind for 1 Peter 3:15?”

I made the point that Messianic Prophecies is probably what Peter had in mind as a Christian’s “apologetics.”

I want to follow up on that with a thought I have related to this topic.

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Early October 2023 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links

Here are links on Presuppositional apologetics or be interesting to those interested in Presuppositional apologetics that were gathered from the world wide web between October 1st-7th, 2023.

I want to share this announcement first: Want to Write a Guest Posts for Our Blog for Fall 2023?

1.) Cave to the Cross 6 Meta Questions Of Apologetics – Ep.244 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Issues And Methods In Apologetics – Part 2

2.) Bible Contradiction? Was Sisera murdered in his sleep?

3.) Touching tribute: Keeping My Wife at a Distance Online

4.) What is the reason/defense for the faith that Peter have in mind for 1 Peter 3:15?

5.) Fallacy of False Equivalence

6.) Reasons Genesis is History

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What is the reason/defense for the faith that Peter have in mind for 1 Peter 3:15?

1 Peter 3:15 is the verse that is often called the Constitution verse for apologetics (the art and science of defense of the faith); the verse says:

but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, but with gentleness and respect;

I encourage also for those to read this for background on the verse and foundation for apologetics: Apologetics Session 1: Apologetics: What and Why.

But I want to focus on this post of what is the possible reason/defense that Peter had in mind when he said what he said about defending the faith in 1 Peter 3:15?

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Presuppositional Apologetics Round Up: Third Week of September to End of September 2023

Here are links related to Presuppositional apologetics gathered between September 15th-30th, 2023

1.) Cave to the Cross’ 4 Types Of Apologetic Methods – Ep.243 – Faith Has Its Reasons – Issues And Methods In Apologetics – Part 1

2.) Bible Contradiction? When did God divide light from darkness?

3.) The Enlightenment and Misrepresenting Religion

4.) Apologetics Sermon Illustration #90: Missions BBQ POW/MIA Memorial and Old Testament Types of Christ

 

5.) Can Evolution Explain Minds?

 

6.) Guest Post: The Inescapable Truth of Romans 1 and Its Implication for a Biblical Anthropology

7.) The Next 1,000 Years Of Christian Apologetics – Ep.242 – Faith Has Its Reasons – A Brief History Of Apologetics – Part 3

8.) Collection of 90 Apologetics’ Illustrations

 

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