Proving God – Ep.386 – Covenantal Apologetics – Proof To All Men – Part 2
Proving God We conclude our chapter by talking about proving God by looking at how Christians can have the theological grounding to present proof to all people and how that’s possible if we are corrupted by sin. We also look at the issues with the idea that one needs to provide proof for every aspect […]
The Imago Dei Reflected – Ep.385 – Covenantal Apologetics – Proof To All Men – Part 1
The Imago Dei Reflected Now that the terms are defined and we understand what covenantal apologetics means, we turn to understanding what offering proof entails. Oliphint centers his giving of proofs on top of Mars Hill in Acts 17 and point to two areas of how all people can be given proof. In this episode, […]
Which Side Can Survive Critique? – Ep.384 – Covenantal Apologetics – Set Christ Apart As Lord – Part 2
Which Side Can Survive Critique? How that Oliphint has made his case for why we need to hang our apologetic entirely on Christ as Lord, we apply that to two different critiques. An internal one levied at Dawkins and rationality alone and an internal one made by an atheist against Christianity. Which side is about […]
The Christian Covenant Of Apologetics – Ep.381 – Covenantal Apologetics – Always Ready – Part 2
Everyone Has A Covenantal Duty To Believe In God TIMELINE: 00:00 – Introduction 02:07 – The Command For All Christians To Be Apologists Theologically 03:47 – A New Term To Clarify An Old Apologetic 06:25 – The Greaterness Of God To Man So That We Can Understand 08:34 – The Covenant All Humans Have To […]
Everyone Has A Covenantal Duty To Believe In God – Ep.380 – Covenantal Apologetics – Always Ready – Part 1
Everyone Has A Covenantal Duty To Believe In God Starting out with chapter one, Oliphint does what we love around here – defining his terms. Here he covers what is apologetics and that all humanity has a covenantal duty to believe in God and follow Him. The Christian apologist, then, is to always be ready […]
Reorienting Presuppositional Apologetics – Ep.379 – Intro – Covenantal Apologetics
Reorienting Presuppositional Apologetics We dive into Oliphint’s intro where he wants to get into reorienting presuppositional apologetics. This is a focus less on the philosophical but more on the practical, Christian aspect of it. He wishes to “translate” Van Til for the common man and breaks down how his book will do that. TIMELINE: 00:00 […]
Apologetics – From Athens To Indiana – Ep.378 – Preface – Covenantal Apologetics
How Must Christians Respond To Atheists In the preface for the new book, William Edgar walks through a short history of 20th century apologetics and takes us from Athens to Indiana. We see the shaky ground that the 20th century landscape had Christianity in and the much needed resurgence that people like Kuyper, Van Til, […]