Apologetics is the study and practice of giving answers for the reasonableness and truth of the Christian faith. The word comes from the Greek apologia and means “to give a defense.” In 1 Peter 3:15, Christians are commanded to give an apologia to anyone who asks the reason for our hope.
In a culture where God’s Word is constantly under attack from those both inside and outside of the church, we must always be ready to give a defense for the hope that is in us. Christianity is rooted in history—real people and events of the past.
We can shoot down arguments and offer reasons for our beliefs, but if we don’t lead people to the soul-saving gospel of Jesus Christ, we have not successfully defended the faith.
The Bible not only claims to be a revelation from the infinite Creator, but it gives a very detailed history concerning origins to enable us to come to right conclusions. No other book does this. We have a revelation from an omnipotent God, who gives us the history we need to know so we can interpret the evidence of the present correctly.
In this section, we are going to look in detail at the meaning of the phrase, ‘But we preach Christ crucified … unto the Greeks foolishness.’
AiG-US President Ken Ham recently wrote to American supporters expressing his concern about blatant heresy and evolutionary teaching in the Salvation Army’s official organ War Cry.
‘But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness’ (1 Corinthians 1:23).
The purpose of this test is to actually teach the person involved to think in a particular way. I have found that all of us, myself included, have been ‘secularized’ to one degree or another.
It was the debate of the century. Christianity had unequivocally triumphed over atheism. And the audience knew it. Find out how in this new web series featuring Dr. Greg Bahnsen.
There is no need for God to use our evangelistic witness, our daily work for a paycheck, or our defense of the faith—but He chooses to do so, and He calls us to apply ourselves to them.
It is one of those embarrassing historical ironies that modern science could not have arisen except in the atmosphere of a Christian world-and-life view.
Apologetics is no mere matter of “intellectual jousting”; it is a serious matter of life and death—eternal life and death.
If an apologist treats the starting point of knowledge as something other than reverence for God, then unconditional submission to the unsurpassed greatness of God’s wisdom does not really make sense.
Here then is how the presuppositional (transcendental) method of defending the faith would proceed once the preliminary discussions and clarifications have taken place with the unbeliever.
In popular misconception today, the choice of an apologetical method facing a Bible-believing Christian is between arguing presuppositionally or appealing to evidences from history and nature
Should Christians avoid the study of philosophy? As Dr. Greg Bahnsen shows, we all study it whether we mean to or not.
Twentieth-century believers can sympathize with their brothers in the ancient world. Our Christian faith continues to see the same variety of attempts to oppose and undermine it.
Students of apologetics wonder whether we can argue presuppositionally with unbelievers who adhere to false religious faiths.
All facts are created facts which can be properly understood only when given the interpretation the Creator intends; as such, all facts demonstrate the truth of Christianity.
Apologetics aims to defend the Christian faith by answering the variety of challenges leveled against it by unbelievers, thereby vindicating the Christian philosophy of life (worldview).
Answers in Genesis is an apologetics ministry, dedicated to helping Christians defend their faith and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ.