David Wolcott, Christian Apologist

Growth and Frustration Engaging in Facebook threads for apologetics has provided a wide variety of opportunities to grow in grace and wisdom, through which I have often been challenged in what I believe and forced to dig even deeper. Other times, however, I can be amazed at people’s confidence, people who then demonstrate they have no clue what they are talking about. Today, I would like to talk about one such recent experience. Today’s issue is a case of whether we have archaeological evidence for Abraham, the patriarch in Genesis. We can say several things about that, but I want to focus on the philosophy of the question, rather than archaeology directly, to demonstrate a larger principle that you can use in a wide variety of other situations.  The argument given is that we have no reason to believe the accounts of Abraham in the Bible because we have no archaeological finds supporting the accounts. I want to mention that, directly, it’s factually true: we have no archaeological ...

Rephrased: A church that doesn’t actively include apologetics in their ministries and preachings is a church that doesn’t teach and follow all Scripture. Others have said that one can tell whether a pastor engages in evangelism by how passionate they are for apologetics. The life of apologetics in church history: 1000, 100, 50 years ago, society generally believed that God exists, and church leaders just needed to teach them what to believe about God. There wasn’t as much need to defend the existence of a deity that most people believed existed. Those days are long past. These days, most people either don’t believe God exists or that belief has no impact on their daily life. Even many today who say they believe in God actually believe in a deity of their own creation, and either don’t know or can’t tell the difference. Despite those historical societal points, apologetics was still taught: Tertullian, Augustine, Anselm, Pascal, Aquinas, Greenleaf; these leaders of the faith, and many m...