Author: C. L. Bolt
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An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics: Part 41 – Polytheism.
By C.L. Bolt
Polytheism posits that there are multiple entities which go by the label “god,” but these entities are often so much like humans that they do not merit the label. Positing all-knowing, all-present, all-powerful gods in the plural results in a number of contradictions between those attributes such that these conceptions typically only possess slightly above and beyond what humans possess in terms of knowledge, presence, and power. They are nothing like the God of the Bible. It is not difficult to see why, given what has been discussed in this series; polytheism fails to provide an account …
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An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics: Part 40 – Deism.
By C.L. Bolt
The covenantal apologist should highlight the many fundamental differences between the Christian and deistic positions, for they are not so similar as many would presume in the context of covenantal apologetics. A deist god may of course be posited as solving many of the same problems that the Christian God does insofar as this clock-making god provides an immaterial absolute to ground such things as logic and morality in, but this objection to covenantal apologetics comes mostly as the result of having been trained to think like a classical apologist. Once we take a closer look at …
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An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics: Part 39 – Impossibility of history.
By C.L. Bolt
Once theology and history are separated there are insurmountable problems with the discipline. History cannot speak concerning God once this happens in an epistemology, since God as a supernatural being is not a historical fact in this false system of thought. God is no longer the kind of God who can act in history in any way that we are able to know it. Such a god is not the God of Christian Scripture. The God described in the Christian Scripture has spoken as an authority concerning His great acts in history brought about to finally accomplish …
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An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics: Part 38 – Impossibility of science.
By C.L. Bolt
The presuppositional, transcendental, and skeptical considerations brought out in this introduction are easily applied to particular manifestations of the non-Christian worldview. They can be similarly applied to tools that are heavily relied upon by these particular manifestations of the non-Christian worldview. For example, science rests upon many of the principles brought forth so far in this series, including especially the senses, induction, and the uniformity of nature. When the nonbeliever desires to use an argument against Christianity from the disciplines of science or history (etc.) the Christian apologist can point out that these disciplines require the Christian …
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An Informal Introduction to Covenantal Apologetics: Part 37 – Communication, personhood, meaning, purpose, and other human experience.
By C.L. Bolt
There are many other features of human experience which are possible only because of the truth of the Christian worldview and the existence of the God of Scripture. Communication, personhood, meaning, and purpose are some examples. The inductive and deductive characteristics of language in addition to the common ground shared by all believers and non-believers in God’s world make communication possible. Having been created in the image of God, we as human beings reflect in our communication that communication which exists between the persons of the tri-une God of Scripture. We are likewise persons who exist in …
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Harold Camping Documentary
Harold Egbert Camping (born July 19, 1921) is a Christian radio broadcaster and president of Family Radio, a California-based religious broadcasting network that spans more than 150 outlets in the United States.
Camping’s trademarks include his deep, sonorous voice coupled with a slow cadence. He has also used mathematical predictions applied to the Bible to predict dates for the end of the world. His current end times prediction is that the Rapture will be on May 21, 2011 and that God will completely destroy the Earth and the universe five months later on October 21.
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A Tale of Two Philosophers
Those of you who are actually good at philosophy spend so much time reading and studying it that you forget what it is you started studying it for in the first place. You are more concerned about the accuracy of your abstract analytic philosophical musings than you are about defending the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. You look down upon those who are not gifted the way that you are and immediately dismiss entire realms of Christian thought in the areas of historical and systematic theology (etc.) because of it. You are more concerned about how the philosophical community …
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The Gravitas of Gravity
In response to a particular podcast in a “counter-apologetics” series now offered by Ben Wallis a commenter asks:
Why should we believe that we will experience the force of gravity on earth a second from now? I have not listened to the entire podcast on causality, but I have not heard this very simple question answered there in what I have listened to thus far. Thanks.
This seems like an easy enough question to answer, but Ben dodges in his lengthy response:
…You asked a good question, “why should we believe that we will experience the force of gravity on
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Introduction to Presuppositional Apologetics by D.S. Smith
These are recordings of a lecture that our new contributor D.S. Smith gave on presuppositional apologetics.
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Sye TenBrugencatte Debate
Yesterday I ran into Sye TenBrugencatte of www.proofthatgodexists.org and was reminded that I still have not quite gotten around to listening to his debate yet, but you can beat me to it here. He also has some interviews and videos at the bottom of that page.…