Apologetics to the Glory of God

Choosing Hats

  • Dreamers Utopia

    Men are glad to read the utopias that dreamers have dreamed; they are glad even to include the story of Genesis in their repertoire of light reading for leisure hours, but men rebel against being told that their ethical ideals must be judged by the ethical ideals of Adam.

    The real meaning of this opposition to the original perfect ethical ideal is nothing short of hatred of the living God. If God does exist as man’s Creator, it is as we have seen, impossible that evil should be inherent in the temporal universe. If God exists, man himself must have

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  • Dr. James White Interviews Dr. Oliphint on the Janet Mefferd Show

    Dr. James White of Alpha and Omega Ministries does an excellent job interviewing Dr. K Scott Oliphint about his new book Covenatal Apologetics. Check out the show here or download the mp3 here.…

  • Happy Anniversary, Choosing Hats!

    For those of you who keep track of such things (as I do) – today is the fifth year anniversary of this site!

    This is truly a milestone for us, and we are thankful to God that he has provided a number of contributors who are passionate about a truly Biblical Apologetic method. Our hope and prayer is to continue to provide relevant content to you, our readers, and we will do just that – Lord willing.

    So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

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  • Cornelius Van Til The Covenant Apologist

    “To bring out the interrelatedness of God’s revelation in Scripture with his revelation

    in nature, we speak first of the necessity of natural revelation. It is customary to speak of

    the necessity of supernatural revelation because of the fact that there is no revelation of

    grace in nature. However, it is equally true that the revelation of grace would operate in a

    vacuum if it did not operate in nature as revealing God. The supernatural can never be

    recognized for what it is unless the natural is recognized for what it is: both must be

    recognized in the light of …

  • The Shack

    William Young’s novel “The Shack” was a recent bestseller in the “Christian” Fiction community. The odd and usually disfigured presentation of trinitarian theology in that book was truly strange, and in no way wonderful. That, however, is not the subject of this post. The subject of this post is the theology that underlies our apologetic methodology, and what should flow out of that theology. Our Theology Proper and Anthropology should be complementary and cohesive with one another – with the proper priority given to the former, to inform the latter. What you believe about God should determine what you believe …

  • T. Kurt Jaros and “Finesse”

    T.K. Jaros recently posted an article entitled “Total Depravity: Theological Finesse Needed, Part 1.” As the title implies, it’s obviously merely the first of a series. What struck me, and practically everyone else who I’ve linked the article to, is that immediately after saying “finesse is needed” in the title, the definition he gives of the doctrine is not from a theologian, but from… Wikipedia. Obviously, his posts are not especially thorough, and despite his MA in Systematic Theology, not especially theological, on the whole. As with most of modern evangelicals, his primary interest seems to be philosophy. …

  • “We Destroy Arguments..”

    Chapter 5 of Dr. Oliphint’s book has been posted on Monergism with permission. Go give it a read and tell us what you think!…

  • Defending the Covenant in Covenantal Apologetics

    Dr. Oliphint’s new book, Covenantal Apologetics, just hit Kindle only a few hours ago.  Many have already balked at the mere suggestion of a “covenantal” apologetic, for various reasons, and the first chapter of the book explains the change in terminology, and I’m sure many are wondering if he’s successfully justified his “new” position.…

  • Van Til on The Will and Covenant

    “Hence we seek not to subject any part of Scripture to the principium generale, nor subject any part of scripture revelation to any other part, for that amounts to the same thing as again subjecting it to our own judgment. We found . . . that the Reformed covenant theology remained nearest to this Biblical position. Other theories of the will go off on either of two byways, namely that of seeking an unwarranted independence for man, or otherwise of subjecting man to philosophical necessitarianism. Reformed theology attempts to steer clear of both these dangers; avoiding all forms of Pelagianizing …

  • Covenantal Apologetics – Reformed Forum with K. Scott Oliphint

    An excellent show, with a number of in-depth and interesting discussions.

    Find it here.…