0:00 Opening Remarks…Quite A Task Ahead Of Us. (QUESTION) What Do You Think Would Be The Most Reasonable Approach To Dealing With People That Have So Much To Say In Criticism About Christianity?
0:31 (Analogy) YOU’RE IN A SMALL ROOM WITH A GUNMAN WHO WANTS TO SHOOT & KILL YOU…(QUESTION) In Defense Of That, What Would Be The Most Reasonable Approach? (#1) Become A Great Bullet Dodger (#2) Disarm The Gunman…(ANSWER) LEARN HOW TO TAKE THE GUN FROM THE GUNMAN!
2:01 GLB Exclaims What A Christian Apologetic Strategy SHOULDN’T CONSIST OF AT ITS CENTER
3:01 GLB Exclaims The Importance Of Seeing That Apologetics Isn’t Simply Defensive, BUT IT’S ALSO OFFENSIVE…WE’VE GOT TO TAKE THE BATTLE TO THE UNBELIEVER WITH HUMBLE BOLDNESS…PUSH HARD AGAINST WHAT THEY’RE SAYING
3:48 Apologetics Has To Bring Out The Irony Of The Fact, That Those Who Are Demanding A Defense From GOD, Are Just Because Of That, The Ones Who Really Are In Need Of Defense…However, “Autonomous” Unbelievers Don’t See Themselves This Way…C.S. Lewis (GOD IN THE DOCK…Deut 6:16)
7:19 Christian Apologists Are Incumbent To Offer A Reasoned Defense To The Unbeliever In An Honest & Detailed Way (No Vague Generalities) And At The Same Time Never Lose Sight Of The Fact That The Unbeliever Has No Intellectual Ground On Which To Stand In Opposing GOD’s Revelation. OUR ARGUMENTATION SHOULD END UP SHOWING THAT THE UNBELIEVER’S WORLDVIEW CONSISTENTLY LEADS TO FOOLISHNESS & THE DESTRUCTION OF ALL KNOWLEDGE (THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS TO DISARM YOUR OPPONENT!
8:51 GLB BEGINS TO SHOW HOW TO DISARM YOUR OPPONENT BY STARTING WITH THE PROPER PERCEPTION OF YOUR OPPONENT: UNBELIEVERS ARE WALKING WORLDVIEWS
9:20 Whose Perspective Is Intellectually Justified, THE CHRISTIAN’S OR THE NON-CHRISTIAN’S? GLB Examines & Denounces The Simplistic & Naive Approach Of Using Evidentialism To Justify THE CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW
11:05 A Person’s Worldview Determines How They Interpret “Evidence” Therefore Evidentialism Is Not Useful When The Fundamental Components Of A Worldview Are Not Brought Under THE LORDSHIP Of CHRIST…GLB Illustrates This Point With How The Resurrection Of CHRIST Can Be Interpreted
13:56 RECAP: Everybody Has A Worldview; And That WV (Their Philosophical Gun That Shoots Their Belief Bullets – Objections & Challenges, etc.) Is What Controls Their Use Of Evidence. With Presuppositional Apologetics, The Christian Can Disarm (Reduce To Absurdity), Any Opponent’s Worldview
14:37 A WORLDVIEW – a network of related presuppositions in terms of which every aspect of man’s knowledge & awareness is interpreted
15:44 PRESUPPOSITIONS – something that’s held as a conviction prior to a hypothesis…It’s PRE-SUPPOSITIONAL…before you look at any supposition there are nevertheless fundamental convictions that you use in evaluating hypothesis…SO IT’S CALLED A PRE-SUPPOSITION
16:13 EVERYBODY HAS A NETWORK OF RELATED PRESUPPOSITIONS CONSISTING OF – METAPHYSICS, EPISTEMOLOGY, & ETHICS (M.E.E.)
18:43 NOT EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT PHILOSOPHY, BUT EVERYBODY DOES PHILOSOPHY…eg “You Only Go Around Once In Life; So, Grab For All The Gusto You Can Get!” (That’s An Ethical Conviction: Hedonism…A Materialistic Metaphysic) Aristippus & Epicurus
22:05 The Christian Apologist Ultimately Must Set The Christian WV Over Against The Non-Christian WV, AND YOUR AIM IS TO SHOW THAT NCWV CAN’T MAKE SENSE OUT OF LIFE AT ALL…
23:12 THE ANTITHESIS aka CLASH OF WORLDVIEWS (Rom8:7) THE UNREGENERATE MAN’S WAY OF THINKING IS AT ENMITY WITH GOD!… (Your Opponent Is Not Just Lacking Information) THE APOSTLE PAUL GETS HARDCORE ABOUT THE UNBELIEVER’S CONDITION (Eph4:17-19; Rom1:22; 1Tim6:20; 1Cor1:18-25)
26:58 THE UNBELIEVER’S DOUBLE WV (Rom1:18)
30:15 GOD Changes The Unbeliever’s Heart, The Christian Apologist Closes The Unbeliever’s Mouth
31:11 Arguing Over THE PRECONDITIONS OF INTELLIGIBILTY (TPOI) The 4th Category From GLB’s Checklist: PRACTICAL APOLOGETICS (2 of 5) – GOD, CULTURE, PRECONDITION (TPOI) What Sorts Of Things Would Have To Be True About M.E.E. In Order For What This Person Is Saying To Make Sense At All? …eg (Ethics) “Different Strokes For Different Folks” NOTE THE, INCONSISTENCY (Cat. 2 of CHKLST)
35:29 GOD HAS MADE FOOLISH THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD (1Cor1:20) …Schopenhauer, Kant, Hume, Bertrand Russell, etc.
37:55 TPOI Applies To Things Outside Of Philosophy, eg Music ….YOU CAN DEAL WITH ANY FACT OF THE UNIVERSE THE UNBELIEVER WANTS TO TALK ABOUT & OFFER THE DEFENSE, THAT GIVEN THE UNBELIEVER’S WV THEY CAN’T MAKE SENSE OF WHAT THEY’RE SAYING…ONLY THE CHRISTIAN WV PROVIDES TPOI
39:42 Prov26:4&5 Tells Us How To Talk To Fools …Juxtapose WVs…Stand On The Unbeliever’s WV & Reduce It To Absurdity (Reductio Ad Absurdum), Then Have The Unbeliever Stand On The Christian’s WV & Show How It Provides TPOI
43:37 TPOI eg, The Laws Of Logic: GLB vs. Gordon Stein Debate
48:26 Closing Remarks
Apologetics is useless if it is only a great theory discussed by scholars. Dr. Bahnsen demonstrates how all believers-including you-are able to defend the faith “outside the classroom” in response to any person who challenges the truth of Scripture. (TBI)
- Taking It To The Streets (1 of 8) Worldviews in Collision, Part 1
- Taking It To The Streets (2 of 8) Worldviews in Collision, Part 2
- Taking It To The Streets (3 of 8) Atheists And Other Fools
- Taking It To The Streets (4 of 8) Evolution—No More Monkey Business, Part 1
- Taking It To The Streets (5 of 8) Evolution—No More Monkey Business, Part 2
- Taking It To The Streets (6 of 8) How to Deal with Your Obstinate Brother-in-law
- Taking It To The Streets (7 of 8) The Myth of Neutrality and Christian Education
- Taking It To The Streets (8 of 8) Q and A
