0:00 Opening Remarks On Continuing The Series: A Reason for the Hope
1:07 The Concept Of Setting CHRIST Apart As LORD In All Of Our Thinking, Becomes More & More Crucial To Effective Defense Of The Christian Faith Once You Begin To Realize What’s At Stake In The Argument … THE FACTS DON’T SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES
1:30 Matt28:17″…But Some Doubted.” All It Takes Is A Direct Contact With The Facts, Right? But What Does This Verse Tell You? It Tells You That You’re Not Thinking Clearly; And, You’re Really Being Somewhat Naive If You Think A Direct Contact With The Facts Is What Makes People Believers
5:03 GLB Gives Examples From Scripture, Proving This Point … Reiterates Last Lecture’s Good Reasons To Be A Christian… A Closer Look Of The Facts…
9:55 The Facts With Regard To The Where The Universe Came From; And, The Second Law Of Thermodynamics
12:07 The Facts With Regard To Water; Regularity & Order In The World
13:16 The Facts With Regard To Where Life Came From; And, The Proposed Evolutionary Hypothesis
14:33 The Facts With Regard To DNA Molecules (Las Vegas) …IT’S THE EVOLUTIONISTS WHO LIVE BY FAITH
17:00 The Facts With Regard To The Origin Of The Diversity Of Life …Gradual Mutations …(Darwin’s Quote About The Eye) …Bird Lungs System …Bombardier Beetle …Plant Pollenation …Reproduction Systems
21:56 The Darwinian Hypothesis And The Unbeliever’s Irony Of Faith
22:31The Facts With Regard To The Messianic Expectation And Fulfillment In The Bible
23:24 The Facts With Regard To The Historical & Archeological Reliability Of The Bible (Quote From H.M. Orlinsky – Ancient Israel) (Quote From Time Magazine December 30 1974 – How True Is The Bible?) (Quote From Miller Boroughs – Yale University)
25:20 The Facts With Regard To THE LIFE OF JESUS: If Nothing Else, Just The Incredible Claims Made By This MAN In History, Arrest Your Attention. JESUS Said, HE Was THE CREATOR Of The World; That HE’D Be THE JUDGE Of All Mankind; That HE Was Alive In Abraham’s Day; That HE Was Completely Without Sin
26:28 F.F. Bruce Quote
28:02 Why Am I A Christian? Intellect, Rationality, Morality, Knowledge Of The External & Internal World, And The Facts Of History …HOWEVER, GLB RETURNS TO THIS POINT: “….BUT SOME DOUBTED”
29:10 THE FACTS DON’T SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES …Everything That Is Taken As Factual; Everything That We As Human Beings Believe, Is Believed Within A Context (ALL FACTS ARE CONTEXTUAL). That Is, When Something Is Seen To Be True, Something Taken As Factual, It Is Because It Is In A Certain Context Of Other Beliefs
30:21 GLB Gives Example With The Assassination Of JFK… The Facts Are Seen Within A Context
32:02 GLB Gives Illustration With A Man Who Believes He’s Dead
34:32 Now When JESUS Rose From The Dead, What Did The Jews Choose To Believe?
35:07 A Rich Man & Lazarus – THE PROFOUND UNDERSTANDING OF THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE …THE WORD OF GOD …If You Don’t Have The Proper Contextualizing Beliefs, The Historical Evidence Of The Resurrection Will Mean Nothing To You.
37:03 Now, Why Do People Doubt In The Face Of The Evidence?
38:01 GLB Illustrates Beliefs Using Marbles And A Spider’s Web …Beliefs Are Not Like Marbles, They Are Like Spider’s Web…Beliefs Are Webbed Together & Are Hierarchical
43:31 GLB Expands How Beliefs And Facts Affects Christian Apologetics …Someone Who Doesn’t Wish To Believe What The Bible Teaches, Will Not Let The Facts Take Them To What They Want To Avoid
46:22 WORLDVIEW: The Ultimate Foundation To One’s Network Of Basic Beliefs …The Rock Or Sand
49:01 Understanding What Apologetics Is All About. We Need To Go Just An Appeal To The Facts, To The Context Within Which People See The Facts. Compare The Worldviews Between The Believer & Unbeliever
50:17 A Worldview Is A Network Of Basic Beliefs In Terms Of Which Every Aspect Of Experiences Is Interpreted …How You Know What You Know? …How We Should Live Our Lives? …A Basic View And Evaluation Of Reality …The Religious Nature Of A Worldview
55:22 Summary
Part of THE BASIC TRAINING SERIES, this is the best CD set for an introduction to apologetics-assumes no prior knowledge-taking believers to a deeper level of understanding in how to defend the faith. (CMF)
