Cave To The Cross Apologetics | Wave AI Podcast Notes

Atheist Problem Of Change, Unity, & Diversity – Ep.374 – The Great Debate – Philosophical Tensions And The Need For A Presuppositional Approach – Part 1

In the final part of the book, we cover Bahnsen's push to encourage all Christians to use the presuppositional apologetic approach. Bahnsen, true to form, pushes the antithesis between the supernatural Christian worldview and everything else. He starts with showing that all other worldviews have issues with change, unity, & diversity - a place where the Christian worldview can swoop in and provide the answer.

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Cave To The Cross Apologetics – The Father’s Responsibility To Educate Children Redux

2w ago02:42:51Tap to summarize

Don't worry, we'll be back to Bahnsen next week. But first, policy expert Jeff Park and Patrick have to encourage Christian fathers to take an active and central role in the education of their children - even if they're not the primary teacher, although they are primarily responsible.

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Cave To The Cross Apologetics – The Christian Responsibility To Educate Children Redux

3w ago02:35:41Tap to summarize

It's now Patrick's turn to take a short vacation, so this week and next week will be two redux episodes featuring policy expert Jeff Park and the discussion of the Christian's responsibility to educate their children. In this, we talk about modern education, homeschooling, government policies, and why, ultimately, the Christian should fight to educate their children as they see fit.

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The Only Way To Do Apologetics – Ep.373 – The Great Debate – At War with the Word – The Necessity of Biblical Antithesis – Part 4

4w ago00:24:46Tap to summarize

The previous three episodes leads up to Bahnsen's claim that presuppositional apologetics is the only way to do apologetics. It's the best tool to show the split between Christianity and every other viewpoint. And the best part, it's biblical and it is found in the Christian message itself.

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Apologetics Should Attack Worldview Foundations – Ep.372 – The Great Debate – At War with the Word – The Necessity of Biblical Antithesis – Part 3

May 2500:31:25Tap to summarize

Bahnsen now moves to encouraging the Christian to engage in an apologetic method that attack worldview foundations first and foremost. There's nothing wrong in knowing the positive case for Christianity but when it comes to how one approaches proof and truth, why give up so much of your position to try and achieve a neutral starting point - it's not possible to have and it's not biblical to take.

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Pushing The Antithesis Apologetics – Ep.371 – The Great Debate – At War with the Word – The Necessity of Biblical Antithesis – Part 2

May 1800:33:39Tap to summarize

Continuing Bahnsen's lecture on pushing the antithesis, we see Bahnsen make the case for a pushing the antithesis apologetics and provides the repercussions as seen in real, published literature on what happens if we give up that division between the Christian worldview and the non-Christian worldview.

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The Christian Antithesis – Ep.370 – The Great Debate – At War with the Word – The Necessity of Biblical Antithesis – Part 1

May 1100:22:47Tap to summarize

We now cover a lecture by Greg Bahnsen included in our book that encourages the Christian antithesis to be pushed when comparing our lives to those of the world and also in our apologetics. Here Bahnsen shows the Van Tillian origin of this idea in apologetics but shows the presence of it from Genesis all the way through the Old and New Testament.

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Christian TAG Solves It All – Ep.369 – The Great Debate – A Synopsis – Part 4

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Christian TAG Solves It All Finishing up the question, we see that a proper examination would have led Greg Bahnsen to present the transcendental argument that he was known for and how Christian TAG solves it all. TIMELINE: 00:00 – Introduction 00:15 – Question 7 – How Does The Christian Not Just Beg The Question As Well? 02:57 – Question 8 – Could This All Be An Illusion? 04:27 – Bahnsen’s Rebuttal With The Transcendental Rebuttal 13:33 – Conclusion BOOK LINKS: The Great Debate – Does God Exist? – Edited and Commentary by Joshua Pillows Debate Transcript Video The Bahnsen Institute       All episodes, short clips, & blog – https://www.cavetothecross.com

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What The Atheist Should Have Asked – Ep.368 – The Great Debate – A Synopsis – Part 3

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What The Atheist Should Have Asked Here’s what Gordon Stein, the atheist, should have asked Greg Bahnsen in their debate instead of being caught off guard over what happened. Here, the editor steps into the role to pull out more context in the nature of the Christian worldview and why it provides the necessary basis for all knowledge. TIMELINE: 00:00 – Introduction 01:34 – Question 1 – Why Do We Need To Know The Laws Of Logic Before Coming To Our Theory? 03:52 – Question 2 – Why Can’t We Know Logic Is True Because It Works? 05:35 – Question 3 – Why Can’t Laws Of Logic Just Be Necessarily True? 08:17 – Question 4 – How Does The Christian Worldview Count As Proof? 09:57 – Question 5 – How Does That Show The Whole Bible Is True? 11:34 – Question 6 – How Do You Prove The Worldview Of The Christian Worldview? 13:55 – Conclusion BOOK LINKS: The Great Debate – Does God Exist? – Edited and Commentary by Joshua Pillows Debate Transcript Video The Bahnsen Institute       All episodes, short clips, & blog – https://www.cavetothecross.com

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Christianity Provides The Only Justification For Knowledge – Ep.367 – The Great Debate – A Synopsis – Part 2

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https://youtu.be/VXRRVnHb7ZA Christianity Provides The Only Justification For Knowledge Tony’s going to be out for a bit, so the next four episodes will be on the shorter end, but that’s ok. Here, the editor of the book, Joshua Pillows, structures the debate on what might have been the case if Stein had been prepared to deal with Bahnsen’s actual argument. So this is how it should have happened, and we start with Bahnsen’s opening statement. TIMELINE: 00:00 – Introduction 04:03 – The Embarrassing Dr. Stein 05:34 – Bahnsen’s Opening Statement Redux 07:13 – A Battle Of Worldviews 09:22 – The Issue With The Naturalistic Atheist Worldview 11:47 – Conclusion BOOK LINKS: The Great Debate – Does God Exist? – Edited and Commentary by Joshua Pillows Debate Transcript Video The Bahnsen Institute       All episodes, short clips, & blog – https://www.cavetothecross.com

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