Cave To The Cross Apologetics

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We begin our next book by introducing John Frame & apologetics. We open to the preface where Frame’s friend and ministry partner Vern Poythress gives us a mini-book in apologetics and what we’ll see in the rest of the book. If we can talk about just the preface for this long, just imagine the bang for your buck you’ll be getting for the rest of the book!

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Apologetics – A Justification of Christian Belief by John Frame

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The final reviews of 2022 include some IndiePub, poetry, sci-fi, and theology. Our hope for our ministry is that you pull off those books from your shelf, blow off the dust, and make use of them for God’s glory. You can start at any time and start at any length of book. Our God is a storyteller and we reflect His image when we read and write our stories. Let us do all for the glory of God.

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The episode link is cavetothecross.com/ep205/

00:52 – What About Evil Playlist

11:16 – AnarchoChristian Episode On Anthem For Doomed Youth

58:30 – Against All Opposition Playlist

01:01:01 – Finding Truth Playlist

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Links to the books can be found linked in the Timeline.

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For the last two weeks of the year, we’ll be populating the show with books Patrick has read during the year. Some are homeschool supplementals, some are fiction, and – yes, some are even theology. Whether you’re set in your ways of only picking books from the New York Times from Trad Pubs or you’re a guilded member of the Iron Age of Indie Pubs, we hope this might help in finding some good books to read before they collect dust on your shelves. Reviews contain No Spoilers…except that God wins in the end.

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The episode link is cavetothecross.com/ep204/

Links to the books can be found linked in the Timeline.

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The final two weeks of the year will be a year-end roundup of the book Patrick has read and starting the first Monday of the year we’ll be starting John Frame’s Book “Apologetics – A Justification Of Christian Belief”.

Today we revisit episodes 47 & 48 with Dr. Bob Murphy  @BobMurphyAncap . This was an honor for me to have a conversation to the man who inspired me to learn more about economics for the glory of God. Dr. Murphy is a brilliant Austrian economist and Christian whose contributions and insights into economics is one of the best out there today.

In this first part of the interview, Dr. Murphy talks about what economics is and why Christians should care. We also discuss the fact that the Christian worldview accounts for economic theories. We also talk about the application of Austrian Economic theory, a theory based on presuppositional claims, when it comes to showing that slavery is not only immoral but a terrible economic decision.

In this second part of the interview, Dr. Murphy talks about where economic truth derives from. If the Fall never occurred would economic principles still stand? Then we talk about some of the weird stances people can have when applying economic principles to other parts of their lives.

Dr. Murphy and Patrick have a discussion on the similarities Austrian Economics has with Presuppositional Apologetics. Dr. Murphy gives some advice to Christians from an economic standpoint & encourages other Christians to learn economics as part of God’s ordered universe.

The episode link is cavetothecross.com/MurphyRedux/

Dr. Murphy is a Research Assistant Professor at the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University. He is also Senior Economist with the Institute for Energy Research, a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute, an Associated Scholar Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute, and a Senior Fellow with the Fraser Institute in Canada.  His current research focuses on the economics of climate change as well as the impact of minimum wages. He earned his B.A. in economics from Hillsdale College and his Ph.D. in economics from New York University. 

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Understanding Money Mechanics

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Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action

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Lessons for the Young Economist

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Contra Krugman: Smashing the Errors of America’s Most Famous Keynesian

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The Primal Prescription: Surviving The “Sick Care” Sinkhole

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism

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Chaos Theory

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The Three Lads and the Lizard King (Fiction)

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How Privatized Banking Really Works: Integrating Austrian Economics with the Infinite Banking Concept

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The Case for IBC

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Study Guide to Man, Economy, and State

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Human Action Study Guide

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Study Guide to the Theory of Money and Credit

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Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market by Murray Rothbard

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Human Action by Ludwig von Mises

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The Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises

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We needed to reschedule some things for our next book so we’re almost thinking of starting Frame’s book at the first of the year. Next couple of weeks, I’m thinking of doing a year-end review of all the books I read this year and see if there’s any interest in that. This week we’re pulling an interview that we did with J. Warner Wallace @ColdCaseChristianity all the way back from episodes 51 and 52. We were all so young back then…

We discuss Detective Wallace’s background and what led him to start questioning the claims of Christianity. He talks about using his approach for looking at the veracity and claims of the biblical Gospels and how the Gospels differ from the Book Of Mormon. Then we discuss some responses from critics of the Gospel.

In the second half, we take a deeper look into Detective Wallace’s process of establishing the Gospels as credible eyewitness testimony. We then ask him how he deals with evaluating the possibility of supernatural causes in everyday life. We, of course, have to talk about how he responds to presuppositionalists and also the great case for morality Christians have. We finish up with a charge and challenge from Detective Wallace on always being ready to give a defense for the hope we have.

The episode link is cavetothecross.com/WallaceRedux/

Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels by J. Warner Wallace

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Person of Interest: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible by J. Warner Wallace

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God’s Crime Scene: A Cold-Case Detective Examines the Evidence for a Divinely Created Universe by J. Warner Wallace

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Forensic Faith: A Homicide Detective Makes the Case for a More Reasonable, Evidential Christian Faith by J. Warner Wallace

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A very blurry Patrick (if you’re watching the video) announces the 9th book that’s going to be covered on the show. Links are here in the description and we hope you’ll join us as we focus (with Patrick’s camera in focus) on this next book in our book club.

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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 easier to develop and carry out an internal critique.

00:00 – Introduction

The episode link is cavetothecross.com/ep203/

08:36 – Truth In A Culture Of Doubt Playlist

Against All Opposition: Defending the Christian Worldview by Greg Bahnsen – Get The Book(s) – Order At American Vision

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Truth In A Culture Of Doubt by Andreas J. Köstenberger, Darrell L. Bock, and Josh Chatraw

Is The Mormon My Brother? by James White

What Every Christian Needs To Know About The Qur’an by James White

Textual Criticism and Qur’an Manuscripts by Keith Small

Kingdom Of The Cults by Walter Martin

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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 a movement toward the Christian worldview but without a basis for knowledge. Finally, we look at three types of non-Christian religious worldviews. Representing them are Hinduism, Hare Krishna, and Buddhism. We see the denial of some parts of reality lead to a rejection of their own worldview.

00:00 – Introduction

The episode link is cavetothecross.com/ep202/

17:04 – Ep.200 & Ep.201

26:34 – Cultish – Leaving The Moonies – Part 1 & Part 2

30:39 – Responding To Hindus & Hare Krishnas

Against All Opposition: Defending the Christian Worldview by Greg Bahnsen – Get The Book(s) – Order At American Vision

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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 rule or image. As in Romans 1 we see that all unbelievers believe in the one true God. And it is evidenced by their beliefs and actions of being unable to live consistently within their own worldview. It is the Christian who is able to point out the inconsistency and to provide not just the proper worldview that accounts for accounting but to account for why the unbeliever doesn’t account for accounting.

00:00 – Introduction

The episode link is cavetothecross.com/ep201/

31:08 – Lost In Math Review

31:34 – Premier Unbelievable? With

36:27 – Nihilists Should Say Yes To Drugs

Against All Opposition: Defending the Christian Worldview by Greg Bahnsen – Get The Book(s) – Order At American Vision

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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 doesn’t exist. You are nothing more than a meat sack and your actions cannot be right or wrong they just are. To hold men accountable for their actions would be like holding lions accountable for killing zebras. Yet, we have a history of people wanting to reject God as evil while providing no basis other than the same basis they would use to pick ice cream flavors. Where are to we look?

00:00 – Introduction

The episode link is cavetothecross.com/ep200/

09:33 – Katie Roome from Periapsis Press Interview (Ep.169)

Against All Opposition: Defending the Christian Worldview by Greg Bahnsen – Get The Book(s) – Order At American Vision

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