Apologetics or Christ? Feeling Convicted.

Over the past few months, my dad, a close friend and I, have been on a major Apologetics kick. We’ve listened to hours upon hours of Dr. Greg Bahnsen on worldviews,  apologetics and logic. We’ve read books by Cornelius Van Til, Gordon Clark, Greg Bahnsen, Gary DeMar and Rousas J. Rushdoony. We’ve read articles by Van Til, Clark, Bahnsen, Vincent Cheung  and many more. So we have been devoted to the study of Presuppositional Apologetics for months now and we have gained vast amounts of knowledge, all the while, trying to keep it Christ-centered. Yet lately, I feel as if Christ has been lost from my study of apologetics (I can’t speak for my dad or friend) and now I use my new found knowldge against unbelivers (and sometimes belivers) just to prove a point. As I’ve been reading What Jesus Demands from the World, by John Piper, I feel that I should be concentrating more on strengthening my relationship with Jesus Christ and less on learning how to argue better. 

Please don’t here what I’mm not saying, that apologetics isn’t important, but for me, I believe that my time should be better spent in prayer and meditation. Being able to defend our faith is of extreme importance, but even Musilms have apologists, yet we as Christians have what all other faiths lack, a personal relationship with the Creator of the universe, and I do not want to take that for granted. So I’ll still study and learn but with God’s grace, I hope I can balance it with more prayer, reading and meditation. And with God’s grace, I hope others can also find that balance. 

In Christ,

Scotty

Thoughts on the Immaterial.

I came across a little quote by Albert Einstein recently and it got me thinking. Here’s the quote, 

“If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I will be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it too.” 

So things of immaterial nature cannot be owned by any one person, God alone can claim possession of the immaterial. Truth is an immaterial, for lack of a better word, thing. Men can know truth, but they cannot know it fully, why? Because full knowledge belongs to the Lord, and men have no control over the immaterial. What controls a person’s thoughts? Other thoughts, so though the thoughts are the person’s, they must use something immaterial to control something else of immaterial nature. 

These immaterial truths, such as logic, mathematics, and morality, cannot be claimed by any person, society, culture, time or, religion, only God can control them. Man cannot change the truth, man cannot change that which is right or wrong, God alone has the ability to do so. But does He? No, because he stands by his own laws, by the logic of his making.  

So even though the immaterial effects the material (thoughts effect action), the material can do nothing to change, or manipulate the immaterial. No actions that take place in time and space can change anything of immaerial nature, and not any immaterial thing can change such immaterial truths that were ste in place by God. 

Comments please, I’m not sure how this all sounds.