Online Skeptics have a serious copy-and-paste problem

Having written posts on answering Bible contradictions for some years now (see my Collection of Posts Responding to Bible Contradictions) I have noticed a phenomenon online: Online skeptics who claim to be free thinkers have a serious copy-and-paste problem.

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Early July 2021 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links

Here’s the early 2021 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links gathered between July 1st-7th, 2021.

1.) Cave to the Cross’ Old Testament Christianity – Ep. 131 – Interview With A Pastor – Dr. Tiberius Rata

2.) Bible Contradiction? Have Christians been raised with Christ?

3.) The Final Reference Point of All Predication

4.) Does Presuppositional Apologetics’ impossibility of the contrary mean that we need to analyze every worldview?

5.) Review: By What Standard? An Analysis of the Philosophy of Cornelius Van Til

6.) Reforming Apologetics (Wrap-Up)

7.) Creating A God Who Doesn’t Exist

8.) Calvinism and Art: Abraham Kuyper’s “Lectures on Calvinism”

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Review: By What Standard? An Analysis of the Philosophy of Cornelius Van Til

Rousas John Rushdoony. By What Standard? An Analysis of the Philosophy of Cornelius Van Til.  Vallecito, CA: Chalcedon Foundation, August 28, 2012.  216 pp.

4 out of 5

Purchase: Amazon

Are you looking for a book-length introduction to Presuppositional Apologetics?  If so this book might be for you!  Even if you are a season apologetics that skillfully employ Presuppositional Apologetics this book is still a good resource to read to remind, retain and at times sharpen one’s knowledge of Presuppositional Apologetics as taught by Cornelius Van Til.

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Does Presuppositional Apologetics’ impossibility of the contrary mean that we need to analyze every worldview?

If you read this blog you know that I subscribe to Presuppositional Apologetics.  I won’t be rehearsing what Presuppositional Apologetics is but check out here for a compact definition and here for a lists of many lectures and of those many messages check out Apologetics: What Would Jesus Do? 4 Messages as my personal recommended series.

I want to deal with a question that was asked in an apologetics group on another social media platform:

Someone please remind me, why is it that when we argue for the existence of God from the impossibility of the contrary, that we don’t actually need to analyze every worldview

Here’s my thoughts:

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Late June 2021 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links

Here’s the end of June 2021 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links gathered between June 22nd-30th, 2021.

1.) Cave to the Cross’ Way, Truth, & Life – Ep. 130 – Why Should I Believe Christianity? – God Is Not Silent – Part 2

2.) Bible Contradiction? Is it OK to covet?

3.) Empathy is Arbitrary, Inconsistent, & Irrational for Atheists

4.) The Ultimate Proof of Creation Discussion Guide by Veritas Domain

5.) Evolutionary Infighting and Creation Science

6.) A weekly if not daily objection to Christianity I hear on Social Media

7.) Do Christians Commit the Fallacy of Special Pleading?

8.) Free PDF Apologetics’ Dissertation: Humanity’s Capacity to Apprehend Aesthetic Value as an Argument for God’s Existence

9.) Reforming Apologetics (The Book of Nature and Apologetics)

10.) The Purpose of the Transcendental Argument for God

11.) Critical Race Theory & Intersectionality with Dr. Josh Buice

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Free PDF Apologetics’ Dissertation: Humanity’s Capacity to Apprehend Aesthetic Value as an Argument for God’s Existence

Here’s a doctoral dissertation that Liberty University’s Rawlings School of Divinity has made available titled “Humanity’s Capacity to Apprehend Aesthetic Value as an Argument for God’s Existence.”   I imagine this would be a treat and food for thought for those into apologetics, theology and philosophy.  I myself am fascinated with how our thinking ability shows there is the existence of God; or rather, because God is, we know we can think, reason, etc.

The dissertation was written by Walter Davis and was completed on March 2017 as part of his completion of his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).  I am thankful Liberty University has made this thesis available online for free.

Here’s an abstract:

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Mid-June 2021 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links

Here are links related to Presuppositional Apologetics gathered between June 8th-14th, 2021.

1.) Cave to the Cross’ Youth And Apologetics – Ep. 128 – Interview With A Pastor – Justin McCoy

2.) Bible Contradiction? How many of Azgad’s offspring returned from Babylon?

3.) Apologetics Illustrated During Church Services

4.) Apologetics Sermon Illustration # 64: False assumptions, Composition Fallacy and Malaysian flag mistaken for American flag with ISIS symbols

5.) A Dangerous False Curriculum

6.) Free Ebook: Explaining Biblical Inerrancy  (Not Presuppositional Apologetics per se, but of interests to the Presuppositionalists)

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End of May 2021 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links

These are Presuppositional apologetics’ links gathered between May 22nd-31st, 2021.  Enjoy!

1.) Cave to the Cross’ Ep. 125 – Why Should I Believe Christianity – God Is There – Part 1

2.) Bible Contradiction? May strangers observe the Passover?

3.) Revalationary Apologetics’ A Response to David Pallmann – Part 1

4.) Is John Frame’s Triperspectivalism a Third Way for Critical Race Theory?

5.)Why couldn’t Logic just be Descriptive?

6.) Apologetics Sermon Illustration # 63: Why we warn against false teachers and a registered sex offender in a retreat for sex assault survivors

7.)Cave to the Cross’ Ep. 126 – Why Should I Believe Christianity? – God Is There – Part 2

8.) Marx’s Religion of Revolution: Regeneration Through Chaos

9.) Worldviews, Apologetics, and the Myth of Neutrality – A Discussion with Dr. James White

10.) Against All Opposition Defending the Christian Worldview PDF Study Guide

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Presuppositional Apologetic’s Links: Third Week of May 2021

 

These are links concerning Presuppositional apologetics gathered from May 15th-21st, 2021.

1.) Cave to the Cross’ Ep. 123 – Why Should I Believe Christianity – Christianity As A Worldview – Part 3

2.) Bible Contradiction? Did the city of Ai exist after Joshua destroyed it?

3.) Three Biblical Problems with Critical Race Theory

4.) Definitions are Important in Origins Discussions, Culture, and Politics

5.) Help! Son rejecting God because of loss

6.) The Presuppositional Hermeneutic: An Argument for Interpreting and Preaching the Bible with Authority

7.) If You Don’t Start Here, You’ll Never Get Anywhere

 

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Early May 2021 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Round up

Here are links related to Presuppositional apologetics gathered between May 1st-7th, 2021.

1.) Cave to the Cross’ Ep. 122 – Why Should I Believe Christianity – Christianity As A Worldview – Part 2

2.) Bible Contradiction? Should we do what the Pharisees say to do?

3.) Answering the Critics Without Being Foolish

4.) Does Logic Presuppose Christianity? — Part 4: The Epistemology of Logic

5.) Does Presuppositional Apologetics Claim that Nonbelievers cannot know things?

6.) The British Empiricists

7.) One Less God

8.) Revelationary Apologetics Episode 2: General Theism / Problem of Evil

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Apologetics Sermon Illustration #61: Water Connect Puzzle and Harmonization of Doctrines and Bible Contradictions

GO TO PART 60

Point: A few days ago I wrote Quick Thoughts on the Inter-relationship of Biblical Theology and Systematic Theology in which I mentioned there is a place for Systematic Theology in terms of looking at the inter-relationship of a biblical doctrine with other biblical doctrines.  How does various doctrines which are clearly taught in Scripture inter-relate with one another?  That’s the place of systematic theology.  Also when we look at the Bible and an apologist works on harmonizing alleged Bible contradictions it involves seeing how various passages “fit” with one another.  How can we illustrate the endeavor of harmonizing biblical doctrines and biblical passages?

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Third Week of April 2021 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links

Here are links related to the subject of Presuppositional apologetics gathered online between April 15th-21st, 2021.

1.) Cave to the Cross: Ep. 120 – Why Should I Believe Christianity – The Big Picture – Part 2

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

3.) Does Morality Come from God? by Jordan Ravanes

4.) Does Logic Presuppose Christianity? — Part 1: Introduction

5.) Extrapolation and Generalization

6.) What if the Laws of Logic goes Unjustified?

7.) Does Logic Presuppose Christianity? — Part 2: What Is Logic?

8.) Free PDF Apologetics’ Thesis: The Effect of Ethnic Identity on Biblical Unity in Its Role as an Apologetic

9.) Humanists Being Humanists….

10.) The Improper Use of Theologian Herman Bavinck for a Political Agenda

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Free PDF Apologetics’ Thesis: The Effect of Ethnic Identity on Biblical Unity in Its Role as an Apologetic

Here’s a master’s thesis that Liberty University’s Rawlings School of Divinity has made available titled “The Effect of Ethnic Identity on Biblical Unity in Its Role as an Apologetic.”  I haven’t read the whole thing but I scanned through the table of contents, pages here and there and the conclusion.  I appreciate seeing the writer tackling on key verses related to ethnicity, unity and reconciliation.  I imagine this would be a treat and food for thought for those into apologetics, church unity and a biblical view of ethnicities.  The thesis was written by Caroline Boozer and was completed on May 2019 as part of her completion of her degree in Master of Arts in Christian Apologetics (MA).  This topic seems even more important now in our post 2020 world.  I am thankful Liberty University has made this thesis available online for free.

Here’s an abstract:

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Mid-April 2022 Presuppositional Apologetic Links

Here are the links on Presuppositional apologetics from April 8th-14th, 2021!

1.) Cave to the Cross’ Apologetics: Ep. 119 – Why Should I Believe Christianity – The Big Picture – Part 1

2.) Bible Contradiction? How many of Adonikam’s offspring returned from Babylon?

3.) The Christian Worldview against Unbelieving Worldview

4.) BIOLA Apologetics & the Ocean of Uncertainty

5.) Teaching Presuppositional Apologetics to Kids: Discussion with Eli and Joel

6.) Three Reasons Why Worldviews Are Important

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Early April 2021 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links

Here are links related to Presuppositional apologetics gathered between April 1st-7th, 2021.  Enjoy!

1.) Cave to the Cross: Ep. 118 – Why Should I Believe Christianity – Introduction – Why Believe? – Part 2

2.) Resolving 47 Bible Contradictions from Jesus’ Final Week to His Ascension

3.) Presuppositionalism in Action 1 by Jordan Ravanes

4.) Bible versus Jesus Resurrection?

5.) Presuppositionalism in Action 2 by Jordan Ravanes

6.) Atheism Needs Christianity

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