We watched this video in class: Here is the follow up video:
Christ is the Way of True Common Sense: A Critique of Atheism is the Way of Common Sense by Madalyn O’Hair (This is the second part dealing with contradictions and fatal flaw) Part II: Contradictions Second I will point out the flaws of her assumptions that life can exist without God and how this is [...]
Christ is the Way of True Common Sense: A Critique of Atheism is the Way of Common Sense by Madalyn O’Hair (Conclusion of a four part essay) Conclusion O’Hair calls upon man to personal responsibility and to love one’s fellow man, but she calls them from an arbitrary position, a position produced by time, chance, [...]
Christ is the Way of True Common Sense: A Critique of Atheism is the Way of Common Sense by Madalyn O’Hair (this is Part III of the essay) Part III Homecoming In O’Hair’s quest for the truth, she dismisses the existence of God as a possible reality because she has deemed the concept of God [...]
Christ is the Way of True Common Sense: A Critique of Atheism is the Way of Common Sense by Madalyn O’Hair Introduction This essay is a critique of Madalyn O’Hair’s viewpoint article entitled “Atheism Is the Way of Common Sense.” This viewpoint was originally published in a pamphlet published in 1966 and revised in 1976 [...]
Christ is the Way of True Common Sense: A Critique of Atheism is the Way of Common Sense by Madalyn O’Hair (This is part I following the introduction) Part One – Presuppositions Part One of the essay I will attempt to uncover some of the author’s deeper assumptions. Presuppositions Fundamentally O’Hair believes there is no [...]
This is a quick summary of our first class: – Discussed 1 Peter 3:15-17 – Intro Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis – Sang hymn #271 Come Thou Fount HOMEWORK: Memorize 1 Peter 3:15 “But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to [...]
Presuppositions indicate without shame the epistemological, deep preconceptions of where we have meanings. Presuppositions are different from paradigms or pre-understanding or bias – it has some overlaps with paradigm, but not same as presupposition. When problems we face can’t be addressed by current paradigm, we change paradigms. Move from Earth being center of universe with [...]
For many people – presuppositional apologetics is Fideism arguing in circles. – there large circles and narrow circles, vicious circles and good and bad circles. – Christianity is true because God is there. – but on the level of persuasion – doing the work of argument – not only is Christianity a not a narrow [...]
Apologetics is disclosure, prying into the deepest regions of unbelief and the tension of other claims that they make. The relationship between unbelief and knowledge is much more subtle. We are talking with people living in God’s world. As a result, there are constant paradoxes and conflicts. They know who God is, but their knowledge [...]