Cave To The Cross Apologetics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgF41a4tYXI

Finishing up Bahnsen’s attempt to help out his atheist opponent provide justification for his use of logic, we look at logic being shown through experimentation or agreement. And like the good Christian Bahnsen is, he provides a good overview and then sinks the foundation of the atheist to claim any grounding for logic.

00:00 – Introduction

The Great Debate – Does God Exist? – Edited and Commentary by Joshua Pillows

Debate Transcript Video

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeaWCLz68MY

Where Stein has claimed that the laws of logic are only agreed upon but useful, Bahnsen is having a hard time accepting that – because it’s wrong. It’s up to Bahnsen to try and make the case for the atheist metaphysical use of the laws of logic. But it’s also up to Bahnsen to shoot those down too and show the failure of atheistic logic.

00:00 – Introduction

The Great Debate – Does God Exist? – Edited and Commentary by Joshua Pillows

Debate Transcript Video

All episodes, short clips, & blog – https://www.cavetothecross.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_PXZTty4XY

The final half of the list of 2025 book reviews has more Greek, more sci-fi, and more indiepub goodness. Romance in space and space opera, talking pigs and talking frogs, first contact with aliens and first contact with demons, and good church history hymns and bad biblical archeology.

00:00:00 – Introduction

Medea by Euripides

The Trojan Women by Euripides

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

The Breadth of Creation by C.S. Johnson

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis

The Clouds by Aristophanes

The Frogs by Aristophanes

Shoot the Devil – Ten Tales of Humans Defeating the Demonic edited by Eric Postma

Lifebinder by Blake Carpenter

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

Theogony – Works and Days by Hesiod

Blind Devotion – A Tale of the Van Meter Visitor by Ty Drago

The Last Summer – A Tale of the Glawackus by Jacob Jones-Goldstein

3 Black Nights – An Urban Fantasy Horror Triple Feature! By T.J. Marquis

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

Record of The Paladins – Book of Ivon and Ivoire by BP McCoppin

After Moses Prodigal by Michael F. Kane

The Shepherd Descends by J.A. Raithe

Atlas of World War II – History’s Greatest Conflict Revealed Through Rare Wartime Maps and New Cartography Stephen G. Hyslop

Stones Still Speak – How Biblical Archaeology Illuminates the Stories You Thought You Knew Amanda Hope Haley

The One Year Book of Hymns – 365 Devotions Based on Popular Hymns Robert K. Brown , Mark Norton

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

DIEROCK 88 by S.A. Oliver

Before The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErkAm-0M8c0

2025 kicked off my goal of reading the great books of Western Civilization. So in typical fashion I read a little Greek, a little sci-fi, and a smattering of everything else. Indiepub still factored into the list with some hits and misses, just like the tradpubs. As always, the goal we should all have isn’t quantity it’s quality. But quality doesn’t just mean classic great books, it means books you enjoy and changes you and allows you to experience escapism and learn more about God’s world as He is the ultimate storyteller.

00:00:00 – Introduction

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

The God Frequency by Douglas Hemme

Amorphous – Breaking the Mold by Steven Burgess

Spectrum Multiview Christian Ethics Four Views edited by Steve Wilkens

The Peace War by Vernor Vinge

Greek for the Rest of Us by William D. Mounce

The Iliad by Homer

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Flight of the Eagles by Gilbert L. Morris

Sundered by Ernie Laurence Jr.

Horus Rising by Dan Abnett

The Odyssey by Homer

D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths by Ingri d’Aulaire

The Secret Door by Jenny Phillips

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Passing the Torch An Apology for Classical Christian Education by Louis Markos

The Core by Leigh A. Bortins

Agamemnon by Aeschylus

The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus

The Eumenides by Aeschylus

The Air We Breathe How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality by Glen Scrivener

Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

Antigone by Sophocles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dv78KPto4o

Here are two of our interviews with the great Andreas Köstenberger. The first part was discussing his book in response to Bart Ehrman that we did on the show. The second being a join interview with Andreas Köstenberger and his co-author Gregory Goswell on their amazing Biblical Theology book. I have more Köstenberger books in my collection and have referenced his work in almost every message at church I’ve taught. He’s a blessing to the Church and a godly worker in the Lord. Enjoy listening to these interviews and a dream come true from my standpoint.

00:00 – Introduction

LINKS To Andreas Köstenberger

LINKS To Gregory Goswell

LINKS:

Truth In A Culture Of Doubt – Engaging Skeptical Challenges to the Bibleby Andreas Köstenberger, Darrell Bock, and Josh Chatraw

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Signs Of The Messiah – An Introduction to John’s Gospel by Andreas Köstenberger

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Finding Truth – 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes by Nancy Pearcey

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Audible – https://amzn.to/33N0yka

Truth Matters – Confident Faith in a Confusing World by Andreas Köstenberger, Darrell Bock, and Josh Chatraw

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Jesus And The Eyewitnesses – The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony by Richard Bauckham

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The Heresy Of Orthodoxy – How Contemporary Culture’s Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity by Michael J. Kruger & Andreas Köstenberger

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Christianity At The Crossroads – How the Second Century Shaped the Future of the Church by Michael J. Kruger

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The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown: An Introduction to the New Testament by Andreas Köstenberger, L. Scott Kellum, Charles L Quarles

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Women in the Church – An Interpretation and Application of 1 Timothy 2:9-15 by Andreas Köstenberger & Thomas R. Schreiner

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God’s Design for Man and Woman – A Biblical-Theological Survey by Andreas Köstenberger & Margaret Elizabeth Köstenberger

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Apologetics At The Cross – An Introduction for Christian Witness by Josh Chatraw

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Telling A Better Story – How to Talk About God in a Skeptical Age by Josh Chatraw

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Evidence That Demands A Verdict – Life-Changing Truth for a Skeptical World by Josh McDowell & Sean McDowell

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God, Marriage, And Family – Rebuilding the Biblical Foundation by Andreas Köstenberger & David W. Jones

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Biblical Theology: A Canonical, Thematic, and Ethical Approach

All episodes, short clips, & blog – https://www.cavetothecross.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oXycsqAl-I

I absolutely love the people God has brought together in the scope of doing this podcast. One very good friend is Troy Frasier who helps run the Revived Thoughts podcast which takes sermons of the past and gets people to record them so they can be heard now in the present. I know! What a great concept! Here’s Troy and I sitting down to talk about why Church History matters for us today and all people in God’s historical timeline. Enjoy!

00:00 – Introduction

Revived Thoughts

Every episode we’ve done for Revived Thoughts can be found here – CaveToTheCross.com/RevivedThoughts

03:32 – Martyrs & Missionaries – The Rise and Fall of Christianity in Japan Part I

03:32 – Martyrs & Missionaries – The Rise and Fall of Christianity in Japan Part II

15:06 – David Livingstone: Who will carry on the work?

15:06 – David Livingstone: The Heart Of Africa

15:11 – George Matheson: The Patience of Job

18:32 – Henry Grattan Guinness: Christian Charity (Feat. Dr. Os Guinness)

29:46 – Anselm: The Storm of the Last Days

30:00 – Deep Dive: The Story of Ethiopia

01:21:44 – Lightkeepers Reviews & Links

The Life and Diary of David Brainerd by Jonathan Edwards

The Downgrade Controversy by Charles Spurgeon

All episodes, short clips, & blog – https://www.cavetothecross.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2LjRWSlJaY

Throughout this second part of Stein’s opening, he shows himself to be an atheist who doesn’t believe in God but definitively knows how that god would act if he did exist. Stein attempts to conflate logical contradiction with a psychological ickiness he perceives in the argument for God. Suffering, evil, justice, and how to act are things Stein knows how his made up god would act – a weird thing for someone who claims that he just lacks a belief.

00:00 – Introduction

The Great Debate – Does God Exist? – Edited and Commentary by Joshua Pillows

Debate Transcript Video

All episodes, short clips, & blog – https://www.cavetothecross.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FSZ9FzXJPY

For the second opening to The Great Debate, Dr. Stein wants to call out Christians for not having any good proofs and also having a system that allows evil to be present in a world created by God. However, one must ask, where can one stand to call out evil? Or even good for that matter.

00:00 – Introduction

The Great Debate – Does God Exist? – Edited and Commentary by Joshua Pillows

Debate Transcript Video

All episodes, short clips, & blog – https://www.cavetothecross.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG2nDHh4eCg

Now it’s Gordon Stein’s turn to assess the debate so far. With Stein’s assessment he believes that Bahnsen hasn’t offered anything other than feelings based arguments and non sequiturs. He doesn’t feel the need to offer an explanation for why the universe exists and he sees laws of science, logic, and math only as agreed upon by consensus items. Why? What’s wrong with that?

00:00 – Introduction

The Great Debate – Does God Exist? – Edited and Commentary by Joshua Pillows

Debate Transcript Video

All episodes, short clips, & blog – https://www.cavetothecross.com

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

Essentially round one is over and both debaters are going to give their take of the Great Debate. In Bahnsen’s assessment so far, he finds that Stein has not addressed his main argument for God and has also given up the debate with the idea that the laws of logic are just social conventions agreed upon by people. But – is that how people view logic and operate in their daily lives?

00:00 – Introduction

The Great Debate – Does God Exist? – Edited and Commentary by Joshua Pillows

Debate Transcript Video

All episodes, short clips, & blog – https://www.cavetothecross.com