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John Frame’s TAG Argument Frame finishes up his critique of VanTil’s TAG argument and one that focuses on a big point of contention of TAG users – the apologetic use of probability and certainty. Then presented is John Frame’s TAG argument in which he offers not to eradicate TAG but offers a 6-point reevaluation of [...] The post John Frame’s TAG Argument – Ep.217 – Apologetics By John Frame – Transcendental Argument – Part 4 appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.

TAG, Trinity, & Negative Arguments Within Frame’s critique of VanTil’s version of the transcendental argument, he’s not throwing it all away and Frame’s fair judgment of where TAG emphasizes the rights points are brought out. Here, TAG, Trinity, & negative arguments are discussed to show that TAG is best used, especially from a worldview level, [...] The post TAG, Trinity, & Negative Arguments – Ep.216 – Apologetics By John Frame – Transcendental Argument – Part 3 appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.

Questioning TAG Now that John Frame has presented TAG in an overview, he is going to be questioning TAG as what he might consider some deficiencies – or at least in a way that VanTil presents TAG as being the one argument to rule them all and in the light, bind them. This is exactly [...] The post Questioning TAG – Ep.215 – Apologetics By John Frame – Transcendental Argument – Part 2 appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.

The Best Argument For God “The Transcendental Argument (TAG) is the best argument for God!” You may have heard this claim along keywords like “preconditions of intelligibility” and “by what standard”. However, what makes TAG so powerful is something that is beneficial for not just the apologist or the philosophically minded to know and understand [...] The post The Best Argument For God – Ep.214 – Apologetics By John Frame – Transcendental Argument – Part 1 appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.

Accepting Evidence Accepting evidence for a position seems like an easy thing to do in theory. See what’s presented before you and if you properly understand everything you move from unbelief to belief. Ya, well, except it’s definitely not that simple and it’s not how people come to belief, especially about something as big a [...] The post Accepting Evidence – Ep.213 – Apologetics By John Frame – Some Methodological Considerations – Part 2 appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.

Apologetics As Proof It might sound weird to say that we offer up apologetics as proof when it comes to our faith in God. But what Frame is presenting here is that we sometimes overestimate what we are thinking proof is or isn’t. We’ve let others define what faith is for so long that even [...] The post Apologetics As Proof – Ep.212 – Apologetics By John Frame – Some Methodological Considerations – Part 1 appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.

Every Thought Captive We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ (2 Corn. 10:5). Those same thoughts about the nature of all reality. The nature of knowledge. The nature of right and wrong. Not only those things but even how we present [...] The post Every Thought Captive – Ep.211 – Apologetics By John Frame – The Message Of The Apologist – Part 2 appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.

The Nature Of All Reality The term “metaphysics” might seem like one of those scary words that only the eggheads use (true); the term just means what is the nature of all reality. What is it that makes the things we are and experience the things they are? The Christian worldview necessitates and calls for [...] The post The Nature Of All Reality – Ep.210 – Apologetics By John Frame – The Message Of The Apologist – Part 1 appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.

Evidence & Presuppositionalism Evidence & presuppositionalism have absolutely nothing to do with each other! Well except that all evidence is God’s evidence and so the best use of evidence can be had when an apologist has established their foundation on something that makes sense of them and allows them to exist. The scary thing is [...] The post Evidence & Presuppositionalism – Ep.209 – Apologetics By John Frame – The Basics – Part 2 appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.

The Basics Of Apologetics We crack open John Frame’s Apologetics book by doing what we like doing best here – defining our terms. With that we find out what the basics of apologetics are and the right way and wrong way we can carry out the command from Scripture to always be ready to give [...] The post The Basics Of Apologetics – Ep.208 – Apologetics By John Frame – The Basics – Part 1 appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.

The Need To Clarify And Encourage Another apologetics book? But why? 2,000 years of Church History and we haven’t said everything we need to say? Well, believe it or not, another apologetics book is needed as it gives us the ability to clarify and encourage. Also, it’s kind of what the Bible tells us to [...] The post The Need To Clarify And Encourage – Ep. 207 – Apologetics By John Frame – Preface appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.

Introducing John Frame & Apologetics We begin our next book by introducing John Frame & apologetics. We open to the preface where Frame’s friend and ministry partner Vern Poythress gives us a mini-book in apologetics and what we’ll see in the rest of the book. If we can talk about just the preface for this [...] The post Introducing John Frame & Apologetics – Ep. 206 – Apologetics By John Frame – Preface appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.

2022 Book Reviews – Part 2 The final reviews of 2022 include some IndiePub, poetry, sci-fi, and theology. Our hope for our ministry is that you pull off those books from your shelf, blow off the dust, and make use of them for God’s glory. You can start at any time and start at any [...] The post Patrick’s 2022 Book Reviews – Ep.205 – Read More Books – Part 2 appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.

2022 Book Reviews – Part 1 For the last two weeks of the year, we’ll be populating the show with books Patrick has read during the year. Some are homeschool supplementals, some are fiction, and – yes, some are even theology. Whether you’re set in your ways of only picking books from the New York [...] The post Patrick’s 2022 Book Reviews – Ep.204 – Read More Books – Part 1 appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.

Bob Murphy Interview Redux The final two weeks of the year will be a year-end roundup of the book Patrick has read and starting the first Monday of the year we’ll be starting John Frame’s Book “Apologetics – A Justification Of Christian Belief”. Today we revisit episodes 47 & 48 with Dr. Bob Murphy  @BobMurphyAncap . [...] The post Cave To The Cross Apologetics – Redux – Bob Murphy Interview appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.

J. Warner Wallace Interview Redux We needed to reschedule some things for our next book so we’re almost thinking of starting Frame’s book at the first of the year. Next couple of weeks, I’m thinking of doing a year-end review of all the books I read this year and see if there’s any interest in [...] The post Cave To The Cross Apologetics – Redux – J. Warner Wallace Interview appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.

Our 9th Book Announcement A very blurry Patrick (if you’re watching the video) announces the 9th book that’s going to be covered on the show. Links are here in the description and we hope you’ll join us as we focus (with Patrick’s camera in focus) on this next book in our book club. BOOK LINKS: [...] The post 9th Book Announcement appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.

Internal Critique Of Other Religions With the final chapter of Bahnsen’s book, we look at the internal critique of other religions. The same system we’ve been using with looking at worldviews for other philosophies and worldviews works just as well with religion. In fact, the codification and systematic approach other religions have probably make it [...] The post The Internal Critique Of Other Religions – Ep.203 – Against All Opposition – Biblical Counterfeit Religions appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.

Dualism & Other Religions Critiqued Moving on from atheism to see how dualism & other religions critiqued. Applying the two-step method of providing an internal critique and then giving the biblical answer, we see the arbitrary and inconsistent nature of these worldviews. Platonism with its mind and body dualism and Aristotle with his materialism give [...] The post Dualism & Other Religions Critiqued – Ep.202 – Against All Opposition – A Quick Course In Comparative Religions appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.

All Unbelievers Believe Continuing with the internal critique of both the Christian and the unbeliever, the Christian comes to see that since God is Sovereign and Creator over all things and all men are made in His Image, it is impossible to rebel so far away from that so as to be outside of God’s [...] The post All Unbelievers Believe – Ep.201 – Against All Opposition – The Unbeliever Is A Believer appeared first on Cave To The Cross Apologetics.