Apologetics

Reasons for the hope within us, and the limits of argument.

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Notes on Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics · 1

Bavinck 1: Knowing God and Scripture

Notes on Herman Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics (abridged), pp. 8-148: theology grounded in revelation rather than experience, the limits of objectivity, Scripture as God's ongoing speech, faith and doubt, and the Spirit's inward certainty.

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Essay

17 Arguments Supporting God's Existence

David lists seventeen arguments for God's existence, beginning with the Forest Argument, that every answer to the question rests first on faith, and moving through the cosmological, moral, ontological and fine-tuning arguments to the argument from brokenness.

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Sayings on apologetics

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Men question the truth of Christianity because they hate the practise of it.

David Visser