Apologetics to the Glory of God

Tag: worldview

  • Sye TenBruggencate Exposes PZ Myers

    Let me begin by saying that I have no idea who PZ Myers is, nor am I going to waste the time to Google his name. One thing I do know about Myers is that he is adored by a large number of Internet atheists, and I can see why. He avoids any meaningful discussion, dodges straightforward questions, and swears at those who dare to ask them. A paradigmatic fundy atheist fit for following if you are an impressionable young atheist on the Internet. “Freethinking” at its best. Behold the Mighty Myers!

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  • Anderson on Naturalists on Death

    “From the Darwinian perspective, we owe our lives to death.” – James N. Anderson

    http://www.proginosko.com/2012/04/the-sting-of-death

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  • How to Support Choosing Hats

    We are often asked how one might support Choosing Hats. Here are some suggestions.

    1. Please keep us in prayer. Pray specifically that we do not lose sight of the Gospel or the glory of God. Pray especially for our humility. And pray for those with whom we interact.
    2. Link to us. Tweet our posts. Encourage others to visit. If you found something useful on the site then your families, friends, and acquaintances might as well.
    3. Contribute to our journal.
    4. Visit our chat channel and say hello. We love your questions, comments, and suggestions. We enjoy meeting our readers.

    Some of …

  • Is That Justice?

    A guilty man set free on the account of another.


    Barabbas
    Is that justice?

    Oh, to ponder that wondrous work on the cross.

    Some Doctrinal resources from Dr. Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology Lectures:

    A Hymn for reflection:


    1 Alas! and did my Savior bleed!
    And did my Sovereign die?
    Would he devote that sacred head
    For such a worm as I?

    [2 Thy body slain sweet Jesus thine,
    And bathed in its …

  • Conversion Stories

    1  And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2  in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

    (Ephesians 2.1-3)

    Conversion stories are all the rage in our “postmodern” context. Unbelievers thus pride themselves on claiming to have once been …

  • Opening Statement from my debate with Michael Long

    My debate with Michael Long may be found here – https://choosinghats.org/2011/08/is-there-good-reason-to-believe-that-the-christian-god-exists

    See some of my debate preparation here – https://choosinghats.org/2012/03/behind-the-scenes-notes-from-my-debate-with-michael-long

    Debate Opening Statement

    I. Introduction

    Thank you Mr. Knapp, Mr. Long, my wife Kerri. Most of all I thank the Triune God of Scripture who chose, redeemed, and sealed me concerning the Gospel through which I am being saved by grace through faith; that Christ died for our sins, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. (1 Corinthians 15:1-5) I have personally experienced the reality of forgiveness of my sins …

  • Two New Apologetics Books

    First, Jamin Hubner has released the Second Edition of his The Portable Presuppositionalist.

    Second, Clifford B. McManis has published Biblical Apologetics: Advancing and Defending the Gospel of Christ. Several people have let me know about this book prior to its release, so I excitedly read everything I could in its online preview. I have some initial concerns with respect to the rhetoric and tone of the work.

    McManis makes rather large implicit promises about putting a different spin on apologetics, but the portion of the book that I read contains very little, if anything, “new.” Of course McManis …

  • Behind the Scenes: Notes from my debate with Michael Long

    Some readers might be interested in seeing the very beginning of preparation for my debate with Michael Long (found here – https://choosinghats.org/2011/08/is-there-good-reason-to-believe-that-the-christian-god-exists). What is posted below is by no means the entirety of my notes for the debate but does provide an idea of how I initially go about preparing for a debate. The quotations are from the Goodness Over God podcast and are as close as I could get them to the originals which may be found here – http://goodnessovergod.blogspot.com. Each quote is followed by a time stamp and episode number.

    Michael Long is a philosopher and …

  • The Substance of Success in Apologetics

    The call to be an Apologist, or a defender of the faith, is not something reserved for seminarians or pastors, or even in general, the smartest among us. Rather, everyone who is called by the name of Christ possesses the responsibility, the burden, and the privilege of defending the truth of God against any contradiction to it. Indeed, we are each called to “Be diligent to present [ourselves] approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.” (2 Timothy 2:15)

    Apart from pragmatic considerations with regard to Apologetics which are …

  • Questioning Copan

    The Gospel Coalition is running a series on apologetics, and today’s entry was by Paul Copan, entitled “Questioning Presuppositionalism”. What struck me, while reading his take on the subject, was how superficial and inaccurate it was. He introduces Van Til, and then says that Gordon Clark supposedly “generally followed” his methodology, along with Bahnsen and Frame, and then called it “variegated”. Well, given that he’s simply wrong concerning Clark, and that Frame consciously departed from Van Til as well, I’d supposed that’s an assumption guaranteed to result in a certain conclusion, wouldn’t you? It is not the case that …