Tag: internal critique

Ep. 127 – Why Should I Believe Christianity? – God Is There – Part 3

God Is There God is there and there are things in the world that point to him. We finish the chapter covering how reason, the mind, and science all point to God’s existence. While atheists try and make themselves solely about science, we see their lack of grounding a bigger deal than they seem. As […]

Ep. 126 – Why Should I Believe Christianity? – God Is There – Part 2

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Moral Meaning Moral meaning values come up when we talk about politics, society, business practices, and other interactions between people and the world. However, when we say that the world isn’t as it should be or that we should do something or we ought not to do something, we are declaring that we believe there’s […]

Ep. 114 – Are Many New Testament Documents Forged? – Part 2

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Who Wrote The Bible? Who wrote The Bible? The next two claims of forgery against the New Testament are the allegations of illiterate authors & false attribution to authors. Were the NT writers too illiterate to write their documents & couldn’t find another way to get their ideas down to be disseminated to others? Is […]

Ep. 88 – Tactics – Sibling Rivalry & Infanticide

For the third part of the tactic on identifying arguments that self-destruct, we look at two different ones.  We look at arguments that when held up next to each other aren’t allowed to exist at the same time and be consistent.  The other is arguments who have an underlying assumption that knocks out the claim.  We cover a few examples in there as well.

Ep. 87 – Tactics – Practical Self-Destruction

We looked at when arguments fail because they contradict themselves.  Now we look at when arguments don’t formally contradict themselves but they still fail due to practical reasons.  We have to remember, that the tactics here are to help engage in a dialogue and not used to make the other side feel like a failure.  Our goal is to give the Good News, not to “win”.

Ep. 86 – Tactics – Views That Self-Destruct

The next tactic to use when talking to someone about your faith is one that we’ve seen in our previous book by Nancy Pearcey “Finding Truth”. That is looking at what someone is saying and seeing if their own statement contradicts itself. Sometimes this is called the internal critique and if it contradicts itself it can be easily dismissed.

Ep. 73 – Finding Truth – Why Worldviews Commit Suicide – Part 3

We finish up the chapter by looking at how the postmodern worldview, and it’s subsections, destroy themselves. We look at the Social Justice Movement, Critical Race Theory, and similar progressive stances actually fall apart of themselves. Finally, we look at how Christianity offers the better, consistent, and complete worldview. The episode link is www.cavetothecross.com/ep73 Books […]

Ep. 72 – Finding Truth – Why Worldviews Commit Suicide – Part 2

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.

Ep. 71 – Finding Truth – Why Worldviews Commit Suicide

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.