aPologetics
Week 1- Introduction and Chapter 1: Can We Handle the Truth?
Welcome to Week 1 of VETI: Apologetics. This week we will be studying the following- Introduction: Finding the Box Top to the Puzzle of Life & Can We Handle the Truth? Please complete the following assignments before next week's class.
Reading Assignment:
Introduction and Chapter 1: Can We Handle the Truth?
pgs 17-50
Download this book for free. I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist- Norman Geisler and Frank Turek
1 Page Reflection Paper
"We humans have a fatal tendancy to try to adjust the truth to fit our desires rather than adjusting our desires to fit the truth?" (pg. 32) How have you personally experienced this in your own life and the lives of those around you.
On page 24, the book mentions 3 "Problems with Christianity"; intellectual, emotional, and volitional. Select one of these problems and share your own "intellectual, emotional, or volitional" reason for resisting the gospel message before you became a follower of Christ.
Quiz #1:
Religious World Views
Can We Handle the Truth?
Frank Turek uses the Road Runner Tactic to disarm a girl's faulty presumtion that God is going to "throw her in Hell" even though she claims to be a good person.
Write a one page responce to this video, citing specific examples of Turek's use of the Road Runner Tactic.
Be prepared to explain the Three Major Religious Worldviews by the next class session.