Early December 2022 Presuppositional Apologetics Links

These are links concerning Presuppositional apologetics gathered from December 1st-7th, 2022.

In light of the Holidays here’s our 13th Annual Presuppositional Apologetics’ Christmas Books Recommendations:  Christmas Recommended Books on Presuppositional Apologetics for 2022

1.) Cave To The Cross Apologetics – Redux – J. Warner Wallace Interview

2.) Bible Contradiction? Was Solomon David’s second or fourth son by Bathsheba?

3.) Why They Reject the Truths of Design and Creation

4.) Biblical Theology and Self-Attesting Nature of Scripture

5.) eVideNce fOr eVoLutiOn!!!!

6.) Episode 19 – A Case for 6-Day Creation (Part 7) – Evolution vs Answers in Genesis

7.) David versus Goliath is a Messianic Type

8.) Rejoinder: The myth of secular moral chaos (Sam Harris)

 

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Biblical Theology and Self-Attesting Nature of Scripture

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I have written a few years ago “Quick Thoughts on the self attesting nature of the Bible.”  I thought I add to that discussion on the self-attesting nature of the Bible and how Biblical Theology helps us crystalize how the Bible is itself self-attesting.

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Late November 2022 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links

Here are the links related to Presuppositional apologetics gathered between November 22nd-30th, 2022.

In light of the Holidays here’s our 12 Annual Presuppositional Apologetics’ Christmas Books Recommendations: Christmas Recommended Books on Presuppositional Apologetics for 2022

1.) Cave to the Cross’ 9th Book Announcement

2.) Bible Contradiction? Who tempted David to number Israel?

3.) Darwin Succeeded through Huxley Conspiracies

4.) The Book of Ruth is Messianic

5.) Why is it necessary to appeal to God for objective morals? | Apologist Answers

6.) Episode 18 – A Case for 6-Day Creation (Part 6) – Evolution vs Spike Psarris

7.) Outline Teaching on Messianic Prophecies from the Book of Moses Series

8.) Book Review: The Best Religion For the Task At Hand

9.) David’s Final Words are Messianic

10.) 5 COMMON Objections To Presuppositional Apologetics ANSWERED

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Christmas Recommended Books on Presuppositional Apologetics for 2022

I’m especially excited to present our annual Christmas Recommended Books on Presuppositional apologetics and Van Til’s apologetics.  That is because this is our blog’s thirteenth year in which we post our recommendations of books as Christmas gifts on the subject of Presuppositional apologetics or the Christian worldview!

Below are links to the recommendations from previous years, and if you are new to the whole thing with Presuppositional apologetics and want something introductory I highly recommend the first two books we recommend this year along with the listing from 2014 which we highlighted in bold:

• Christmas wish list in Presuppositional Christian Apologetics (2010)
• Christmas Gift Book Lists on Christian Worldview and Apologetics Discipleship 2011 (2011)
• More Christmas Gift Book Lists on Christian Worldview and Apologetics Discipleship (2012)
• More Christmas wish list in Presuppositional Christian Apologetics (2013) (2013)
• Christmas Recommended Books on Presuppositional Apologetics for 2014
• Christmas Recommended Books on Presuppositional Apologetics for 2015
• Christmas Recommended Books on Presuppositional Apologetics for 2016
• Christmas Recommended Books on Presuppositional Apologetics for 2017
• Christmas Recommended Books on Presuppositional Apologetics for 2018
• Christmas Recommended Books on Presuppositional Apologetics for 2019
• Christmas Recommended Books on Presuppositional Apologetics for 2020
• Christmas Recommended Books on Presuppositional Apologetics for 2021

This year list’s of recommended books on Presuppositional apologetics is listed below.  Each work will have a link to my fuller review and also links to where one can purchase the book.

Here’s this year’s recommendations:

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Presuppositional Apologetics Links: Third Week of November 2022

These are links concerning Presuppositional apologetics gathered from November 15th-21st, 2022.

1.) Cave to the Cross’ Apologetics’ The Internal Critique Of Other Religions – Ep.203 – Biblical Counterfeit Religions

2.) Bible contradiction? Is it OK to take a census?

3.) The Old Testament & the Philosophy of Evidence w/ Jim

4.) Review: Immanuel Kant by Shao Kai Tseng

5.) Weaponizing the Peer Review Process Backfires

6.) Hannah’s Song is Messianic

7.) Episode 17 – A Case for 6-Day Creation (Part 5) – Significant Objection #2 – Distant Starlight

8.) Videos of the Bahnsen Conference 2022

9.) The foundations of atheistic/agnostic morality

10.) THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE “POSSIBILITY” ENTAILED BY JOHN DAVENANT’S HYPOTHETICAL UNIVERSALISM (R.I.P.)

11.) Review: The Faithful Apologist: Rethinking the Role of Persuasion in Apologetics

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Review: The Faithful Apologist: Rethinking the Role of Persuasion in Apologetics

K. Scott Oliphint. The Faithful Apologist: Rethinking the Role of Persuasion in Apologetics. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic, February 22nd 2022. 224 pp.

4 out of 5

Purchase: Westminster | Amazon

Want to read a biblical book on persuasion in the context of evangelism and apologetics?  This book is worth considering.  It is written by a professor of apologetics, K. Scott Oliphint.  Oliphint teaches at Westminster Theological Seminary and is also a Presuppositional Apologist.  I know some people have told me they think Presuppositionalists have no interests with persuading people but only to refute unbelievers; this book suggests otherwise.  I’m glad that a book on persuasion was written by someone who is a Presuppositionalist!

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Review: Immanuel Kant by Shao Kai Tseng

Shao Kai Tseng. Immanuel Kant.  Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, November 16th 2020. 232 pp.

5 out of 5

Purchase: Westminster | Amazon

Have you heard of the philosopher Immanuel Kant?  Kant as a philosopher is hard to understand and yet Kant was such a watershed individual in philosophy.  Through his writings philosophy went from the trend of large speculation on the “big ideas” of God, freedom, morality, religion, etc., to the overall trend today of being interpretative and analytic, and dare I say “less ambitious” in its scope and aims.  Given Kant’s importance and the difficulties of interpreting him this book has been immensely helpful.  The author Shao Kai Tseng has done a superb job writing this book.  He’s given us a rigorous introduction to Kant from a Reformed standpoint.  A professor of philosophy, the author is also a Reformed Christian with an impressive academic background in philosophy and theology: His Master of Divinity is from Regent College, his ThM from Princeton Theological Seminary and his MSt and DPhil from Oxford. I appreciate that his writing is from a biblical worldview.

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Mid-November 2022 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links

Here are the links related to Presuppositional apologetics gathered between November 8th-14, 2021.

1.) Cave to the Cross’ Dualism & Other Religions Critiqued – Ep.202 – Against All Opposition – A Quick Course In Comparative Religions

2.) Bible contradiction? Do Christians know how to pray?

3.) Always Ready: Chap. 20: You Must Believe In Order To Understand

4.) Review: Presup Shark Hoodie

5.) Episode 16 – A Case for 6-Day Creation (Part 4) – Signficant Objection #1 – Radiometric Dating

6.) Deuteronomy 18 and the Messiah being like Moses

7.) Secular Faith in Lazarus Bacteria

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Early November 2022 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links

Note: I was going to post it yesterday but the Sunday Church series took priority!

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

1.) Cave to the Cross’ All Unbelievers Believe – Ep.201 – Against All Opposition – The Unbeliever Is A Believer

2.) Bible contradiction? Should Christians be concerned with material things?

3.) Episode 15 – A Case for 6-Day Creation (Part 3) – The Age of the Earth

4.) Answering Fools According to Their Folly – Apologist Answers

5.) Van Til Group #9 — God’s Knowledge of the World and Man’s Knowledge of God

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Presuppositional Apologetics’ Round Up: Third week and End of October 2022

We have a lot of links this time around!  Here’s the round up of links related to Presuppositional apologetics gathered between October 15th-31st, 2021.

Enjoy!

1.) Cave to the Cross’ Atheist Issues – Mind & Morality – Ep.200 – Against All Opposition – A Critique Of Atheism – Part 2

2.) Bible contradiction? Is God’s will always done in heaven?

3.) Christian Worldview Episode 12 – A Case for Presuppositional Apologetics (Part 8)

4.) Balaam’s Oracles are Messianic Part 2

5.) Rational Thinking — Now More than Ever!

6.)Book Review: Expository Apologetics by Voddie Baucham Jr

7.) Guest Post: Answering Pro-Choice objections

8.) Christian Worldview Episode 13 – A Case for 6-Day Creation (Part 1) – The Beginning of Recovering ‘In The Beginning…’

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Guest Post: Lament of a Watchman

Note: This is a guest post since presently I am busy today teaching class online for seminary students overseas. This is by Cowboy Bob. His blog be found here and he runs The Question Evolution Project on Facebook here.

Throughout much of history, people have used watchtowers for various purposes. East Berlin had several (with one remaining) to alert guards of people trying to escape their socialist paradise. Towers were set up to watch for fires. See a movie about the cavalry in a Western movie and notice the towers to watch for attackers.

It was very common for cities and castles to have walls built to keep out marauders, and of course, those had towers as well. However, towers were not the only place for sentries and lookouts; they also walked on those thick walls.

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Guest Post: Answering Pro-Choice objections

Note: This is a guest post since presently I am teaching overseas. This is by Jesus Archuleta.

Do you often hear pro-choicers say that the Bible endorses abortion? 

Are you familiar with the verses they use to support their case? 

The goal I have with this blog is to go through the most common verses used by pro-choicers and see whether their claims hold up. 

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Guest Post: Because I Deserve It

Note: This is a guest post since presently I am busy today teaching class online for seminary students overseas. This is by Cowboy Bob. His blog be found here and he runs The Question Evolution Project on Facebook here.

Because I deserve it

“Wow, I sure had a rough week. I’m going to order out for some extra nice food because I deserve it.”

“After being subjected to hours of mindless cookie-cutter pop music, I’m going to listen to Alice Sara Ott play Grieg’s piano concerto. I really deserve that.”

“You’ve been doing a good job even though you had one of our inferior hosses to work with. Get yourself over to the remuda tomorrow morning and get a good one. You deserve it.”

“The people deserve to know how elected officials are spending their tax money!”

“That guy disrespected me and Imma hurt him ‘cuz he deserves it!”

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Expository Apologetics Lectures by Voddie Bauchman at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary

We live in a time of great resources in apologetics and theology.  Yet over the years sometimes links and videos are deleted and disappear online.

I have shared years ago a post on Voddie Baucham’s lecture series on Expository Apologetics but the original youtube channel removed it.  However the series “Expository Apologetics” was also delivered at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary.  So below are the videos from that lecture series in 2017.

Who is Voddie? Voddie Baucham is the author of “Expository Apologetics: Answering Objections with the Power of the Word.”

He has also gave lectures on Expository Apologetics and his method is driven by Presuppositional (Biblical) apologetics.  I love how he begins by saying Christian apologetics is not something only for the “elite” Christians.  It is a responsibility of all of us.

Here are the 4 Part Lectures:

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Free PDF Apologetics’ Dissertation: Revelational Foundationalism: A Constructive Synthesis of the Epistemologies of Cornelius Van Til and Alvin Plantinga

Here’s a doctoral dissertation that Southern Seminary has made available titled “Revelational Foundationalism: A Constructive Synthesis of the Epistemologies of Cornelius Van Til and Alvin Plantinga.”  This is a treat for those into Presuppositional apologetics!  The dissertation was written by Steven Adam Wilhoit and was completed on May 2022.  Its neat to see his dissertation is available online for free.

Here’s an abstract:

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