Defending your faith through debate and argumentation

The cognitive orientation through witch we interpret things

What is the Argument from experience?

God answering prayer, performing miracles, etc, Religious experiences shows the existence of God

What is the cosmological argument?

There must be a transcendent cause to the universes creation, Something cannot come from nothing

What is "The Principle of Testimony"

Without reason to doubt, others experiences areprobably true

what are the "Five Ways" by Saint Thomas Aquinas

motion, causation, contingency, degree, and final cause, Five logical arguments for the existence of God

What is Scientific Apologetics?

Using scientific principles and discoveries to prove God

what is "Christian Panentheism"

Eastern Orthodoxy is an example, God resides in the universe, but is also transcendent

What is the Teleological Argument?

Design implies a designer, There is a purpose or direction in the processes of nature

what is "omnibenevolence"

Being all-loving or infinitely good

What is Historical Apologetics

Arguing the authenticity and credibility of scripture

What is the "Omnipotence Paradox"

Can God create a rock he cannot lift?

Belief in a God that does not intervene in the universe, "God does not perform miracles"

What is Doctrinal Apologetics?

Arguing for the doctrines and truths of the Bible, Arguing that the Holy Trinity is one God, or God is Jesus

What is "Religious Pluralism"

Belief in both Christianity and Hinduism at the same time, Truth is found in all religions, or all religions are true

An explanation to why God permits evil in the world, Example- "God has an overarching plan that we cannot know"

What is apologetics' Relationship with Theology

Apologetics is the defense of a theological position

What is Moral Apologetics?

Using moral arguments to argue for the existence of God

What is Positive Apologetics?

Arguing for the proof of Christianity, A cosmological argument, teleological argument, etc

Belief in Yahweh, Allah, Greek Mythology Gods, or Pantheism, The belief of one or more God or gods

What is "The Uncaused Cause?"

There must be an origin of causes that was not caused, God

Arguing that the Christian God is the true and only God

What is Negative Apologetics

Defending against the problem of pain or errors in the Bible, removing barriers to faith by responding to critical attacks

What is Classical Apologetics?

Arguing for God with undeniable truths as the starting point

What is Presuppositional Apologetics?

Arguing Christianity is the only basis for rational thought

The absence of belief in any type of God

What is Apologetics' Relationship with Philosophy?

Apologetics is using Philosophy for the glorification of God

The belief in more than one gods, Greek mythology, Roman mythology, Norse mythology, etc

What is "The Problem of Pain"

if God is all good and omnipotent then pain cannot exist, A book by C.S. Lewis

What is the "Watchmaker Analogy?"

A certain teleological argument, An analogy for the argument that design implies a designer

what is "The Principle of Credulity"

If no reason to doubt, religious experiences evidence God

what is evidential apologetics

"There are ~24000 biblical manuscripts backing Jesus' life", The use of evidence to demonstrate that God exists

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Define Apologetics
Defending your faith through a crusade or Holy War
Preaching the Gospel to those who don't know it yet
The study and history of saying sorry
Defending your faith through debate and argumentation
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What is a worldview?
A type of telescope
A type of political reasoning against the existence of God
A purely monotheistic belief in God-given discernment
The cognitive orientation through witch we interpret things
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What is the Argument from experience?
God answering prayer, performing miracles, etc
We can only argue the existence of God once we see goodworks
seeing God is the only way to prove his existence
Religious experiences shows the existence of God
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What is the cosmological argument?
There must be a transcendent cause to the universes creation
Arguing that God shows himself in the universe, physically
Arguing that God's divine intervention changes the universe
Something cannot come from nothing
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What is "The Principle of Testimony"
The idea that testimony sharing makes you closer to God
An atheistic reason to disbelieve in God
Without reason to doubt, others experiences areprobably true
Testimony holds power to convince people of God's existence
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what are the "Five Ways" by Saint Thomas Aquinas
A philosophical analogy showing God as five branches
motion, causation, contingency, degree, and final cause
Five logical arguments for the existence of God
Non-belief, One belief, polybelief, antibelief, and dibelief
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What is Scientific Apologetics?
Using philosophy alone to prove God's existence
There is no scientific backing for God's existence
Using scientific principles and discoveries to prove God
Using chemicals and physics to do science stuff in Gods name
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what is "Christian Panentheism"
What you should believe as a protestant Christian
Eastern Orthodoxy is an example
God is not both omnibenevolent or omnipotent
God resides in the universe, but is also transcendent
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What is the Teleological Argument?
Telephones have the ability to communicate with God
The universe houses God in it since it is infinite
Design implies a designer
There is a purpose or direction in the processes of nature
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what is "omnibenevolence"
That's a big word... Evangelism?
Being all-loving or infinitely good
Being all-powerful or all-knowing
Something God isn't and could never be
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What is Historical Apologetics
Arguing that God doesn't just exist in the past
Arguing the authenticity and credibility of scripture
Pointing towards the influences Jesus has on the world
Arguing that The world was created by God
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What is the "Omnipotence Paradox"
God is not omnipotent because of all the pain in the world
God cannot exist outside the universe since it is infinite
Can God create a rock he cannot lift?
It's something Colton made up in class one day
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what is Deism
Slang for Theism
A term to describe the Holy Trinity
Belief in a God that does not intervene in the universe
"God does not perform miracles"
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What is Doctrinal Apologetics?
Arguing that Darwinist human evolution is untrue
Arguing there facts about the world that point towards God
Arguing for the doctrines and truths of the Bible
Arguing that the Holy Trinity is one God, or God is Jesus
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What is "Religious Pluralism"
A term in grammar for why we capitalize God, and not gods
Belief in both Christianity and Hinduism at the same time
Belief in Hinduism
Truth is found in all religions, or all religions are true
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What is a Theodicy
An explanation to why God permits evil in the world
A passage in the Bible that contradicts another one
Example- "God has an overarching plan that we cannot know"
Example- "God designed the world without proper thought"
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What is apologetics' Relationship with Theology
Apologetics is the defense of a theological position
Apologetics is the study of the Bible
Apologetics is one of the churches Paul wrote a letter to
Theology is the defense of an apologetic position
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What is Moral Apologetics?
Knowing that there is no moral argument for God's existence
Using eisegesis and conjecture to argue for God's existence
Only used in positive apologetics
Using moral arguments to argue for the existence of God
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What is Positive Apologetics?
Arguing for the proof of Christianity
feeling good when worshiping
A cosmological argument, teleological argument, etc
The conversion of a non-believer
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What is Theism
Belief in Yahweh, Allah, Greek Mythology Gods, or Pantheism
The belief in only one God
The study of the word "the" and other conjunctions
The belief of one or more God or gods
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What is "The Uncaused Cause?"
There must be an origin of causes that was not caused
A paradoxical argument against the existence of God
A type of scientific discovery for the universe's origin
God
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Biblical Apologetics
Belief that God will reveal Himself to people
Umm... Evangelism?
Arguing that books can hold spiritual power and influence
Arguing that the Christian God is the true and only God
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What is Negative Apologetics
The rejection of an argument
Defending against the problem of pain or errors in the Bible
removing barriers to faith by responding to critical attacks
The arguments from miracles and testimony
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What is Classical Apologetics?
Pointing to art, music, and emotion to show a deeper meaning
Arguing for Christianity using art and classical literature
Arguing for God with undeniable truths as the starting point
Supposing that God shows himself through his people
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What is Presuppositional Apologetics?
When two people of the same beliefs debate theological ideas
Going into a theological argument without full knowledge
Defending your faith
Arguing Christianity is the only basis for rational thought
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What is Atheism
Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism, Coltonism, or Pantheism
Another word for evangelism
A theism is the belief in a transcendent becoming of oneself
The absence of belief in any type of God
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What is Apologetics' Relationship with Philosophy?
Apologetics is using Philosophy for the glorification of God
Both of them require very little thinking to defend
Philosophy is hollow and deceptive. (Col 2:8)
Apologetics is a competitor of philosophy
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what is Polytheism?
The belief in more than one gods
The belief that God doesn't exist
The belief that God can be represented by a polygonal shape
Greek mythology, Roman mythology, Norse mythology, etc
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What is "The Problem of Pain"
We can only go to heaven once we experience terrible pain
Every time we sin we hurt God physically and emotionally
if God is all good and omnipotent then pain cannot exist
A book by C.S. Lewis
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What is the "Watchmaker Analogy?"
A paradoxical belief that God must exist within time
A certain teleological argument
An analogy for the argument that design implies a designer
Since God created the universe, he therefore created watches
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what is "The Principle of Credulity"
If no reason to doubt, religious experiences evidence God
Alf is always right about everything
We need to prove their experience for it to be an argument
A fact that cannot be proven incorrect
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what is evidential apologetics
Using philosophy to prove God's existance
"There are ~24000 biblical manuscripts backing Jesus' life"
Finding the clues that Jesus left for us
The use of evidence to demonstrate that God exists

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