Genesis 22 is Messianic Typology

Establish the need: Does Genesis 22 point us towards Christ?

Purpose: We will consider how Genesis 22 anticipates the Messiah is Jesus.

• The threat to the Messianic line teaches us to have faith in God’s promises
• There are messianic typologies
• To appreciate how this chapter is a type pointing to Christ

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Third Week of September 2022 Presuppositional Apologetics Round Up

Here are links related to Presuppositional apologetics gathered between September 15th-21st, 2022.

1.) Cave to the Cross’ No One Is Neutral, No Not One – Ep.194 – Against All Opposition – Unbelievers Are Not Neutral And Christians Shouldn’t Be – Part 1

2.) Theonomoney Interview: Presuppositional Parenting

3.) Episode 8 – A Case for Presuppositional Apologetics (Part 4)

4.) Bible contradiction? Did God command the Israelites to make him burnt offerings?

5.) Apologetics: What and Why | Apologist Answers

6.) The Geographical Details of Old Testament’s Messianic Prophecies

7.) Always Ready: Chap. 16 Worldviews In Collision

8.) Genesis 49:8-12 is Messianic Prophecy

9.) Animals Minus Traits Equals Evolution?

10.) Van Til: Common grace, ultimate and proximate starting points and arithmetic

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Genesis 49:8-12 is Messianic Prophecy

Establish the need: Did you know that within Genesis 49:8-12 there is a prediction of the coming Messiah?

Purpose: We will consider how Genesis 49:8-12 anticipates the Messiah is Jesus.

1. Clues from context of Pentateuch
2. Clues from within Genesis 49:8-12
3. Clues from the Aramaic Targum
4. Clues from the Rabbis

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Mid-September 2022 Presuppositional Apologetics Links

These are links concerning Presuppositional Apologetics gathered between September 8th-15th, 2022.

1.) Cave to the Cross’ Apologetics Effects Affect – Ep. 193 – Talk Given To The Michigan Apologetics Network

2.) Apologetics Outline Series Unit 2: Historical Apologetics Lessons

3.) Episode 7 – A Case for Presuppositional Apologetics (Part 3)

4.) Bible contradiction? Does God prefer castrated men?

5.) The Universal Argument

6.) Apologetics Sermon Illustration #81: Objections that Churches do not even recognize other churches and question of how many countries are there

7.) Genetics and the Coffin of Darwinism

8.) “What About Other Religions?”| A Response to Atheists

9.) Can Evolution Explain the Eye?

10.) Always Ready: Chap 15. Answering The Fool

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Apologetics Sermon Illustration #81: Objections that Churches do not even recognize other churches and question of how many countries are there

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Point: What do you say when people say that Christianity can’t be true because churches cannot even agree what churches are legitimate and what churches are churches and what’s a church in the first place?  I do not think there’s much weight as it might seem initially.

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Review: Can We Trust the Gospels?

Peter Williams. Can We Trust the Gospels?  Wheaton, IL: Crossway, November 30, 2018.  153 pp

5 out of 5

Purchase: Amazon

Want a good book that summarize the apologetics for the Gospels being trustworthy by a reputable New Testament scholar?  Consider picking up Peter Williams’ book Can We Trust the Gospels?  The author is a principle of Tyndale House at Cambridge that leads in biblical research.  The publisher Crossway has provided Christians a great resource and the author was able to summarize the case for the Gospels within the one hundred fifty page range and still gives us readers great food for thoughts and summary of new arguments by other apologists, and scholars.

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Genesis 3:15 is Messianic Prophecy

Establish the need: What was the first place that predicts the coming Messiah?

Purpose: We will consider how Genesis 3:15 anticipates the Messiah is Jesus.

• Clues from within Genesis 3:15
• Clues from Eve’s expectation in Genesis 4:1
• Clues from the Aramaic Targum
• Clues from the expectation of the coming of the Messiah with LamechClue from the expectation of the coming of the Messiah with Noah

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Mid-August 2022 Presuppositional Apologetics Links

Here are the links related to Presuppositional Apologetics gathered between August 8th-15th, 2022.

1.) Cave to the Cross’ Take Every Thought Captive – Ep.188 – Against All Opposition – Reasoning As A Christian Should

2.) Bible Contradiction? Should we hate other people?

3.) Wrong Ideas on the Origin of Polytheism

4.) Want to Write a Guest Posts for Our Blog for Fall 2022?

5.) Internet Atheists Proving God is Right about them — Again

6.) Apologetics Session 13: Jesus Existed in History

7.) The End of an Era. The Beginning of a New One.

8.) Presuppositional Apologetics tackling other religions and cults: Bibliography of Books and chapters of Books

9.) Unbelief Distorts Human Rationality

10.) Is evolution a religion? | Apologist Answers

11.) Pushing The Antithesis – Part 7 – Overcoming Metaphysical Bias

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Early August 2022 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links

Here are the links related to Presuppositional Apologetics gathered between August 1st-7th, 2022.

1.) Cave to the Cross Apologetics’  Facts Don’t Change Hearts – Ep.187 – Against All Opposition – Foundational Faith

2.) Bible Contradiction? Who may offer sacrifices to God?

3.) Apologists need to know who Cornelius Van Til was?

4.) Apologetics Session 12: Old Testament argument for the New Testament

5.) Using Scientism to Defend the Truth

6.) Review: The Question of Canon

7.) New Testament Origins: Five Misconceptions

8.) Rooted In Revelation Podcast: Redeeming Our Thinking About History

9.) Always Ready: Chap. 10 & 11 Common Ground & Point of Contact

10.) Compatibilism and it’s Critics Part 2: A Book Review of “Human Freedom, Divine Knowledge, and Mere Molinism” by Tim Stratton

11.) Apologists Rock: Top 6 Embarrassing Atheist Moments | Richard Dawkins, Greg Bahnsen, James White, Jeff Durbin, Friel

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Rooted In Revelation Podcast: Redeeming Our Thinking About History

I have really been enjoying Rooted In Revelation Podcast (Facebook page here) this past year.  It is a podcast that touch on theology, apologetics and Christian living.  This is hosted by Nate Burns.

There’s a recent show on the topic of Christianity and the study of history based upon Dr. Poythress’ new book (pictured above).

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Late July 2022 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links

This latest round up has a lot more stuff than usual!

Here are the links related to Presuppositional Apologetics gathered between July 22nd-31st, 2022.

1.) Cave to the Cross’ The War Between Faiths – Ep.186 – Against All Opposition – It’s Impossible To Think Without Presuppositions – Part 2

2.) Bible Contradiction? Does God dwell in temples?

3.) Doing Apologetics in an Anti-Apologetics Age – Voddie Baucham

4.) Review: Introduction to Logic by Jason Lisle

5.) Evolutionists Cling to Faith Despite Evidence

6.) Apologetics Outline Series Unit 1: Worldview Lessons

7.) The Failure of Classical Apologetics: Antony Flew

8.) Bible Contradiction? Which flying creeping things may we eat?

9.) Analogical Warfare: Van Til vs Aquinas

10.) Why Unbelievers Can’t Account for the Uniformity of Nature

11.) The Trinitarian Theology of Cornelius Van Til

12.) The Structure of Psalm 22

13.) THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND MORAL IMPOTENCY OF NATURAL LAW IN REFUTING HOMOSEXUALITY

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Review: Introduction to Logic by Jason Lisle

Jason Lisle. Introduction to Logic.  Green Forest, AK: Master Books, December 10, 2018. 192 pp.

5 out of 5

Purchase: Amazon

Do you want to improve your reasoning ability as a Christian?  Christian apologist Jason Lisle has written for us an introduction to the laws of logic.  Some who read this review might be thinking: Christian and logic?  Yes the two are compatible.  Jason Lisle’s book on logic follow a long tradition of Christian works on logic such as hymn writer Isaac Watts in 1725 with his Logic: The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry after Truth, Methodist founder John Wesley’s A Compendium Of Logic, and Gordon Clark’s textbook on logic, etc.  Jason Lisle himself is an astrophysicist who is involved with Creation ministries and previously I enjoyed his book titled Ultimate Proof that give a detailed introduction to Presuppositional Apologetics.  Seeing how good Dr Lisle writes I was looking for a book that I can introduced my daughters to the laws of logic and critical thinking and this book exceeded my expectation!

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Mid-July 2022 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links

Here are links gathered from July 8th-14th, 2022 on Presuppositional Apologetics/Presuppositionalism or subject matters that would be of interests to those who are into Presuppositional apologetics.

1.) Cave to the Cross’ All Have Faith In Their Reasons – Ep.184 – Against All Opposition – Faith Or Reason?

2.) Bible Contradiction? How old was Ahaziah when he began to reign?

3.) The Fawning Science Media and the Darwin Sausage Works

4.) Thoughts on questions on Exodus 21:1-6

5.) Apologetics from the Heart

6.) Video: Why Is “Presuppositional” Apologetics Superior To “Classical/Evidential” Apologetics? Right Response Ministries

7.) Review: Van Til’s “Christianity and Barthianism”

8.) Why You can’t Deny Objective Morality

9.) Trusting God in all seasons of life is the only way to live

10.) Apologetics Devotional Day 2

11.) Dr. Richard Brash on Van Til’s Presuppositions and Providential Preservation of Scripture

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Collection of 80 Apologetics’ Illustrations

 

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?

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Apologetics Sermon Illustration #80: Old Meaning of Art, Science and Philosophy and the mistake made by those who thinks Christianity is contradictory

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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 different meanings 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?

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