0:00 Opening Remarks…A REASON FOR THE HOPE: A Reflection On Points In Previous Lectures In The Series
4:16 Essentially In Apologetics, We Have Worldviews That Are Coming Into Collision With Each Other ….GLB Gives A Warning: You Musn’t Think That When You Talk To The Unbeliever, The Unbeliever Is Going To Say That’s So (The Bible Says They Have Hard Hearts And Blinded Eyes)
5:42 How Then, Is There Any Hope For Apologetics If The Unbeliever Distorts All The Facts With Their Worldview? There’s Tremendous Hope, If We Followout What The Bible Has To Teach Us About The Encounter Between A Believer And An Unbeliever (1Cor1:18)
6:41 The Word, PRESUPPOSITION. A Presupposition Is A Basic Belief. It Is What Goes Before All Of Our Opinions And Reasonings. All Of Suppositions, Have PRE-Suppositions. …All Of Our Beliefs Have More Basic Beliefs. And The Worldview That A Person Has Is Also The Ultimate Presuppositions That One Has.
7:14 And Paul Says, Because Of The Different Presuppositions That People Have, They Will Have Completely Different Evaluations Of THE WORK Of THE CROSS. Paul Tells Us That GOD Will Destroy & Make Foolish “The Wisdom” Of “The Wise”…The Wisdom Of This World.
10:56 The Problem With Unbelievers, Is That They Simply Won’t Be Tough Minded …They Will Not Be Systematic And Think Things Through To The End; Who Will Not Ask About The Underlying Presuppositions; And Who Does’t Have A Worldview That Makes Sense Within Itself, Human Life: Morality & Rationality, & Science, & Freedom, & Dignity
13:12 When You Talk With People About The True Of Christianity, Ultimately It’s Going To Get Down To A Philosophy Of Life Issue: What You Think Is Real? How Do You Know What You Know? etc. And At That Level You Are Going To Find Unbelievers Don’t Want To Be Pushed Into Those Types Of Questions
13:56 Pressing The Unbeliever’s Worldview Will Expose The Unbeliever’s Unwillingness To Be Tough Minded. GLB Gives Examples…”If I Don’t Like It, It Can’t Exists!”
17:29 An Example Of Not Following The Evidence To Its Conclusion … At Some Point, The Atheist Will Just Say, “It Just Happens…It’s Just That Way…It’s Just Arbitrary.” …The Uniformity Of Nature vs. A Random Universe …What Are The Presuppositions That Are Necessary To Make Sense Of The Uniformity Of Nature?
22:19 Unbelievers Take Their AUTONOMY For Granted. AUTONOMY Means Self Law…(You Are The Ultimate Authority In Determining The Standard By How You Live And In What You Believe) The Bible Teaches That Men Are NOT AUTONOMOUS…Adam & Eve e.g.; Israel In The Wilderness e.g.; The Epistle Of Paul e.g.; JESUS In The Desert e.g.
28:08 The Unbeliever’s Reasoning Assumes The Ultimate Authority Of Their Reason. On The Other Hand, The Christian Reasons In Such A Way As To Be Faithful To GOD As The Final Authority. WORLDVIEWS ARE IN COLLISION
29:39 So, How Can They Reason With One Another, The Believer & Unbeliever? Now, This Is Where The Bible Comes In And Tells Us That The Unbeliever’s Worldview Is FOOLISH.
30:57 NOW WE GET DOWN TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER. Unbelievers Will Not Be Tough Minded About Their Autonomous Worldview, Because Their Autonomous Worldview Destroys The Very Freedom Of Man That Is Used When He Reasons. GLB Expands (1Cor1) (Rom1)
32:39 GOD Declares The Wisdom Of The Unbelieving Man To Be Foolishness & GLB DEMONSTRATES THIS WITH AN INTERNAL CRITIQUE OF THE UNBELIEVER’S WORLDVIEW (Example With George Smith)
38:24 GLB Reiterates And Expands On The Unbeliever Having No Basis For Making Sense Out Of The Uniformity Of Nature …THE PRECONDITIONS OF INTELLIGIBILITY
42:38 Atheists Can’t Explain Why They Should Be Rational; The Uniformity Of Nature; Why We Should Reason With Our MINDS(A NONPHYSICAL PHENOMENA); A Reason For Argumentation(WE ARE JUST WEEDS GROWING IN THE GARDERN ON THEIR VIEW). …A MATERIALIST UNIVERSE PRECLUDES ANYTHING THAT IS IMMATERIAL…e.g., The Rules Of Logic.
47:10 GLB Gives Illustration Of Settling An Argument With A Gun (MORALITY?…ABSOLUTES?…TRUTH?…RATIONALITY?…SCIENCE?…FREEDOM?) …Nevertheless, The Very Process Of Arguing Assumes These Very Things …GOD HAS MADE FOOLISH THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD.
49:45 ULTIMATELY, There Are Only Two WORLDVIEWS: CHRISTIANITY AND IMPERSONAL RANDOMNESS. …CHRISTIANITY MAKE SENSE OF THE PRECONDITIONS OF INTELLIGIBILITY, AND EVEN THE BEHAVIOR OF THE UNBELIEVER. …The Unbeliever’s Worldview Cannot.
53:45 GLB Quotes Cornelius Van Til, “Antitheism Presupposes Theism.” …THE SLAP ON THE FATHER’S LAP
56:01 Summary: The Proof Of Christianity, Is That Without It, You Couldn’t Make Sense Out Of Any Part Of Human Experience. …The Demand To Be Reasonable.
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)
