Apologetics Archive

  • Will the innocent native in Africa who has never heard the Gospel go to Heaven or Hell?

    Will the innocent native in Africa who has never heard the Gospel go to Heaven or Hell?

    Often people ask, “What happens to the poor innocent native in Africa who has never heard the gospel?  When he dies will he go to heaven or hell?” My answer: The innocent native in Africa who has never heard the Gospel will go straight to...

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  • How to use the presuppositional method of apologetics

    How to use the presuppositional method of apologetics

    “Presuppositional Procedure” — By Dr. Greg Bahnsen Here then is how the presuppositional (transcendental) method of defending the faith would proceed once the preliminary discussions and clarifications have taken place with the unbeliever – and the two outlooks now come head to head.[1. It should...

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  • Since only Christians can understand the Bible, then why discuss the Scripture with unbelievers?

    Since only Christians can understand the Bible, then why discuss the Scripture with unbelievers?

    A. W. Pink on “Heed the Word” [1. A. W. Pink, The Doctrine of Revelation] Today we behold some of the fearful crops which have resulted from that evil sowing: “some of,” we say, for it is greatly to be feared that the full harvest does...

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  • Skeptics can be Supremely Unreasonable

    Skeptics can be Supremely Unreasonable

    If there can be no assumed starting point for a demonstration, then no demonstration can get started – or finished, depending upon how you look at it. If an unbeliever considers Christianity to be irrational simply on the basis that it allows for something to...

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  • Autonomy Is No Ladder to Christ’s Supreme Authority

    Autonomy Is No Ladder to Christ’s Supreme Authority

    In an article Dr. Greg Bahnsen wrote: The Christian’s final standard, the inspired word of God, teaches us that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” (Proverbs 1:7). If the apologist treats the starting point of knowledge as something other than reverence...

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  • Exposing the False Religion of the Skeptic

    Exposing the False Religion of the Skeptic

    As Van Til observes: "The natural man then assumes that he has the final criterion of truth within himself. Every form of authority that comes to him must justify itself by standards inherent in man and operative apart from the authority that speaks."

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  • Murrieta Valley Church 2007 Atheism Debate

    Murrieta Valley Church 2007 Atheism Debate

    “Are you a worshiper of the Purple Unicorn?” On Sunday Evening August 5th, 2007 about 200 people gathered at Murrieta Valley Church in Murrieta, California to hear a debate between Pastor Gene Cook, Jr and Steve Scianni on the question of “Is the Atheistic Worldview...

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  • Murrieta Valley Church’s Summer Debate Series

    Murrieta Valley Church’s Summer Debate Series

    Murrieta Valley Church is hosting two great debates this summer. The first debate will be a display of presuppositional apologetics versus apostasy. The second will be a friendly intramural debate among Christian brothers over the highly debated and extremely important topic of baptism. Everyone is...

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  • The Does Hell Exist Debate

    The Does Hell Exist Debate

    Click here for part 1 of the“Does Hell Exist” Debate(Opening Remarks and Dialogue) Click here for part 2 of the“Does Hell Exist” Debate(Closing Remarks and Q&A) Pastor Gene’s opening question at Part 1 – 39:26 was, according to presuppositional apologetics, one of the most valid...

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  • Kirk Cameron Debate

    Kirk Cameron Debate

    Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort will debate two atheist (The Blasphemy Challenge people) tonight on Nightline. I look forward to the debate and your commentary. Here’s what they have to say about the debate: Perhaps you think that anyone who says that he can prove...

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  • Getting Israel Right

    Getting Israel Right

    Listen closely to this short clip (5 minutes) of a debate (Catholic Mass, 1999) between James White (a sound Calvinist and Amillenarian) and a man named Sungenis. There is a discussion of God’s faithfulness to His promises to Israel. The apologist believes that God’s promises...

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  • When Confrontation is Called For

    When Confrontation is Called For

    “To put the matter succinctly: those who see only the contemporaneity of this spirituality—and who, typically, yearn to be seen as being contemporary—usually make tactical maneuvers to win a hearing for their Christian views; those who see its underlying worldview will not. . . ....

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  • Unsportsmanlike

    Unsportsmanlike

    I was thinking about Woody Hayes, Bobby Knight, and Mike Tyson today, men who personified the idea of unsportsmanship. There is something about competition that can eventually make men do things that should never be done — and then causes them to try shamelessly to...

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  • Michael Shermer and Gene Cook

    Michael Shermer and Gene Cook

    Michael Shermer of SKEPTIC.COM and author of Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design talks to Gene Cook, the Christian apologist of The Narrow Mind and a dogmatician of Fide-O. I encourage you to listen as nearly 1000 others have since Friday. Also, here...

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  • Di Vinci Code

    Di Vinci Code

    Dr. James White said of the Di Vinci Code movie, “One thing is for certain: just as the book is designed to inculcate doubt about the veracity of the Bible and the entire Christian faith, the film moves that idea out of the printed page...

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  • Heed the Word

    Heed the Word

    Today we behold some of the fearful crops which have resulted from that evil sowing: “some of,” we say, for it is greatly to be feared that the full harvest does not yet appear. Shocking and appalling is the situation which is already spread before...

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