My Opening Statement Introduction In this series, I’ll be sharing the various portions of my debate with atheist Dan Barker, beginning with my opening statement. Before you read it, a brief word of context. Our opening statements were limited to ten minutes. As you know, ten minutes is not much time to unpack an argument of this magnitude. Each of the points I raised could have been developed in far greater detail. My strategy was to present the overarching framework of my ca
Transcribed from a talk I gave on the topic. Edited by Chatgpt. My name is Elias Ayala . I am the founder of Revealed Apologetics , a Christian apologetics ministry that exists to help equip Christians to defend the faith. My work typically focuses on issues of apologetic methodology, Reformed theology, and broader questions in Christian philosophy. Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to engage a wide range of topics and to interview a variety of guests and experts in th
An Analysis and Commentary on My Live Exchange with a Skeptic Near the end of a recent livestream, I had an exchange with an atheist caller that nicely illustrates a recurring problem in apologetic conversations. The discussion touched on sense perception, logic, causation, and induction, but the real issue was deeper than any one of those topics. The central question was this: can the skeptic justify the foundational beliefs he is already using in order to argue at all? Th
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