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Defending Your Faith
An Overview of Apologetics
Mystery vs. Contradiction
• Mystery – A secret, rite, or teaching which the
initiate knows but no one else knows.
• Contradiction – A difference or disagreement
between two things which means that both
cannot be true.
• Paradox – A statement that is seemingly
contradictory or opposed to common sense and
yet is perhaps true.
Mysteries In Scripture
• The mystery of the kingdom of heaven (Matt. 13).
• The mystery of the church as the body of Christ
where Jew and Gentile become one new man in
Christ (Eph. 3:1-11; 2:11).
• The mystery of God, the answer to the age old
question, why has God allowed Satan and evil to
continue to exist (Rev. 10:7).
Arguments For The Existence Of God
• Ontological: An argument for God from “being”. It is an
argument from reason alone.
• Cosmological: An argument that reasoned from the
world (cosmos) back to the creator.
• Teleological: The argument from design. The presence
of design in the universe would indicate a “designer”.
• Moral: An argument based on a global uniform morality.
Natural Theology
• General Revelation – Revelation
from God that is given to ALL
human beings.
• Special Revelation – Revelation
found in the Scriptures.
• Natural Theology – Knowledge of
God that is gained from nature.
General Revelation – Romans 1:18-23
• Mediate: General Revelation is given to all people
though some medium; it is indirect.
• Immediate: General Revelation is given directly
(Immediate here does not mean quick or sudden
but it means without an intervening medium).