Nathan W. Bingham: Why Apologetics?
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- As a Christian, what is your responsibility in sharing your faith? What do you need to know, and how do you equip yourself with sound arguments to defend the gospel? In this session, Nathan W. Bingham explores the importance of apologetics and why young Christians must always be ready to share and defend the reason for the hope that lives within them.
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Thank you for sharing, Mr. Nathan W. Bingham. 😊
Excellent video on Apologetics.
hey y'all, I got real excited when he was talking about people listening from all over the world, namely Australia, so I just wanted to say greetings from Memphis Tennessee! I think it's very encouraging when I hear about how many brothers and sisters all over the world are engaging in this platform together. I sorta wonder if this is a part of what unity in the body of Christ means. Anyway, I love you all.
Hey mate, much love in Christ to you all in the US from Australia. How fantastic that the Lord has his children spread all around the world. God bless
It came to my mind today that many of my questions weren't even true to begin with only to end with pure truth from the bible.
Praise God (Christ)
I’m watching from my living room drinking coffee.
Christian apologetics is interesting, but it gives inconsistent answers to questions.
It tends to use abstract answers, that don't match what God they're arguing for, but something more like a Platonic version of God
Because most that answer apologetic questions lean more on our own thinking or philosophies (which violates Proverbs 3:5 and Colossians 2:8); in other words, we are answering questions more so based on the worldview or presupposition of the sinner than on the God-breathed, sufficient Word (2 Timothy 3:16-17). We are not to do that. Our answers must come from the scriptures; this is brunt of the truths found in 1 Peter 3:15, Titus 1:9, Jude 3, and 2 Corinthians 10:3-5.
The majority of the time, questions from sinners are based on a faulty premise about God (His attributes), themselves (as it pertains to their sin nature), and the Bible (which they reject). If we answer their questions based on these faulty premises, we will lean on our own understanding and sound philosophical instead of Biblical. When you read Acts 17:18-34, you'll notice the Apostle Paul didn't answer the philosophers/idolaters on Mars Hill based on their understanding of God (or "gods"), but gave them the truth of God (and their own idolatry) based on the Word of God to command them to repent. We are to do the same today.
Hello. I am an atheist. I define atheism as suspending acknowledgement of the existence of gods until sufficient evidence can be presented. My position is that *_I have no good reason to acknowledge the existence of gods._*
And here is the evidence as to why I currently hold to such a position.
1. I personally have never observed a god.
2. I have never encountered a person whom has claimed to have observed a god.
3. I know of no accounts of persons claiming to have observed a god that were willing or able to demonstrate or verify their observation for authenticity, accuracy, or validity.
4. I have never been presented a valid logical argument which also employed sound premises that lead deductively to a conclusion that a god(s) exists.
5. Of the 46 logical syllogisms I have encountered arguing for the existence of a god(s), I have found all to contain multiple fallacious or unsubstantiated premises.
6. I have never observed a phenomenon in which the existence of a god was a necessary antecedent for the known or probable explanation for the causation of that phenomenon.
7. Several proposed (and generally accepted) explanations for observable phenomena that were previously based on the agency of a god(s), have subsequently been replaced with rational, natural explanations, each substantiated with evidence that excluded the agency of a god(s). I have never encountered _vice versa._
8. I have never experienced the presence of a god through intercession of angels, divine revelation, the miraculous act of divinity, or any occurrence of a supernatural event.
9. Every phenomena that I have ever observed has *_emerged_* from necessary and sufficient antecedents over time without exception. In other words, I have never observed a phenomenon (entity, process, object, event, process, substance, system, or being) that was created _ex nihilo_ - that is instantaneously came into existence by the solitary volition of a deity.
10. All claims of a supernatural or divine nature that I have encountered have either been refuted to my satisfaction, or do not present as falsifiable.
ALL of these facts lead me to the only rational conclusion that concurs with the realities I have been presented - and that is the fact that there is *_no good reason_* for me to acknowledge the existence of a god.
I have heard often that atheism is the denial of the Abrahamic god. But denial is the active rejection of a substantiated fact once credible evidence has been presented. Atheism is simply withholding such acknowledgement until sufficient credible evidence is introduced. *_It is natural, rational, and prudent to be skeptical of unsubstatiated claims, especially extraordinary ones._*
I welcome any cordial response. Peace.
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.
The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the LORD?
There they are in great terror, for God is with the generation of the righteous.
You would shame the plans of the poor, but the LORD is his refuge.
- Psalm 14:1-6
For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;
for it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God."
So then each of us will give an account of himself to God. -
Romans 14:10-12
@@Tactical_Shenanigans So what did you think of my original post?
@Theo Skeptomai , are you still out there? I would like to have a discussion on some of the 10 points you've presented, if you want.
@@jasonferguson2336 Certainly. What would you like to discuss?
@@HearGodsWord Yes, I am agnostic. But I am an atheist. The two are not mutually exclusive. Each and every individual either acknowledges the existence of gods (theist) or does NOT (atheist). The is mo middle ground. Wouldn't you agree?