Apologetics to the Glory of God

Choosing Hats

  • Can the existence of God be proven?

    The claim is often made that the existence of God cannot be proven. Some people wonder why so much time is wasted on attempting to prove the existence of God when this is the case. There are even a great number of believers who do not think the existence of God can be proven. I cannot help but think that this false notion is usually based upon the sad history of traditional proofs for the existence of God. Traditional proofs start with the would-be autonomous human and allegedly move to finally establish the existence of God. It is not surprising, …

  • God Is The Potter

    …my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored Him who lives forever,

    for His dominion is an everlasting dominion,

    and His kingdom endures from generation to generation;

    all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,

    and He does according to His will among the host of heaven

    and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay His hand

    or say to Him, “What have you done?”

    Daniel 4.34-35

    That any human being might possess the ability to frustrate the will of God is one of many exceedingly arrogant doctrines …

  • The Problem of Evil – Part 4

    Two Considerations for a Solution

    There are two considerations when offering a solution to the Problem of Evil from a Presuppositional standpoint. In order to look at the first, let’s reconsider the formalized statement of the problem:

    a) God is all powerful
    b) God is all loving
    c) God knows that evil exists
    d) Evil does exist
    e) Therefore, God does not exist

    Notice that this takes the form of a deductive argument, meaning that the conclusion “God does not exist” follows with necessity just as long as every one of the premises is true, and just as long as …

  • C.S. Lewis…The Presuppositionalist?

    Even though I strongly disagree with C.S. Lewis in many areas, I find myself strongly attracted to his ability to display the truth in powerful and beautiful words all at once. I have pulled some quotes from the works of C.S. Lewis that I most certainly agree with and could never dream of improving upon. Some of these thoughts are representative of the presuppositional method of apologetics, which I cannot imagine anyone ascribing to C.S. Lewis. If the claims of this method of apologetics are true though, we should expect to find it resting at the bottom of apologists’ arguments.…

  • Implicit Contradictions

    Well, I haven’t made much progress with the “Militant Atheist” I spoke of the other day, but I have gotten him to contradict himself. It happened in another part of the same discussion thread, where he and I were basically trading insults (yes, I know – I shouldn’t even bother). Here is how the conversation went (btw, I changed his handle to “MA” to protect his identity):

    MA: “The only standard that needs to be considered is the scientific method. If you can’t do it, then just admit it so I can quit wasting my time.”

    BK: “If this is …

  • Succinct

    It never ceases to amaze me how difficult it is to reason about our presuppositions.

    The most natural approach to reasoning, I believe, is to rest upon our presuppositions blindly, without thinking about them at all. This is apparent to me time and time again in discussions I have with unbelievers. A rather enormous challenge in presuppositional apologetics, therefore, is getting your opponent to see that they have presuppositions, and that they must give an account for them. This is no easy task, believe me! The discussion I had two days ago was no exception.

    There is this discussion board …

  • Audio is Ready for “Always Ready” Study – Part 3

    Well, the great people at eCamm came through and assisted me in repairing the corrupted audio from our last study recording. I have been able to mix and edit the audio, and now have it available for those who would like to listen.

    Click here for audio.

    — BK…

  • A Study of “Always Ready” – Part 3

    So on Sunday the “Choosing Hats” study group met once again via Skype, and went through chapter 10 of “Always Ready”. We also recorded the study – or so we thought.

    At this point, I am waiting on a return email from technical support for the developer of the plugin I used to record from within Skype. All of the tests we did worked fine, but the 5.5GB!!!! file that represents our hour-long discussion now seems to be corrupt. Hopefully (God willing) they will be able to assist me in removing the source of the corruption in the file.

    So …

  • More on the Free Will Defense

    The article below on the Free Will Defense to the Problem of Evil has generated some interesting comments. Here is one that caught my attention:

    Perhaps in heaven God’s immediate presence naturally produces the desire to remain as such, which consistently trumps any potential desire to sin.

    I don’t think it is God’s presence so much as it is the fact that we have been changed from the inside out.

    Chapter 9 of the Westminster Confession of Faith states the following:

    Chapter IX

    Of Free Will

    I. God has endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that is …

  • The Problem of Evil – Part 3

    The Common Solution

    Given the fact that the Problem of Evil has been around for centuries, it should be no surprise that Christians have come up with (what they believe to be) solutions to the problem. And although many different approaches to solving this have been attempted, one approach in particular stands out as the most common. This is typically termed the Free Will Defense.

    As the name implies, the Free Will Defense starts with the assumption that people have free will, and therefore have the ability to choose to do either good or evil. According to this view, …