Ep. 121 - Why Should I Believe Christianity? - Christianity As A Worldview - Part 1
Who is God? Since Christianity is a worldview, we have to understand what that worldview says and where it comes from. Both questions' answers are found in the revealed nature of who is God. God has the ability and right to be the source of the revelation of Himself. It is found in the nature of Scripture we call The Bible. And we fly through all of Genesis 1:1 in this episode (and just a tad bit of the end of Genesis 1) to present qualities of the Christian worldview as grounded in the person, nature, and revelation of the God of the Bible.
Timeline: 00:00 - Introduction 03:00 - Christianity As A Worldview 04:43 - Who Gets To Say What's Part Of The Christian Worldview? 08:11 - In The Beginning God... 14:48 - God Is A Necessary Being 15:29 - God Is The Ultimate Source & Standard 17:00 - God Is Personal 20:26 - Shared & Unshared Characteristics 21:20 - God Is A Perfect Being 23:53 - The Need For God To Be Trinity 30:31 - God Is In The Beginning 38:00 - God's Relationship To His Creation
- The Trinity and the Vindication of Christian Paradox: An Interpretation and Refinement of the Theological Apologetic of Cornelius Van Til by Brant Bosserman - https://amzn.to/2QtHOmI
- The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God by Lee Strobel - https://amzn.to/3aAJNMO
This is one of the biggest questions any worldview has to set out to answer. Why does something exist? Is it all an illusion? Did we just wake up 5 minutes ago with fake memories? The universe is actually a living being in an even bigger universe? Or a product of an Ultimate Being?
TIMELINE:
00:00 - Six Internal Reasons Christianity Makes More Sense
01:24 - Existence Is A Proof That God Exists
05:54 - Nothing Needed To Exist; But Why Does It?
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Humanity has increased rapidly its loss of patience. A two day waiting period on our Amazon order and it takes three days is absolutely evil and we can't stand it. Human's trouble with evil and time share a common space that we shouldn't ignore.
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Since Christianity is true, we hold the most important message from the most important Person to those in the most amount of need to hear it. No small charge, right? So here are a few quick tips on how to start that journey of a thousand miles with a few small steps.
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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
LINKS
02:20 - Lydia McGrew Interview - https://youtu.be/uMIa_94gIGQ
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It might sound weird to say that we offer up apologetics as proof when it comes to our faith in God. But what Frame is presenting here is that we sometimes overestimate what we are thinking proof is or isn't. We've let others define what faith is for so long that even if modern shows and movies acknowledge faith it's always some bad take of believing in spite of evidence or what you know not to be the case. Frame lays out the position of what we see in Scripture as exercises of faith have a proof of evidence component to them and we should likewise consider this when we do apologetics.
Timeline:
00:00 - Introduction
01:42 - Abraham Shows Us Proof Of Evidence In Faith
09:48 - Scripture As Proof Of Evidence In The Resurrection
17:29 - Jesus Gives Us Proof Outside Of Scripture As Well
21:59 - The Concept Of Proof
32:41 - Conclusion
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Covering the importance of the development of the Nomina Sacra and the codex were two of the most impressive systems devised by the early Christian scribal community. In some ways, it mirrors their Jewish counterparts with scrolls and the tetragrammaton showing a high reverence for the sacred name of God.
TIMELINE:
00:00 - The Importance Of The Nomina Sacra
03:33 - The Importance Of The Codex
Today's short clip comes from episode 109 which can be found here - https://youtu.be/SRc_KLdRNGw
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The ultimate moment in history for Christians is the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. If Christianity is true, this event is the most important event for every person who lived, living, or will ever live. Where does it fit in the Christian worldview then?
Through the anticipation of Old Testament prophecy, the testimony of friends and foes that would become followers, and the actions of Jesus Himself we have a great confidence that the Resurrection took place just as The Bible describes it.
While not an exhaustive list of reasons, this does highlight some of the areas we can look at to show that Jesus was God and that when He died He rose again in fulfillment of the Scriptures for the payment of the sins of those who believe in Him.
Timeline:
00:00 - Introduction
02:07 - The Afterlife In The Christian Worldview
04:35 - Why Christians Believe Jesus Rose From The Dead
06:26 - The Impossibilities Of Miracles
08:27 - Why Miracles Are Not Impossible
11:03 - Miracles Do Not Conflict With Science
15:24 - Probability Of Miracles
18:47 - Confidence Of Testimony
19:42 - An Event Not Plucked Out Of Nowhere
22:27 - Prophecies As Evidence
22:34 - Psalm 16:10
23:17 - Jesus' Reputation & Prophecies
25:32 - Events Post-Jesus' Death
26:31 - James, Jesus' Half Brother
27:08 - Paul, The Persecutor
28:15 - The Multitude Of Witnesses
29:57 - Jesus' Actions Point To His Foreknowledge Of His Upcoming Resurrection
33:53 - Conclusion
LINKS:
14-51 - J. Warner Wallace On The Supernatural - https://youtu.be/Sdhy5AD0uwk
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Bart Ehrman claims that Luke & Mark portray Jesus' attitude at the cross so differently that they cannot be viewed as both being true. However, we see that Ehrman's claim can be completely reversed on itself in the Garden of Gethsemane.
TIMELINE:
00:00 - Looking At Test Cases
01:22 - Test Case #1 - Mark & Luke Crucifixion
05:26 - Rebuttal From Mark
06:48 - Rebuttal From Luke
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The importance of theology to the evidentialist is rooted in The Bible being a historical object and an internal biblical argument.
TIMELINE:
00:00 - The Importance Of Theology To The Evidentialist
00:34 - The Bible Is A Historical Object
01:40 - The Bible Makes Evidentialist Arguments
Today's short clip comes from episode 258 which can be found here - https://youtu.be/3-AhOa6tVbg
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