Unbreakable Faith
The Unbreakable Faith Course
- Exposes the false blind-faith presuppositions of unbelief
- Builds a solid biblical worldview on God’s infinite excellence
- Simplifies theological and worldview truths
- Protects you against difficult unbelieving arguments
Unbreakable Faith: Course Topics
Course Description
Taught and refined at the church, college and seminary level since 2001, the Unbreakable Faith course explains the infinite excellence of God’s perfections, exposes unbelief as irrational and unscientific blind faith, and demonstrates the impossibility of life and the universe without God. Building a comprehensive, intellectually defensible, and God-honoring worldview, Unbreakable Faith boosts joy, comfort, and faith in Christ and Scripture in the face of the most sophisticated attacks of unbelief.
Part One: Introduction
The Attitude, Definition, and Place of Apologetics
- ➤The proper approach to theology and apologetics; truth and love
- ➤The definition of apologetics
- ➤The relationship of apologetics to theology and philosophy
- ➤Answering objections to apologetics
Assumptions of Faith, the Ground of All Unbelieving Arguments
- ➤A possible but difficult approach to apologetics
- ➤A simple, effective, and faith-building approach to apologetics
Part Two:
The Implications of God’s Attributes for Life, Thought, and Unbreakable Faith
God Has No Beginning Or Needs
- ➤Apart from God nothing exists
- ➤God created and upholds all “natural laws”
- ➤Fixed and universal “laws” are inexplicable apart from God creating and sustaining them
- ➤We depend on God for life, knowledge, truth, authority, and a moral compass
- ➤Created and sustained by God we owe God everything
- ➤God is entirely separate and independent from His creation
- ➤All things display God’s power and genius
- ➤The Law of God is written on every heart
- ➤Scripture displays God’s power and genius
- ➤All unbelief is contrary to the evidence
- ➤Neutral or innocent unbelievers do not exist
- ➤God and created reality exist regardless of human beliefs
- ➤God necessarily exists, He does not probably exist
- ➤All people, including scientists, presume God’s existence, even if they deny Him
- ➤The chicken and the egg riddle
- ➤Arguments for the probability of God excuse unbelief, require blind faith, and hinder assurance
God Is Too Great To Be Known Unless He Makes Himself Known
- ➤Speculation without revelation cannot explain God
- ➤Logic alone is insufficient to know God
- ➤The ordered laws of logic reveal God’s existence
- ➤The beauty of God’s excellence is known immediately and intuitively
- ➤Mystery is proper and reasonable
- ➤Earthly analogies cannot fully explain God
- ➤Finite people are unqualified to deny the truth of Scripture
God Is Limitless
- ➤God is the highest authority and standard of truth
- ➤God is not limited by what He created and sustains
- ➤People cannot know that God is limited by what He created and sustains
- ➤Knowledge of everything and beyond is required to know God is limited
- ➤To presume God is limited by creation repeats the sin of Adam and Eve
- ➤God is infinitely above all things and intimately involved in all things
- ➤Deep suffering is only viewed rightly in light of God and eternity
God Is Unchanging
- ➤Unbelief and the need of salvation are the same in any age or culture
- ➤The requirement for eternal life is the same in any age or culture
- ➤Christ is the only way of salvation in any age or culture
- ➤The truth, validity, and relevance of Scripture are the same in any age or culture
- ➤God remains trustworthy regardless of arguments or circumstances
God Is Undivided Unity
- ➤The “problem of evil”
- ➤Related “problems”
- ➤Responding to apparent contradictions
- ➤Apparent conflicts in God and Scripture reveal our limitations, not problems with God
- ➤Making God acceptable to unbelief denies the infinite excellence of God
- ➤To deny a single attribute of God denies God as God
- ➤God needs no defense
God Is Spirit
- ➤Denials of God based on physical laws are worthless
- ➤Denials of God based on not seeing Him are worthless
- ➤To say God is unknowable because we only know what we know by our senses is unjustified and self-contradictory.
- ➤Appeals to “knowledge” and “senses” to deny God presume God’s existence
- ➤Presuming our senses and experience to be the ultimate standard of truth and possibility assumes the place and authority of God
God’s Knowledge Is Perfect
- ➤God alone is the source of all truth and knowledge
- ➤Human knowledge is acquired by discovering God’s revealed knowledge
- ➤Truth is whatever God says it is
- ➤We know truth when our knowledge agrees with God’s explanation
- ➤We cannot know any truth as thoroughly and exhaustively as God
- ➤To reject truth because we don’t understand it denies reality
- ➤To reject truth because we don’t understand it assumes our understanding is the standard of truth
- ➤To reject truth because we do not understand it assumes the place and authority of God
- ➤The omniscience of God is required to deny God
God’s Wisdom Is Perfect
- ➤Human wisdom is gained by knowing and applying God’s revelation
- ➤God’s wisdom in Scripture is the only sure basis for defending the faith
- ➤Limited and dependent people are unqualified to question God’s wisdom in our circumstances
- ➤Limited and dependent people are unqualified to question God’s wisdom in history
God Is True and Truthful
- ➤We defend and proclaim the God of Scripture, not an unknown “god” or higher power
- ➤Because God is true, His Word and words are true (inerrancy)
- ➤The “slippery slope”
- ➤The only true interpretation of reality is God’s interpretation
- ➤Truth is unaffected by unbelief and human perception
- ➤Unbelief reflects the sinful heart and not defects in God’s truth
- ➤If God is not true and truthful, He is not God
God Is Good and Love
- ➤God is the definition, source, and measure of all good in the universe
- ➤Evil is not necessary or equal with good
- ➤Evil is not necessary for the existence or knowledge of good
- ➤Evil is not necessary for free will
- ➤Contrary choice is not necessary for true love
- ➤More questions concerning the “problem of evil”
- ➤Finite and fallen people are unqualified to pass judgment on God’s goodness
- ➤God’s infinite goodness in Christ comforts the soul amidst the darkest evil
God Is Holy
- ➤The beauty of God and His works is holiness
- ➤God is not and cannot be the author of sin
- ➤Attempts to defend God and answer unbelief must honor God as holy
- ➤Sinners have no claims on a holy God
- ➤The brighter God’s holiness shines the more lovers of darkness hate it
God Is Righteous
- ➤God’s judgments must be viewed in light of our human limitations
- ➤Application of the “slippery slope”
- ➤We can trust God’s judgments as righteous in the face of the most difficult questions
- ➤The righteous judge does not sit under the judgment of unrighteous people
- ➤Was Job’s anger justified against God?
- ➤Distortions of God’s justice distort or deny the Gospel
God Is Infinitely Powerful
- ➤Miracles are reasonable and consistent with God’s nature and universe
- ➤Your worldview determines your view of miracles
- ➤Definition and nature of the believing and unbelieving worldview
- ➤No worldview is neutral
- ➤The believing and unbelieving worldview cannot be reconciled
- ➤One’s view of God determines one’s view of miracles
- ➤One must deny God and His power to deny the miracles of the Bible
- ➤One must affirm God’s existence to deny the miracles of the Bible
- ➤Denying the miracles of Scripture presumes the ultimate authority to determine truth
- ➤Denials of Scripture as true because miracles are “impossible” are worthless
- ➤Defending miracles by “natural” explanations affirms unbelief
- ➤Rebellion against God is foolish and doomed to defeat
God Is Sovereign
- ➤Everyone reasons by faith in an ultimate authority
- ➤Science and reason versus faith is a false dichotomy
- ➤Believing faith is reasonable and justified
- ➤Unbelieving faith is unreasonable and unjustified
- ➤Neutrality toward God is contempt toward God
- ➤Atheists cannot live according to their worldview
- ➤Unbelievers are reasonable and unreasonable at the same time
- ➤As God is sovereign over all things, theology addresses the realm of science
- ➤Philosophers that reject God’s authority repeat the sin of Adam and Eve
- ➤A proper defense of Christianity challenges the faith assumptio ns of unbelief
- ➤Paul’s sermon on Mars Hill
- ➤True repentance turns from the false faith assumptions of unbelief
- ➤The negative results of not challenging false faith assumptions
- ➤Defending the Gospel involves proclaiming the Gospel
- ➤The relationship of the Gospel to worldview
