Apologetics Should Attack Worldview Foundations – Ep.372 – The Great Debate – At War with the Word – The Necessity of Biblical Antithesis – Part 3
Apologetics Should Attack Worldview Foundations Bahnsen now moves to encouraging the Christian to engage in an apologetic method that attack worldview foundations first and foremost. There’s nothing wrong in knowing the positive case for Christianity but when it comes to how one approaches proof and truth, why give up so much of your position to […]
Pushing The Antithesis Apologetics – Ep.371 – The Great Debate – At War with the Word – The Necessity of Biblical Antithesis – Part 2
Pushing The Antithesis Apologetics Continuing Bahnsen’s lecture on pushing the antithesis, we see Bahnsen make the case for a pushing the antithesis apologetics and provides the repercussions as seen in real, published literature on what happens if we give up that division between the Christian worldview and the non-Christian worldview. TIMELINE: 00:00 – Introduction 02:08 […]
The Christian Antithesis – Ep.370 – The Great Debate – At War with the Word – The Necessity of Biblical Antithesis – Part 1
The Christian Antithesis We now cover a lecture by Greg Bahnsen included in our book that encourages the Christian antithesis to be pushed when comparing our lives to those of the world, and also in our apologetics. Here, Bahnsen shows the Van Tillian origin of this idea in apologetics, but shows the presence of it […]
Christian TAG Solves It All – Ep.369 – The Great Debate – A Synopsis – Part 4
Christian TAG Solves It All Finishing up the question, we see that a proper examination would have led Greg Bahnsen to present the transcendental argument that he was known for and how Christian TAG solves it all. TIMELINE: 00:00 – Introduction 00:15 – Question 7 – How Does The Christian Not Just Beg The Question […]
What The Atheist Should Have Asked – Ep.368 – The Great Debate – A Synopsis – Part 3
What The Atheist Should Have Asked Here’s what Gordon Stein, the atheist, should have asked Greg Bahnsen in their debate instead of being caught off guard over what happened. Here, the editor steps into the role to pull out more context in the nature of the Christian worldview and why it provides the necessary basis […]
Christianity Provides The Only Justification For Knowledge – Ep.367 – The Great Debate – A Synopsis – Part 2
Christianity Provides The Only Justification For Knowledge Tony’s going to be out for a bit, so the next four episodes will be on the shorter end, but that’s ok. Here, the editor of the book, Joshua Pillows, structures the debate on what might have been the case if Stein had been prepared to deal with […]
How It Should Have Happened – Ep.366 – The Great Debate – A Synopsis – Part 1
Evil, Miracles, & Atheist Faith Tony’s going to be out for a bit, so the next four episodes will be on the shorter end, but that’s ok. Here, the editor of the book, Joshua Pillows, structures the debate on what might have been the case if Stein had been prepared to deal with Bahnsen’s actual […]
Evil, Miracles, & Atheist Faith – Ep.365 – The Great Debate – Q&A – Part 2
Evil, Miracles, & Atheist Faith We finish off with the debate with the final four questions including evil, agnosticism, the nature of logic, belief, and show that an atheist faith is present and the atheist in this debate stumbles over himself and accidentally admits it – twice. TIMELINE: 00:00 – Introduction 01:27 – Question 3 […]
The Christian God & The Guy From Germany With A Funny Mustache – Ep.364 – The Great Debate – Q&A – Part 1
The Christian God & The Guy From Germany With A Funny Mustache As we come down to the book’s debate proper section we are left with six questions from the audience. Here we cover two which involve asking why is the Christian God the answer out of all the other gods out there. Then we […]
Christians Have The High Ground – Ep.363 – The Great Debate – Dr. Bahnsen’s Closing Statement
Christians Have The High Ground We all know what happens to those who have the high ground. Dr. Bahnsen ends his closing remarks with the key points being that atheist Gordon Stein doesn’t have a leg to stand on. In fact, he’s stealing the Christian’s leg to be able to claim all his worldview points […]
An Atheist Caught Stealing – Ep.362 – The Great Debate – Dr. Stein’s Closing Statement
An Atheist Caught Stealing Dr. Stein finished the debate in his closing in what appears to be on his back heel. Bahnsen has levied that an atheist caught stealing from the Christian worldview allows for the use of science and morality that an atheist doesn’t have justification for. Stein uses his last words to try […]
At Some Point We Have To Talk About TAG – Ep.361 – The Great Debate – Bahnsen’s 2nd Rebuttal – Part 2
At Some Point We Have To Talk About TAG Bahnsen uses the final part of his second rebuttal by letting Stein and the audience know that at some point we have to talk about TAG. The argument that Bahnsen is known for surprised and shocked the atheist who hand waves it away without dealing with […]
Blind Faith Of Atheist Materialism – Ep.360 – The Great Debate – Bahnsen’s 2nd Rebuttal – Part 1
Blind Faith Of Atheist Materialism We’re breaking up Bahnsen’s 2nd rebuttal into two sections as we did with Stein, as there are two major sections both have covered. In this first half, Bahnsen makes the case of the use of blind faith of atheist materialism, in which the worldview has no ability to justify the […]
How Does God Think? – Ep.359 – The Great Debate – Stein’s 2nd Rebuttal – Part 2
How Does God Think? Stein didn’t know what the laws of logic were, knows philosophers don’t agree what they are – but now he’s going to point the finger back at Christians and say they don’t know either. He wants to know how does God think and how do Christians even know that. We Christians […]
Atheist Admits He’s Trapped! – Ep.358 – The Great Debate – Stein’s 2nd Rebuttal – Part 1
Atheist Admits He’s Trapped! Stein has been stymied and this atheist admits he’s trapped when it comes to his inability to justify his use of the laws of logic within the confines of his atheistic materialism worldview. Next week, we’ll look at his attempt to heap that same outcome on Bahnsen and Christianity. TIMELINE: 00:00 […]
Atheist Admits Atheism Can’t Justify Science – Ep.357 – The Great Debate – Bahnsen’s 2nd Cross-Examination
Atheist Admits Atheism Can’t Justify Science A slightly shorter episode due to sickness by the editor but nonetheless still an important part of the Great Debate. Here, Stein, the atheist admits atheism can’t justify science especially when it comes to induction. This issue that David Hume identified the problem with not having justification that the […]
What’s The Atheist’s Metaphysical Basis For Anything? – Ep.356 – The Great Debate – Stein’s 2nd Cross-Examination
What’s The Atheist’s Metaphysical Basis For Anything? While this is supposed to be Stein’s 2nd cross-examination of Bahnsen, we see Bahnsen causes the atheist to stumble by trying to get him to provide the atheist’s metaphysical basis for anything – here specifically for math and the laws of logic. The Christian has a basis, one […]
Atheist Logic By Experiment Or Agreement? – Ep.355 – The Great Debate – Bahnsen’s 2nd Opening – Part 2
Atheist Logic By Experiment Or Agreement? Finishing up Bahnsen’s attempt to help out his atheist opponent provide justification for his use of logic, we look at logic being shown through experimentation or agreement. And like the good Christian Bahnsen is, he provides a good overview and then sinks the foundation of the atheist to claim […]
The Failure Of Atheistic Logic – Ep.354 – The Great Debate – Bahnsen’s 2nd Opening – Part 1
The Failure Of Atheistic Logic Where Stein has claimed that the laws of logic are only agreed upon but useful, Bahnsen is having a hard time accepting that – because it’s wrong. It’s up to Bahnsen to try and make the case for the atheist metaphysical use of the laws of logic. But it’s also […]
Atheist Knows How God Would Act If He Did Exist – Ep.351 – The Great Debate – Stein’s 2nd Opening – Part 2
Atheist Knows How God Would Act If He Did Exist Throughout this second part of Stein’s opening, he shows himself to be an atheist who doesn’t believe in God but definitively knows how that god would act if he did exist. Stein attempts to conflate logical contradiction with a psychological ickiness he perceives in the […]
Where Can One Stand To Call Out Evil? – Ep.350 – The Great Debate – Stein’s 2nd Opening
Where Can One Stand To Call Out Evil? For the second opening to The Great Debate, Dr. Stein wants to call out Christians for not having any good proofs and also having a system that allows evil to be present in a world created by God. However, one must ask, where can one stand to […]
Stein’s Assessment So Far – Ep.349 – The Great Debate – Stein’s Rebuttal
Stein’s Assessment So Far Now it’s Gordon Stein’s turn to assess the debate so far. With Stein’s assessment he believes that Bahnsen hasn’t offered anything other than feelings based arguments and non sequiturs. He doesn’t feel the need to offer an explanation for why the universe exists and he sees laws of science, logic, and […]
Bahnsen’s Assessment So Far – Ep.348 – The Great Debate – Bahnsen’s Rebuttal
Bahnsen’s Assessment So Far Essentially round one is over and both debaters are going to give their take of the Great Debate. In Bahnsen’s assessment so far, he finds that Stein has not addressed his main argument for God and has also given up the debate with the idea that the laws of logic are […]
The First Sparring Of The Great Debate – Ep.347 – The Great Debate – The 1st Rebuttal
The First Sparring Of The Great Debate The first sparring of The Great Debate takes place here with the Christian & atheist getting five questions to ask for the other to answer. While we aren’t used to this format, this really lays out the needed back and forth interaction that a lot of debates lack […]
9 More Attempts To Disprove God – Ep.346 – The Great Debate – Gordon Stein’s Opening Statement – Part 2
9 More Attempts To Disprove God Here are 9 more attempts by Dr. Gordon Stein to levy his critiques against traditional arguments for God. With all 11 of them, has there been any that have addressed the claims presented by Dr. Greg Bahnsen? What do you think about these critiques? TIMELINE: 00:00 – Introduction 01:54 […]
Atheist Attempts To Disprove God – Ep.345 – The Great Debate – Gordon Stein’s Opening Statement – Part 1
Atheist Attempts To Disprove God It’s now Dr. Gordon Stein’s turn in the debate. This atheist attempts to disprove God in 11 different ways. However, what seems to happen here is the use of an odd definition for God and an actual need for one more argument – the one Dr. Bahnsen uses. TIMELINE: 00:00 […]
3 Important Claims In The Great Debate – Ep.344 – The Great Debate – Greg Bahnsen’s Opening Statement – Part 2
3 Important Claims In The Great Debate Here is Dr. Greg Bahnsen’s 3 important claims in the Great Debate. The first two are there to sweep away a lot of confusion Dr. Stein and other atheists have when it comes to the type of argumentation presuppositionalists use. Unfortunately, Dr. Stein didn’t seem to be prepared […]
Setting The Stage For The Great Debate – Ep.343 – The Great Debate – Greg Bahnsen’s Opening Statement – Part 1
Setting The Stage We open our 14th book by setting the stage for The Great Debate. We cover the Forward by Eli Ayala and Preface by Joshua Pillows, who give the background for the debate and speakers. Then we dive into Dr. Greg Bahnsen’s opening statement, where he uses most of his time covering what […]
Book 14 Announcement – Cave To The Cross Apologetics
Book 14 Announcement For our 14th book, we dive into one of the great moments for presuppositional apologetics. The debate between Greg Bahnsen and Gordon Stein in 1985 is a seminal watershed moment in apologetics history. Join us, starting next week, as we walk through the debate with the book The Great Debate edited and […]
The Internal Critique Of Other Religions – Ep.203 – Against All Opposition – Biblical Counterfeit Religions
Internal Critique Of Other Religions With the final chapter of Bahnsen’s book, we look at the internal critique of other religions. The same system we’ve been using with looking at worldviews for other philosophies and worldviews works just as well with religion. In fact, the codification and systematic approach other religions have probably make it […]
Dualism & Other Religions Critiqued – Ep.202 – Against All Opposition – A Quick Course In Comparative Religions
Dualism & Other Religions Critiqued 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 […]
All Unbelievers Believe – Ep.201 – Against All Opposition – The Unbeliever Is A Believer
All Unbelievers Believe Continuing with the internal critique of both the Christian and the unbeliever, the Christian comes to see that since God is Sovereign and Creator over all things and all men are made in His Image, it is impossible to rebel so far away from that so as to be outside of God’s […]
Atheist Issues – Mind & Morality – Ep.200 – Against All Opposition – A Critique Of Atheism – Part 2
Atheist Issues – Mind & Morality The problem of induction to do science and the problem of deduction to do logic are used but are baseless in a materialistic atheistic worldview. But that’s not the only issues. Atheist issues mind & morality also arise with great issue. The mind, as opposed to the brain, just […]
Atheist Issues – Induction & Deduction – Ep.199 – Against All Opposition – A Critique Of Atheism – Part 1
Atheist Issues – Induction & Deduction One of the most common worldviews you’re likely to encounter is that of the materialistic atheist. This worldview states that reality is only made up of physical things. There is no supernatural or transcendental realm of objects. Only what’s available to our senses is what is real and that’s […]
Tools To Evaluate Worldviews – Ep.198 – Against All Opposition – Challenges Of Competing Worldviews – Part 2
Tools To Evaluate Worldviews We finish the chapter by looking at some more tools to evaluate worldviews. Finishing up with atomists that want to keep free will we see hedonism and existentialism reign here. Then we take a slight detour to cover those worldviews that say you either can’t know or it doesn’t matter what […]
Three Views Of Reality – Ep.197 – Against All Opposition – Challenges Of Competing Worldviews – Part 1
Three Views Of Reality If there’s one thing we tend to stress on this show it’s that definitions matter. If you can define it then you can classify it. If you can classify it then you’re better able to know where that fits in the conversation about God, His World, and those who exist in […]
Everyone Is A Philosopher – Ep.196 – Against All Opposition – What Is Philosophy?
Everyone Is A Philosopher Everyone Is A Philosopher! It doesn’t matter your education or lack there of. It doesn’t matter if you are from the West or the East or from Mars. You can not know any Latin or you know how to get angry at the drive-through order taker in a dead language. You […]
No One Is Neutral, No Not One – Ep.194 – Against All Opposition – Unbelievers Are Not Neutral And Christians Shouldn’t Be – Part 1
No One Is Neutral, No Not One We’re back! Well – Tony is back! You’ve caught up on your book, right? You haven’t been letting it collect dust again, have you? We pick back up with Bahnsen’s book talking about if we should approach the subject of God (or anything) with a neutral standpoint. Both […]
Take Every Thought Captive – Ep.188 – Against All Opposition – Reasoning As A Christian Should
Take Every Thought Captive The Christian is commanded to take every thought to obey Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5). It’s not just in the realm of morality or on Sundays. It doesn’t involve just the personal thoughts or the public actions. Every thought is to be conformed to the sovereignty of God. Even our apologetics? Even […]
Facts Don’t Change Hearts – Ep.187 – Against All Opposition – Foundational Faith
Facts Don’t Change Hearts What do you mean facts don’t change hearts? You just build up enough facts on top of someone they can’t help but change their minds. While that might be true of some low investment beliefs think about something like the abortion debate. Does talking about the science of human life at […]
The War Between Faiths – Ep.186 – Against All Opposition – It’s Impossible To Think Without Presuppositions – Part 2
The War Between Faiths Listen you illogical Christian, we can talk about if God exists but you have to not rely on your ultimate standard or any scholar who is a Christian. You can’t rely on anyone philosopher older than 20 years ago because they’ve all been proven wrong and you definitely can’t rely on […]
Where Everyone Starts Thinking – Ep.185 – Against All Opposition – It’s Impossible To Think Without Presuppositions – Part 1
Where Everyone Starts Thinking Give me just the facts and only then will I believe. No. No. Not those facts I don’t like those facts! The idea that one starts with zero assumptions and believes ideas based on just the facts is nice thinking but it’s not how people think. Where everyone starts thinking is […]
All Have Faith In Their Reasons – Ep.184 – Against All Opposition – Faith Or Reason?
All Have Faith In Their Reasons The fight of the 20th century, folks! Who will win in the the two giants in their field? Will it be Faith which seems to be slowing down from its prime? Or is it Reason; the newcomer who claims to be the unfeeling, unemotional piece of iron? There can […]
At The Center Of Every Worldview – Ep.183 – Against All Opposition – Preface & Intro
Center Of Every Worldview At the start of this book is the answer to what’s at the center of every worldview. It’s not the end conclusion we need to begin with. It’s the before we start parts that are important. Halfway is not where we want to begin our apologetics and we don’t want to […]