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How You Can Know and Show Christianity Is True (Understanding Apologetic Methodology)

BibleThinker

Mike Winger

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Having recently done a debate against a Presuppositionalist, on the topic of "What Apologetic Methodology is Biblical?", I think it would be good to have a video online simply and thoughtfully explaining what I take to be the biblical view on this topic. This is going to be my understanding of a biblical approach to apologetics answering many of the following questions. What role does evidence play in evangelism? What about Christians who live in circumstances where they can not find the arguments and evidence that supports their faith? Should they still believe? If so, based on what? Do we need to offer arguments for God before offering the evidence for the resurrection? What is the difference between "knowing" Christianity is true and "showing" that it's true? Is the witness of the Holy Spirit evidence? How is that different than a what a Mormon claims? My work in this ministry is fully supported by donations and I intend to keep it that way so that everything I produce can be offered for free. If you want to help make this possible here's the link. https://biblethinker.org/index.php/donate

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0:00.0

I'm Pastor Mike Winger and this is Bible Thinker the program dedicated to thinking

0:05.8

biblically about everything.

0:08.8

To talk about apologetic methodology what am I talking about? Well let me explain

0:14.1

I'm gonna try to break this out as simply as I can because this topic gets overly

0:20.3

complicated and I want it to be something that every Christian can really wrap their head around like they can really get this thing and apply it into their own lives in their own faith and in their own witnessing so

0:30.3

We're gonna break this sign as simply as possible because it turns out that there is a big debate

0:34.7

among Christians as to how it is you're supposed to go about showing that Christianity is true

0:39.7

or whether you even should to non-believers. There is different schools of thought called

0:44.1

things like presuppositionalism or evidentialism or fideistic or fidaeism

0:50.3

classical views and these are all categories of apologetics.

0:54.0

Things like answering questions like how do I know Christianity is true,

0:57.0

how do I show Christianity is true,

0:59.0

if Christianity can be shown by evidence or not,

1:02.0

those types of things. Well,

1:04.8

welcome to the Tuesday live stream. I'm Pastor Mike Winger and we're digging

1:08.4

into this topic today primarily because I was going to interview Braxton Hunter today and he's sick.

1:14.3

So we're postponing that two weeks and I had to come up with something sort of short notice to talk

1:18.7

about and I just did a debate on this topic.

1:21.5

So let me catch you up if you're, if you've been following with me. on this on the topic of apologetic methodology or this very question we're dealing with today.

1:33.9

I'm not here covering the debate because it turns out the debate isn't available for like

1:39.2

months and months still. Living waters is where the debate was held. It was me and Pastor Emilia Ramos and the two of us had a brotherly disagreement in a godly fashion on this topic.

1:48.0

And that debate, as soon as it's available, I will let everybody know, but I don't think it'll be until maybe the fall and

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