0:00 Remarks About The Last Talk…Responding To Fools, But Not Becoming A Fool Yourself
1:07 The Ostensible Contradiction Of Proverbs 26:4
3:23 The Other Strategy For Dealing With Fools
5:09 While You Hold To Your Presupposition, Propose To Assume The Opponent’s Worldview And Point Out Its Arbitrariness…GLB Illustrates
6:10 Setup For The Toothpaste Proof Of GOD’S Existence…Edward Tabash…Believers Think They Need Some Extraordinary Proof, However Even The Most Mundane & Trivial Things Demonstrate GOD Exists
10:22 Behold The Tooth Paste Proof…Uniformity In The Natural World—THE NATURE OF REALITY AS A WHOLE
16:04 Ask, Why Do You Believe The Future Will Be Like That Past?…You Couldn’t Count On The Future Being Like The Past In An Atheist’s Universe…Now Compare Worldviews…Which One Makes Sense Of Intelligibility?
17:26 One Way In Which People May Reply…GLB Illustrates
19:20 GLB Delineates & Clarifies The Issue…The Christian Worldview Accounts For The Uniformity Of Nature, The Unbeliever’s Worldview Cannot Account For It
21:10 The Second Answer That You’ll Hear From People, That Misses The Point & Misleads Many Christians…The Assumption Of Probability
22:48 “Probability”—THAT’S THE WHOLE ISSUE HERE; CAN YOU PROJECT ANYTHING INTO THE FUTURE, WHETHER WITH CERTAINTY OR PROBABILITY IF IT TURNS OUT THIS UNIVERSE IS NOT CONTROLLED BY GOD?
23:25 The Evidence For GOD’s Existence, Is Evident To Us In The Most Trivial Mundane Affairs Of Life. We Couldn’t Live Our Lives In This World, If We Didn’t Assume The Existence Of GOD & GOD’s Character. We Couldn’t Even Brush Our Teeth. (The Nature Of Reality As A Whole, Uniformity)
24:24 The Point That Needs To Be Made To The Unbeliever, Is Not Just That He/She Assumes The Uniformity Of Nature, BUT THAT THE UNBELIEVER INSISTS ON THE UNIFOMITY OF NATURE!
26:30 GLB Gives Example Of The Insistence Of The Uniformity Of Nature Among Astronomers (The Discovery Of Neptune) …The Inductive Principle
29:30 Another Way In Which Unbelievers Are Constantly Showing They Believe In The Existence Of GOD, Is That They Are Drawing Moral Judgments (Right & Wrong; Truth & Error) …OBLIGATION?
32:01 And So, In An Unbelieving View Of The World, When Someone Says, “Follow The Truth Wherever It Leads.” Why Can’t I Just Say, “No! Forget The Truth That Hurts Too Much. I’m Just Going To Go With What’s Convenient?”… (Proverbs 26:4)
34:00 One More Illustration: When The Unbeliever Asserts Mankind As Being Just Advanced Animals… | GBL Demonstrates How To Respond … The Nature The World Is In Not In Accordance With What The Unbeliever Professes It To Be. … (Proverbs 26:4)
37:47 RECAP: Obligation To Defend THE FAITH; No Neutrality; Answer In Accordance Of The LORDSHIP Of JESUS CHRIST; No Regard For Fools; Don’t Answer Fools To Their Way Of Thinking; Show The Fool Where Their Folly Leads.
39:10 QUESTION … The Uniformity Of Nature, Miracles, GOD’s Sovereignty
40:14 QUESTION – Quantum Physics—The Indeterminacy Principle & The Uniformity Of Nature … The Fallacy Of Composition
Yes, you not only can, you must defend the faith. Apologetics is for every believer and every believer can learn how to do the job well. (TBI)
