Presuppositional apologetics
229For the Love of Storytelling - Featuring Nate Morgan Locke, the Reformed Mythologist
10 Nov 2025
21:52¶ 72
“Let me recast that for you presuppositionally, if you will. Christianity says that there is a sovereign God who orchestrates all things for his…”
23:21¶ 75
“As we tell this story, storytellers are going to start hanging on not the theology but the story. Then we can turn to them…”
24:08¶ 78
“Why are you expecting to find meaning? That doesn’t make any sense from your point of view. It makes perfect sense from ours. Want…”
143The Point of No Return
7 Nov 2022
5:55¶ 26
“And the other presuppositional half of this is where do these rights come from? You say God is mean. By what standard? Because you…”
6:12¶ 27
“And even if you can find it written someplace in the heavens, why should we obey it? If it’s an impersonal thing out there…”
112Wisdom
4 Apr 2022
8:39¶ 36
“There’s some good foundation for presuppositional thinking. If you do not acknowledge God, in the long run you’re not going to know or understand…”
7:28¶ 32
“So we come to this and Solomon has said to his son, “I’m going to write all this down so that you will learn…”
8:57¶ 37
“You would think, “Okay, so we’re going to go down that road, presuppositionalism,” but no, the next thing he says is –”
63Be Ye Thankful
14 Mar 2021
7:37¶ 23
“So when we start out as apologists trying to prove the existence of God, what we have in fact have already admitted is, “Well,…”
8:07¶ 24
“I don’t know that all apologists have actually thought through to that. They understand that people say they don’t believe in God and they…”
10:38¶ 34
“So we’re not to descend into the fool’s folly by pretending that it’s legitimate. “Wow, you’ve got a point there. I don’t know, this…”
23The Sacrifice of Isaac
7 Jun 2020
39:24¶ 127
“I said, “Well, what exactly are you looking for?” I guess we must have been talking about a presuppositional approach to apologetics or something…”
39:44¶ 129
“I said, “Wait. Are you saying you want to be inside the universe and outside the universe and all places at all times, so…”
39:57¶ 130
“Good luck, you’re not getting it.”--But that’s the nature of humanism, which is both rationalistic and irrationalistic. We all know we can’t have it.…”
10Myth of Neutrality
8 Mar 2020
29:29¶ 85
“Dr. Cornelius Van Til was a Professor of Apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary at Philadelphia for many, many years. He, better than anyone else…”
28:39¶ 83
“Which is much easier than being a consistent VanTillian or Schaefferian or whatever, because it’s so easy to go through life and think, “There’s…”
32:18¶ 93
“And while we’re on the subject of apologetics, here is something that’s kind of come out of the whole presuppositional movement that’s a dogleg…”
2In The Beginning
12 Jan 2020
34:43¶ 124
“So we pre-suppose God. We begin with God. We begin with God’s revelation of himself. We begin exactly where Genesis does, and we’re not…”
35:09¶ 125
“The school of presuppositional apologetics, famously developed, expounded, chiefly by – anyway, Van Til is the guy for presuppositional apologetics.”
29:47¶ 102
“Given this, there’s no point in trying to convince people that God exists. They know. All we can do is point out that all…”