0:00 Remarks…GLB Begins To Review & (R)espond To Student’s (Q)uestions
0:51 (Q#1) Mere Opinion Category…How Can I Prove The Existence Of GOD, When Anything The Believer Says Is Taken As Mere Opinion? (R) Without GOD You Can’t Prove Anything…
1:39 *AV Issue(Q#2) ?Give An Argument That Supports The Truth Of Creationism Over Darwin’s Theory Of Evolution (R) Evolution Is A Philosophy & Isn’t Science…Its Many Absurdities, eg Life from Non-Life…If Evolution Is Blind Chance It Can’t Account For Anything; It’s Meaningless, & Thus Undermines It As A Scientific Endeavor
3:19 (Q#3) Seeing That GOD Is Omnipotent & Omniscient Why Does Evil Exist? (R) THE PROBLEM OF EVIL (TPOE), Is The Subject Of This Lecture…
9:10 (R) 1st, When TPOE Is Brought Up, Remember People Often Times Are Suffering & Need Ministering To
9:24 2nd, It’s Important For You To Recognize & Insist Upon The Reality & The Serious Nature Of Evil…eg GLB Responds To An Iriate Phone Caller On Radio Show…GLB Foreshadows The Importance Of The Unbeliever Recognizing Evil As EVIL!
11:49 TPOE Is A Logical Problem…CHKLST…For Whom Is Evil Logically A Problem? What Does The Unbeliever Mean By What’s Good Or Evil? By What Standard Does The Unbeliever Determine What’s Good Or Evil? What Are The Preconditions That The Unbeliever Determines What’s Good Or Evil?
14:07 METAETHICS (What Is The Nature Of Good & Evil), GLB Illustrates How To (R)espond To (Unbe)liever’s Views Of Goodness:
14:17 (Unbe) Good & Evil Meaning To Pertain To What Evokes Public Approval Or Disapproval…(R) Ethics Doesn’t Reduce To Statistics…
17:03 (Unbe) Instrumental Theories Of Good…Good Is Defined By The Consequences Brought About By An Attitude/Action (Utilitarianism)…(R) Unworkable Because Consequential Theories Of Ethics Always Beg The Question As To What’s Intrinsically, “Good?”
20:55 GLB Illustrates How To (R)espond To (Unbe)liever’s Views Of Evil:
20:59 (Unbe) You Have An Inconsistency In Your System…You Say GOD Is All-Good & All-Powerful, Yet There’s This Evil (R) You Have The Right To Say, Can You Prove That That’s Evil?
21:16 Caution: Don’t Allow The Unbeliever To Escape From Explaining How Their Worldview Accounts For Evil. (Irate Phone Call Revisited)…If Unbeliever Attempts To Generate A Reply, Be Prepare To Expose Its Arbitrariness (CHKLST)
22:47 Irate Phone Caller Revisited & The Irony Of “Different Strokes For Different Folks” Philosophy
24:10 Having Made Sure The Unbeliever Took Evil Seriously, Earlier, (eg Condemning Child Molestation), Allows The Believer To Exclaim That Only The Christian WV Makes Sense Of GOOD & EVIL…Preconditions Of Intelligibility (CHKLST)…Moral Absolutes Are Presupposed & Defined By GOD
25:13 GLB Finally Answers (Q#3)…THE POWER OF PRESUP!…EVIL IN THE WORLD SHOULDN’T BRING ONE TO THE CONCLUSION THAT GOD DOESN’T EXIST, BUT RATHER THAT THERE’S A MORALLY SUFFICIENT REASON FOR THE EVIL
27:48 …Logically Satisfying, But Psychologically Problematic When We’re Not Given The Reason Why Bad Things Happen To Us & Others
29:28 The Unbeliever’s Tacit Reason For Rejecting GOD Because Of Evil In The World…Even If GOD Answered Our Questions About Evil, We Still Might Not Understand (Isa 55:9)
31:18 The Trust/Faith Factor The Unbeliever Can’t Tolerate (GOD IN THE DOCK)…TPOE FINALLY IS A QUESTION OF ULTIMATE AUTHORITY WITHIN A PERSON’S LIFE
33:20 Hypothetically, If Unbelievers Could Judge GOD, It’s Impossible For Any Moral Judgment To Be Made
33:57 The Unbeliever’s Struggle With TPOE Is A Testimony To Its Origin
36:19 SUMMARY OF (Q#3): TPOE Isn’t A Logical Problem; It’s A Psychological Problem. It Isn’t A Ground For A Lack Of Faith; It’s Simply An Expression Of A Lack Of Faith…If You’re Not Willing To Trust GOD You’ll Find Out You Won’t Be Able To Call Anything Evil At All
38:09 (Q#4) How Can A GOD Endlessly Punish An Unbeliever In Hell?…It’s Unjust (R) To Say GOD Is Unjust In This Way, Presupposes A Standard Of Justice. But How Can The Unbeliever Have Any Standard Of Justice At All? GLB Expands…WE DON’T TAKE SIN SERIOUSLY ENOUGH!
39:44 (Q#5) GOD Sanctions The Genocide Of Rebels In OT…Woman & Children?! (R) Once Again, An Absolute Standard Of Justice Is Presuppossed…How Can There Be An Absolute Standard Of Justice If GOD Isn’t Behind It?…(ROM CH1)
42:17 (Q#6) They’re Other Convincing Faiths In The World, Why Should Someone Believe GLB’s Christianity Instead One Of Them?…THE PROBLEM OF COMPETING RELIGIOUS CLAIMS (R-Short) I Haven’t Been Defending “A GOD/Generic Theism”…He Expands…ONLY CHRISTIANITY PASSES THE CHKLST
50:07 (R-Long) eg How to Deal With Three Kinds/Classes Of Religious “Competitors” To Christianity…The Method Can Be Applied To Everything Else. 1) TRANSCENDENT MYSTICISM 2) IMMANENT MORALISM 3) COUNTERFEITS OF CHRISTIANITY, Sub Cat. Polytheistic, Unitarian, Pseudo Messianic
51:31 1) HINDUISM
1:02:14 2) CONFUCIANISM/BUDDHISM
1:08:53 3) MORMONISM
1:20:52 SUMMARY
Another series of lectures delivered at a “Life Preparation Conference.” Dr. Bahnsen offered direct answers for specific apologetic problems, beginning with a very helpful “checklist of defects” to look for in the objections used by unbelievers.
Hi-Res Checklist Here: https://imgur.com/gallery/mS3KdMU
