At the center of every world view is what might be called the touchstone proposition
Full Story »Ninth Grade Apologetics
I’m a presuppositionalist – and so are you. I use circular reasoning almost every time I think, debate or converse with someone else – and so do you. Although we like to believe that we are unbiased observers of life, we are all guilty of believing that what we believe to be true about the world is “the truth.” Disagreements begin when individuals cannot reconcile their core beliefs – their basic assumptions about how the world works – with the core beliefs of others.
Full Story »Eviscerating Evolution: Part 2
Presuppositional apologetics (PA) is a powerful tool and arguably the best one going for evangelizing (see Part 1), among others, two special groups. Hard-core unbelievers super-secularized, "sure hope he actually is a Christian," teenager. Polls show that thousands of young public-schooled church-goers are weak in the faith. For youth who seem solid, even one semester at Humanist State U is often all it takes to cut down their faith for years if not forever. But when a program (of what can be very enjoyable) parent-child teamwork is applied at home in the honing of PA skills, it nearly guarantees they won’t fall between the cracks at Secular U.
Full Story »The Devout Atheist
Religion is a way of life for each of us in all hours of the day-in the decisions we make to the food we eat to the way we spend our money and an infinite amount of other behaviors. Even those who claim to be atheists operate in the realm of the spiritual on a [...]
Full Story »The God of Reason
We noted last week that many presuppositional thinkers will appeal to Proverbs 26: 4-5 as a scriptural model of how to give an answer to everyone who asks for the reason for the hope that you have
Full Story »The Beginning and the End
A common misconception in the world of Christian apologetics is the near synonymous use of evangelism
Full Story »In the beginning…
In this third part of our continuing series on presuppositional apologetics, I want to pick up and explain a bit further a point that was introduced briefly at the end ofPart 2—the radical importance of the very first verse of the Bible.
Full Story »Defining Our Terms
Last week, we began a series on presuppositional apologetics. I promised that this series would be helpful without relying the technical jargon that seems to complicate and bog down much of the current books and papers that are written on the subject.
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