Defending and Commending the Faith With Dr. Joe L. Mott, inviting the atheist, agnostic and skeptic to examine for themselves the evidence for the Christian faith

References:  1. Panentheism 2. Finite Godism 3. Deism 4. Theism — more specifically, monotheism. 5. The historian, William Federer. 6. Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics by Norman Geisler. 7. Materialism, the default position and philosophy of all atheists and Unbelievers today. 8. Dualism 9. Bible Doctrine by Wayne Grudem. 10. The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics edited by...

References:  1. Formerly I proved the Kalam argument for a First Cause for the beginning of the universe.  2. I went beyond that argument to give 18 key attributes of that First Cause.  3. Among other attributes, I concluded that this First Cause was necessary, uncaused, non-contingent, and purely actual.  4. I showed that necessary and uncaused are logically equivalent. ...

References:  1. The concepts of potentiality, actuality, and pure actuality.  2. Pure actuality is devoid of potentiality whatsoever.  3. A necessary existence is changeless.  4. A necessary being and an uncaused being are logically equivalent.  5. There can only be one necessary or pure actual being.  6. 5 Ways for the Existence of God by Thomas Aquinas.  7. I g...

References:  1. God and the Astronomers by Robert Jastrow.  2. Who made God? by Ravi Zacharias and Norman Geisler.  3. The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel.  4. The nature of the cause of the universe: spaceless, timeless, immaterial, not natural, transcendent over the universe, personal, freedom of the will, extremely powerful, supremely intelligent, and abundant in knowledge...

References: 1. The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel. 2. The cosmic microwave background radiation discovery by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson. 3. Galaxy formation observed by the COBE satellite in the 1999's. 4. Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. 5. The theorem by Arvind Borde, Alan Guth, and Alexander Velinkin. 6. The Penrise-Hawking Singularity theorems. 7. Singularity Theorems and Their...

References: 1. Standard model of cosmology. 2. "On Guard " by William Lane Craig. 3. 7 main lines of scientific evidence that supports the conclusion for the beginning of the universe denoted by the acronym SHURGET. 4. "I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist" by Frank Turek and Norman Geisler. 5. "God and the Astronomers" by Robert Jastrow. 6. Einstein's General Theory of Relativity in 1915. 7...

References: 1. Philosopher Douglas Groothius. 2. “There is a God, how the world’s most notorious atheist changed his mind” by Anthony Flew in collaboration with Roy Abraham Varghese, Harper Collins, 2007. 3. William Lane Craig, “The Kalam Cosmological Argument,” 1979. 4. Al-Ghazali, Persian Muslim champion of the Kalam argument. 5. Francis Bacon, Novum Organum. 6. Pierre-Simon Laplace, Probabiliti...

References: 1. Return of the God Hypothesis by Stephen C. Meyer. 2. There is a God, How the World’s Most Famous Atheist Changed His Mind by Anthony Flew. This is episode 50.

References: 1. Reflections on the Existence of God by Richard E. Simmons, III. 2. The Great Books of the Western World edited by Mortimer Adler, 1952. 3. The problem of evil. 4. 3 possible answers to the question of God’s existence: no, maybe, or yes. 5. 7 major worldviews: atheism, polytheism, pantheism, panentheism, finite godism, deism, and theism. This is episode 49.

References: 1. Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? by Edmund Gettier. 2. John L. Pollock and Joseph Cruz in Contemporary Theories of Knowledge (1999). 3. Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview by J. P. Moreland and William Lane Craig. 4. The Analysis of Knowledge in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy published in 2001 and revised in 2017. 5. A cosmological argument for the beginning...

References: 1. The Correspondence Theory of Truth. 2. Immanuel Kant. 3. David Hume. 4. Rene Descartes. 5. Plato’s definition of knowledge: justified true belief. 6. The Tripartite Theory of Knowledge. This is episode 47.

References: 1. Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview by J. P. Moreland and William Lane Craig. 2. Handbook of Christian Apologetics by Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli. 3. Richard Malcolm Weaver, Jr. 4. Jean-Paul Sartre. 5. Ludwig Wittgenstein. 6. Jacques Derrida. 7. C. S. Lewis. This is episode 46.

References: 1. The God Who Is There by Francis Schaeffer. 2. Absolutes imply antitheses. 3. Is it ok to kill, steal, torture for the fun of it? No. 4. So there are moral absolutes. 5. I give a list of 9 children of relativism that show the bankruptcy of relativism. 6. The Brothers Karamazov by Feodor Dostoyevsky. 7. The Closing of the American Mind by Alan Bloom. 8. Relativism, Feet Firmly Planted...

References: 1. The distinction between objective and subjective; see “On Guard” by William Lane Craig. 2. Truth can be separated into 2 categories: either objective or subjective. 3. We can distinguish objective and subjective truth claims by asking: “Can my opinion change the truth or falsehood of the claim?” If so, the claim is subjective. 4. I listed 8 statements to determine whether they were...

References: 1. Socialism’s goal: communism. 2. Article on Critical Race Theory by Matthew White in the June issue of American Family Association Journal. 3. 3 types of relativism: subjective, conventional, and cultural relativism. 4. Barna Research Group findings in 1991 and 1994. 5. “A Reasonable Faith” by Tony Campolo. 6. 2 ways for propositions to be true: subjectively and objectively. This is...

References: 1. Handbook of Christian Apologetics by Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli 2. Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics by Norman Geisler 3. gotquestions.com 4. The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom 5. Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air by Francis Beckwith and Greg Koukl 6. The Relativist Fallacy This is episode 42.

References: 1. Distinction between the truth of a proposition and the truth of a worldview. 2. Proposition equals truth claim. 3. The truth of a proposition is what corresponds to, relates to, and matches the facts. 4. This correspondence view of truth is associated with Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. 5. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 6. “A World of Difference” by Kenneth Samples. 7. Object...

References: 1. Discussion of the 2 natures of Christ. 2. Bible Doctrine by Wayne Grudem. 3. How to refute an argument. 4. Monophystic heresy. 5. Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD. 6. Athanasius 7. 3 rules of teaching. 8. Jesus Christ was either God or a bad man. 9. If He is God, everything else in the Faith follows. This is episode 40.

References: 1. 3 phrases: only begotten, the firstborn, and the beginning. 2. 7 occurrences of the word firstborn in the New Testament. 3. Jesus’ own statements: Why call Me good? The Father is greater than I. But of that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son. 4. The nature of the incarnation. This is episode 39.

References: 1. Ebionites and Arians 2. Rheinhold Neihbur on Christian Liberalism 3. Jesus Seminar 4. Gary Habermas 5. Only begotten means one of a kind or unique. 6. Firstborn This is episode 38.

References: 1. Fundamentals of the Faith by Peter Kreeft. 2. C. F. D. Moule 3. The Story of Reality by Greg Koukl. This is episode 37.

References: 1. Jehovah’s Witnesses translation of John 1:1 2. Bible Doctrine by Wayne Grudem 3. Alexander MacLaren 4. Chalcedonian definition: Jesus is one person having two natures, one divine and one human This is episode 36.

References: 1. Docetism 2. Bible Doctrine by Wayne Grudem 3. God’s Plan: The Reign of Grace through Christ 4. Propitiation 5. Studies in the Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament by Kenneth S. Wuest 6. Romans Verse by Verse by William R. Newell 7. Incarnation This is episode 35.

References: 1. Authority 2. The German theologian Horst Georg Pohlmann 3. Omnipotence 4. Omniscience 5. Omnipresence 6. Eternity 7. A summation in John 1:1-18 of John 1:19-20:29. 8. The verb “was” in John 1:1 is the Greek imperfect tense. 9. Archimedes: “Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.” This is episode 34.

References: 1. David Wood's website: Acts 17 Apologetics This is episode 33.