0:00 THE FUTILITY OF UNBELIEF…Opening Remarks…Review (THE CERTAINTY OF CHRISTIANITY) GOD Is The Self-Attesting Authority That Provides The Foundation For Our Rationality Of Science, Ethics, Human Dignity & Freedom
0:30 Those Who Will Not Bow The Knee To GOD Will End Up Being Fools According To The Bible—Rom1:20…MEN ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE
3:15 1Cor1:20 Paul Gives The Fundamental Approach To A Biblical Apologetic: A CHALLENGE TO THE WORLD…GOD HAS MADE FOOLISH THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD
3:51 Christian Apologist Need To Show The Foolishness Of Unbelief & THE CERTAINTY OF CHRISTIANITY As The ONLY Alternative In Terms Of Which Man’s Rationality, Ethics, Science, Dignity & Freedom Can Be Maintained
4:14 THE CHRISTIAN APOLOGETIC METHOD—Prov26:4&5 (Answering The Fool) – REDUCING AN ARGUMENT TO ABSURDITY
8:20 ANSWERING THE FOOL – A Two Fold Or Indirect Procedure: Refuse To Answer In Terms Of The Unbeliever’s Presuppositions Showing The Christian Worldview Can Make Sense Of The PRECONDITIONS OF INTELLIGIBILITY & Then Answer In Terms Of The Unbeliever’s Presuppositions To Show The CONSEQUENCES Reduce Their Arguments To Absurdity (Note Checklist Bottom Of Page)…GLB Expands
8:51 What The Christian’s Disposition Should Be Toward The Fool—2Tim2:23-25…Gently Show How The Unbeliever Is Opposing His/Her Self
10:39 RECAP
11:11 GLB Begins To Demonstrate How The Aforementioned Apologetic Methods Can Be Done, Whether You’re Dealing With A University Professor Or Your Next Door Neighbor
11:36 #1) THE PROBLEM OF INDUCTION – The Belief That Nature Is Uniformed (The Way Things Happened Yesterday Will Be The Same Tomorrow – The Future Will Be Like The Past)…Common Patterns Of Causation In The World
12:04 eg, Gas Gauge Needle On Empty & The Unbeliever
15:43 GLB EMPHASIZES THE POTENCY OF THE PROBLEM OF INDUCTION…The Unbeliever Cannot Justify Any Of His Thinking About The Future!…The Unbeliever Cannot Even Talk About It!
18:12 eg, Stubbing The Toe & The Unbeliever
18:41 eg, Scientific Endeavors & The Unbeliever
19:51 AT THIS POINT THE UNBELIEVER MUST BORROW FROM THE CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW OR CONCEDE DEFEAT
20:57 GLB Foreshadows How To Deal With A General Theist
21:18 #2) THE PROBLEM OF UNIVERSALS (Universals, Class Concepts, Likenesses, Abstract Categories & Particulars)
21:33 eg, Duckness & Huey, Dewey, & Louie
24:56 An Unbeliever Who’s A Materialist Cannot Make Sense Of Universals & Thus Cannot Make Sense Of Language & Reasoning…GLB EXPANDS ON THE POTENCY OF THE PROBLEM
27:53 How Do Believers Account For Universals? THE MIND OF GOD…HOW GOD THINKS…GOD IS THE FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSALS
28:36 #3) THE PROBLEM OF BRAIN/MIND (The Assumption That There’s Only Physical Properties To Man’s Thinking)
29:55 GLB Enacts How To Talk To An Unbeliever With Regard To THE PROBLEM OF BRAIN/MIND…The Unbeliever Ends Up Opposing His/Her Self
31:26 IMPORTANT POINT: THEISM IS THE UNAVOIDABLE PRESUPPOSITION OF ANTITHEISM!…All Arguments Against Christianity, In Order To Make Sense Of Them As Arguments, Must Presuppose The Christian Wv, Otherwise, The Preconditions Of Rationality Are Undermined
33:05 #4) ETHICAL ABSOLUTES (The Very Idea Of Arguing With Someone In Order To Convince The Other Presupposes An ETHICAL ABSOLUTE)
33:28 eg, Shooting Someone With A Gun As An Alternative To Arguing (GLB vs. Gordon Stein)
35:18 GLB Debunks “Ethics Is Relative” Hypocrisy
36:25 GLB Enacts What The Believer Should Say When The Unbeliever Is Indignant About Some Ethical Issue (People Inflicting Pain On Each Other Defies How Nature Made Us)
37:51 GLB Reduces Unbeliever’s Argument To Absurdity By Showing The Consequences Of Comparing Men To Animals
38:57 THE UNBELIEVER’S FUTILITY
39:31 #5) THE LAWS OF LOGIC (Reliable Patterns Of Reasoning Leading To True Conclusions)
40:05 eg, IF Water Is In The Ice Cube Tray, THEN…
42:07 What Are Laws Of Logic For The Unbeliever Materialist?
In apologetics Christians are too often “on the defensive.” Dr. Bahnsen shows that believers need to take the offensive (without being offensive) against those who object to the truth of Christianity. He explains that this involves understanding their underlying worldviews and showing their intellectual futility while realizing that all unbelievers are secret believers who deceive themselves about their knowledge of God.
- Challenge to Unbelief (1 of 6) – Worldviews in Collision
- Challenge to Unbelief (2 of 6) – The Certainty of Christianity
- Challenge to Unbelief (3 of 6) – The Futility of Unbelief, Part 1
- Challenge to Unbelief (4 of 6) – The Futility of Unbelief, Part 2
- Challenge to Unbelief (5 of 6) – Self Deception (Romans 1)
- Challenge to Unbelief (6 of 6) – Apologetics Conference Q & A
