Van Til’s Thought on Vatican 2

Many apologists today do not want to tackle Roman Catholicism.  This is something our friend Ex-Catholic Tom points out in many conversations I have had with him.

Not so with Cornelius Van Til.

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End of May 2023 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links

These are Presuppositional apologetics’ links gathered between May 22nd-31st, 2023. Enjoy!

1.) Cave to the Cross’ The Bible’s Rationale For The Gospel – Ep.227 – Apologetics By John Frame – Proving The Gospel – Part

2.) Bible Contradiction? Who bought the sepulcher in Shechem from the sons of Hamor?

3.) Darwinism and the Rwandan Genocide

4.) Sola Scriptura and the Church Fathers Series: Scripture is Self-Authenticating

5.)Van Til Seminar (8 of 10): Survey of Christian Epistemology (God’s Incomprehensibility; Worldview)

6.) Van Til’s Thoughts: Apologists don’t need to know everything and the power of an Argument from the Precondition of Intelligibility

7.) Van Til Seminar (7 of 10): Survey of Christian Epistemology (Plato; God’s Incomprehensibility)

8.) Review: Christ, Caste & Church

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Van Til’s Thoughts: Apologists don’t need to know everything and the power of an Argument from the Precondition of Intelligibility

I want to share something that I read recently from Cornelius Van Til that touches on how how a Christian apologists doesn’t need to know everything and yet there is the power of an Argument from the Precondition of Intelligibility needs the Christian worldview.

Cornelius Van Til is a theologian, apologist and philosopher that I appreciate since he tried to be biblically driven during his life time and academic career (Years ago I posted A SYLLABUS ON CORNELIUS VAN TIL’S HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND CONTRIBUTION TO PRESUPPOSITIONAL APOLOGETICS).

His writings are not always easy to read but it is always rewarding for me to work through them especially when he gives great insight with theological and apologetics methods.

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Sola Scriptura and the Church Fathers Series: Scripture is Self-Authenticating

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I have in the past written on the topic that Scripture is self-attesting.

Here’s a two part video discussions on this topic and also about Church history (church fathers) and Sola Scriptura.

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Presuppositional Apologetic’s Links: Third Week of May 2023

 

These are links concerning Presuppositional apologetics gathered from May 15th-21st, 2023. 

1.) Cave to the Cross’ Cosmological And Ontological Arguments – Ep.225 – Apologetics By John Frame – Theistic Argument – Part 4

2.) Bible Contradiction? What animals must you sacrifice each day?

3.) Van Til Seminar (7 of 10): Survey of Christian Epistemology (Plato; God’s Incomprehensibility)

4.) Apologetic Sermon Illustration #87: Not forgetting the Prize and Remembering Christ

5.) An Evangelist for the Gospel of Darwin

6.) Messianic Passages and the Salvation of Nations

 

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Apologetic Sermon Illustration #87: Not forgetting the Prize and Remembering Christ

GO TO PART 86

Point: This might be more biblical counseling but have you had to deal with someone who do not live out the biblical worldview and end up forgetting to focus on Christ?  In some sense that’s all of us especially when we sin.  Yet it is foolish.  How do we capture the foolishness of that?

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Early May 2023 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Round up

Here are links related to Presuppositional apologetics gathered between May 1st-7th, 2023.

1.) Cave to the Cross’ Absolute Moral Authority – Ep.223 – Apologetics By John Frame – Theistic Argument – Part 2

2.) Bible Contradiction? Is it OK to marry unbelievers?

3.) 5 Myths about Human Reasoning

4.) Van Til’s Thought: Assumptions behind the assertion that “nobody knows”

5.) Draconian Darwinism Spreads Anti-Science

6.) Apologetic Sermon Illustration #86: Popular Human Authorities can be wrong and 51 Intel Officials

7.) Van Til Seminar (5 of 10): Survey of Christian Epistemology (Transcendental Argumentation)

8.) Transsexuality and Transhumanism

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Apologetic Sermon Illustration #86: Popular Human Authorities can be wrong and 51 Intel Officials

GO TO PART 85

Point: Ever had a conversation where someone keep making an appeal to authority but don’t want to discuss the actual truth claims and contents of argumentation instead?  How do you respond?

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Van Til’s Thought: Assumptions behind the assertion that “nobody knows”

You ever hear people, when they are uncomfortable with the claims of Christianity, asserts that nobody knows the truth?

I am reading slowly a book by Cornelius Van Til a theologian, apologist and philosopher and I thought he made some good observations of the assumptions behind this assertion.

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Mid to Late April 2023 Presuppositional Apologetics Links

Here are links related to the subject of Presuppositional apologetics gathered online between April 11th-30th, 2022.

1.) Cave to the Cross’ The Moral Argument For Theism – Ep.222 – Apologetics By John Frame – Theistic Argument – Part 1

2.) Guest Post: Review of The Sufficiency of Scripture in Apologetics

3.) Van Til Seminar (4 of 10): Van Til’s Publications (Apologetics in the Theological Encyclopedia)

4.) Story from Ministry travels: A tale of two presuppositonalists

5.) Evidences for God and the Bible

6.) Presuppositional Apologetics and the Relevance of Creation

7.) Guest Post: 1 Peter 3:15 and Multiple Translations in a Congregation

8.) Can Evolution Explain the Human Brain?

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Early April 2023 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links

Here are links related to Presuppositional apologetics gathered between April 1st-7th, 2023.  Enjoy!

1.) Resurrection or Evolution as a Basis for Hope

2.) Bible Contradiction? When was the Holy Ghost given?

3.) The Deductive Proof of Christianity

4.) Van Til’s Thought: Examining the Metaphysical foundation of Logic when someone say there’s a Bible Contradiction

5.) Van Til Seminar (1 of 10): Van Til’s Life and Career

6.) Apologetic Sermon Illustration #85: Doctrinal Details matter and FBI busted into the wrong hotel room during a training exercise and held a Delta pilot handcuffed

7.)

Resolving 54 Bible Contradictions from Jesus’ Final Week to His Ascension

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Apologetic Sermon Illustration #85: Doctrinal Details matter and FBI busted into the wrong hotel room during a training exercise and held a Delta pilot handcuffed

GO TO PART 84

Point: Ever had someone object that all religion are all the same, that it leads down to the same road?  Or ever have someone say that the details of religion doesn’t matter and that any religious differences between Christianity and other religions are rather superficial?  How do you respond?

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Van Til’s Thought: Examining the Metaphysical foundation of Logic when someone say there’s a Bible Contradiction

Readers of this blog over the years probably notice I regularly talk about Presuppositional Apologetics as articulated by Cornelius Van Til and also dealing with alleged Bible contradictions.  Just real quick Cornelius Van Til is a theologian, apologist and philosopher that I appreciate since he tried to be biblically driven during his life time and academic career (Years ago I posted A SYLLABUS ON CORNELIUS VAN TIL’S HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND CONTRIBUTION TO PRESUPPOSITIONAL APOLOGETICS).

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Late March 2023 Presuppositional Apologetics’ links

Here are the links related to Presuppositional apologetics that was rounded up from the web from March 22nd-31st, 2023.

1.) Cave to the Cross’ The Church’s Purpose In Relationship To God – Ep.218 – Scripture Teaching

2.) Bible Contradiction? Did Mary Magdalene recognize Jesus when he first appeared to her?

3.) Evolutionism and the Vietnam War

4.) Presuppositional Apologetics is more than than just pointing out non-Christians have faith too

5.) Double Dose of the Presuppositional Worldview

6.) Evolutionary Psychology is Absurd

8.) Presuppositional Procedure

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Presuppositional Apologetics is more than than just pointing out non-Christians have faith too

I have heard well meaning Christians tell me that they like Presuppositional Apologetics. Which of course I’m happy to hear as an advocate of Presuppositional apologetics.  They say that it is because we need to point out that nonbelievers have presuppositions.  That’s true but Presuppositional apologetics is more than just pointing out non-Christians have presuppositions too.

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