0:00 Prayer
0:41 A Presuppositionalist Who’s Going To Talk About Evidences?
1:09 Bad Labeling Has Led People To Believe That Evidentialists Don’t Have Presuppositions, And Presuppositionalists Don’t Have Evidence…Both Of Those Notions Are Notoriously Erroneous
1:41 The Critics of Van Til:John Warwick Montgomery, Clark Pinnock
2:24 Van Til Quotes On The Proper Use Of Inductive Reasoning and Empirical Evidences In P.A.
4:58 Critics Ask, “Why Doesn’t Van Til Use The Historical Argument For The Resurrection?”…Van Til Quote In Regard To The Question
5:41 GLB Summarizes Van Til’s View Of The Proper Use Of Inductive Reasoning and Empirical Evidences In P.A.-Van Til Quote
6:56 GLB’s Opening Point:Presuppositionalists Are Not Allergic To Empirical Evidences. GLB OFFERS 4 POSITIVE USES FOR EMPIRICAL EVIDENCES:
7:21 #1Strengthening The Confidence Of Believers
8:19 #2To Embarrass/Silence Unbelievers To The Claims Of Christianity
9:12 #3Clear Away Mental Prejudice And Debris By The Unbeliever
10:11 #4The Proper Use Of Evidences Can DisplayThe Wonder Of GOD As The Original Creator; The Providential Sustainer; The Miraculous Redeemer
11:48 e.g.The Original Creator
12:56 e.g.The Providential Sustainer
14:52 e.g.The Miraculous Redeemer
15:39 The Benefits Of The Proper Use Of Evidences
16:02 EVIDENCES CANNOT STAND ALONE ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE…6 POINTS:
16:42 #1What People Will Think About The Observed Evidence Is Affected By Their Non-Observational Beliefs. e.g.Matt28:12,13,17 e.g. Luke24:16,31 e.g. John21:12
19:10 #2Dealing With The Claims Of CHRIST, No One Is Truly Uncommited One Way Or Another e.g. Matt6:24; Matt12:30 e.g.1Cor1
19:53 #3The Non-Observational Commitments Of The Unbeliever Are Objectively Foolish And Leads To The Destruction Of Knowledge e.g.Prov1:22,29 e.g.Rom1:21,22 1Tim6:20
20:56 #4All Men Inescapably Have An Inner Knowledge Of GOD, Yet Will Not Humble Themselves And Turn To HIM e.g.Rom1:20,21 Rom 2:15 Gen1:27 Eph1:11,17,18
21:39 #5Empirical Evidence Of The Resurrection Is/Was Not Enough To Convert The Unbeliever-Luke16:31 e.g.NOTE:JESUS’ APOLOGETICAL APPROACH.
22:36 #6The Objective Revelation Provided By GOD e.g.Acts2:36 Luke1:4 1John2:3
23:28 Autonomous Evidentialism:The Myth Of Neutral Facts.
24:57 Background Info, And 4 Illustrations Of This Wrong Approach With Regard To The Resurrection
27:51 #1The Reliability Of The New Testament Docs Because Of Dating Evidence
28:47 #2The Reliability Of Scripture In Transmitting The Claims Of CHRIST
30:09 #3HOLY SPIRIT Total Recall & Interpretation
30:40 #4An Example Of The Informal Logic Used By Autonomous Evidentialists…This Reason Is Subject To Dispute.
31:29 1-If Resurrected, Then Divine
31:59 2-An Alt Inference Pattern On The Resurrection
32:38 3-If JESUS was GOD, HE Always Spoke The Truth
33:04 Summary Of What Happens When Presenting Empirical Evidence For The Resurrection Outside Of The Circle Of Christian Commitment In A “Neutral Fashion”
33:28 Van Til’s Presupp Approach To The Evidences:
33:46 1-There Are No Uninterpreted/Theory-Free Brute Facts; There’s Only Interpretation Of The Facts
36:07 2-There Is No Presuppositionalist Neutrality
37:56 3-Empirical Inductive Study In Itself Has Certain Preconditions Which Can Be Intelligibly Accounted For, Only On The Presupposition Of Christianity
39:13 4-What Is Assumed By The Consistently Non-Christian Understanding Of Empiricism & Induction Contradicts Biblical Teaching, & Also Renders Empirical Inductive Reasoning Impossible In Philosophical Principle
40:41 5-Unbelievers Are Not Unbiased In Where They Will Be Led In The Handling Of The Empirical Evidences
41:03 6-If The Unbeliever’s Espoused Presupps Are Not Challenged He Can Refuse To Be Driven From His Position By Empirical Evidences Alone
41:52 7-Because The Believer’s Basis For Certainty Is Broader Than Their Experience, Than They Need Not Think They’re Limited To Probability In Their Claims
43:00 The Folly Of Limiting The Claims Of Christianity To Evidentialism…Ironically, Val Til’s Critics Are The True Fideists
45:21 RECAP
46:33 GLB’s Sub-Conclusion:Facts & Meaning Stand Together..He Expands
47:17 GLB Warns Of Obscuring The Distinction Between Facts & Presuppositions.e.g.
49:34 Ultimacy Of Beliefs:Presuppositions:Willard Van Orman Quine-A Web Of Beliefs
54:36 SLOGANS
55:25 Van Til Quote On Brute Facts
57:11 What Complicates The Situation:Counter Presupp…SOLUTION:THE UNBELIEVERS’ PHILOSOPHY OF FACT MUST BE CHALLENGED
58:17 P.A.FORMS THE CONTEXT WITHIN WHICH THE USE OF EVIDENCES IS INTELLIGIBLE AND FORCEFUL. WITHOUT RECOGNIZING HIS BIBLICAL PRESUPPOSITIONS AND THEIR EPISTEMOLOGICAL NECESSITY, THE CHRISTIAN CANNOT MAKE SENSE OUT OF HIS OWN APOLOGETICAL ARGUMENT WITH UNBELIEVERS BASED UPON THE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE!
1:00:57 Van Til-The Resurrection & How To Defend The Faith
1:04:43 What If?…ENTER. REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM & THE TRANSCENDENTAL ARGUMENT STRATEGY
1:08:55 Conclusion
Presuppositionalists are often misrepresented as not believing in the use of factual evidence in apologetics. Nothing could be further from the truth. All facts are evidence of Christian theism, but do the “facts speak for themselves?” These lectures… (TBI)
