| 1. The best way to defend Christianity is to begin with the differences in worldviews. |
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| 2. The findings of science and history confirm the truth of Christianity at every point they overlap. |
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| 3. No theist has been able to defend Christianity against decisive disproofs. |
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| 4. Deductive proofs, like the cosmological argument, are useful to prove the truth of Christianity. |
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| 5. The *only* way to argue for Christianity is to show that life is meaningless without God. |
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| 6. God is dead. If there is a hell, I'll see you there! |
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| 7. One cannot have faith regarding a belief that one knows with certainty. |
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| 8. The best way to show unbelievers the truth of Christianity is to appeal to proof that all can access |
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| 9. God is best known through a personal encounter, not through arguments or evidence. |
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| 10. The main task of apologetics consists in dismantling defeaters against Christianity. |
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| 11. Apologetics is a fruitless endeavor to justify beliefs that deleusional people want to believe. |
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| 12. The only miracle that has ever occurred is that anyone would believe something like Christianity. |
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| 13. Belief in God is properly basic--one does need need to have a reason for why they believe in God. |
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| 14. Theism cannot be defended coherently, because it is false. |
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| 15. I believe in Christianity precisely because it is absurd. |
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| 16. Unregenerate people cannot see the truth of Christianity from their perspective. |
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| 17. Faith cannot be established on historical knowledge. |
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| 18. One can argue straight for specific claims of Christianity without defending its worldview first. |
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| 19. Before arguing for specific Christian claims, one needs to establish the Christian worldview. |
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| 20. "Reason is the devil's whore!" |
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| 21. Christianity should be believed because it is the best explanation of the facts. |
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| 22. The primary test for any truth-claim is logical consistency. |
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| 23. Inductive, probabilistic proofs for Christianity provide powerful reasons to believe it. |
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| 24. Arguments that merely show Christianity is likely to be true dishonor God. |
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| 25. Apologetics defends the philosophical foundations for theology. |
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