(September 5, 2011 at 4:29 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Prove God exists. Then prove that this God is the Christian God. If you can't, but still use the assumption of God to argue logic, then this is a classic example of begging the question.
What part of this did you pretend not to understand?
All of it, because it is so incoherent it makes my head hurt. As I have said more than once—even though once ought to have been enough—presuppositional apologetics does not argue from logic to God, but from God to logic. The God of biblical Christianity is an axiomatic presupposition; if the existence of God was a conclusion we reason to, then by definition it would not be an axiomatic presupposition. Your typical responses to evidential apologetics is categorically inapplicable to presuppositional apologetics.
If you think we argue from logic to God to logic, then that simply means you are grossly uninformed of your opponent's position. But hey, why let such ignorance stop you from pretending to have something intelligent to say against your opponent?
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
