0:00 Christianity in a League of Its Own…John 14:1
2:11 Conference Review 1-3: What? Me Defend The Faith?…Yes, You, And How To Go About It….Reductio Ad Absurdum
8:17 But Now We Have A Problem, We Can’t Leave Our Summary Of Apologetics At That Level With Those Three Prior Presentations Because They Only Deal With Secularists Or Materialists Who Deny GOD
8:36 Why Does GOD, Have To Be The Christian GOD? How Do We Know We Have The Right Religion? …It’s Very Helpful For You To Know The Christian Faith If You’re Going To Defend The Christian Faith …If You Know It, You’ll Be Able To Handle Anything That Comes In Opposition To It
9:45 The Very Notion That Other Religions Are In Competition With Christianity, Assumes That They’re In The Same League With It …NCAA Illustration
10:54 When People Say, “Well, How Can You Be Sure Christianity Is True, Rather Than This Or That?” The Best Defense You Can Have, Is To Say, “Just Compare The Two So You Can Understand They’re Not Even In Competition With Each Other”…What Christians Are Claiming, Other Religions Do Not Claim (Caveat).
11:26 The First Thing You Need To Understand, Is That Christianity Is A Unique Religion. It’s One Of A Kind; There’s No Other Religion On Earth Like It! And Those Which Might Appear To Be Like It, Turn Out To Be Aping Christianity, Turn Out To Be Parasites Upon Christianity.
12:01 GLB Illustrates What He Means In Saying, “The Major Religions Are Not Even In The Same League With Christianity.” …Christianity Claims To Be The One And ONLY Truth About GOD. …JESUS’ DIVINITY Claims In The Book Of John … THE VERY FIRST POINT TO KEEP IN MIND IS, CHRISTIANITY MAKES CLAIMS OTHER RELIGIONS DON’T MAKE
14:12 The Hindu Rigveda … Hindus Don’t Say That They Have The One And Only Truth, On The Other Hand, Christians Are Saying This Exactly! …THAT’S WHAT JESUS SAID. …C.S. Lewis, Liar, Lunatic, LORD. …”I AM THE WAY; I AM THE TRUTH; I AM THE LIFE.”
17:10 So, Which Religion Makes The Kinds Of Claims As JESUS? …Other Religions Don’t Claim To Have An Infallible Verbal Revelation From An All-Knowing Personal GOD…This Is An Unique Christian Claim
18:53 Hinduism Example Again: Could Hindus Claim That The Rigveda Of The Upanisads Or The Bhagavad Gita, Are Revelations Of An All-Knowing Personal GOD? …No, They Don’t Think GOD Is A Separate Personal Being From Us; Everything Is Brahman (The Whole Of Reality—That’s GOD); All Is One.
20:14 So When People Say, “Well, There Are A Lot Of Sacred Writings…” You Have To Say, Hey Wait A Minute, These Aren’t Even In The Same League. …There’s No Competition Here; The Bhagavad Gita Doesn’t Claim To Be The Sort Of Thing The Bible Claims To Be. That Is True Of Other Religions As Well.
20:39 The Analects of Confucius; Did Confucius Claim To Be GOD Infallibly Speaking? No He Did Not. …What You Need To Know When You Are Discussing This With People Is, That Most Other Religions Don’t Make The Claim. …Christianity Is In A League Of Its Own Because JESUS SAID HE’S THE ONLY WAY TO GOD.
21:30 If GOD Does Not Reveal HIMSELF, No One Has The Right To Speak For HIM. …Who Has The Right To Speak For GOD? (Answer) Only GOD Can Tell You. …You Must Know The Word Of GOD In Order To Identify It. …Most Religions Don’t Have A Divine Revelation; And If They Don’t, Why Would You Be Tempted To Believe What They Say?
25:31The Vast Major Of Religions Are Either Impersonalistic, Or Are Involved With Polytheistic Idolatry… Buddhism… Daoism… Impersonal Religions Don’t Even Make The Kinds Of Claims That Christianity Does.
27:15 Let’s Turn To Religions Who Have Personal gods, And Even A Lot Of Them…What’s The Problem There? Polytheistic Religions Are Family Feuds That Contradict Themselves
28:13 Summary Of The Religions Compared To Christianity… The First Thing You’re Going To See Is That Christianity Makes Claims That Put It In a League All By Itself: Exclusive Truth About GOD; Verbal Infallible Revelation From An All-Knowing Personal GOD; Salvation By GRACE ALONE
29:37 The Other Religions That Are Perversions Of Christianity: Islam (Read Deut13:1);
40:59 The Mormons
43:37 Moonism
48:22 Summary
49:29 QUESTIONS:
49:38 Joseph Smith
53:56 Muslims Argue The Changing Of The Bible Evidenced By Textual Variants VS. None For The Quran
57:34 How Does Bahnsen’s Transcendental Argument From The Inductive Principle (In His Debate With Edward Tabash), Square With Van Til’s Rejection Of Inductivism In Apologetics?
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)
