Cave To The Cross Apologetics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMG4lgWVT48

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 the only thing that matters. Here’s the issue though – there are a lot of things this excludes. Two of them are induction & deduction.

00:00 – Introduction

The episode link is cavetothecross.com/ep199/

06:07 – Dr. James Anderson Interview

39:04 – The Great Debate – Bahnsen-Stein

39:14 – Wise Disciple – The Great Debate Breakdown

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

Bahnsen Lecture Library

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snZ4cgLFooo

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 all of reality is like. Is the easy way out the best route?

Finally, we look at two facts used in evaluating worldviews. Once you classified each worldview in the nice grid system we covered in this chapter, you have a much easier time of where to put the pin of belief of everyone you might meet in the world and run an internal critique on what they view is true about all reality and how it differs from the Christian worldview. From there, you have a two-pronged approach to presenting the Gospel while responding to their view of the world, the universe, and everything.

00:00 – Introduction

The episode link is cavetothecross.com/ep198/

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

Bahnsen Lecture Library

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ISvBgiEr4g

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 His World. As such, Greg Bahnsen has identified three views of reality that all people have.

We walk through those definitions to not only see where Christians might stand but also where everyone else stands. And from that vantage point, you don’t need to know absolutely everything about every worldview but you can more easily find points of discussion and separation from what the Christian worldview describes as what reality actually is.

00:00 – Introduction

The episode link is cavetothecross.com/ep197/

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

Bahnsen Lecture Library

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhX8pX82jhc

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 cannot help it.

In this chapter, Bahnsen works at getting to understand what is philosophy and why everyone has a philosophy. What does a philosophy do as it seems to important for everyone to do it without knowing they are? It is a crucial formative and evolving process but like with anything the approach of one’s own and especially of others is informed by one’s presuppositions. Presuppositions combined with philosophy go on to form one of the most important aspects of a person’s life – one’s worldview.

00:00 – Introduction

The episode link is cavetothecross.com/ep196/

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

Bahnsen Lecture Library

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R7Z8KDMyU8

Not only should we reject the charge to be neutral when approaching any area that pertains to God, but we should also realize that since this world is God’s world and we are all made in His image that even unbelievers are found borrowing from the Christian worldview – and they might not even know it!

One of the benefits of addressing presuppositions and worldviews is that we are able to address this concern with the unbeliever and make them give a reason for why they believe in things like induction or universal laws of logic or why one shouldn’t lie. And we need to address their inconsistency within their own worldview and show how the God of Scripture actually points to the reason they want to hold to different aspects that are found in the Christian Worldview.

00:00 – Introduction

The episode link is cavetothecross.com/ep195/

04:33 – David Wood Vs. Michael Shermer Debate

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

Bahnsen Lecture Library

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC35UZAnAcU

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 sides should lay down all their preconceptions, presuppositions, worldviews, and biases and start on the same base grounding. Well, guess what, that grounding of neutrality is also grounded on non-neutral standards! In fact, neutrality is impossible! No one is neutral. No one can be neutral.

And most of all, no one would want to be neutral, especially the Christian.

00:00 – Introduction

The episode link is cavetothecross.com/ep194/

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

Bahnsen Lecture Library

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic9wA14TVwU

Starting next week, Tony and I should be reunited in digital form to continue going through our Greg Bahnsen’s Against All Opposition.

I was kindly invited by some new friends at the Michigan Apologetics Network to give a talk on anything that I wished. I talked about how apologetics isn’t an end to itself but is a tool for proclaiming God’s Truth to both believers and non-believers alike. Apologetics effects affect those we proclaim the Gospel to and those who we help shepherd and encourage.

The episode link is cavetothecross.com/ep193/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBLy7dFsC8s

Homeschool, private, public, or any other school parent in between should check out and support those groups with the mantra of “Fund Students Not Systems”. Policy expert, Jeff Park (Alberta Parents’ Union & Co-Host of The Anarchist Bible Study) joins me in the second half of the interview.

In this section, we talk about combatting woke education especially if you’re a Christian parent. What is the best and most Christian way of addressing issues you find in your child’s education? Then we talk about the public policy push popularized by Corey DeAngelis to fund students not systems. It helps parents from every educational choice and every economic status. We then talk about what a decentralized school funding operation would look like.

Ultimately, everything comes down to your responsibility as parents to educate your children as directed to and gifted to by God.

00:00:00 – Introduction

The episode link is cavetothecross.com/ep192/

The Anarchist Bible Study

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU0tiEZ9u18

Is it the Christian responsibility to educate children or is it fine leaving that to the so-called experts? While the answer may seem simple enough, we invited an expert on public policy in education and Christian podcaster Jeff Park. He talks about the Christian’s responsibility in educating one’s children and where the responsibility lies. He goes over the current educational landscape (in both the United States and Canada). Finally, we discuss the rise of homeschooling and the benefits for both parents and adults – and why not always having a teaching degree isn’t a bad thing. This is part one of our discussion.

00:00:00 – Introduction

The episode link is cavetothecross.com/ep191/

The Anarchist Bible Study

01:12 – Hermeneutics & Apologetics

36:27 – The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money by Bryan Caplan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an7leTHxw68

When we look through Church History we see men, women, build-ups, big events, small events, death, sorrow, and Gospel worship. When we are looking through Church History we see those people and events give us things we enjoy and take for granted today. Troy Fraiser from Revived Thoughts podcast once again joins me in continuing this valuable discussion on why Church history matters and what we are missing out when we fail to look through it all.

00:00 – Introduction

The episode link is cavetothecross.com/ep190/

Revived Thoughts

John Gill: Christ the Savior from the Storm

39:12 – Lightkeepers Reviews & Links