Introduction The “Transcendental Argument for God” (TAG) is typically understood as resting upon the “Impossibility of the Contrary.” We may be in a better position apologetically if we think about the Impossibility of the Contrary (IoC) in terms of three aspects of the IoC. These three aspects of the IoC are definition, dogma, and demonstration. [...]

There is an objection to TAG (Transcendental Argument for God’s Existence) out there that goes something like this: TAG cannot save anyone. Depending on your context, sometimes it goes like this instead: Apologetics cannot save anyone. Of course, this is not much of an objection. It is more so just a slightly annoying comment. Perhaps [...]

As we observed in the last post in this series, an argument is a rational means of persuasion. At some point in the life of God’s chosen people, questions have to be answered and arguments are going to have to be examined. What is Christ?  Why blood sacrifice? Why the Bible? What is the Bible? [...]

I love logic. But I’m not very good at it. It’s not that I tend to accidentally make a bunch of logical fallacies, it’s just the unnatural feeling of forcing your mind to work and think in such a simple and organized way. Know what I mean? It’s so much easier just to let your [...]

A number of months ago I posted “When Man’s Ways Trump God’s Ways: A Case Study in Apologetic Method.” I received an email from “caveman” with a number of criticisms directed at this article, and I want to briefly respond. Jamin, I was deciding whether or not I should respond to your blog post about [...]

I’ve finally taken the time to write my own little digest of TAG in the context of Christian apologetics: The argument is indirect, not direct. That is, transcendental arguments do not argue from facts and evidences to a conclusion by induction or deduction like traditional arguments (which assumes that logic is more fundamental/ultimate/epistemologically necessary than [...]

Divisions Within Presupposition Apologetics If you didn’t know, there is presuppositional apologetics, and then there is presuppositional apologetics. :) Two of Cornelius Van Til’s students wrote books on what they believe is the best apologetic method. However, they didn’t agree on what Van Til “really” taught, or what Scriptural apologetics “really” is. In 1995, John [...]