0:00 Greeting
0:10 1Peter3:15
0:54 Matt7:24…Wise Men Build On THE ROCK, Fools Build On Sand…Misplaced Respect For Fools…Who Is The Fool? (Ps14)
10:01 The Motives Of The Atheist Are Not Pure; The Atheist Has A Motivation To Escape GOD…The Existential Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre Openly Admitted The Very Thing Psalm 14 Teaches Us
10:26 In Sartre’s AB, THE WORDS, “I collared the Holy Ghost in the basement and threw him out.” (The Words, 1964). D. 1980. …Now, Why Did He Do That? …Sartre Explains It Was Because Of His Disdain For GOD, Not Because Of Rational Integrity
11:38 Therefore, As The Psalmist Tells Us, The Quality Of Atheistic Thinking Is Foolish. Believers Are Wrong To Look Upon The Unbeliever As Somehow Having Academic Reasons That Are Difficult For You To Deal With…The Unbeliever Is A Fool; You Must Neither Be Intimidated Nor Respect His Line Of Thinking. Matt7:26.
13:07 GLB Boldly Glorifies JESUS As LORD In Moscow Conferences…In Addition, Showed That Relativism & Secularism Provide The Philosophical Foundation For Persecution…Hitler e.g. Relativism Cannot Appeal To An Absolute Standard Whereby It Would Condemn His Actions.
20:46 JESUS Explains In Matt7:26, That When People Will Not Follow HIS WORDS They’re Doing Things That Are Really Foolish/Stupid…Building A Mansion On The Sandy Beach In Southern California Next To The Ocean…GLB Reiterates The Point with Russian VIP
23:58 (MAJOR POINT IN ACTUATING 1PETER3:15) The First Thing The Believer Must Do Is To Learn Not To See Autonomous Thinking As Somehow Awesome, Intellectually Sharp, Or Wise. You Must Begin By Understanding That Any Thinking Which Opposes THE WORD OF GOD Is Foolish…It’s Your Job To Expose That Foolishness
24:52 The Bible Tells Us That The Mental & The Spiritual Perspective Of Believer & Unbelievers Differ Radically From Each Other In Principle.Their Basic Outlooks Are Going To Be In Conflict With Each Other At Every Point…Everything About The Unregenerate Man (Acc To The Bible) Is Depraved—Including His Thinking (Rom8:7)
26:50 Paul Graphically Described The Unbelieving Mind Eph4:17-19,…The Apostle Had Neither Reverence Nor Awe For The Thinking Of The Unbeliever…The Reason Many Christians Are Very Unsuccessful In Apologetics Is Because They Try To Emulate The Thinking Of The Fool (Rom1:22) …Multiple Believer vs. Unbeliever Thinking Examples
32:29 Everything You Say To Unbelievers Is Going To Be Interpreted According To His Presuppositions, His Final Authority, His Ultimate Standard, His Way Of Seeing The World. Likewise The Believer. e.g. How These Opposing Presuppositions Interpret The Evidence Of The Resurrection Of JESUS CHRIST (GLB Exposes The Futility Of The Traditional/Evidential Apologetic Method)
35:02 Dr. Van Til Use To Put It This Way, “When The Christian Presents All The Evidences For The Resurrection, The Unbeliever Has Every Right To Say, Send It To RIPLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT.”
35:57 (GLB)…Now What’s Going On Here? The Self-Conscience Unbeliever Is Reinterpreting The Evidence For Christianity According To His Naturalistic Presuppositions. So, For Him There’s No Problem With The Resurrection For JESUS
37:24 So, You Have To Understand, That If We Don’t Deal With The Presuppositions & The Ultimate Authority That Is Used By The Unbeliever, If We Don’t Debate Our Final Authority, Our Presuppositions, We’re Never Going To Become Effective In Defending The Faith
37:42 RECAP
38:23 How Can We Debate Anything In Any Meaningful Way? (ANSWER)…Differing Presuppositions Can Be Discussed, Can Be Compared, People Holding These Different Worldviews Can Argue With Each Other About What Is Called In Philosophy, THE PRECONDITIONS OF INTELLIGIBILITY
39:09 The Questions About The Preconditions Of Intelligibility: What Would Have To Be True In Order For It To Meaningful To Use Things Like Logic?…What Would Have To True About The World In Order For There To Be Moral Absolutes? What Would Have To Be True About The World In Order For Scientific Inferences To Be Drawn?
40:14 So, When You Compare Presuppositions, How Do You Choose?
45:15 Your Job, At Whatever Level Of Sophistication, Is To Show Their Internal Contradictions, To Share Something That Exposes The Foolishness Of Their Worldview; They Can’t Make Sense Of Their Own Arguments; Given What They Believe, They Couldn’t Argue At All
46:24 e.g. How To Engage & Expose Contradictions (THE FOOLISHNESS OF THEIR THINKING; IT DESTROYS ITSELF)1Cor1:20
49:48 Basic Proof For The Veracity Of The Christian Worldview Is, That Without It, You Couldn’t Prove Anything…When People Try To Do Science, Try To Do Logic, Ethics, Or Anything; Ballet to Baseball,They Can’t Make Sense Of What They’re Doing If They Don’t Put It In A Christian Framework Of Thought. Rom1:18
58:18 Preview & Last Admonition In Dealing With The Fool
1:00:20 Q&A-Gordon Clark, Duns Scotus, Dreaming-Reality-Skepticism, Puritans & Greeks, Old Princeton, B.B. Warfield
Yes, you not only can, you must defend the faith. Apologetics is for every believer and every believer can learn how to do the job well. (TBI)
