0:00 Opening Remarks…GLB Hopes That Through All The Illustrations Of Apologetical Methodology You’ll Discern The Principle At Work Of Going For The Presuppositional Points In Your Opponent’s Argument Reducing Them To Absurdity So That The Unbeliever Has No Place To Stand In Launching An Attack Against Your Christian Faith
0:33 RECAP…Prov26:4&5; The Unbeliever Is Lost In All Aspects Of Their Being, Including How They Think & Reason
2:29 A Series Of Illustrations (1234) Of The Unbeliever’s Presuppositions Coming Into Conflict With Each Other…Unbelievers Aren’t Able To Have An Intelligible Worldview Which Makes Sense Of Metaphysics, Epistemology, & Ethics (M.E.E.) ** More Details Watch GLB’s PRACTICAL APOLOGETICS (2 of 5) – GOD, CULTURE, PRECONDITIONS…(PRESUPPOSITIONAL TENSION, 4TH Sub-Category Within INCONSISTENCY, Checklist Category #2…PTI)
3:00 Everyone Has Presuppositions…You Must Be Able To Identify Those Of Your Opponent Regarding M.E.E. Challenge Them (Use Checklist) & Then Give Them Reasons For The Hope Within You Because Only Christianity Makes Sense Of The Preconditions Of Intelligibility…True Apologetical Success
5:00 1) (PTI) eg ETHICS…The Unbeliever Views Pleasure As The Meaning Of Life Yet Takes Issue With The Pleasure Of Others eg Police Brutality…A Tyrant Invading & Oppressing Other Nations, Light Sentences For Rape & Drug Dealing, Bribes, Racial Hatred
7:46 2) (PTI) eg EPISTEMOLOGY…”Seeing Is Believing”…(Empiricism)…ASK, COULD YOU EXPLAIN HOW YOU CAME TO KNOW THAT WE CAN ONLY KNOW THE THINGS THAT WE OBSERVE?…THE VERY STATEMENT “Seeing Is Believing” UNDERMINES ITSELF
12:34 3) (PTI) eg METAPHYSICS…Determinism & Its Subdivision Behaviorism…Cheating On The Final Exam Of The Professor Who Holds Such Views
15:22 4) (PTI) eg EPISTEMOLOGY & METAPHYSICS…A Materialist Using The Non-Material Laws Of LOGIC To Refute What He Thinks Are ILLOGICAL Things In The Bible…GO ON THE OFFENSIVE
18:35 PSALM 14 (ATHEISTS & OTHER FOOLS)…#123 Things Are Taught About Atheists
19:22 #1 Atheism Is Motivated By Moral Considerations, Not Rational Considerations…Afraid Of Judgment, Running From GOD
21:22 #2 Atheism Is Intellectually Foolish…As Previously Shown, It Cannot Make Sense Of The World – Metaphysics, Epistemology, & Ethics (M.E.E.)
22:22 #3 The Atheist Project Is Always Unsuccessful (Trying To Run From GOD/Block GOD’s Revelation, Rom Ch1:18-25) “…KNOWING GOD, they glorified HIM not as GOD, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became FOOLS…”
25:40 SELF-DECEPTION, eg MRS. JONES & JOHNNY: A Self-Deceived Mother & Her Hellion Son…** More Details In GLB’s THE APOLOGETIC IMPLICATIONS OF SELF-DECEPTION (1 of 2)
31:22 RECAP, Three Points About Atheists
32:17 Using The Knowledge Of The Atheist’s Suppressed Belief In GOD With Regard To THE PROBLEM OF EVIL…eg GLB Deals With An Irate Phone Caller On Talk Radio…METHOD: Look At Your Opponent’s Basic Assumptions/Presuppositions Regarding M.E.E. Challenge Them (Use Checklist) & Then Give Them Reasons For The Hope Within You Because Only Christianity Makes Sense Of The Preconditions Of Intelligibility
40:14 Atheist Misconception About Miracles In The Christian WV & The Laws Of Physics/Uniformity Of Nature…Epistemology…UNARGUED BIAS…LOGIC: Hasty Generalization…Causal Analysis Of The Past & Future **More Details Watch GLB’s PRACTICAL APOLOGETICS (1 of 5) – ARBITRARINESS
43:21 Summary & A Preview Of The Next Lecture
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
