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PRESUPPOSITIONS AND PROOF

PRESUPPOSITIONS AND PROOF. 1. What Are Presuppositions. Definitions: Something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning To believe or suppose in advance. To require or involve necessarily as an antecedent condition. Examples:

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PRESUPPOSITIONS AND PROOF

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  1. PRESUPPOSITIONS AND PROOF

  2. 1. What Are Presuppositions • Definitions: • Something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning • To believe or suppose in advance. • To require or involve necessarily as an antecedent condition • Examples: • Do you want to do it again? • Jane no longer writes fiction • The Conference of Biblical Inerrancy

  3. 2. Importance of Presuppositions Axiomatic: Axiomatic presuppositions are self-proven and therefore no proof is needed to prove axiomatic presuppositions. • Examples: • If “A” = “B” and “A” = “C” then “B” = “C” 3. Presuppositions Play a Role in our View on Inerrancy

  4. 4. Different Views of Biblical Inerrancy 1. Full Inerrancy – Verbal Plenary Inspiration. Every word is inspired from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21 • 2 Timothy 3:15-17 • 2 Peter 1:20-21

  5. 4. Different Views of Biblical Inerrancy Full Inerrancy Limited Inerrancy • Only PORTIONS of the Bible are inerrant • Only things that pertain to SALVATION are inerrant • The Bible is not reliable for History, Math, Science, or Geography

  6. 4. Different Views of Biblical Inerrancy Full Inerrancy Limited Inerrancy Non-Inerrant • The Bible is a great book of literature, but it is not inspired, inerrant or authoritative.

  7. 5. Presuppositions in Action Difficult Passages – Where a “perceived” error, contradiction, or discrepancy occurs. Matthew 28:2 - And behold, a severe earthquake had occurred, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled away the stone and sat upon it. John 20:12 - And she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying.

  8. 6. Consistency Test Testing presuppositions by comparing them to observed facts, and established truths. • Examples: • Inerrant • Scripture • Miracles • Resurrection • Heaven/Hell

  9. Fundamentalists/Orthodox/Evangelicals • Sola Scriptura: Scripture ALONE is the sole infallible rule of faith for the church • Sola Gratia: We are saved by God’s Grace ALONE • Sola Fide: FAITH in Jesus Christ ALONE saves us • Sola Christus: Jesus Christ ALONE is the way for salvation

  10. Neo-Orthodox/Neo-Evangelicals/Emergent • Limited Inerrancy of the Bible • Probable Theistic Evolution • Possibility of salvation without an explicit knowledge of Christ • Doubt the authenticity of miracles recorded in the Bible • Elevation Of: • Tradition • Reason • Experience

  11. 7. What is Proof? • 1 Peter 3:15 -But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence

  12. Types of Proof? • Axiomatic Proof • Mathematical Proof • Empirical Proof • Historical-Legal Proofs • Legal-Logical Proof

  13. What is Not Proof? • Possibility does not mean Proof • Mental Experiment is not Proof • An appeal to an Authority is not Proof • Silence is not Proof • Analogy is not Proof • Circular Reasoning is not Proof • A Theory is not Proof • Anecdotal Evidence is not Proof • Slogans are not Proof • Philosophical Justification is not Proof

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