Category: Scripture
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The Unfortunate Case of the Missing Argument
I’m not going to link all of Paul’s posts in this – they’ve been linked ad nauseum from here, already. His blog is Patient and Persistent – I trust our readers are more than capable of finding these comments of his 🙂
There are times when I’m engaged in an exchange with someone and I’m not sure if I’ve understood them correctly. That’s how I felt reading Chris Bolt’s stuff. It turns out that I did understand him correctly.
Note: Paul does not here explain 1) What he understood correctly, or 2) How it is the case that he understood …
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Debate: Is there good reason to believe that the Christian God exists?
Resolved: There is good reason to believe that the Christian God exists.
Moderator: Brian Knapp
Affirmative: Chris Bolt
Chris Bolt holds a B.A. Philosophy (High Honors) and B.A. Religion from Lynchburg College (Magna Cum Laude) as well as an M.Div. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (School of Theology) where he is a Ph.D. candidate in Christian Philosophy. Bolt is the recipient of a number of awards for his work in philosophy and religion and a member of the Evangelical Philosophical Society. He has participated in debates on the existence of God and on ethics and wrote a chapter of …
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Sola Scriptura, Van Til, and a Reformed Apologetic
As the Reformed Baptist pastor, apologist, and author Dr. James White says so well, “the people most enslaved by their traditions are those who believe they don’t have any.”
This is simply to say that we come to the text of Scripture, along with everything else, with presuppositions about how we should interpret it. We don’t read the Scripture in a vacuum, or in some neutral fashion, because according to Scripture, it’s impossible, as we will see in a quote from Van Til.
So why is the Reformed tradition superior? Well, it certainly isn’t because of the men who subscribe …