0:00 Conference Opening Remarks – Overview Of The Three Lectures: With Good Reason; Facts Don’t Speak For Themselves; Hasn’t God Made Foolish The Wisdom Of This World?
3:28 With Good Reason … The Meaning Of The Word, “Apologia.” In Greek, To Offer One’s Defense Of Innocence Of Conduct … 1Peter 3:15, A Command For All Of GOD’s People … Setting GOD Apart As LORD In Our Hearts
10:31 An Apologetic Is Not (Subjectivism) A Personal Testimony About Your Faith
12:39 Peter Exemplifies The Everyman Believer, Tasked With Giving A Reason To Any Man … Always Ready (A Matter Of Preparation)
17:46 In A Creditable And Winsome Mannner, You Must Be Able To Show People That JESUS Is The Truth: The One And Only Truth That Men Need In Order To Be Saved.
19:20 Secondly, What We Offer People Has Nothing To Do With Personal Factors, And Has Everything To Do With The TRUTH Of Chistianity And Whether There’s Proof Of It … What The World Says Of Christians
21:29 Rebuttals To What The World Says Of Christians… The Biblical GOD Is Not The Type GOD Men Would Makeup … Mr. Potato Head
25:05 The Reversible Charges Against Christianity
28:41 Personal Considerations Have Nothing To Do With What Is Ultimately True And What You Can Prove. … GLB Illustrates (The Molesting Algebra Teacher)
30:03 Do Not Enter In A Mistaken Line Of Thinking With Your Apologetic
31:29 The Apologetic That We Offer Will Not Convince Those Who Refuse To Believe In GOD Because That Would Hamper Their Desires, Make Them Unhappy… Jean-Paul Sartre’s Sinister Quote, “I collared the Holy Ghost in the basement and threw him out.” (The Words, 1964). D. 1980
34:07 What Can Be Offered By Way Of Proof Of Our Christian Faith…Argumentation, Not Subjectivism, Relativism, Or Eclecticism
38:58 On The Pages Of The New Testament You See Christians ARGUING/Using Argumentation For The Faith (Acts 9:22) (Acts 17:2) (Acts 17:17) (Acts 18:4) (Acts 19:8-9)
41:00 The Misconception And Proper Understanding Of The Word, “Argue.”
43:44 The Arguments That We Present Need Not Be Accepted By Everyone, For Them To Be Conclusive… The Difference Between Proof & Persuasion
44:36 Christianity: A Matter Of Faith Or Reason, Reasoning, And Argumentation? …All Reasoning Rests & Presupposes On Some Kind Of Faith, And Assumes Things That Cannot Be Proven. No One Can Prove Everything; Therefore, Everyone Takes Something For Granted About The World Or Themselves And About Their Thinking
46:24 GLB Expands…It’s A Matter Of What Faith That’s Demonstated In The Reasoning That Everybody Engages In. …Unfaithful Reasoning vs. Faithful Reasoning …The Faith That Informs Reasoning, (GLB Foreshadows) Reasoning From GOD’s Authority (THE BIBLE) vs. Autonomous Reasoning
48:23 RECAP
49:35 GLB Gives Plenty Of Good Reasons To Be A Christian
Part of THE BASIC TRAINING SERIES, this is the best CD set for an introduction to apologetics-assumes no prior knowledge-taking believers to a deeper level of understanding in how to defend the faith. (CMF)
