0:00 GLB Cont. With Atheism…Religious Versions Of Unbelief & How To Deal With Them
0:11 How Much Would Someone Have To Know To Rule Out The Existence Of GOD?…Find Out How Much The Atheist Knows By Using As A Standard Of Measurement The Library Of Congress eg…
2:46 Humble Your Opponent With TLOC eg…
3:20 How Are We Going To Decide If There’s A GOD Or Not With What Little We Do Know?…GLB’s eg George Smith Who Wrote, ATHEISM: THE CASE AGAINST GOD
3:56 GLB Got Everything He Needed To Debate GS By Applying Checklist Point #4, PRECONDITIONS To The Assumptions/Presuppositions Made By His Opponent Regarding Faith & Reason…GS’s Worldview Cannot Account For REASON, Much Less An Ethical Position
5:49 …If Atheism Is True Why Do We “Have To Be Rational” At All In A Random & Chaotic Universe?
6:58 GLB’s 1st Point Exploits GS’s Bankrupt Worldview Whenever He Tries To Impose Some Type Of Moral Standard People “Ought” To Follow
7:18 GLB’s 2nd Point Declares That Rationality Presupposes The Christian Faith…Van Til…GOD IS THE PRECONDITION OF INTELLIGIBILITY
8:06 GLB Gives eg, THE UNIFORMITY OF NATURE (The Future Is Like The Past) Allows For Science & Scientific Endeavours
10:44 Ask The Atheist, Who’s Enamored Of Science, On What Basis Do You Believe That The Future Will Be Like The Past? How Do You Know That Nature Is Uniformed? GLB Shows How To Deal With The Common Responses
14:12 GLB’s Correspondence With Atheist Gordon Stein…What Are Numbers & The Laws Of Mathematics?…
18:15 GLB Summarizes His Apologetic Strategies Illustrated In His Interactions With Atheists (Marshmallows) George Smith & Gordon Stein…Emphasizes, To Think In Terms Of Worldviews Regarding The Underlying Assumptions Of METAPHYSICS, EPISTEMOLOGY, & ETHICS…& Challenging Your Opponent With CHKLST
19:42 The Atheist Is Working With Two Different Sets Of Assumptions (Cooking The Books)..No Matter What Rhetoric You May Face, Just Keep Talking & Asking The Right Questions (CHKLST); & Remember The Moral Motivation Of Atheists (They’re Running From GOD’s Judgment) & That They’ve Become FOOLS(Rom1:18-25)…Atheists Have No Foundations For Logic, Science, & Ethics
21:13 Another Way Of Speaking Of ATHEISM Is NATURALISM: The Only Things That Exist Are Things About The Here & Now, Part Of Human Experience
21:44 Ask, The NATURALIST, What Is Presupposed In Us Having This Argument?…Can That Be Fit Into A NATURALIST View Of The World? GLB Illus. The Connection By Examining Our Understanding Of The Human Brain & The Human Mind
24:39 NATURALISM Is Self-Defeating…GLB Expands…In The End, The NATURALIST’S Worldview Makes Arguing Silly Because It Just Disintegrates Into Solely Being A Process Of The Forces Of Nature (Chemicals Dancing In The Cranium)
26:31 ATHEISM CANNOT MAKE SENSE OF LIFE! PROV26:5
27:20 Three Quick Bogus R)esponses That (Y)ou’ll Get From Atheists: 1) We Don’t Need An Answer…Reality Is Just The Way That It Is – (Y) Point Out Their ARBITRARINESS & They’re Running For Their Life…Give Them A Taste Of Their Own Medicine
28:46 2) No Answer Is Possible; Nobody Can Know Anything For Sure [The Self-Defeating Position Of Skepticism] – (Y) If Nobody Can Know Anything For Sure Then The Atheist Cannot Know For Sure That There’s No GOD…
29:48 3) Well, Everybody Knows About These Basics – (Y) Exactly, Everybody Knows Because GOD Has Revealed It To Them…But On The Atheist’s Position How Could Everybody “Know” Anything?
30:43 HOW TO DEAL WITH UNBELIEVERS WHO HOLD TO A DIFFERENT KIND OF RELIGION…Psalm 14:2,3
32:19 Dispel Any Potential Tendency For The Christian To Feel That Their Apologetical Strategy Should Change When Talking With “sincere & nice god seekers” As Oppose To Atheists
33:49 People Seek/Create “a god” After Their Own Image/Tastes, To Avoid The Requirements Of THE GOD
34:28 eg Hinduism (All Is One Escapes GOD’s Judgment)
35:42 THE TRUE NATURE OF THE NATURAL MAN…ROM1…IDOLATRY…ATHEISTS & OTHER FOOLS
37:05 SECULAR RELIGION?…eg Pay Attention Around Christmas Time (IDEALS By Which We All “Should” Live—Despite There Being NO GOD—Such As, “Goodwill Toward Men”)
38:45 (Y) How Is It That There Are Such Ideals? What Are They? Where Did They Come From? Why These Instead Of Opposite Ideals?…THE PROBLEM WITH IDEALISM (IN GENERAL) IS THAT IT’S ARBITRARY…GLB Expands
39:58 THE MORE “RELIGIOUS” WORLD SYSTEMS
40:39 COMPETITORS FOR A RELIGIOUS REVELATION IS A LIE…The Other Religions Of The World Don’t Claim That Their Book Is The Personal Revelation Of GOD…eg The Bhagavad Gita Vs. THE BIBLE
42:18 ALL THE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD ARE ARBITRARY…Without Personal Revelation From GOD, Man Is In No Position To Determine What GOD Is Like…(Any Attempt To Do So, a smorgasbord god, Is Idolatry…Rom Ch1)
46:59 THE BIBLE Vs. The Quran
48:13 All The Religions Of The World Come Down To Three Kinds: #1 ARBITRARY IDEALISM #2 NO PERSONAL REVELATION OF GOD #3 RELIGIONS THAT APE/IMITATE CHRISTIANITY
49:28 Closing Remarks 1Cor1:20…Preview
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
