0:00 Colossians Chapter 2
1:11 Opening Remarks
2:42 THE FACTS DO NOT SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES …The Task Of Apologetical Argument Assumes A Number Of Things:
3:03 1)The Faith Content Of Christianity Is Unique & Supernatural
3:37 2)The Apologist Assumes That What The Christian Believes Is True
3:55 3)The Nature Of Truth Is Objective
4:30 4)Evidence Is Available & Publically Accessible For Christian Truth Claims
4:46 5)There Are Reasons We Can Offer That Justifies The Christian Faith
5:01 6)Continuing In Unbelief Has No Intellectual Excuse
5:50 From This Baseline How Should We Go About Apologetics? …The Presentation Of Historical Evidence Often Fails To Bring Persuasion
8:08 Nevertheless, Evidence Should Be Used, BUT IN THE RIGHT WAY
9:55 GLB Examines Evangelical Apologetists’ Poor Understanding Of Epistemological Issues
12:25 Let Me Just Talk To You About Oliver Stone (What Oliver Stone Has Taught) The JFK Assassination & Apologetics: THE FACTS DON’T SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES
16:51 The Dubious Lone Assassin Theory & Its Circumstances
20:08 The JFK Assassination Teaches Us How People Evaluate & Respond To Evidences…THERE ARE NO BRUTE FACTS…THERE ARE ONLY FACTS IN TERMS OF A THEORY OR AN INTERPRETATION
23:39 e.g., An Apologetical Debate With A Buddhist Or Hindu…The Determination & Interpretation Of The Facts Is Guided By One’s Controlling Presuppositions
25:37 Back To The Bible And What It Says About It…e.g., The Resurrection Of JESUS CHRIST
26:31 Matthew28:17…But Some Doubted
27:29 Luke16:31…Luke 24:25
29:15 The Heart Of The Matter: PRESUPPOSITIONS, In Order That The Evidence Be Rightly Interpreted
31:05 Careful Study Of Scripture, Reveals The Presuppositional Apologetic Method…Presuppositional Analysis
32:08 Col2:3,8 Those Who Reject The Claims Of CHRIST, Ultimately Have To Admit They Can’t Justify Knowing Anything. …VERSE 8: BE CAREFUL: “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”
36:45 Presuppositions We Should Give More Thought: PROVERBS 1:7 THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM. 1Cor1:20
39:58 Conclusion
41:03 Prayer
42:45 Question1
44:53 Question2
46:10 Question3
48:28 Question4
49:57 Question5
51:30 Question6
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)
