Defending Your Faith
Defending Your Faith
This book is an introduction to apologetics. It mainly deals with two main topics of discussion:
- the case for the existence of God and
- the case for the divine origin of scripture
It can also be found as a lecture teaching series in video or audio.
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- Teaching Series: Defending Your Faith by R.C. Sproul | Ligonier Ministries
- You can also listen/watch this book as a teaching series.
- Why Apologetics?: Defending Your Faith with R.C. Sproul - YouTube
- Law of Causality: Defending Your Faith with R.C. Sproul - YouTube
- The Case for God: Defending Your Faith with R.C. Sproul - YouTube
- The Deity of Christ: Defending Your Faith with R.C. Sproul - YouTube
- Necessary Being: Defending Your Faith with R.C. Sproul - YouTube
- Vanity of Vanity: Defending Your Faith with R.C. Sproul - YouTube
- The Psychology of Atheism: Defending Your Faith with R.C. Sproul - YouTube
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- Goodreads: Defending Your Faith: An Introduction to Apologetics by R.C. Sproul | Goodreads
- Study Guide: Defending Your Faith: R.C. Sproul - Download Study Guide PDF
- Or get the series and study guide here for free: Download R.C. Sproul's 'Defending Your Faith' 32-Part Teaching Series and Study Guide for Free
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Apologetics is devoted to providing an intellectual, defense for the truth claims of the Christian faith.
Outline
Introduction
- This class is an introduction to apologetics.
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Apologetics is devoted to providing an intellectual defense for the truth claims of the Christian faith.
- At Ligonier, one of our tasks is to help people know what they believe and why they believe it.
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- The meaning of apologetics:
- The Greek word apologia (ἀπολογία) means "speaking in defense" and refers to a formal defense of a position, opinion, or action.
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer (ἀπολογία) to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,
- Follow along: Defending Your Faith - Lecture 1 - Introduction
- Apologetics as defense:
- The 1st century Christians battled many false accustations and therefore needed a reasoned defense for their faith and the Gospel.
- Today we have this same battle and need.
- The 1st century Christians battled many false accustations and therefore needed a reasoned defense for their faith and the Gospel.
- Apologetics in the Bible:
- 14:00: Paul goes to Areopagus (Mars Hill) and debates the Greek philosophers.
- 16:05: Logos: The most common Christian response (apologetic) to pagan philosophers in the early church period was the appeal to the logos (the Word).
- John speaks heavily of the logos in John 1.
- In Greek philosophy, the logos is the reasoned, structured, order of the cosmos (world).
- The important point is that the world is a cosmos, not chaos. It has structure and order.[1]
- The Greeks called this structure and order logos.
- The early Christian fathers actually agreed with the Greeks that there is a logos and they said that that logos is God (John 1).
- 21:30: However the Christians disagreed in this way:
- they taught that the logos is not some impersonal force
- the logos is a person. It is God.
- 21:30: However the Christians disagreed in this way:
It is not merely random. ↩︎
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Notable Quotables
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Introduction