The Beginning Of Evidential Apologetics Using Empiricism
The beginning of evidential apologetics was centered on Joseph Butler and William Paley and their use of empiricism which was championed by John Locke.
TIMELINE: 00:00 - Joseph Butler's Analogy Of Religion 00:51 - William Paley's Natural Theology 02:27 - Theologians Using Lockean Empiricism
Sometimes we just want to answer every bad thing hurled at us with a retort. Sometimes we think having the last word in the conversation is necessary. Sometimes we want the "thug life" Ben Shapiro meme to apply to us online or in person. Ya, that might not actually be for the best. Herein lies the beauty of just rebutting with, "So?"
Timeline:
00:00 - The Power Of "So?"
1:20 - Examples Of Using The Power Of "So?"
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A continuing claim by skeptics is that scribes had a hand in changing the doctrines of early Christianity. Usually, that scoundrel, Constantine the Great has a hand in it too. But we can see that the assumptions in the claim are hard to get over.
TIMELINE:
00:00 - Claim #5 - Scribes Intentionally Changed Scripture So We Don't Know If Corruption Has Happened
01:35 - How Do We Know It Was Corrupt & What The Scribe Was Thinking
BOOKS:
The Heresy of Orthodoxy: How Contemporary Culture's Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity by Andreas J. Köstenberger & Michael J. Kruger - https://amzn.to/3odgzYw
Today's short clip comes from episode 109 which can be found here - https://youtu.be/SRc_KLdRNGw
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My review of How to Read Paintings: Western art explored through a close-reading of painted masterpieces by Christopher P. Jones. See if this book did the job the title claims to do.
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When we hear "God is magnificent" we probably actually hear "God's pretty cool". The biblical quality of magnificence of God stems from His transcendent sovereignty and informs our ideas about how to deal with the problem of evil.
00:00 - Secondary Characteristics From Transcendent Sovereignty
03:57 - The Magnificence Of God Understated
LINKS
06-08 - Truth In A Culture Of Doubt Playlist - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbUC8YWHUzj3r_O49Sz1ZHX89WYsL6k_g
Today's short clip comes from episode 155 which can be found here - https://youtu.be/iWVaNvKgWOs
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For Fideist, history is fine. However, a collection of facts is just that. It is not the relationship of Christianity of a people to their God.
TIMELINE:
00:00 - Fideist Believe Revelation Transcends History
02:50 - How Can You Prove Your Wife?
Today's short clip comes from episode 274 which can be found here - https://youtu.be/bFPFDfXORjQ
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There are 400,000 textual variants in the New Testament. Sure. But what does that mean and just how significant is that shocking number?
BOOKS MENTIONED:
The Question of Canon: Challenging the Status Quo in the New Testament Debate by Michael J. Kruger - https://amzn.to/3iuMqCP
Today's short clip comes from episode 108 which can be found here - https://youtu.be/pgSy-sq0TmU
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To say Scripture is twisted in "Battlefield Of The Mind" is to call a pretzel straight. There are so many bracketed interpretations inserted and to make it more ironic, Meyer instructs her readers to just read the Scripture. Physician - heal thy self!
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The concept of free will & God's foreknowledge can be a heady concept. We attempt to accurately cover three different answers free will advocates attempt to allow God to have foreknowledge (or not have it). We do our best to break it down while attempting to be accurate to supporters and the issues seen with the concepts.
Covering concepts of Arminian simple foreknowledge, open theism, and Molinism & middle knowledge as some of the big attempts to save human freedom; there are still issues with allowing God to be the God revealed in Scripture.
The sci-fi reference this week is Quantum Leap!
Timeline:
00:00 - Introduction
04:08 - Free Will Doesn't Account For Divine Foreknowledge
08:34 - Responses From Free Will Advocates About DF
08:43 - Simple Foreknowledge Of Arminianism
10:12 - Issues With Simple Foreknowledge Internally
13:12 - Issues With God's Decrees With Simple Foreknowledge
14:27 - God & Humans Can't Be Free To Change Within Simple Foreknowledge
15:27 - Open Theism As Another Response To DF
19:49 - Molinism As Another Response To DF
22:37 - The Importance Of Middle Knowledge In Molinism
24:15 - The Key Of Molinism
27:04 - Problems With Molinism
37:39 - Conclusion
LINK:
03-48 - The Freed Thinker Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/user/virtuety
03-50 - Revealed Apologetics Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/c/RevealedApologetics
38-36 - How Biblical Is Molinism by Dr. James Anderson - https://www.proginosko.com/2015/10/how-biblical-is-molinism-part-1/
38-55 - Guillaume Bignon On Revealed Apologetics - https://youtu.be/rP2BWwC9M3s
BOOKS MENTIONED
What About Evil? A Defense of God's Sovereign Glory by Scott Christensen
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What About Free Will? Reconciling Our Choices with God's Sovereignty by Scott Christensen
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Excusing Sinners and Blaming God: A Calvinist Assessment of Determinism, Moral Responsibility, and Divine Involvement in Evil by Guillaume Bignon
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The Vindication Of Reformed Theology In Apologetics
Today's short clip comes from episode 265 which can be found here - https://youtu.be/UpxBv4Bcsvo
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