Tony Givhan & Patrick Studabaker | Learn To Defend Your Faith | Anatomy of the Church and State #23

Why are Christian apologetics important? Apologetics provides a framework for Christians to understand and defend their faith in a world that is increasingly hostile to Christianity. Apologetics can also help Christians to better understand their own faith and to articulate it more clearly to others. Join me and the hosts of the Cave To The Cross Podcast as we discuss!

Tony Givhan has graduate degrees from Western Michigan University and Grand Rapids Theology Seminary. He earned his PhD in Philosophy of Science from Michigan State University. He has been married for 40 years and has five adult children. Patrick has a Bachelor of Science from Western Michigan University where he minored in Philosophy. They’ve been friends since 2005 and are the hosts of Cave To The Cross Apologetics: A podcast where they break down and discuss books and articles on philosophy, theology, and similar subjects.

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Topic Timeline
1:52 Tony’s Faith journey
5:03 Patrick’s Faith journey
9:40 Beginnings of Cave to the Cross
12:19 More about the podcast
13:17 Types of Apologetics
15:12 Start with the Gospel
16:20 Preferred Apologetic approach?
17:50 Presuppositional Apologetics
21:10 Reality, logic, ethics
23:31 Base level Apologetics
24:35 Apologetics is important for believers
25:37 Our worldview is superior
26:21 I Peter 3:15
28:01 Doubting Thomas
29:05 Did Lincoln exist?
31:30 Balancing Christian life and Apologetics
33:35 Two types of Faith
35:34 Be a part of the local church
36:33 Finding a good church
39:37 Apologetics and Politics
41:27 Made in His image
42:40 Guard rails
43:38 Imposing and contrasting worldviews
46:08 Christ is Lord is foundational level
48:03 Trends and the New Atheists
50:05 Dawkins’ remarks
51:15 Faith is a mental disease?
53:36 By what standard?
54:38 Today’s Apologetics in today’s culture
58:14 Church history books hold many answers
59:55 Mercy
1:03:10 Why does God allow evil?
1:04:27 Christianity is a white man’s religion
1:07:00 Bible can’t be reliable because written by man
1:09:45 If God is loving, why did he kill people?
1:13:38 Christianity promotes bigotry and homophobia
1:15:40 Gospel promotes slavery
1:17:35 Christians shouldn’t be in politics
1:20:27 Government is ordained by God
1:21:01 Christians are hypocrites
1:22:12 Guests’ closing remarks
1:24:22 Closing prayer