0:00 Opening Remarks…Romans CH1…(R)EVIEW: Worldviews In Collision…Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics (M.E.E.)…
1:16 (R) Arguing Worldviews Requires A Transcendental Argument, Which By Nature, Is An Indirect Argument
1:44 (R) The Certainty Of Christianity…Christianity Is True By The Impossibility Of The Contrary…The Ultimate Authority In All Worldviews Claim To Be Self-Authenticating…However, The Christian Apologist Must Then Demonstrate How Only The Christian Worldview Makes Sense Of M.E.E. & All Contrary Positions Cannot
2:56 (R) Challenge The Unbeliever To Offer An Alternative Answer…Prov26:4,5 (Answering The Fool)
3:31 OBJECTIONS TO ROMANS CH1 REGARDING THE STATE OF THE UNBELIEVER
4:59 ROMANS CH1 “18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.”
6:23 GLB Adds Commentary To Romans CH1 “…Professing Themselves To Be Wise, They Became Fools.”…Any Christian Is Able To Point Out That The King/Unbeliever Has No Clothes
9:52 …Not Suggesting That The Unbeliever Knows Nothing…THE UNBELIEVER SAYS ONE THING & BELIEVES ANOTHER (TELLING A LIE)
13:00 LYING & RATIONALIZING
13:53 eg MRS. JONES & JOHNNY: A Self-Deceived Mother & Her Hellion Son…** More Details In GLB’s THE APOLOGETIC IMPLICATIONS OF SELF-DECEPTION (1 of 2)
18:03 eg THE RACIST
20:32 SELF-DECEPTION…(WHY IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE TO DO; YET, IT IS REAL & IS DONE ALL THE TIME)
22:22 Romans CH1 Describes Exactly This Condition Of SELF-DECEPTION—Additionally, James 1:26
23:36 How Are We To Understand SELF-DECEPTION? (INSIGHT: Believing Things About Yourself & Believing Things About Your Beliefs)
26:18 REVISITING MRS. JONES & JOHNNY & THE RACIST
27:33 SELF-DECEPTION APPLIED TO RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS…(THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST RIPE AREAS OF SELF-DECEPTION!)
30:13 CONSCIOUS SELF-DECEPTION
31:28 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE ARE IN THIS CONDITION?…The Unbeliever Vainly Tries To Live Consistently With Inconsistent & Arbitrary Beliefs
32:39 WHAT HOPE IS THERE FOR PEOPLE WHO DECEIVE THEMSELVES? (Answer) GOD’s GRACE & The Christian Apologist…GLB RECAPS THE CHALLENGE TO UNBELIEF SERIES
34:27 HOW THE CHRISTIAN APOLOGIST SHOULD BEHAVE—2Tim CH2
35:14 ONLY THE GRACE & SOVEREIGN WORK OF GOD CAN CHANGE THE HEART
37:21 SUMMARY
38:30 PRAYER
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
