APOLOGETICS IN PRACTICE
Conflict is the field of influence that composes a proper enactment of apologetical practices by the believer in Christ. Utilizing the practice of factual analysis and clear and concise argumentation, coupled with sound reasoning, apologetics helps the church in the task of offering up the possibility of rightly relating to God in intellectual assessments and in relational qualities. Reason that is submitted to scriptural understanding is a formidable weapon that can unlock the trappings of incorrect thought processes that permeate the thinking procedures of the unregenerate concerning Christianities conceptual projections concerning God. Propositional truth’s presentation should be the goal of the regenerate. Truth, when properly articulated, should expose the fallacies of improper logical assumptions. Prejudices, biases, discontinuity of presuppositions, and fallacious application of logic’s dictums, improper personal behavior: all are weakened and exposed by a correct representation of the metaphysical aspects of faith’s comportment.
The propriety of accurate belief is, indeed, a powerful tool that begs to be utilized suitably. Conversely, the improper use of apologetical methodologies can be seen in PA 103’s (http://.cmfnow.com/PA103.htm) representation of Bertrand Russell’s vitriolic assault on the Christian faith. Russell’s inconsistent assumptions that morphed over his lifetime into varying and divergent schools of philosophical thought betray Russell’s logical inconsistencies and contradictory beliefs. Utilizing the very philosophical foundations that Russell purportedly despised, Russell attacks the church with the intention of discrediting Christianity as a mythical institution steeped in tradition and mythological suppression.
The personal biases and prejudices become self-evident in behavioral practices and faulty thinking on Russell’s part. Russell’s dual standard of practice, using the principles he attacks, with inaccurate factual depictions, exposes the need for proper biblical apologetics to be employed by the church today. The anarchic philosophies that have followed the disillusionment of the Enlightment’s collapsed promises can be systematically dismantled through exposure to truth. The disappointment that followed WWII and the moral disillusionment that emerged after WWII is evidenced in Russell and the Post-Modern worldview.
Proper, propositional argumentation founded upon the tenants of correct rational thought that is directed by Scriptural revelation is the proper approach to apologetics in the postmodern Western worldview. Reasonable persuasion can prevail in an adequate demonstration of the biblical containment of representational truth. When accuracy of belief is coupled with proper implementation of lifestyle enactment, on the part of the believing community, truth will prevail in a fashion that is easy to appropriate.
