Apologetics to the Glory of God

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  • The Imperfection of the Saints

    In an exchange on Facebook recently, I encountered a Sinless Perfectionist of some stripe. Facebook being what it is, the back-and-forth was… unsatisfying. Eventually, I promised to exposit some Scriptures that taught progressive sanctification. It’s taken me longer than I wanted to get around to it (and I was rightly chided for my tardiness) – but I wanted to do justice to the subject when I did so. Hopefully, this treatment will be of benefit.

    Progressive Sanctification is the teaching of the Reformation, and all of the Reformation’s children. That being said, Protestantism in general is a much wider tent. …

  • Review: The God Conversation by J. P. Moreland and Tim Muehlhoff

    (Thanks to InterVarsity Press for providing a review copy of this book!)

    Moreland, J. P. and Tim Muehlhoff. The God Conversation: Using Stories and Illustrations to Explain Your Faith. Downersgrove, IL: Intervarsity, 2017. 179pp. $16.00.…

  • 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 …

  • The Mythos of Racial Reconciliation

    An Introduction, and A Few Articles Examined

    • For those who would prefer to read this in .pdf format, a link is provided at the bottom, just prior to the Appendix.

    As the adoptive father of a teenage son who many would consider “black” (as he is the product of a “white” biological mother and a “black” biological father – who we don’t even have a name for) living in the Deep South, it is vitally important for me to a have a developed anthropology, in order to faithfully deal with so-called “racial” issues. This is true not particularly for my …

  • How Can We Know Which Religion is True?

    Firstly, we have to recognize that you are asking, at bottom, the same question Pilate asks in his examination of Christ, in John 18. “What is truth?”  Secondly, you cannot, as a friend often says, speak of truth without speaking of consistency.  Thirdly, your system of beliefs (or the lack of a system, for that matter) will, and inevitably so, influence your consideration of truth claims.

    What religion is true? To answer that, you have to have an answer for “What is truth?” Jesus tells us in the verse prior to Pilate’s question: “For this I have been born, and …

  • Why Do You Insist There’s A Problem With My Objection?

    That depends, typically, on the nature of the objection. Most commonly, there is a problem with your objection when it takes the form of a straw man. A straw man fallacy arises when the objector ignores the stated position of his opponent, and substitutes a distorted, or misrepresented version of their opponents position. This often occurs when the objector is describing the Christian faith at various levels. When this occurs, the objector misrepresents, or distorts, the actual position held by his opponent – makes it out to be something other than it is, and typically without argumentation to demonstrate that …

  • Is Presuppositionalism Circular?

    Probably the most common objection of them all; also the one that the fewest objectors seem to have even googled for. Hopefully you’re the exception.

    Anderson: Van Til FEM AII2
    Pratt: Common Misunderstandings of Van Til’s Apologetic, Part 2 – Misconception #6
    Oliphint: Around and Around We Go
    CH: Agreus Attempts to Tackle TAG
    CH: That Ol’ Time Atheist Religion
    CH: William Lane Craig’s Inconsistent Objection to Presuppositional Argument
    CH: A Feminist Examines Presup
    CH: Van Til’s Argument I
    CH: Mr. White, Mr. Grey, and Mr. Black II
    CH: Mr. White, Mr. Grey, and Mr. Black IV
    CH: Mr. White, …

  • Why Won’t You Just Give Me Evidence?

    Well, let’s talk about evidence. First, who determines what is “evidence”, and what is not? If the claim is that we have this “definition” in common, we reject that claim, on the basis of our doctrine. So, to insist on it is to beg the question in your favor. Second, what is meant when we speak of evidence? To the materialist, valid evidence consists purely of material evidence. To the immaterialist, evidence consists of only immaterials. When we speak of evidence, we are not speaking of evidence as if it is something self-existent. Everything has a context; a sense in …

  • What About the Uniformity of Nature?

    The Christian believes that God has created the world, controls it, and wants us to have knowledge concerning it. God has established an order in the cosmos that is representative of His own character. God has revealed to us general and specific claims that there is a uniformity of nature. Certainly there have been occasional signs (miracles) in history which were caused by God as a part of His revelatory acts and interpreted by Him, but the abnormality of these signs supposes that there is and will be norms in place, else they would not have possessed the odd character …