With all the interest in the recent debate, I thought some may be interested in reviewing "The Great Debate" between Greg Bahnsen and Gordon Stein, for a taste of presuppositional argument.
Unbelievable! ...The extent man not founded upon Christ will go and follow in their quest and pursuit of self and attempts to explain away reality and sin. Here's Oprah's spiritual sage... Response: 1. He resurrects errors of the past which deny reality by seeking to replace it with forms. 2. By reducing the past to forms (or photo albums) he not only denies the reality of the past but the extent of it's connectedness and relationship to the present. This error he also translates in regard to the future. 3. He establishes a false premise that one can separate the reality of the present ("now") from reality itself, which he vests in onesself (though he inconsistently goes on to suggest that life is found in abandoning oneself) 4. He has no grounds or basis for assuming reality is found in self (and apart from everything else, or only what one want's to allow) 5. By denying the truth of God, he falsely asserts that the future is no longer problematic...
Way ahead of you. I loved that debate, August had told me about him well over a year ago and I stumbled on that, it's beautiful. It may be old, but it's not like there would have been any other line of attack for Bahnsen to counter. It's faster than reading Van Til and Bahnsen...though eventually I'll get around to that as well...if only Cameron had read Bahnsen. *sigh*
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