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Apologia

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A Verbal defense

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Apologia in the New Testament

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The noun is used several times

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Classical Methods

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Begins with natural theology to establish the theistic worldview

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Classical Methods 2

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Then uses historical evidences for the deity of Christ, the trustworthiness of Scripture to show the superiority of Christianity.

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Classical Methods 3

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The early church apologists used this approach.

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Classical Methods 4

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Asks how can one meaningfully discuss historical evidences unless one has first established god’s existence

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Evidential Method

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A “one step” approach that argues that miracles do not presuppose God’s existence, but can serve as one kind of evidence for the true God

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Evidential Method 2

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Argue for Christian theism on the basis of the factuality of Jesus’ resurrection and without recourse to an elaborate natural theology.

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Evidential Method 3

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Jesus’ resurrection authenticates his claim to be God incarnate and declares the authority of Scripture.

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The Cumulative Case Method

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The case for Christianity is like a lawyer’s informal brief that pieces together various lines of argument that best explain the data.

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The Cumulative Case Method 2

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Christian theism makes the best sense of all the evidence available compared to any other worldview.

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The Presuppositional Method

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The noetic effects of sin sabotage the common ground of rationality between believers and unbelievers

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The Presuppositional Method 2

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The apologist must presuppose the Divine revelation of Scripture as the proper framework through which all experience is interpreted and all truth is known.

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The Presuppositional Method 3

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Arguments and evidences can be advanced but these are ultimately true only if Christianity is true.

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The Presuppositional Method 4

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all meaning, thought, and facts presuppose the God of Scriptures

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The Reforms Epistemological Method

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Advocates reject the enlightenment “evidentialist” epistemology that says that belief apart from substantiating evidence is irrational.

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The Reforms Epistemological Method 2

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IT is perfectly reasonable for a person to believe many things without evidence

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The Reforms Epistemological Method 3

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Belief in God does not require supporting evidence or arguments because all humans have an innate sense of the divine (senses divinitatis) which makes immediate rational belief in God Possible

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The Reforms Epistemological Method 4

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Focuses upon challenges to theistic belief.

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The Reforms Epistemological Method 5

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Positive Apologetics will be employed to help awaken unbelievers to their latent sense of the divine.

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Classical, evidential, and Cumulative Case Methods

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assume a common rationality

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Christian rationality

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is connected with the universal laws (natural laws)embedded in the nature of creation.

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The apologist

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appeals to this core rationality in preparing the ground for the gospel proclamation.

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The Reformed Epistemological Method assumes

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an innate sense of the divine which makes rational belief in God possible.

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Act of Reason
All those acts of our mind by which we discover understand or seek to demonstrate truth.
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Apprehension
the act of reason whereby the mind lays hold or grasps that something is
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Judgment
the act whereby we affirm or deny that the thing apprehended is or was or will be.
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Reasoning
the acts whereby the mind proceeds from known truth to new truth.
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Objects of reason
whatever the mind can know by reason
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What is faith
Personal trust in someone and something
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Acts of faith involves four aspects
The emotions; The intellectual; The volitional; the whole person
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The emotions
the feeling of confidence in a personal God
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The intellectual
intellectual belief grounded in knowledge of God and reality that something is corresponds to reality.
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The volitional
The act of the will by which I make a commitment to live on the basis of God’s Word
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The whole person
in total commitment of trust
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Object of Faith
the person or thing in which one trust
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Truths of Faith—special revelation
Christ’s atoning death, the trinity
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Truths of Faith and reason
the existence of one God and objective moral law
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Truths of reason and not of faith
human reason and general revelation
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The Kalam Argument
can be traced back to medieval Islamic philosophers.
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Kalam Argument Structure
Whatever begins to exist has a cause. The Universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe has a cause
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KA Premise 1 defense
Intuitively true (i.e. human cognitive faculties affirm) and constantly confirmed in our experience.
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KA Premise 1 Objection
Empiricists may deny the warrant for the universal Claim; “Quantum indeterminacy” suggest that subatomic events have no cause; Doesn’t God fit into the whatever begins to exist category since he “began to exist in time” when time began to exist?
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KA Premise 2 Defense
The Impossibility of actually infinite sets; Moreland’s library; “Tristam Shandy”; The impossibility of traversing an actual infinite in the spacio-temporal world
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Teleological Argument
“the argument from design”
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A Design Argument
The universe displays a staggering amount of intelligibility, both within the things we observe and in the way these things relate to others outside themselves.
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A Design Argument 2
Either this intelligible order is the product of chance or of intelligent design.
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A Design Argument 3
It is not the product of chance.
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A Design Argument 4
Therefore, the universe is the product of intelligent design.
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A Design Argument 5
Design comes only from a mind, a designer.
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A Design Argument 6
Therefore, the universe is a product of an intelligent Designer—God.
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A Design Argument Critique
Premise 1 is obvious to all and Premise 2 gives two possible explanations Premise 3 denies chance, but doesn’t evolution show that the universe is the result of chance?
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Irreducible complexity
a single system of well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts cause the system to cease functioning
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Specified complexity
A meaningful pattern that cannot be explained by natural law or necessity.
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Two kinds of Fine Tuning
Natural Constants& Arbitrary Quantities
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Natural Constants
Unchanging initial quality like the force of gravity and the subatomic “weak” force.
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Arbitrary Quantities
like the amount of thermodynamic disorder (or entropy) put in as initial conditions on which the laws of nature operate.
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Criticism of a fine tuner
The odds for any bridge hand are very small and a random hand has the same probability as a perfect bridge hand has the same probability as a perfect bridge hand. So every time one deals, the improbable happens and thus we should not be surprised at “design”
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Anthropic Principle
We should not be surprised to observe a finely tuned universe because if the universe were not finely tuned universe because if the universe were not finely tuned we wouldn’t be here to be surprised
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Taxicab Fallacy
Can’t say that everything has an explanation for its existence and then when you arrive at your destination, then suddenly exempt the universe itself
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What follows about Gods nature as First Cause
Uniqueness; Immaterial simplicity; Perfection; Eternality; Personhood
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Immaterial simplicity
God is immaterial, pure mind, does not change (intrinsically) and is one being.
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Perfection
An uncaused first cause existing in and of itself, must be perfect, since lacking in nothing.
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Eternality
A being that necessarily exists is eternal since it is in that Being’s nature to exist
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Personhood
since the universe contains persons who are rational, social, moral, and free, how could the first cause be any less than a person
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Moral Argument
If objective moral values exist, then God exist; If there is no God, then moral values are not objective.; .'. God exists
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Objective values
something is right or wrong independent of whether one believes it or not.
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Criticism of premise (2): Objective moral values exist.
Cultural relativism
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Cultural relativism
Morality is defined by culture.
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Criticism of premise (1): If objective moral values exist, then God exists
Darwinian naturalism
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Darwinian naturalism
Moral values are bi-products of socio-biological evolution.
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Darwinian naturalism response 1
If morality is just the product of naturalistic evolution then rights do not truly exist.
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Darwinian naturalism response 2
Can we trust our minds of we are nothing more than random chance and impersonal processes?
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Darwinian naturalism response 3
Why are humans so special if merely recent accidental by-product of an impersonal universe?
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Darwinian naturalism response 4
Naturalism dissolves morality in determinism.
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Closing Comments on the moral argument
The fact of moral obligation makes more sense in a universe in which the ultimate reality is a moral Person.; Much of morality is based on respecting the value of persons, a fact that argues for a personal Creator God.; The moral argument adds the idea of a moral being

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