Month: May 2011
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A Stop On the Way
Last week a few of us from CH spent some time visiting The Confessional Outhouse, a blog run by one who calls himself RubeRad. Rube asked for input on his assertion that “Christianity is falsifiable”, after appealing to I Cor. 15:14. Some great discussion ensued, and during the course of that discussion a number of tangents were launched, one of which started with the following statement by a contributor named “Michael Mann”:
…In terms of any logical transcendental argument, they could get no further then generic theism i.e, a powerful Creator and Designer is a necessary presupposition of intelligibility
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The Battle Belongs to the Lord
Just saw that K. Scott Oliphint’s “The Battle Belongs to the Lord” is on sale for 5$ at WTS right now. This book is my new favorite introductory work to covenantal apologetics, and I highly recommend it. Dr. Oliphint holds the Apologetics chair at Westminster, and is the father of a friend of the authors, Jared Oliphint, from Reformed Forum. This is a great deal, so don’t miss out! …
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Interesting Articles from Hope's Reason
The current issue of Hope’s Reason: An Apologetics Journal has two thought-provoking articles; “An Apologetic Church”
by Stephen J. Bedard, and “Apologetic Testimony from an Unlikely Source” by Mark Eckel. Check them out here.… -
September Journal Reminder
The submission deadline for the September issue is May 31st. Please refer to the Journal Page for all the necessary information.…
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Christianity Today Article, Harold Camping, and Intro to Apologetics
Jim Spiegel wrote in Christianity Today on Unreasonable Doubt.
Check out a site pertaining to Harold Camping called Rapture Fail.
Remember that the introductory series on Covenantal Apologetics is done and can be bookmarked here. It is also available by clicking on the Series button at the top right of the page.…
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I Ask Your Prayers For Our Baby
Our unborn child has been diagnosed with a very serious case of hydrops fetalis – a disorder where there is an abnormal accumulation of fluid below the baby’s skin, inside the abdomen, or other areas. Further, there is an incidence of cystic hygroma as well. What this means is that there is a extremely great chance the baby will not live to term, and if he or she does (we haven’t been able to find out as yet), there is a rather high chance that the baby will have long-term disabilities of some sort. This accumulation is not localized, but …
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Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics by C.L. Bolt
Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics
By C.L. Bolt
- An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics – Introduction
- An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics: Part 1 – There are two worldviews.
- An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics: Part 2 – Everyone has presuppositions.
- An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics: Part 3 – There is no neutrality.
- An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics: Part 4 – Evidence that Christianity is true.
- An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics: Part 5 – Arguments that Christianity is true.
- An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics: Part 6 – Arguments that Christianity is true refuted.
- An Informal Introduction to
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An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics – Conclusion
By C.L. Bolt
What I endeavored to accomplish in the pieces preceding this post was not to provide an exhaustive account of all things presuppositional but to grant the readers a very basic level knowledge of Van Tillian presuppositionalism also known as Covenantal Apologetics without fancy terminology or at least with definitions when technical language was used. My hopes were to write something merely from memory as opposed to turning to sources and then collecting them in a Works Cited or Bibliography. I did not mean to go back and correct much of what I wrote or to answer objections …
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An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics: Part 45 – Redemption.
By C.L. Bolt
Non-Christians suppress the truth in unrighteousness, distorting every fact. Unbelievers are both spiritually and intellectually lost, believing themselves to be final authorities with respect to their own intellectual evaluations of the world. Yet in appealing to one’s own authority one appeals to a shifting foundation that certainly does not serve as a norm. Truth itself is relative in this scheme. The standards, purpose, meaning, motivation, etc. for reasoning are completely lost in this assumption of the possibility of thought independent of God. This series has sought to show in some detail how the creaturely mind asserting its …
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Consistency: It Burns!
An atheist links to one of our intro posts, with the title; “The Stupid! It Burns! (covenantal edition)”. He quotes one section, and makes only a single comment.
Lots more stupid in the original article.
From a few posts prior, he says:
…embeds a couple of paragraphs of argument in a dozen paragraphs consisting of ***ing and moaning that no one likes him, and gratuitous insults directed at the New Atheists: …
He finally does mention an argument:
So, isn’t that nice. The obvious consistency issue concerning the “gratuitous” insults complained about and then promptly offered himself is …