The Comprehensive Guide to Apologetics

First, the classical apologist recognizes the crucial role that one’s worldviews play in coloring (interpreting) the data and material evidence.

Salvation requires coming to terms with Jesus Christ—as the only Saviour from sin, death, and the devil. Thus the Christian apologetic needs to be, root and branch, an apologetic for Jesus Christ—not a disguised exercise in the philosophy of religion.21

So the chronological order of the Gospels is Matthew, then Luke, then Mark, then finally John.

Second, from the earliest times (AD 125), while anonymous in their text, the Gospels bore titles on all their manuscripts: “The Gospel according to Matthew,” “The Gospel According to Mark,” “The Gospel According to Luke,” “The Gospel According to John.” No other names ever appeared on any of the manuscripts.

Whereas Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were written during the first century, the alternative gospels were not written until the first half of the second century.

Accordingly, our focus should be on demonstrating the incarnation of Christ and those issues that relate to Christ, including demonstrating the trustworthiness of the biblical text. That is to say, our apologetic should be Christocentric. Therefore, logic should be used in analyzing evidences that support the Christian position. Evidentialists argu

Pascal’s posthumously collected Pensées (“Thoughts”) offer a powerful apologetic for the truth of biblical revelation and the saving work of Christ. His “wager” (even if Christianity were false, in accepting it you would be better off, for you would obtain the best ethic and the best human example—Jesus) was not intended as the totality of his apol

The textual reliability of the New Testament is overwhelming! A key factor in determining whether Christianity is true is evaluating whether the biblical manuscripts are an accurate representation of the original texts.

Richard Dawkins, a proponent of evolutionary biology and an outspoken opponent of Christianity, is a prime example of this. He categorically states that “faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”1 This view of faith is called fideism (blind faith); to attribute it to biblical Christianity is to indulge in rank car