Cave To The Cross Apologetics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu6fRHIjOnU How exciting is this?!  We welcome Professor Nancy Pearcey herself to the show!  We talk to her about her coming to faith in Christ and her experience at L’Abri with Francis Schaeffer .  Then we talk about her book we’ve been going over “ Finding Truth ” and talk about the book in general and in specific.  What an honor and joy it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGj18Ch8I5c Finishing up the chapter, we look at the worldviews of postmodernists and its failure to account for what’s seen in the exterior world. When failing to live consistently with the belief that everyone is a robot and no one should really be held accountable for their actions, we see many fall back to wanting to believe Christianity is true but believ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4eZNGb7rlo Here we delve deeper into the secular materialist when it comes to failing to account for the things seen in the world. We see that they tend to make leaps of faith in their outlook that they can’t back up. They then establish possible outcomes that are downright scary. To save them from immoral and asocietial stances, they adopted overriding belie...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Y1z03CgEQ Picking up on the third principle, we now look at how non-Christian worldviews don’t explain what is seen in the world.  With an idol replacing God, secular worldviews come upon truths in human nature or universal makeup or within the confines of experience that it must dismiss as an illusion or explain it away as not real.  The real quotes taken f...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqDVaafD_kM Tony and Patrick had the distinct pleasure of interviewing their pastor at Calvary Bible Church in Kalamazoo, MI ; Pastor Bret Laird.  Pastor Bret discusses why he decided to be a pastor as well as his time serving in Ukraine as a missionary pastor.  Finally, we also talk about the state of the American church and the role of apologetics. Plus, a few boo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5KZvBLjY_w We finish our look at how non-Christian worldviews reduce humanity by looking at four different worldviews.  Looking at pantheism, Islam, Nazism, and communism shows that other worldviews need to cut off areas of humanity that they can’t explain or that they must explain away. The episode link is www.cavetothecross.com/ep64 Books mentioned in this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKpHXHtMtNo Who knew that a concept that doesn’t believe in absolute truth would generate so much discussion?  Last week we introduced postmodernism and this week we look at how it reduces human value.  We also look at post-postmodernism and how Critical Race Theory, Social Justice, and Identity Politics is the new avenue of postmodern thought and how it still...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfW_3gReP6M Patrick had the pleasure of being a guest on the Tulips And Honey Podcast with Lauren and Becca.  The trio discuss the appropriate way and place to respond to false teachers and heresies.  They present the biblical definition of these theological words as well as the Scriptural basis where we see the writers of the New Testament encourage confronting fal...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNS3EiJg1KU We continue the chapter discussing how materialism and post-modernism sets up a reductionist view of humanity.  Materialism attempts to explain away consciousness and post-modernism attempts to spiritualize matter. The episode link is www.cavetothecross.com/ep61 Books mentioned in this episode: Finding Truth by Nancy Pearcey (Amazon Link – https://...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_-CH4ICFWg We introduce the concept of the second of five parts in Pearcey’s apologetic method.  When people make idols they end up replacing God with a substitute.  Another outcome is they reduce the proper view of man for something lesser.  We should always have a proper Creator/creature distinction, but we should never devalue those made in the image of Go...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6ai4815lKE We complete the section on identifying the idols different worldviews put in place of God.  Whether it be Marxism, naturalism, idealism, romantism, or other religions – each one tries to replace God for another divine understanding. The episode link is www.cavetothecross.com/ep59 Books mentioned in this episode: Finding Truth by Nancy Pearcey (Amaz...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qrS4bC0l6o We begin looking at the first principle for evaluating worldviews – identify the idol the worldview tries to replace God with.  Before looking at specific worldviews, we need to establish if there is any neutral ground, universality of worldviews, does every worldview count as a religion, and does every worldview have an understanding of something...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_NjAlumD-0 We complete the introduction of our new book “Finding Truth” by Nancy Pearcey . We look at how humans suppress the knowledge of God by creating idols and the consequences of following after those false gods.  We then do an overview of the “5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes”.  Those five prin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnfQCQGwyqo We begin our new book “Finding Truth” by Nancy Pearcey today! Covering the first part of Part 1, we talk about the purpose and goal of the book.  Very important, right?  We cover Pearcey’s presentation that the Bible gives us revelation of God’s existence and that everyone has evidence for His existence.  Finally, we cover why not...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqfJfQkvAbI Our third One Shots where we take one episode to look at one book and give you an overview of what it’s all about. This week’s installment is “ Five Views on Apologetics ” by Gary Habermas, William Lane Craig, Paul D. Feinberg, Kelly James Clark, John M. Frame.  This is a really interesting book in an interesting book series &#822...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAH9t0DJVUU Just a fun response video to our friends at the Tulips & Honey podcast .  Patrick got called out to give some answers to questions he posed to the ladies.  This doesn’t need to be counted as a regular episode and we’ll continue the normal Monday morning posts. But here, Patrick gives responses to questions like: 1) Do you look for a book...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA4_-f5f8rM Our second of three One Shots where we take one episode to look at one book and give you an overview of what it’s all about. This week’s installment is “ Defending Inerrancy ” by Norman Geisler and William Roach.  Their assertion is that belief in biblical inerrancy is one of the major factors of a seminary falling into liberalism...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOnWnu88Ue4 To kick off the new year, we are doing the first of three segments of what we’re going to be calling “ One Shots “. Where we take one episode to look at one book and give you an overview of what it’s all about. For the first installment, we introduce to you “ The Heresy Of Orthodoxy ” by Michael J. Kruger & Andreas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RT43mnyjMo We continue our interview with J. Warner Wallace . For the first part of the interview see episode 51 (www.cavetothecross.com/51) J. Warner Wallace ( https://coldcasechristianity.com/ ) was a cold-case homicide detective for the LAPD. He became a Christ-follower at the age of thirty-five after investigating the claims of the New Testament gospels using h...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EodHJMqRqi8 Today we welcome J. Warner Wallace to the show! J. Warner Wallace ( https://coldcasechristianity.com/ ) was a cold-case homicide detective for the LAPD. He became a Christ-follower at the age of thirty-five after investigating the claims of the New Testament gospels using his skill set as a detective. In this first part of the interview, we discuss what...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAp8d7BEj2E The final chapter of Dr. Mitch Stoke’s book. We want to thank Dr. Stokes for his work and for coming on our show (Ep.33 & 34). We also want to thank you all for watching/listening and sharing the links to such an interesting subject. Stay tuned for more! We look at further implications of nihilism. If all life is pain, why not just end it now?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvnk0kh5LeE We look at the consistent outcome of naturalism when it comes to morality – that of nihilism. Because definitions are important, we cover the definition of nihilism as there seems to be some misunderstanding of what it is and what it isn’t. We then look at why nihilism should result from belief in naturalism and the implications nihilism brin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU86-EWl7dw We continue our interview with Dr. Robert P. Murphy, a Christian as well as an economist in the branch of Austrian Economics . In this second part of the interview, Dr. Murphy talks about where economic truth derives from.  If the Fall never occurred would economic principles still stand? Then we talk about some of the weird stances people can have when...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBjjm1mmUXY We are absolutely proud to present to you this interview done with Dr. Robert P. Murphy! One of the desires of our show is to promote the truth that God reigns over every aspect of creation.  One of those areas is even economics.  Sadly, many Christians do not understand the importance of economics and are intimidated by the subject – much like phi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgPotq3J56w We look at Dr. Stokes’ take on the divine command theory to ground morality in an objective state and answer the objections to the infamous Euthyphro dilemma. The biggest argument is that the commands God gives appear to be arbitrary. In some ways that appear to be the case, however, God being God and not man requires us to look at the issue more c...