A Brief Personal Testimony Before I became a Christian at the age of 25 I had a yearning for truth. I tried to find it, of all places, at the local pub, ‘The Bull’. Not the deep truth of philosophers; just the everyday truth of belonging. Real Ale and parties and pub banter provided the backdrop for this belonging. The trouble is, it wasn’t very “real.” The conversation was aimless and repetitive: we knew it all and knew absolutely nothing. …
Category: Apologetics
Veritas Domain (The Domain For Truth) interviewed me a while back for a series they are running on “Calvinistic Dispensationalists” who teach Presuppositional Apologetics. I think I was the second guy up. I meant to post the link but forgot 🙁 Here’s the interview. It’s not as long as subsequent ones as I guess I thought I needed to be very brief: http://veritasdomain.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/interview-with-a-calvinistic-dispensational-presuppositionalist-dr-paul-martin-henebury/ Thanks to SLIMJIM and the guys for thinking of me. P.S. Veritas Domain is not associated with …
I was going to post one of my own, but this post by newly minted wordpress-or Fred Butler is too good not to mention. We’re all familiar with the “evolution = science = enlightened freethinker” mindset. Or we might call it the “something can’t come from nothing – life can’t come from non-life – information can’t exist without a mind, but I’ll believe the exact opposite anyway” mindset. Here is an answer to one of these superior intellects who have …
Let me start where I left off last time, with definitions of inspiration and inerrancy. The Inspiration of Scripture – Proposition: “The Scriptures come from the God who breathed them out and caused them to be inscripturated through men who were ‘borne along’ by the Spirit. That is what makes them Scripture.” – 2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Pet. 1:20-21; Matt. 4:4; Jn. 17:17; Psa. 119:89-91 Inerrancy – Proposition: “The inspired Scriptures are the Word of God before they are the …
The battle over the inerrancy of Scripture hasn’t and isn’t going away. We must decide how we will approach the Bible – what our working assumptions will be. If “all Scripture is God-breathed” then all Scripture has the insignia of God upon it. This would be the bare-bones theological deduction from the relationship between the two. For the human element to be lifted above the Divine element so as to enjoy equal ultimacy over the resultant production of Scripture requires …
Fred Butler has already told his readers about his enthusiasm for Clifford McManis’s new book Biblical Apologetics. Now he has posted his review of the book. I hope you will take some time to read it: http://hipandthigh.blogspot.com/2012/07/book-review.html …
As many of you know, I am a strong advocate of Presuppositional Apologetics (PA). I believe it to be the only approach which reflects both the thrust of Scripture as revelation from the Creator to the fallen creature, but also the necessary corollary to the Biblical Worldview. Here is an excellent piece by Fred Butler on why he advocates presuppositionalism against “evidentialist” approaches. http://hipandthigh.blogspot.com/2012/03/god-fearing-apologetics.html The comments are well worth reading too, as they are constructive and civil, even where there …
Historical theologian Roger Olson, though I may have my differences with him, has posted four fine pieces on Atheism which will repay your time. The first post is here. Don’t miss the comments section either. The atheist comments he permits are, well….. head-scratching! …
One would think that someone bright enough to teach physics at Harvard would at least have the sense to know when they are talking nonsense and undermining everything educational institutions should stand for. Alas, such is not the case. Lisa Randall believes everything is deterministically predestined by the onward roll of the laws of physics; even her own thoughts. Then she writes to complain that faith in God has no place in science, and that no person who calls themselves …
Here are some more of my posts on Apologetics. As many of you know, I take a presuppositional (Van Tillian) approach to defending the Faith. For examples of how this approach works in practice, here is a little debate I had a while back: A Brief Summary of Presuppositional Apologetics Presuppositionalist Stonewalling: a Friendly Response Rejoinder To Some Comments On Presuppositionalism and Christianity The Biblical God: The Precondition of Intelligibility The Great Explanation – Atheist-Style (pt.1) The Great Explanation – …
