We wrap up Professor Pearcey’s book with a challenge to Christians and to the Church. That challenge is to stand firm on the Word of God as you say that you do, learn and use critical thinking skills that God encourages us to use, and to go into the world preaching the Good News of the Gospel.
We finish up Principle 5 by continuing to present examples of atheists freely admitting to stealing from Christianity’s superior worldview. So much so that non-theists attempt to elbow into areas addressed previously by Christianity – including atheist churches. Along with a warning about scientism, Christians are encouraged to present the Gospel with love and respect.
Onto Principle 5! We talk about how and why the Christian should present the Christian worldview as the superior and most consistent one. We then go over where the atheist(s) freely admit to stealing from the Christian worldview in order to come to the beliefs they want to rather than the outcomes their beliefs would demand.
https://media.blubrry.com/cavetothecross/cavetothecross.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cave-To-The-Cross-Apologetics-Ep.-73-Finding-Truth-Why-Worldviews-Commit-Sui-cide-Part-3.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | JioSaavn | Podchaser | Gaana | Podcast Index | TuneIn | Deezer | RSS We finish up the chapter by looking at how the postmodern worldview, and it’s subsections, destroy themselves. We look at […]
We continue our look at the internal critique of non-Christian worldviews and focus especially on Darwin. We also see what CS Lewis has to say about belief in atheism. Finally, we talk about the benefits of the Christian worldview and how it doesn’t fail the internal critique.
Principle 4 – does the worldview meet its own standard when it is applied to itself? Since non-Christian worldviews tend to be reductionistic they will be self-defeating. In this episode, we introduce the principle and why it is one of the most important tools you have in your apologetic quiver.
How exciting is this?! We welcome Professor Nancy Pearcey herself to the show! We talk to her about her coming to faith in Christ and her experience at L’Abri with Francis Schaeffer. Then we talk about her book we’ve been going over “Finding Truth” and talk about the book in general and in specific.
Finishing up the chapter, we look at the worldviews of postmodernists and its failure to account for what’s seen in the exterior world. When failing to live consistently with the belief that everyone is a robot and no one should really be held accountable for their actions, we see many fall back to wanting to believe Christianity is true but believing that it accounts for the facts too well.
https://media.blubrry.com/cavetothecross/cavetothecross.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Cave-To-The-Cross-Apologetics-Ep.-67-Finding-Truth-Secular-Leaps-Of-Faith-Part-2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | JioSaavn | Podchaser | Gaana | Podcast Index | TuneIn | Deezer | RSS Here we delve deeper into the secular materialist when it comes to failing to account for the things seen in […]
Picking up on the third principle, we now look at how non-Christian worldviews don’t explain what is seen in the world. With an idol replacing God, secular worldviews come upon truths in human nature or universal makeup or within the confines of experience that it must dismiss as an illusion or explain it away as not real. The quotes taken from leaders in the field are quite shocking and honest but necessarily follows from their basic outlook on the world.
We finish our look at how non-Christian worldviews reduce humanity by looking at four different worldviews. Looking at pantheism, Islam, Nazism, and communism shows that other worldviews need to cut off areas of humanity that they can’t explain or that they must explain away.
Who knew that a concept that doesn’t believe in absolute truth would generate so much discussion? Last week we introduced postmodernism and this week we look at how it reduces human value. We also look at post-postmodernism and how Critical Race Theory, Social Justice, and Identity Politics is the new avenue of postmodern thought and how it still devalues humanity.
We continue the chapter discussing how materialism and post-modernism sets up a reductionist view of humanity. Materialism attempts to explain away consciousness and post-modernism attempts to spiritualize matter.
We introduce the concept of the second of five parts in Pearcey’s apologetic method. When people make idols they end up replacing God with a substitute. Another outcome is they reduce the proper view of man for something lesser. We should always have a proper Creator/creature distinction, but we should never devalue those made in the image of God.
We complete the section on identifying the idols different worldviews put in place of God. Whether it be Marxism, naturalism, idealism, romantism, or other religions – each one tries to replace God for another divine understanding.
We begin looking at the first principle for evaluating worldviews – identify the idol the worldview tries to replace God with. Before looking at specific worldviews, we need to establish if there is any neutral ground, universality of worldviews, does every worldview count as a religion, and does every worldview have an understanding of something of the divine.
We complete the introduction of our new book “Finding Truth” by Nancy Pearcey. We look at how humans suppress the knowledge of God by creating idols and the consequences of following after those false gods. We then do an overview of the “5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes”. Those five principles will be looked at in greater detail in episodes to come.
We begin our new book “Finding Truth” by Nancy Pearcey today! Covering the first part of Part 1, we talk about the purpose and goal of the book. Very important, right? We cover Pearcey’s presentation that the Bible gives us revelation of God’s existence and that everyone has evidence for His existence. Finally, we cover why not everyone believes even with the knowledge and evidence people have.
