Apologetics to the Glory of God

Category: BK

  • 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, …

  • A Study of “Always Ready” – Part 2

    waYesterday afternoon, three of us here at Choosing Hats conducted our second Study of the book “Always Ready” by Dr. Greg Bahnsen. This time we kept it under an hour!

    Click on the link below to hear our study.

    Skype-recorded Audio of Study

    By the way, please feel free to leave any comments or questions you wish after listening to the audio. We would love to hear from you!

    — BK…

  • A Study In The Nature Of God’s Word (Authority) – Part 3

    The foundations of knowledge

    Philosophers have been debating the foundations of knowledge for centuries. And we shouldn’t be surprised that they don’t all agree on just what it means when we say we “know” something! One thing they do agree upon, however, is that our process of knowing things must have a foundation – a starting point, if you will.

    Let me illustrate.

    I could make the claim that there is a UFO hovering overhead at this very moment. Some of you would probably question my sanity if I said this. But let’s say I claimed to know this – …

  • The Problem of Evil – Part 2

    The Argument Formalized

    Sometimes it is useful to formalize an argument in order to work through it. The argument we have presented already can easily be placed in such a form as follows:

    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

    What we can see here is that the first three premises seem to describe a being that knows evil exists, wants it to go away, and is able to make it disappear. Therefore, the introduction of the fourth premise, that evil …

  • The Problem of Evil – Part 1

    The Problem of Evil

    One of the most common complaints against Christianity is the Problem of Evil. This particular complaint has plagued Christian apologists for literally thousands of years. For as long as evil has existed in the world, mankind has questioned why a God who is seemingly able to rid the world of such pain and suffering, does not choose to do so.

    It was the18th Century Scottish philosopher David Hume who popularized the Problem of Evil to the world as “proof” that God does not exist; at least the Christian God of the Bible. But even if …

  • A Conversation with “Blast”

    The other day I had a very interesting conversation with an unbeliever in an IRC discussion room I frequent. I wanted to share it here because I think it is a fairly good representation of how to put the presuppositional method of apologetics into practice.

    The conversation lasted about an hour. There was no repentance – no conversion – nothing remarkable like that. In fact, I heard later that the individual “Blast” might not have even been genuine in his side of the discussion. No matter, I think that God was glorified as the gospel was shared and it was …

  • A Study of “Always Ready” – Part 1

    Yesterday afternoon (or yesterday evening, depending on whether you live in Norway or not) the four of us here at Choosing Hats conducted our first Study of the book “Always Ready” by Dr. Greg Bahnsen. For those unfamiliar with the book, this is really the seminal work in presuppositional apologetics. Although the book doesn’t go down too far into the details, it definitely gives enough to get started with.

    We thought we would try out a little experiment with this study, and so decided to record our conversation. Since we all live in different parts of God’s great big world, …