Apologetic Notes
Apologetics – 1
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Persecution
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What?
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Why? (early church, c.60AD)
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Burning Rome
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Refuse Military Service
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Atheists
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Cannibals
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Incestuous
Apologetics – 2
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“What do we do?”
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Respond in kind?
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Retreat?
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Picket?
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Protest?
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Boycott?
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Apologetics – 3
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Peter, What do you say?
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1 Peter 3:15-16
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Jesus on your throne
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Be ready to give and answer
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Gentleness and respect
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Apologetics – 4
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We are called to apologize
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Not “I'm sorry”
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“Apologia” (Greek)
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To defend one's honor
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Or to make a reply
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Justin the Martyr
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The Faith Prism
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/“I”\ → “The World” (senses, experiences, thoughts, actions, “reality”)
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^ that triangle is a Faith Commitment – presuppositions (what I assume to be true without “proof”) – worldview
Christian Faith Commitments
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God exists
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God Created
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Jesus died for my salvation
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afterlife
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Bible = God
Atheistic Faith Commitments
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There is no God
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Religion can harm the harmony in diversity
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Death is the end
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Holy books are just human books
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Scientific reason
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Faith is in themselves