Episode 12 - Are Your Beliefs Properly Basic?

Episode 12 – Show Notes We kick off with another chapter in our “Evidence for God: 50 Arguments for Faith..” book. Chapter 32 “Did Jesus Predict His Violent Death and Resurrection?”. It proved an interesting case study in using historical arguments for such issues, and ended up with the chapter’s author needing to cast doubt on one gospel version of Jesus praying at Gethsemane to show the likely authenticity of another (where he was aware of his impending death before he should know). Again we felt this was another ‘dud’ argument from the 50 Arguments for Faith book. We turned to our list of better arguments and Properly Basic Beliefs (PBBs) came up. Alvin Plantinga is the most prominent advocate of this approach. He sets out what PBBs are and why he thinks belief in God should be one …. Due to the Sensus Divinitatus, that inner knowing or sense or voice of God. We set this out and then ran through some objections and how theists have responded. This overlaps with our Episode 8, when we discussed belief based on religious experience with the brilliant Stephen Law. Here we tried to cover other objections. Finally we asked “Is that in the Bible?” regarding …. Atheists. We started with Psalm 14v1 and 53v1 which both say “The fool says in his heart ‘there is no God’ ”. It seems that this is not actual atheism being discussed. Passages like Romans 1v18 on suggest we can’t be atheist. Some links we discussed:ANDREW!!! Your meme on Jesus saying “What?” to eschatological manifestation ..kerygma … etc “ I don’t know the link Ed mentioned how useful it can be to use the website www.biblegateway.com to select a single verse and then click “…in all English translations” just below it. You see about 70 translations and get the range of possible interpretations. Doubts Aloud Links: Please leave us a review on iTunes and we will respond to any question asked there with the review. Or give feedback and ask questions using : [email protected] the Facebook Group discussions:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1023280847835278/Meet us all in person at the monthly “Unbelievable Christian and Skeptic Discussion Group” in central London, see:https://www.meetup.com/Unbelievable-Christian-and-Skeptic-Discussion-Group-London(Note - 50 Arguments for Faith book:“Evidence for God: 50 Arguments for Faith from the Bible, History, Philosophy and Science” by Mike Licona and William Dembski. It can be found on Amazon.)