Your Best Tactical Response Is To First Ask, "What Do You Mean?" - Tacticians
As Christians, we sometimes want to just jump right in and start responding to accusations made against Christianity with facts and arguments and counterarguments. However, Greg Koukl, suggests a different approach and one that might be better at continuing the dialogue with the other person.
Although the topic may be kind of confusing, it's an important topic in the scope of philosophy. It is whether reality is ultimately a unity or a plurality, and how the two relate to one another. The biblical, Christian God gives us that answer.
LINK:
02-54 - Trinity & Solving The One & The Many Problem (Eli Ayala & Vern Poythress) - https://youtu.be/ZpGkpjo4flM?t=2265
Today's short clip comes from episode 125 which can be found here - https://youtu.be/46VxQ3FINjs
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John Frame has critiqued VanTil's TAG and offered up one of his own. His point isn't to drive a stake through the heart of TAG nor is it to cede apologetics only to classicalists. Frame's call is for everyone to be a presuppositionalists at heart, even if it means looking at our own favorite arguments and re-evaluating them.
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Today's short clip comes from episode 217 which can be found here - https://youtu.be/sOms10ZcPLk
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The decree of evil was allowed to come into the world because of who God is and what His will entails. This is where libertarian free will and atheists try to find fault; however just because you might not like God's revealed will and sovereignty over ALL of creation doesn't mean that it leads to compatibilism being incorrect.
TIMELINE:
00:00 - We Don't Need To Protect God From Evil
01:46 - The Decree Of Evil Consistent With The Nature Of God
Today's short clip comes from episode 158 which can be found here - https://youtu.be/iujmkmgBD0k
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Where most stories decide to end with a "happily ever after" or "and everyone died and everyone else was very sad", God's story actually ends in a better standing than when it first started. It is not a return to the status quo. It is not just Paradise restored but actually made greater than in the beginning.
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Today's short clip comes from episode 165 which can be found here - https://youtu.be/dCOUCzVT0_M
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Another classical apologist is Peter Kreeft. Kreeft's neutral ground approach is what he's known for in the classical apologetic method.
Today's short clip comes from episode 246 which can be found here - https://youtu.be/D65Vx67XhC4
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What is the best way for God to show and communicate who He is to His creation? With the status as the infinite, all-powerful God how is He able to best reveal His nature to us? There is a supreme way that God is most magnified and He reveals it to us in Scripture.
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Today's short clip comes from episode 166 which can be found here - https://youtu.be/9cnhkqSLfwY
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John Frame offers his critique of Ligonier's theistic proofs.
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Today's short clip comes from episode 236 which can be found here - https://youtu.be/Cj7HLugDuhk
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A very blurry Patrick announces the 9th book that's going to be covered on the show. Links are here in the description and we hope you'll join us as we focus (with Patrick's camera in focus) on this next book in our book club.
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Moving on from atheism to see how dualism & other religions critiqued. Applying the two-step method of providing an internal critique and then giving the biblical answer, we see the arbitrary and inconsistent nature of these worldviews.
Platonism with its mind and body dualism and Aristotle with his materialism give a movement toward the Christian worldview but without a basis for knowledge. Finally, we look at three types of non-Christian religious worldviews. Representing them are Hinduism, Hare Krishna, and Buddhism. We see the denial of some parts of reality lead to a rejection of their own worldview.
Timeline:
00:00 - Introduction
02:13 - Looking At Other Religions
02:42 - Believers In Mind & Body Dualism
03:47 - Plato & Forms
08:32 - How Do We Know About The Form Realm?
10:20 - The Student Becomes The Master
11:21 - Explanation For Motion?
15:36 - Aristotle Fairs No Better
17:08 - 3 Types Of Non-Christian Religious Views
23:10 - Defining Terms
28:12 - Hinduism
31:54 - Buddhism
41:01 - Conclusion
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17-04 - cavetothecross.com/ep200/ & cavetothecross.com/ep201/
26-34 - @Apologia Studios Cultish - Leaving The Moonies - https://youtu.be/1IWpgHtyisM & https://youtu.be/SvhyIlb6AYk
30-39 - Responding To Hindus & Hare Krishnas - https://youtu.be/E5brDZ-_foM
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Bahnsen Lecture Library - https://tinyurl.com/4p88pz79
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