Comments on: Who Created God? http://afcmin.org/ateam/624/who-created-god Helping plans come together, one post at a time Sun, 03 May 2015 14:00:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.9 By: Brandon Adams http://afcmin.org/ateam/624/who-created-god/comment-page-1#comment-2874 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:23:01 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=624#comment-2874 yes I do have conversations about Christ with people who do not believe in Him

Relying on your own understanding of how you think you were saved is not the best way to approach apologetics.

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.

]]> By: Brandon Adams http://afcmin.org/ateam/624/who-created-god/comment-page-1#comment-2873 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:18:43 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=624#comment-2873 For a much better overall understanding of my comments, I encourage you to listen to the following lecture series on apologetics:
Introduction to Apologetics
1. Introduction to Apologetics
2. Historical Apologetics: The Early Church
3. Historical Apologetics: Augustine
4. Historical Apologetics: Anselm
5. Historical Apologetics: Thomas Aquinas
6. Historical Apologetics: John Calvin and Martin Luther
7. Historical Apologetics: Joseph Butler and William Paley
8. Historical Apologetics: Friedrich Schleiermacher and Soren Kierkegaard
9. Contemporary Apologetics: Twentieth-Century Confusion
10. Contemporary Apologetics: Scientific Creationism
11. Biblical Apologetics: The Two Temptations
12. Biblical Apologetics: Jesus and Scripture
13. Biblical Apologetics: Jesus and Logic
14. Biblical Apologetics: Paul and Scripture
15. Biblical Apologetics: Paul and Logic
16. Biblical Apologetics: Summary and Conclusion
Evangelism and the Defense of the Faith, John Robbins
The Blue Banner Lectures
1. Apologetics: Who, What, When, Why, and How?
2. How Not to Do Apologetics: Evidentialism
3. How Not to Do Apologetics: Rationalism
4. How Not to Do Apologetics: Irrationalism
5. The Apologetics of Jesus and Paul
6. The Philosophy of Ayn Rand Refuted
Christianity and Science
1. The Hoax of Scientific Creationism
2. The Sagan of Science
3. The Scientist as Evangelist
Lectures on Apologetics
1. What Is Apologetics?
2. Is Christianity a Religion? Part 1
3. Is Christianity a Religion? Part 2
4. Is Christianity a Religion? Part 3
5. Empiricism
6. Veridicalism
7. Veridicalism and Empiricism
8. Rationalism
9. Religious Experientialism and Irrationalism
10. Irrationalism
11. Language, Truth, and Revelation, Part 1
12. Language, Truth, and Revelation, Part 2
13. Language, Truth, and Revelation, Part 3
14. John Frame and Cornelius Van Til
15. A Christian Construction, Part 1
16. A Christian Construction, Part 2
Or if you want something in print, consider these brief articles
Whtie Horse Inn, Nonsense on Tap
“A Lie in My Right Hand” -Idolatry and Empirical Apologetics
Comical Apologetics
Classical Apologetics

]]> By: Amy http://afcmin.org/ateam/624/who-created-god/comment-page-1#comment-2872 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:40:05 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=624#comment-2872 Since God is real–is part of our reality and has interacted with us and this world, there are evidences of Him everywhere. This is inescapable because He is real. I can't understand why you think people are dishonoring God by pointing this out as we explain to people who He is.

Since people also live in this world, they also bump into the reality of God all the time, though they ignore it. Certainly God's revelation of Himself is our source of knowledge about Him, but that doesn't mean there are not commonly accessible traces of Him from His work in this world–just as there are traces of anyone who actually exists. And I see no reason why these things should not be discussed.

God answered my intellectual questions before He opened my eyes. I knew that if He hadn't interacted with reality, He wasn't real, and if He had acted in reality, I should be able to see it. It brought glory to Him to display various truths about Himself through apologetics. Just as He worked tangibly in the world through the Exodus “so that the people would know” that He was God, so He showed Himself to be tangible in my world. He says in Exodus that He did the miracles so that the rest of the world would know. That is, they would see evidence of Him in the world and know that He was divine, powerful, and Lord of the Universe. In the same way, people can see His work now. I thank God people were there to explain many different things to me and did not only quote the Bible at me.

Just out of curiosity, do you have many conversations with non-Christians about God?

]]> By: Brandon Adams http://afcmin.org/ateam/624/who-created-god/comment-page-1#comment-2866 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:20:15 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=624#comment-2866 I'm not sure what you are referring to. If I have misunderstood you or someone else please show me.

]]> By: Brandon Adams http://afcmin.org/ateam/624/who-created-god/comment-page-1#comment-2871 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:18:53 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=624#comment-2871 I am not saying you have to speak word for word from the Bible. I am saying that your arguments, your knowledge, must be founded upon Scripture. You must appeal to revelation as the source of your knowledge, not to observation.

]]> By: Brandon Adams http://afcmin.org/ateam/624/who-created-god/comment-page-1#comment-2856 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:14:28 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=624#comment-2856 What we are talking about is why we believe He is moral. If someone is a non-Christian they do not believe in the God of the Bible. They believe in an idol that they have created. Give me an example of what you're talking about so I can be specific. I imagine they mean and entirely different God and they mean something entirely different by “moral.”

No non-Christian would say I believe God is moral because He told us He was in His Word. Yet, that is how the Christian must answer.

]]> By: Amy http://afcmin.org/ateam/624/who-created-god/comment-page-1#comment-2870 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:38:19 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=624#comment-2870 What the apostles were speaking was the NT

Which is why I included other people in my comment about the preaching. The apostles featured in Scripture were not the only ones preaching the truth about Christ. What did those others say? Not the exact words of the New Testament, but the truth about Christ. The Holy Spirit worked through that. In the same way, I speak the truth about Christ and His work on the cross whenever I talk about the fact that it actually happened and demonstrate evidence for this, even if I'm not, at that time, reading from the New Testament.

]]> By: Amy http://afcmin.org/ateam/624/who-created-god/comment-page-1#comment-2869 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:31:22 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=624#comment-2869 And as Roger seems to indicate, that's fine, cause apparently apologetes have no intention of saving any souls. They just want to argue.

Brandon, how do you figure that's the case? What, on earth, was said here that would possibly give you that impression?

]]> By: Roger http://afcmin.org/ateam/624/who-created-god/comment-page-1#comment-2865 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:08:46 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=624#comment-2865 I'm being no more silly than you are. I'm just playing with your words the way you've been playing with everyone elses.

]]> By: Brandon Adams http://afcmin.org/ateam/624/who-created-god/comment-page-1#comment-2875 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:43:06 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=624#comment-2875 I would recommend listening to the Blue Banner Lecture series on apologetics found here:

http://www.trinitylectures.org/MP3_downloads.php

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