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Bahnsen Basic Training Defending the Faith: Part I : The Myth of Neutrality

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The study is about  Bahnsen's Basic Training for Defending the Faith. The 3 parts that I read is entitled; The Myth of Neutrality, Introduction to World View and Worldviews in Conflict. This is the first part which is entitled Myth of Neutrality and it talks about the different point of Bahnsen about the faith and God. The case studies is about Bahnsen's way of thinking about Faith. The study is about the Christian Faith and how can we understand it more. Greg L. Bahnsen (September 17, 1948 – December 11, 1995) was an influential Calvinist philosopher, apologist, and debater. He was an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and a full time Scholar in Residence for the Southern California Center for Christian Studies.

 

These are some important point that Bahnsen introduce on the first part of the study.

 

  • Humanists are not open-minded thinkers who wish to discover the truth wherever it may be found. Rather, they are hostile to goodness, holiness, and truth. They are vain in their minds.
  • Christ is the source of all truth and righteousness. He alone possesses the key to wisdom, so we will fail in any endeavor that refuses to acknowledge His Lordship.
  • God wants us to be consecrated, holy, and set apart to Him. We cannot do this if we embrace neutrality, which compromises our standing before Him.
  • Neutrality will rob us of our ability to gain knowledge and wisdom. We must fear the Lord in order to have wisdom. The unbeliever should live in dread of God; it is supremely irrational for an unbeliever to live without fearing God's judgment upon their rebellion and pretended autonomy. If we embrace neutrality, we rob ourselves of the treasures of wisdom and knowledge in Christ.
  • We should recognize that people opposed to Christian truth and ideas do not merely oppose particular viewpoints. They oppose the whole worldview of Christianity and propose a warring alternative to God's Word.
  • We are not forbidden from studying philosophy. We are merely cautioned to guard ourselves and take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. Just as we should be cautious when driving, swimming, or using fire, we should be cautious when studying false ideas and philosophies. We need not refrain from driving, swimming, or using fire, and we need not refrain from learning about opposing ideas. We must exercise great care to avoid being taken captive with vanity and deceit.
  • The world looks down on the Gospel and God's system of truth. What God calls wise they call foolish, and vice versa. They do not struggle with the facts but rather with the presuppositions and system of truth that God presents in Scripture.
  • We should reject so-called "wisdom" and "knowledge" that runs contrary to God's Truth. Everyone has a system of presuppositions and a notion about truth called a worldview, and we should evaluate the ideas we hear in terms of their adherence to Scripture.

 

http://cshayden.blogspot.com/2005/12/bahnsens-basic-training-for-defending.html

 

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