Apologetics
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My apologetics were fairly varied. It wasn't something I planned on doing, but it sure hooked me right away. Initially, it was shocking to talk to people who openly hated on me simply because I believe in God. On the other hand, I was only three years in to my Christian walk, after being nearly fifty years on the outside (wandering the wilderness). I felt I could relate to them in a lot of ways, and I sure learned a lot, needing to research so much on quite a few subjects before responding on a plethora of topics. Plus, I had a lot of life experience to draw from. It was challenging but fun. Atheists don't like to be reminded that they take things for granted, or on the word of another, without proving all things for themselves. It is a sticking point with them, actually. It becomes so clear that their spiritual blindness really is predicated on their pride of life. Haha. Who wants to hear that? They hate the truth even as they claim to base their beliefs on facts. It is such a fine line to walk, in carrying an ongoing dialogue with them. They make no bones about wanting to destroy faith. I witnessed a few Christians crashing and burning. There were times when I thought that all the abuses that I had suffered in my life helped prepare me to continually face them over a period of eight years. Funny the things we can thank God for, after all. 
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The reason I don't consider him an apologist is because he used the worldview to explain why God is real and only as far as the world can go in their illogical thinking in The Problem of Pain. He contended the proof of God was even cavemen believed he exists. Hello? How would he know that? So, basically evolution proves God.
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Writer to writer -- Don't self-publish your book until you learn enough about how it will go, instead of if it will go. Publish before you're good enough to be published and that's a mark on your record that will make it ten times harder to publish again.
Self-publishing isn't to see how it goes. It's to go because you know how to find the audience that wants to read it and it's ready for them. Join a site for writers that critique each other to see where you stand with what you have. And then use it to learn more of what you need to learn to publish. You're still a teen. You can become a writer by the time you're in your 20's if you work at it, but you're not there yet. The same amount of effort is required to become an apologist.
(I'm an amateur apologist. I just spent the last four years writing my novel after spending two years learning how to write. The only reason I'm not pitching my novel to agents right now is because I need to see my husband get better first. If he needs my help for the rest of his life, that book won't be published. He's simply more important to me than that novel is. I've been studying in the area of apology for over 20 years, and I'm still only at amateur status. That hard in both areas!)
Self-publishing isn't to see how it goes. It's to go because you know how to find the audience that wants to read it and it's ready for them. Join a site for writers that critique each other to see where you stand with what you have. And then use it to learn more of what you need to learn to publish. You're still a teen. You can become a writer by the time you're in your 20's if you work at it, but you're not there yet. The same amount of effort is required to become an apologist.
(I'm an amateur apologist. I just spent the last four years writing my novel after spending two years learning how to write. The only reason I'm not pitching my novel to agents right now is because I need to see my husband get better first. If he needs my help for the rest of his life, that book won't be published. He's simply more important to me than that novel is. I've been studying in the area of apology for over 20 years, and I'm still only at amateur status. That hard in both areas!)
You can start here...
Carson on Presuppositional vs. Evidentialist Apologetics
D.A. Carson is very level headed.
Carson on Presuppositional vs. Evidentialist Apologetics
D.A. Carson is very level headed.
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- 1.a very hard, granular, crystalline, igneous rock consisting mainly of quartz, mica, and feldspar and often used as a building stone
Isaiah 28:16) Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
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It also helps to study your enemy, I read the book of mormon, because I was witnessing to a mormon at the time, I am studying islam because my neighbor is a palestinian muslim from Israel, and would love to know how to speak to him.
You have to know what they believe in order to bring Gods word to them. Talk in their language..
You have to know what they believe in order to bring Gods word to them. Talk in their language..
I'll look into the site for writers. I've been writing for more than four years. I have gotten better. I still need help with punctuation but I have a couple grammar checker's on my computer to help with it. I have given the book to some friends and they really enjoy it. There's website where you pay to have your book published and they do the marketing for it as well. I'm going to look into it more. And who say's I'm a teen? I'm 26 lol