Free PDF Apologetics’ Dissertation: The world in His hands: a Christian account of scientific law and its antithetical competitors

Here’s a doctoral dissertation that Southern Seminary has made available titled “The world in His hands: a Christian account of scientific law and its antithetical competitors.”  For those of you who are into worldview apologetics this is a treat!  The dissertation was written by Chris Bolt and was completed on October 27th, 2016.  Christ Bolt has written quite a bit on apologetics online over the years so its neat to see his dissertation is available online for free.

Here’s an abstract:

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Mid-June 2018 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links

Here are links related to Presuppositional Apologetics gathered between June 8th-14th, 2018.

1.) Apologetics Tactics handling the least competent who overrate their skill

2.) Five Objections to Presuppositional Apologetics Crushed

3.) Monergism Directory: Principles for Debate

4.) Series on Logic Part 13 – Begging the Question

5.) Why Is There Evil In The World (And So Much Of It)?

6.) The Rise and Fall of Logical Positivism

7.) Totalitarian: Having A Chicken Sandwich and eating your Christian Wedding Cake Too

 

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Apologetics Tactics handling the least competent who overrate their skill

There is something called the Dunning–Kruger effect.  It is when people of low ability inaccurately believe their ability is greater than it is.  Here’s a short TED animation video about it:

I think this phenomenon in which incompetent people think they are more knowledgeable than they really are explains the behavior of some such as the troll attacking our series refuting Bible contradictions which I responded to in “Mr. Hodge’s Dodge from Proving a Bible Contradiction.”  That particular individual would assert I need to learn Greek and Hebrew while he himself doesn’t know Greek and Hebrew and somehow he failed to see my posts regularly deal with the Greek and Hebrew when it is relevant.

Although it won’t be easy to deal with an incompetent person who think they are amazing yet what can a Christian apologist do in dealing with such individuals?  Here are six principles to keep in mind.

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End of May 2018 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links

These are Presuppositional apologetics’ links gathered between May 22nd-31st, 2018.  Enjoy!

(There’s a lot of links this time!)

1.) Greg Bahnsen and Apologetics

2.) What are some ways you share the gospel locally using Apologetics? College Campuses Evangelism

3.) Examining Hinduism

4.) Series on Logic Part 11 – Equivocation

5.) I Think, Therefore “I AM”: Van Til’s TAG

6.) Modern Science and its Christian Basis

7.) If Equality, then God

8.) You Cannot Be Neutral

9.) REPOST: SHOULD ‘PRESUPPOSITIONAL’ APOLOGETICS BE REBRANDED AS ‘COVENANT’ APOLOGETICS?

10.) Why Is There Evil In The World (And So Much Of It?…

11.) A BUNCH OF STUFF

12.) The Battle of the Brute Facts

13.) Jason Lisle: The Importance of Genesis

 

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What are some ways you share the gospel locally using Apologetics? College Campuses Evangelism

(For more about the meme check out this post)

On social media someone asked:

What are some of the ways you are sharing the gospel locally with presuppositional apologetics?

While the context was about actively applying Presuppositional apologetics to sharpen one’s skill I think the question could also be applicable concerning biblical evangelism method in general too.

Here’s my quick thoughts expanding on my original comment:

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Presuppositional Apologetic’s Links: Third Week of May 2018

These are links concerning Presuppositional apologetics gathered from May 15th-21st, 2018.

1.) Proof for God Utilizing the Divine Attributes

2.) Bible Contradiction? Did Jesus perform many signs and wonders?

3.) Series on Logic Part 10 – Bifurcation Fallacy

4.) “Presuppositional Apologetics | Part 1: Ultimate Authority (Sye TenBruggencate)” on YouTube

5.) Does My Nephew’s Leukemia Disprove The Existence of God?

6.) ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE IN APOLOGETICS

7.) The MOAB of Apologetics

8.)The 10 Commandments of Progressive Christianity #3: Are Christians Too Judgmental?

9.) Babylon Bee: Local Man Absolutely Sure There Is No Such Thing As Absolute Truth

 

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Jeff Durbin and Vocab Malone First Public Debate

Here’s an older debate with Jeff Durbin and Vocab Malone that Vocab has recently uploaded on his Youtube channel.  The two of them teamed up to debate two opponents concerning the worldview of Christianity and atheism.

What Jeff Durbin does is an example of Presuppositional apologetics in action.

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