Apologetics to the Glory of God

Choosing Hats

  • An Informal Introduction to Presuppositionalism: Skepticism Continued

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  • An Informal Introduction To Presuppositional Apologetics Continued

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  • An Informal Introduction to Presuppositional Apologetics: Skepticism Part 1

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  • An Informal Introduction to Presuppositional Apologetics

    Please go easy on me as you view these since I have not taught apologetics exclusively in quite some time. What you see here was from memory and my lack of preparation shows! I am having difficulty uploading the first section of this video onto Youtube but will post it here as soon as I am able to. My hope is that this will be of some help to someone.

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  • On The Contrary: Responding to RedBeetle’s “Got Logic” Video

    Two propositions are said to be contraries if they cannot both be true, though they might both be false. Consider these two propositions provided by http://www.dictionary.com/ as an example:

    1. All judges are male.
    2. No judges are male.

    If Proposition 1 (an A proposition) is true and all judges are male, then Proposition 2 (an E proposition), cannot be true. If Proposition 2 is true and no judges are male, then Proposition 1 cannot be true. It cannot be true that all judges are male while at the same time and in the same respect no judges are male. …

  • Reason is not the answer.

    Today during the gathering of my local church I witnessed a couple of young people a few rows in front of me snickering at what I thought was a remarkable presentation of “It Is Well With My Soul” sung by a group of Koreans who worship with us. Aside from many other valuable characteristics the piece was extremely aesthetically appealing yet the young people seemed to chuckle the most at the parts I thought were the most stirring. The almost total lack of appreciation for artistic beauty, not to mention (what I really intend to be in view here) the …

  • Always Ready Study – Part 5

    My apologies to those who have been waiting on me to post the next installment … again.

    This study is part 5, and includes two new members – Josh and Sean. I hope you enjoy it and are able to gain a further understanding of Presuppositional Apologetics by listening in!

    — BK

    Always Ready – Part 5…

  • The New Presuppositionalists

    I have noticed as of late that there is an increase in discussion amongst atheists about the subject of presuppositions. I think this is just great. After all, one of the most difficult tasks in debate (formal or otherwise) with unbelievers is getting them to understand the role that presuppositions play in their thinking. We’ve talked about this here at Choosing Hats in great detail, both in posts and in our Bible Study on Bahnsen’s “Always Ready”. This is the good news.

    The bad news is that I do not believe that these same atheists understand how completely foundational these …

  • More on John Loftus and Control Beliefs

    A recent post by Chris not only gained my interest as a contributor, but also the interest of the individual whose article Chris was commenting on. This led me to dig a bit deeper into the article referenced at http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/john_loftus/christianity.html to see what all the fuss was about. In doing so, I came across a rather interesting treatise by John Loftus on why it is unreasonable to be a Christian.

    Due to the size of the article, and the limits I currently have on time (which I hope will be lifted once the new year comes around) I have determined …

  • John Loftus On Control Beliefs

    Recently I found this article – http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/john_loftus/christianity.html written by John Loftus. Due to my current very limited access to the Internet I only have the time and means to make a few brief comments concerning the “control beliefs” Loftus “adopts” as described in his article. It is my contention that those who reject the Christian worldview are horribly inconsistent with what they state with regard to their own would-be epistemological systems and that this is especially evident in the case of John Loftus.

    At the core of the “argument” Loftus makes is a discussion of “control beliefs” which he defines …