Apologetics to the Glory of God

Author: Nextor

  • De-mythologising the mythology of Joseph Campbell.

    Recently I was directed to a short video of Joseph Campbell giving an interview to give comment and know what my thoughts were. This is the video in question.

    I found there to be a few issues with the kind of philosophy that was being proposed, certainly from that proposed in the video, and other aspects given elsewhere.

    Mr Campbell proposes that the mind is a secondary organ, and that it must not be in control, lest it fall victim to following a particular kind of ‘system’. One could only speculate how he knows this is the case – is …

  • What is the evidence for the existence of God? (3/3)

    In part 2, we had a look at a practical example, and briefly went over the “in practice/ in principle” distinction, as well as some criteria for evaluating worldview’s, however, it may be worth expanding these ideas themselves into another post to look a bit more in-depth at them, as well as some others.

    In practice / In principle:

    Why is the “in practice / in principle” distinction important? Well, it normally arises in response to an objection similar to this hypothetical:

    “If God didn’t exist, you couldn’t know how to balance your budgets!”

    To which an unbeliever could …

  • What is the evidence for the existence of God? (2/3)

    Please read Part 1 here

    So, as we saw in part 1, there is no such thing as neutrality – everyone has a bias, everyone has a worldview.

    The question now becomes what we do next? Do we simply say to an unbeliever, I don’t like your worldview and how you are interpreting the evidence, and you don’t like mine and how I interpret the evidence, so we will never be able to be in agreement about the facts, so lets just go home and leave this all behind us?

    Definitely not.

    What does scripture say?
    4Do not answer a …

  • What is the evidence for the existence of God? (1/3)

    This would probably be a very easy question to answer, and yet at the same time, a fairly lengthy question to answer.

    I will try to keep this as accessible as possible, and translate a lot of the jargon that gets used when talking about these things into more readily understandable ideas and explanations.

    The easiest answer is: everything.
    (Rom 1:20: For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities–his eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.)

    Everything is evidence for God’s existence. And not …

  • Reconciliation, not introduction.

    2 Cor 5:17-21 ESV
    Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.  For our sake he made him …

  • Around and Around We Go

    “There are a number of frustrations associated with these objections to circularity, not the least of which is that the authors are either unaware of, or choose to ignore, the responses that have been given to them. The objections continue to be offered, without any reference to responses given”

    Read more of Scott Oliphint’s article on responding to the tired charge of fallacious circular reasoning against presuppositionalism here:

    http://www.reformation21.org/articles/around-and-around-we-go.php…

  • Have you read the Quran?

    Given the recent attention to the horrible actions taking place in Paris by Muslims, I thought I would write this post on something that I have seen come up a few times before. “Irreligious” people who tar religion, including Christianity, with the same brush and brand it all wrong and evil and the source of many problems,  appear to come out in droves when events like what have taken place recently occur. If you want proof- check YouTube. No doubt a Christian would be in a position to respond to criticisms that come from such people, and ultimately, the truth …

  • God is unity.

    I have been reading through John Gill’s works on the nature and attributes of God, and am struck with how perfect and united all of God’s attributes are.

    Consider a few examples:

    God is infinite: God is without bounds, immeasurable, uncontained and without limits. This necessitates two further attributes: Omnipresence and Eternity. Why? Because God is both unbound and without limits in everything, which includes both space and time.

    What follows on from here? Well, if we consider that God upholds all things by His power, then that necessitates omnipotence – because God upholds everything, His power must extend to …

  • An internal critique of the Christology and Theology proper of Jehovah’s Witnesses

    jw1So, I had some interesting interactions with some JW’s over the weekend and something that was said was that they considered that Jesus was divine, but not God. Their explanation was that Jesus’ attributes mirrored those of Jehovah, with the exception of being created.

    Let’s see how much of a mirror it is then with that ‘one exception’.

    Let’s get a list of some of God’s attributes in front of us first and see how it holds together:

    God’s immutability & self-sufficiency.
    God does not change, He remains the same yesterday today and forever, and in Him there is no …

  • Why God’s common grace is necessary for apologetics.

    40-1“When the case has been boldly made that the unbeliever must repent and admit to his suppressed knowledge of God if he is to have theoretical grounding for any knowledge whatsoever, then the Holy Spirit either opens his eyes at present or will do so at a coming day. In this present life God’s common grace restrains the apostate from utter intellectual self-destruction. While not positing neutral ground between the Christian and non-Christian interpretative systems, common grace nevertheless prevents the non-Christian from being consistent with his futile boast of autonomy. But in that coming day the unbeliever will cease to …