Archive for the ‘Apologetics’ Category

There were at least three major doctrines covered in the sermon by Jesus in Luke 24:27 that fixes believers with a non-biblical world view. The survey of major doctrines of the Old Testament in one sermon produced a Biblical world view. Jesus preached what Paul would later call the whole counsel of God (Acts 20:27), [...]

1. How do you view your world? How do you interpret the evening news? I talked to a deputy sheriff this past week who told me that while he was still in training and on one of his first crime scenes there was a drunk driving accident where the passenger was cut in two. The [...]

Thomas Aquinas represents Rationalism which propounds that Christianity could be proven by pure logic which includes the theistic arguments for God’s existence: cosmological, teleological, anthropological, and the ontological arguments. These arguments for the existence of God in theory came from Thomas Aquinas. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) was a Roman Catholic theologian whose Summa Theologica, was declared by [...]

Thomas Arnold wrote an article for the Baptist Bulletin in May of 2006 entitled “Tailoring Apologetics to Evangelize.” He discussed the strengths and weaknesses, in his opinion, of the five apologetic strategies: Fideism, Presuppostional apologetics, Classical apologetics, Evidential apologetics, and Experiential apologetics. Arnold believes the strongest of the five are presuppostional, classical and evidential. Two of [...]

Apologetics (1 Peter 3:15) is a reasoned defense of the gospel. There are three kinds of apologetic that I will either illustrate or discuss. 1. Pre-suppositional apologetics Dr. John Whitcomb taught and practiced pre-suppositional apologetics. Pre-suppositional apologetics depends not on Christian evidence to win over sinners or skeptics but the gospel which is the power [...]

Have you ever struggled with doubt? I mean doubt in God. His goodness, fairness, or love because of the pain you were suffering or the disappointment you were experiencing. James Dobson talks about the awesome “Why?” The first time in your life you seriously questioned God. I was a high school senior taking biology with my [...]