0:00 …GLB Midst Reviewing THE PROBLEM OF COMPETING RELIGIOUS CLAIMS – All Religions Can Be Divided Into Three Categories: 1) TRANSCENDENT MYSTICISM 2) IMMANENT MORALISM 3) COUNTERFEITS OF CHRISTIANITY, Sub Cat. Polytheistic, Unitarian, Pseudo Messianic
1:48 Unitarian eg Of COUNTERFEIT CHRISTIANITY: ISLAM…(Background)
4:33 Embarrassment To ISLAM: The Promotion Of Violence & Warfare
5:39 Brief Outline Of ISLAM: Five Basic Doctrines…+ KISMET
7:55 Five Pillars To Being A Muslim…+ JIHAD
10:52 No Mexican Standoff Between ISLAM & CHRISTIANITY…GLB Reviews Worldview Apologetics: We Don’t Look At Bare Or Formal Authority Claims…We Compare The Actual Content Of Our WV To That Of Our Muslim Friends
11:51 THE QURAN – Since It Teaches That Subsequent Revelation Must Conform To Prior Revelation, The Quran Can Be Refuted By Showing Conflict In What It Teaches Compared To THE BIBLE…eg:
12:52 Chapter/Surah 19, Mary (The Mother Of JESUS) Is Described As The Sister Of Aaron
13:45 According To The Quran, JESUS Wasn’t Crucified
14:02 Denial Of The Deity Of CHRIST…(Islam Is Unitarian)
14:32 Quran Misconstrues Worship Of THE TRINITY As Polytheism
15:20 GLB Reviews How The QURAN Is Refuted
15:50 How Muslims & Mormons Try To Counter Refutation With An Old Trick
16:22 No Manuscript Evidence For A Revision Of GOD’s Previous Revelation…ARBITRARINESS (Review CHKLST)
17:29 More About Their Arbitrariness…The QURAN’s Identical Copies Vs. THE BIBLE’s Supposed “Conflicts”…TEXTUAL VARIANTS
19:09 What Do I Do About The Variants?…Textual Variants Testify To The Historical Authenticity Of SCRIPTURE As A Text…Old Trick Summary
21:21 Contradictions Within The Quran eg The Claim That Nothing In Human Experience Can Be Likened To Allah Undermines The Quran Itself…THE BARBER OF SEVILLE…Summary Review Of Worldview Apologetics
24:31 Material Weakness Of Islam & Orthodox Judaism Is That They Can’t Deal With The Theology Of The OT. eg GLB Debating Religions, OT Is Window Dressing To Judaism, Whose Followers Really Revere The Dubious Talmud Instead
29:39 More Points Of How Followers Of Islam & Judaism, Though They Claim The Inspiration Of Moses, Don’t Actually Live By The Law Of Moses, Much Less Understand It
30:59 RECAP
31:30 Don’t Defend THE DEITY OF CHRIST As A Separate Proposition…It’s Already Within The Christian Worldview Which You’re Defending
33:48 GLB Illus. DEITY OF CHRIST…(C.S. Lewis – Liar, Lunatic, or LORD)…REMEMBER: We Don’t Defend The Christian Faith As A Series Of Separate Propositions; WE DEFEND THE WHOLE PACKAGE (The Entire Bible)
38:33 …Consequently, Throwing The Question Of CHRIST’s DEITY Back At The Unbeliever
39:01 THE ONE-BY-ONE MYTH: The Idea That We Come To Our Beliefs Singularly…On The Contrary, The Beliefs That We Hold Are Always Connected To Other Beliefs (A WEB/NETWORK OF BELIEFS) (**summary seems edited)
42:37 Intro To Other Points – (O) Objections To The Christian WV, (Q) Questions From Students To GLB, & (B) Bertrand Russell
43:18 (O) An (Empiricist’s) Objection To The Christian WV Is That It’s Impossible To Know Anything About The Supernatural… …However, The Premise Itself Can’t Be Known Through Observation, And Neither Can The Limits Of Knowledge
45:18 (O) Faith & Ultimate Authority…Antony Flew…eg The Zucchini Book Of Religion… The Question To Ask Is, How Does The Unbeliever Accept Their Ultimate Authority? …Everyone’s Ultimate Authority Necessarily Becomes Circular In Reasoning Because It’s Ultimate
51:52 (O) The Claim That Christians Are So Tenacious In Defending Their Beliefs, That There’s No Evidence That Can Falsify Their Beliefs…Antony Flew’s PARABLE OF THE INVISIBLE GARDNER – “…die the death of a thousand qualifications” …There’s A Difference Between The Christian Resisting Falsification & The Nature Of Our Claim Being Unfalsifiable …THE IRONY OF ANTONY FLEW’S CLAIM
58:51 (Q) How Is Proving The Existence Of GOD By Unaided Reason Different From What GLB Has Taught (THE CHKLST)? …Christians Use REASON As A Tool …eg GLB Vs. George Smith (The Case For/Against GOD) …Without Faith You Can’t Reason At All (GLB Expands & Applies CHKLST)
1:11:08 (B) GLB Critiques BERTRAND RUSSELL’s Four Reasons Why He Couldn’t Become A Christian
1:24:17 Closing Remarks
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
