Apologetics EXAM ALL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
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Craig - Stage 1. if there is no God life is absurd. two versions of cosmological arguements from
the principal of sufficient. Anything that exists must have an explanation. Kalam argument--whatever
began to exist has a cause.
stage 2. history is knowable, defends possibility of miracles, gosples...
Apologetics EXAM ALL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Craig - ✔✔Stage 1. if there is no God life is absurd. two versions of cosmological arguements from
the principal of sufficient. Anything that exists must have an explanation. Kalam argument--whatever
began to exist has a cause.
stage 2. history is knowable, defends possibility of miracles, gosples are historically reliable. Argument
for the resurrection based on minimal facts argument
Kalam - ✔✔Premise one: What begins to exist has a cause. 2. the universe began to exist. Conclusion:
universe has a cause
Minimal facts argument - ✔✔-historical facts in the gospel that non christian scholars accept
1) tomb was empty
2) J's d's experienced appearances
3) origins of Christian faith- it was established
Weaknesses of CA - ✔✔- noetic effects of sin
- assumes that everyone agrees on basic principals of
reason -Give impression that God's revelation is ambigious
- give impression that human reasoning is religiously neutral
-gives impression that human reason is autonomous
-stage 2 suggests that rationality of christian faith is hostage to methods of secular
world -inconsistent for Christian apologist to examine bible like any other doc
-fails to recognize it's possible to argue for Christian worldview in a way that doesn't beg the quesiton
of assume neutrality
- rationalistic approach, bait and switch when we talk about things like incarnation
Evidentialists - ✔✔Faith based on evidence
,-1 stage: most probable explanation for our total evidence is christianity
- from physical universe, fine-tuning of the physical universe, origins of life, apparent design in bio,
human consciousness and values, religious experiences, miracles, prophecies, ministry of JC, testimoney
of early chrsitians, early church
Problems? with the EA - ✔✔- we don't have total evidence
-christianity is only probable
-"total" changes over time
- stages, add evidence after evidence and have to show that these views are more likely to
support christianity than other WV
- relies on a posteriori
A posteriori - ✔✔relying on sense experience
Rationale for EA - ✔✔-facts are settled with
evidence -C can be demonstrated scientifically
-vindicated according to scholarly standards of historical research
-NT emphasizes resurrection
-evidence for miracles must be indirect evidence for existence of God
-Possible to incorporate more and more evidence into argument as it becomes available
Difference between Evidentialists and Classical A - ✔✔CA argues for existence of God before
arguing for miracles while EA argue from miracles to God
-empirical historical (reconstruct historical events and draw conclusions about the past
-method based on legal model (detective at crime scene) -emphasizes resurrection
, - concludes christianity is not absolutely irrefutable but that is the purpose of faith
Swinburne - ✔✔Coherence of Theism
- Idea that God exists is itself
coherent -open theist
Existence of God
-more probable than not
-mathematical theorem
Christian God
-philosophical arguments for trinity and incarnation
Resurrection of God Incarnate
-probability of resurrection 97%
-understands the gospel as historical evidence
McDowell - ✔✔More than a Carpenter
-popularizer
Habermas - ✔✔Historical Jesus
Case for the Resurrection
-historical case for this
Strength of EA - ✔✔1. Intuitive and familiar approach to factual claims
2. appears to be objective and amenable to fair-minded believers
3. NT supports use of empirical observations as evidence for claims of Jesus and apostles
4. Possible to make strong historical case for the R
5. Logical to focus on R as defining miracle of faith (1 Cor 15)
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