Beware of Arbitrary Claims
A claim that is made from purely personal preference, rather than evidence, is this.
What is arbitrary?
This word means "self-governed" or "self-ruled."
What is autonomous?
What is absurdity?
DAILY DOUBLE
Question: In class, we compared an internal critique to a home inspector inspecting this.
Answer: What is the basement/foundation of a house?
The word Gospel means this.
What is "good news?"
It is important to call our your opponent when his argument is arbitrary, so that he or she doesn't think this.
What is that he or she made a good point?
This book contains the worldview that is the foundation for science.
What is the Bible?
Two contradictory statements cannot both be this in the same way and at the same time.
What is true?
When defending your faith, one of the beliefs you must hold is that the Bible has none of these.
What are contradictions?
This is the greatest problem facing humanity today.
What is sin?
When you are responding to arbitrary claims, you should ask good questions and present good... these about the Bible's teachings.
What are facts?
When a skeptic accuses God of being immoral, you can show that he is stealing from Christianity by asking this three-word question.
What is "By what standard?"
What is becoming like him yourself?
An internal critique is when you enter into someone's worldview for the sake of this.
What is argument?
Romans 6:23 teaches that the "wages of sin" is this.
What is death?
When responding to an arbitrary argument, one question you should ask is, "If that were true, why would that be a this?"
What is a problem?
In class, a person who tries to disprove Christianity, while relying on ideas that only make sense within Christianity, was compared to a person sitting on on a tree branch, doing this.
What is trying to saw the branch (causing himself to fall)?
DAILY DOUBLE
Question: According to Proverbs 26:5, we should answer a fool according to his folly, so that this will not happen.
Answer: What is him becoming wise in his own eyes?
We cannot perform a reductio ad absurdum on the Christian position, because it is not this.
What is absurd?
When you perform an evangelistic appeal, you are sharing the Gospel and calling your opponent to these two things.
What are repentance and faith in Christ/belief in the Gospel?
In Colossians 2:8, the Apostle Paul warns us against being taken captive by these four things.
What are philosophy, empty deceit, human tradition, and the elementary principles of the world?
In class, this person was referred to as "the Godfather of Presuppositional Apologetics."
Who is Cornelius Van Til?
After clarifying your opponent's position, the next step of performing a reductio ad absurdum is to identify this your opponent's position.
What is the problem or contradiction?
In the first step of performing an internal critique of the Christian worldview, you must first determine these.
What are the conditions needed for the challenge to "stick."
The Gospel is that Jesus Christ did these three things.
What is died for our sins, was buried, and was raised to life on the third day?