- 00:12
- Right? How do you know what a word means in a sentence? You need to know what the other words mean and how they relate to the specific object of the sentence.
- 00:18
- How do I know what a sentence means? I need to look at the other sentences within the paragraph. Context always gives meaning.
- 00:25
- From a biblical worldview perspective, we always come at every item or any fact of human experience from the context that gives that individual fact meaning.
- 00:36
- Any particular belief you have about anything has the specific meaning that it does because it has a specific place in a wider system of thought.
- 00:45
- Does that make sense? That's huge. And for the Christian, our wider system of thought is the
- 00:50
- Christian worldview as revealed to us in both natural and special revelation, right? We have, we are a revelatory people.
- 00:58
- We base everything on God's revelation. And so don't get it twisted. We can talk about philosophical terminology and we will, but all of this is grounded in a revelation of a
- 01:08
- God who has spoken, who has spoken without ambiguity and has held every as holds everyone accountable for the revelation that he gives.
- 01:15
- And so we want to engage in an apologetic methodology that does justice to the biblical witness because that's what we're defending, not defending a resurrection.
- 01:23
- We're defending the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the son of God, the word of God become flesh. That's the one, the one who fulfilled all of what was spoken to him in the old
- 01:31
- Testament, right? And of course it's been revealed even further in the new Testament. So it's the system of thought that we are defending.
- 01:38
- It's the Christian worldview over the non -Christian worldview. That's what Christian apologetics.
