Saturday, March 14, 2015

EDITORIAL | Defending Presuppositional Apologetics

by Brian Sayles, Page Administrator


Nearly every comment I get on this video is exactly the same. "Christians use presuppositional apologetics because they have no evidence for God." That is incorrect. Christians use presuppositional apologetics because we have ALL the evidence for God.

The fact is: God exists, He created everything, and He revealed Himself through Creation and His Word. Atheists may believe that they live in a universe that came from nothingness that was shaped by millions of years of natural processes, but that is not reality. We live in God's universe and everything in it is proof that He exists.

The fact of God’s existence, and that every person knows the truth, is the Christian's starting point in the presuppositional argument. They can then use evidence to confirm that fact to unbelievers (not to put God on trial) but the atheists will dismiss the evidence based on their own presupposition that God does not exist. It is then up to the Christian to show the atheist that their worldview is inconsistent. The fact that they want logical and reasonable evidence is proof of God’s existence, because logic, reason, and evidence only make sense in the Christian worldview.

Atheists will never understand this argument. They need to repent, turn away from their sins (including denying the God they know exists), and trust in Christ to save them. Then God will give them a new heart and mind, and only then will they understand the truth.