Apologetics to the Glory of God

Author: C. L. Bolt

  • Another Round With Paul Baird: Stating and Defending the Requested Rebuttal

    Introduction

    Recently on the Praxis Presup podcast I have been reviewing an exchange that took place between the three Pauls of the Skepticule podcast and Sye TenBruggencate with Eric Hovind.

    Paul Jenkins mentioned the review on his blog, and I responded:

    https://choosinghats.org/2011/09/fundamentalist-atheism-why-bother/

    https://choosinghats.org/2011/09/paul-jenkins-and-damage-control/

    By this point Paul Baird had already written on his blog that he was leaving until the New Year.

    I’m also going back to doing what the vast majority of people do with regards to the Christian faith – get on with my life as though it isn’t there and doesn’t matter.

    It reminds me of

    …

  • Helping Paul Baird Recognize An Argument

    Paul Baird has taken a third break from his hiatus at his blog to respond to a post I wrote here.

    Recall that Paul proposed the following (PR):

    I have had a revelation from a non-Christian supernatural transcendental entity that I use to ground my worldview.

    He wanted me to, “Disprove that revelational epistemology, preferably in less than 1,000,000 words.” I offered the following argument:

    PR states: “I have had a revelation from a non-Christian supernatural transcendental entity that I use to ground my worldview.”

    If atheism is true, then PR is false.

    Atheism is true.

    Therefore, …

  • An Argument for Paul Baird

    Paul Baird took another break from his blogging “hiatus” to comment here regarding a post I just recently wrote here.

    Ok, Chris has posted a “response” at https://choosinghats.org/2011/09/paul-baird-breaks-his-silence/ and continues to validate my points.

    Note that right away Paul places “response” in quotation marks. Perhaps he does not think that my post was a response, but then he would be wrong (at least according to www.dictionary.com):

    re·sponse

    noun

    1.  an answer or reply, as in words or in some action.

    Perhaps Paul did not get the definition of “response” wrong, but instead was attempting to give his readers …

  • Praxis Presup: Episode 17

    Chris continues his review as the three Pauls of Skepticule Record disagree on the nature of logic and Sye TenBruggencate asks them some questions about it.…

  • Paul Baird breaks his silence

    Paul Baird felt it necessary to break his posting hiatus with his post, “For Chris Bolt,” which is written in response to my latest post, “Paul Jenkins and Damage Control.” According to Paul, he is “annoyed” that he must do so, not even getting past his second word before using the typical fundamentalist atheist rhetoric. The rhetoric continues with Paul’s description of my post as “paranoid delusion.” Of course, Paul does not actually explain how I exhibit paranoia in the post, or how it is delusional, or whether or not his description even makes sense in …

  • Paul Jenkins and Damage Control

    Paul Jenkins mentions in a recent post that some of his “readers may have endured what has become known as The Fourth Debate, in which the three Pauls of the Skepticule Extra podcast were subjected to the presuppositional apologetic argument of Eric Hovind and Sye Ten Bruggencate.” Note that Paul’s rhetoric begins when his post does with the use of “endured” as though there was something particularly unbearable about Eric and Sye’s performance in their discussion with the three Pauls when in fact the only thing that might be considered unbearable in that discussion was the ignorance, inconsistency, …

  • Fundamentalist atheism – why bother?

    Paul Jenkins has written a post here (you need to read this post to make sense of what follows) which, I take it, is supposed to be some sort of response to my “obsessive and tedious” commentary on one of his podcasts. Really it is an implied instruction to his fundamentalist atheist friends not to listen to the three Pauls failing miserably in their attempt to defend their foolish fundamentalist atheism. Paul’s post reminds me a bit of a cult leader’s plea to his followers not to listen to the satanic messages of the outside world. In any event Paul’s …

  • A Brief Introduction to Systematic Theology: Part 2 – Christ the Starting Point of Systematic Theology

    By C.L. Bolt

    (Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.)

    If a Christian theology is a Christ-centered theology, if it is appropriate to provide a systematic theology in relation to Christ Jesus, and if exegetical theology provides the basic material with which the systematic theologian works, then the Gospel of John is a good place to begin to build a theology. The Gospel of John is a particularly important book for Christology, and …

  • Praxis Presup: Episode 16

    Chris continues to review what happens when Sye TenBruggencate joins the discussion between Eric Hovind and the three Pauls of Skepticule Record.…

  • Assertions, Assertions, Assertions

    Recently I received an email that reminded me of how much time is wasted and discouragement brought about by fundamentalist preaching of unbelief. Apologetic encounters with the more evidently hostile tend to desensitize believers to that sort of behavior whereas those who may not have had as many exchanges of the aforementioned nature are often taken aback by the overwhelming number of assertions that can be set forth in such exchanges. But assertions are often merely that; assertions. And mere assertions are readily dismissible. They distract from the apologetic endeavor, often discourage the well-meaning believer, and should be pointed out. …