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Apologetics Basics
Who? Types 1.
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Apologetics Part 1
What?
When/Where?
Why?
Textual Criticism
Apologetics Part 1 Lunatic, Liar, or Lord Did Jesus claim He was God?
What did Jesus say?
Apologetics Part 1 Taking the path less traveled Dont all religions lead to God?
Jehovahs Witnesses?
Mormons?
Unitarian Universalist?
Islam?
Buddhism?
Hinduism?
Apologetics Part 1
Does God Exist? Ken Ham, The New Answers Book, 2006 Timothy Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, 2008 Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator, 2004 www.ReasonableFaith.org William Lane Craigs site Is the Bible Reliable? Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts, www.csntm.org Did Jesus claim He was God? Gary Habermas, The Historical Jesus Lee Strobel, The Case for the Real Jesus Dont all religions lead to God? From Institute for Religious Research, www.irr.org Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry, www.carm.org
Apologetics Part 1
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Teleological Argument
1. 2. 3. 4. Human artifacts are products of intelligent design. The universe resembles human artifacts. Therefore the universe is a product of intelligent design. But the universe is complex and gigantic, in comparison to human artifacts. 5. Therefore, there probably is a powerful and vastly intelligent designer who created the universe.
Moral Argument
1. If God does not exist, then objective moral values do not exist 2. Objective moral values do exist 3. Therefore; God exists
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Author/ Book Homer, Iliad Herodotus History Thucydides, History Plato Caesar, Gallic Wars
Date Written 800 B.C. 480-425 B.C. 460-400 B.C. 400 B.C. 100-44 B.C.
Earliest Copies c. 400 B.C. c. A.D. 900 c. A.D. 900 c. A.D. 900 c. A.D. 900
59 B.C. - A.D. 17
1 partial 19 copies
A.D. 100
c. A.D. 1100 c. A.D. 850 c. A.D. 114 (fragment) c. A.D. 200 (books) c. A.D. 250 (most of NT) c. A.D. 325 (complete NT)
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c. 1,000 yrs c. 750 yrs 50 yrs 100 yrs 150 yrs 225 yrs
20 7
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A.D. 61-113
New Testament
A.D. 50-100
5366[Greek]
99+
Author
Conservative Date A.D. 50-66 A.D. 70-80 A.D. 50-60 A.D. 58-65
Mark
A.D. 70
Luke
early 60s
John
A.D. 80-100
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Gospels 268
Acts 10
Totals 330
Irenaeus
1,038
194
499
23
65
1,819
Clement (Alex.)
1,107
44
1,127
207
11
2,406
Origen
9,231
349
7,778
399
165
17,992
Tertullian
3,822
502
2,609
120
205
7,258
Hippolytus
734
42
387
27
188
5,176
Eusebius
3,258
211
1,592
88
27
5,176
Grand Totals
19,386
1,352
14,035
870
664
36,289
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