APOLOGETICS training by Dr. G. Bahnsen - II. Introduction to Worldviews

Dr. Greg L. Bahnsen - Basic Training for Defending the Faith.
Introduction to Worldviews

http://www.youtube.com/user/gregbahnsen#g/c/8D9DDE0EDF62EF4A

The believer and the unbeliever have conflicting worldviews/outlooks.

Worldview: a network of pre-suppositions which are not tested by natural science, in terms of which all experiences are related and interpreted
- Determines what a person believes and how he/her lives his/her life
- By which the particulars of life are related and made conclusive
(Taking things for granted... pre-suppositions, preconditions)

If you are committed to Christ at ANY particular point in your life, then you need to be commited to Christ at EVERY point in your life.
...you should have a distinct way of looking at everything through the Christian "worldview," because it IS the basic, fundamental worldview; not a narrow worldview

3 major divisions of philosophy

APOLOGETICS training by Dr. G. Bahnsen - I. The Myth of Neutrality

Dr. Greg L. Bahnsen - Basic Training for Defending the Faith.

The Myth of Neutrality
http://www.youtube.com/user/gregbahnsen#grid/user/84D83E778C15438F


In order to pull down any antagonistic reasoning, you must start thinking consistently, principally, and unwaveringly as a Christian.

chapterFOUR: prayer

[personal] A week after a nice Memorial Day weekend in the mountains, I've really let myself go in discipline and have already felt the heavy weight of sin accumulating in my soul. The day we returned to life as we know it, I wrote a sobering quote from Ryle's chapter on prayer on my bedroom mirror: "Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer." May I be fervent in holy desires and faithfulness in God's awesome sovereignty.

[Ryle]
Prayer: the MOST IMPORTANT subject in practical religion