0:00 The Transcendent & Immanent Elements Of Christianity
8:01 Every Non-Christian Philosophy (All Flavors Baskin-Robbins) Says In One Way Or Another, Nobody Can Know For Sure. & Thus They All Tend Toward Relativism
12:13 The Pattern Is, Unbelievers Want To Talk About The Immanent Element Of Their WV; & They Only Run To The Transcendent When They Get Pressed…e.g. Determinism & Ethics
14:20 Calling The Unbeliever Out, In That In A Deterministic Universe, Ethics Makes No Sense…& At That Point, I Guarantee You, When You Press The Unbeliever To Be Consistant With His Immanent Elements, He’ll Immediately Pop Over Here & Become Transcendent
15:10 e.g., Evolution
16:13 The Power & Resposibility In Becoming Skilled At WV Analysis
16:47 The Unbeliever’s Dilemma: He Has This Irrational TRANSCENDENT POLE, Where He Says That Nobody Knows For Sure. But Then He Has This Rational IMMANENT POLE, Where He Says That Reality Is Fully Knowable By The Human Mind Somehow, & There’s An Impersonal Determinism & Predictability About The World
17:13 Van Til
18:03 Every Non-Christian Philosopy Has Both Of These Poles (T& I)
19:05 The Square Of Religious Opposition Chart:(Logically Diametrically Contrary To The Non-Christian)
22:26 The “Square Dance” That Never Stops (T&I…) What Do You Do? Slow Them Down & Show Them The Tension Within Their WV.
23:44 THE VARIOUS WV POSSIBILITIES WE’VE SEEN THROUGHOUT HISTORY: MONISTIC, DUALISTIC, ATOMISTIC, Or SKEPTICAL.
24:36 Every Non-Christian WV Is Either Going To Be MONISTIC (Reality Is A Spiritual One); DUALISTIC (Reality Is Made Up Of Two Types Of Principals, Material & Spiritual/Mental); ATOMISTIC (Reality Is Made Of An Infinite Number Of Material Things); Or SKEPTICAL (Nobody Knows What Reality Is).
26:35 MONISM – Is Illus. Primarily In Eastern Philosophy, Especially In Hinduism. Also Found In Jainism, Hare Krishna, New Age, Christian Science
27:50 HINDUISM…No Distinctions…We’re All Part Of The Ultimate god, Brahman
30:44 Taking The Hindu’s WV To Task…If All Is One There’s No Distinction Between Saṃsāra & Nirvana…An Internal Contradiction…e.g.HOW THE UNBELIEVER WILL JUMP FROM IMMANENCE TO TRANSCENDENCE.
33:26 Logic In Regard To Hinduism…NO ESCAPE!
35:28 IMPORTANT POINT TO SEE: Every Spiritual MONIST Must Eventually Reject Argumentation, Accept Irrationality & BE QUIET…YOU CAN’T CHANGE THE HEART, BUT YOU CAN CLOSE THEIR MOUTH
36:30 DUALISM – Material & Spiritual/Mental…(Idealism & Stoicism) IDEALIST (Reality Is Equivalent To Mind), e.g., Plato: Someone Who Granted That There’s A Material World/Matter, But There’s Another Realm That Goes Beyond The Material Realm As Well
37:58 Plato’s Failed Attempt To Bring These Two Worlds Together: The Demiurge Myth
39:27 Plato’s T&I & Your Neighbor…The Dualist Cannot Bring The Material & Spiritual/Mental Together…Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus
40:51 STOICISM (An Indifference To Pleasure Or Pain) – Its Failed Attempt To Bring The Material & Spiritual/Mental Together…Nature, Logos & Nous. …When Pressing The Stoics’s T& I, “Go With The Flow” Turns Out To Be A Nonsense Philosophical Justification Of The Two Types Of Dualistic Worlds
43:57 ATOMISM…(Determinism & Indeterminism) DETERMINISM (Theory Holding That All Events Are Inevitable Consequences Of Antecedent Sufficient Causes; No Freewill); HISTORICISTS (Theory That Social & Cultural Events Are Determined By History); NATURALIST (An Advocate Of The Doctrine That The World Can Be Understood In Scientific Terms)
44:57 The General Problem With Atomism Is That There Are No Laws Of Logic, Scientific Generalizations, Classes Of Things, Human Dignity, & Ethical Absolutes. e.g.:
45:47 – Laws Of Logic
47:11 – Ethics…Scientific Generalizations, Human Dignity
48:26 INDETERMINISM (Not All Events Are Wholly Determined By Antecedent Causes) …Epicurus & Democritus “The Swerving Atom” You Have Your Immanence, & Then Unbeliever Appeals To Transcendence When The Immanence Doesn’t Make Sense
50:27 Indeterminism’s Inadequate Account Of Freewill & The Four Ways It Uses Freewill…Egoism, Utilitarianism…Existentialism…Hedonism
51:39 Christians Always Have The Right To Say, By What Authority Do You Say That? Unbelievers Have Detailed Immanent Ethics But Without Any Authority
53:04 SKEPTICISM…You Have To Ask, Do You Know For Sure That Nobody Knows For Sure?
53:46 Three Versions Of SKEPTICISM: – 1) SOPHISM (A Deliberately Invalid Argument Displaying Ingenuity In Reasoning In The Hope Of Deceiving Someone)
54:39 2) CYNICISM (The Purpose Of Life Is To Live In Virtue, In Agreement With Nature.)…Let’s Get Back To Nature, Copulate Openly Like The Dog
55:53 Summary Of The Two Groups Of SKEPTICISM; The Sophists & The Cynics…No Philosophy Of Life That’s Consistent.
56:14 3) PRAGMATISM (Practical Consequences Are The Criteria Of Knowledge & Meaning & Value)…But You Have To Ask The Pragmatist Two Questions: What Problems Should We Solve/Seek To Achieve? & How Do You Know?
58:37 SUMMARY
The way we think—our patterns of reasoning—can fail to show love for God just as readily as the way we live outwardly. This series explains how we can better keep the first and great commandment with our minds. Dr. Bahnsen shows how to detect and refute the underlying worldviews in terms of which unbelievers think, so that Christians can be more alert and effective in defending the faith.
- What Does It Mean? (1 of 6)
- How to Discern and Disarm Non-Christian Worldviews, Part 1 (2 of 6)
- How to Discern and Disarm Non-Christian Worldviews, Part 2 (3 of 6)
- How to Discern and Disarm Non-Christian Worldviews, Part 3 (4 of 6)
- Personal and Public Applications (5 of 6)
- Loving God Questions and Answers (6 of 6)
