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Be critical like ChristBe critical like ChristIntroduction

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When you are Biblical, you are Christologicaly When you are Christological, you are truthful

y When you are truthful, you are ethical andcritical of whatever is fallacious

y When you are truthful you will win in thebattle of ideas



Defining what critical meansDefining what critical means

y Being critical means scrutinizing theculture and claims of the opponents ofChristianity. You are not at home in the

worldy Being critical excludes paranoia

y Being critical is not rudeness

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Being critical is not haughtinessy Being critical is not seeing people as

enemies, but knowing there is spiritualwarfare behind them



You are destined to winYou are destined to win

y The Biblical/Christian argument is destined towin because truth is built-in.

y The atheist/humanist argument is meant to bedefeated because error is built-in.

y The role of the believer is to carefully analyzethe atheist/humanist argument, unpack it, seewhere the error is, and then defeat the faultyreasoning.

We demolish arguments and every pretensionthat sets itself up against the knowledge of God,and we take captive every thought to make itobedient to Christ. (2 Cor. 10:5)



When meekness and fear applies inWhen meekness and fear applies in

apologetical discussionsapologetical discussionsy A verse that is wrongfully applied in apologetic

debates is from 1 Peter 3:15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always beready to give a defense to everyone who asks you areason for the hope that is in you, with meekness andfear.

y The verse above specifically states that whensomeone asks you a reason for your hope, you

should do it with meekness and fear.y But when the atheist professor or classmate

verbally attacks you, then you should respondin a critical way, with no resentments.



Be critical like ChristBe critical like Christ

y Woe to you, blind guides, who say, whoever swears by the temple it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, hes obliged

to perform it. Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifiesthe gold? (Matthew 23: 16-17)

y And He said to them, Go, tell that fox, Behold,

I cast out demons and perform cures today andtomorrow, and the third day I shall beperfected. (Luke 13:32)



Be critical like ChristBe critical like Christ

y Christ confronted hypocrisy and sinhead on. Whenever it was the case, He wasvery critical.

y One thing has to be mentioned, Hiscriticism was directed against people whohad knowledge of God.

y He did not confront the Roman authority.

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He was never involved in social unrest.y He was kind to repenting sinners, not with

all the sinners, as it is claimed by manyAmerican evangelicals.



Be critical like the apostle PaulBe critical like the apostle Paul

Let no one deceive himself. If anyoneamong you seems to be wise in this age,let him become a fool that he may

become wise. (1 Corinthians 3:18)

y The apostle Paul had no tolerance for philosophy.

y The Bible and philosophy are inopposition to each other



Be critical like the apostle PaulBe critical like the apostle Paul

y because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful,but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Professing to be wise, they became fools.(Romans 1:21-22)

y The apostle Paul was very aware of the moraldecay of the pagan world. Although he was a

Jew, he was born in a Roman city, Tarsus, andhad Roman citizenship. He was able to analyzeand censure the sin of his era, and is able to doso in ours as well.



Be critical like your criticsBe critical like your critics

y The liberals and atheists use/developeda whole arsenal of words/expressionswith powerful results.

y Here are some samples: Not very compelling

Not very convincing

Poor argument Weak argument, to say the least

Straw man argument




y When your university professor or atheistic/liberal fellow student delivers arant against Christianity, you could use

the following line of defense. Thefollowing has to be used in the contextof the discussion:

y Sorry, but what you just said is not very

compelling.y You put a lot of work into your

argument, but its not very convincing.




y Thats a poor argument!

y In what you said, there are a lot ofunwarranted statements.

y Blanket generalization!

y Unsubstantiated!

y Please define this word.




y Your argument is very weak.

y Your whole construct is a straw manargument.

y Your essay is not credible.

y Your thesis is not plausible.

y Dont stereotype!





The case forThe case for

Christian PhilosophyChristian Philosophyy There is no such thing as Christian

philosophy. Christians can dophilosophy, but there is no philosophy in

the Bible per say.y The only one book containing

philosophical reflections is Ecclesiastes.

However it should be noted that whenSolomon really departed from God, hestarted philosophizing about life.




Christian PhilosophyChristian Philosophyy There are Christian philosophers who

interact with secular counterparts to provethe prowess of the Christian mind.

y Apologetics was integrated within theChristian philosophy realm, although itshould stay on its own.

y When preachers and theologians dont

stay on the Biblical text and speculate a lot,we can say the result is Christianphilosophy.



Antichristian biased classesAntichristian biased classes

at universitiesat universitiesPhilosophy

y Before we define philosophy, we need the see whatHumanism is. Humanism is the denial of any power or moral value superior to that of humanity; it is a

defiant anti-God worldviewy Philosophy is humanistic by definitiony Philosophy apparently is love for wisdom as the

etymology of this word explains it.y In reality, philosophy addresses different matters

such as: analysis of the human mind and how itrelates to matter, the theory of knowing, definingreality, meaning of life, understanding theuniverse, probing into all that human existence is.




at universitiesat universities

Philosophy is a flawed system of thoughty It is highly speculativey It requires devotion to a religious degree

y It is anti-Biblicaly It is deceptivey It leads people astrayy It takes captive the minds of the people

See to it that no one takes you captive throughphilosophy and empty deception, according tothe tradition of men, according to theelementary principles of the world, rather thanaccording to Christ. (Col. 2:8)




at universitiesat universitiesSociology

y Sociology for the most part is Marxist. Former hippies and liberals embraced Marxism. They are ona mission to poison the minds of the future

intellectuals.y K. Marx is considered the first sociologist.y Sociology is the study of human relations in the

context of family, institutions, culture,organizations, and country.

y Most sociology courses aim to portray Christianityas the religion of the white man, who is chargedwith all the evils of the world.

y Sociology is the most spurious science taught inuniversities.




Christian PsychologyChristian Psychology

y The life of the soul is widely expressed inthe Bible, so a whole psychologicalconstruct can be built on the Bible

personages.y Today there is a whole science called

Christian psychology which stands on itsown and wants to replace the role of the

pastor in counseling, due in part to the lackof spiritual depth of the average pastor.

y Fundamentally, Christian psychology dealswith theological issues.




at universitiesat universities

Secular Psychologyy The science that deals with mental

processes, behavior and emotions at

individual and group level.y Freud, the sexual pervert, greatly

influenced this field.y Psychology is founded on evolutionary

theory.y Today, psychologists come up with the

most bizarre theories in order to supportthe agenda of political correctness.




at universitiesat universitiesHistory

y It is the discipline that records events in relation tonations and people, in a chronological order.

y History should be objective but there are political

agendas which dictate the way data should beinterpreted by historians. This is called revision.

y Today, even in the U.S. there is a lot of revisionisthistory taught by the history departments.

y Recently most of the history books present Islam as

more benevolent than Christianity.y There is a lot of promotion of other religions and

non-Christian nations, with the goal of undercuttingthe Christian heritage of America.




at universitiesat universitiesAnthropology

y This discipline stands out as an instrument of manipulation inthe hands of the Darwinists on university campuses.

y Anthropology is the study of the human being. Evolutionary

theory is the essential feature of this subject.y An anthropology course also deals with the biology, behavior,

culture, and group relations of man.y This distorted science tries to slowly remove crucial

differences between humans and animals.y Anthropology was proved false many times when it tried to

reconstruct human skeletons from old bone fragments. Inspite of the defeat, evolutionary anthropologists pursue their work with cultic determination.

y Anthropology is at the service of anything anti-Christian.



Last but not LeastLast but not Least

y Dont ever join any student fraternities

and student sororities on the university

campus!

y They are just environments for moraldegradation and recruitment places for

all kinds of weird secret societies.

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