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Living Hope SDA Church

Apologetics

Subodh Pandit

01 Come, Search With Me

02 Come, Search With Me Q&A

03 Come, Search With Me

Heavenly Father, you have given us a lot of information.

We know it's within reach, you have given it to us.

Grant that in our ways of looking at you and looking at this thing that you have given, we will see your mercy and also be able to stand firm in what you have given us.

Grant that our minds will be open to your spirit now as we talk and as we discuss.

Actually the topic is this, because when you have to deal with people outside, by the way, you will hear me talking a little differently from a Christian, because my ministry is basically with atheists, agnostics, non-Christians on secular university campuses.

That is where the last 20 years has been my ministry.

So the way they talk is very different from the way we talk.

We talk like, you know, what I call a cyber school syndrome.

But over there you can't say some, just can't say anything.

In other words, it's the first Peter, the third chapter in the 15th verse says, Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and be always ready to give everyone a defense of the reason of the hope.

We are good at giving our hope, but we are not good at giving a reason.

Neither are we good at defending that reason.

So we can talk among ourselves, but once you go out there, whoa, that's a different world altogether.

But believe me, there are so many out there who long for some reason.

So James Sires asked this question which he called the prime reality question.

Why is it called the prime reality question?

Because everybody has to answer it sometime.

And that is, what is that thing from which everything else comes?

So many other ideas that are attached to it.

But my main aim is to make you think for yourself.

In fact, when I finish my seminars out in the universities, the most common response is, boy, you made me think.

So that's all really I want you to do, think.

Let's put on our thinking caps, and let's reason it out.

Most debates on such topics are not satisfying.

Because we have not settled out the premises or the principles on which we will govern, that will govern our discussion.

We haven't said, for example, we haven't said where we'll get our information from.

By the way, if you're talking about Islam, then your information will be from the Quran.

Are we talking about this, that, the other?

Once you settle your topic, you must settle where the information is going to come from, how are you going to argue this out?

In other words, before you start, there is something that needs to be done.

And If you looked at all the debates out there, atheism, God, no God, evolution and creation, nobody starts with this.

And if you jump into it, you are going to be lost.

That is why we never reach any conclusion.

By the way, these series, there are 2 lectures this evening, afternoon, tomorrow and other 2, and that's it.

And every time I've finished presenting at least 1 person will come up walking up the aisle and say my life has changed.

I can't do it any, I can't think back or go back to the previous thinking anymore.

There are about 5 or 6 premises, but I'm going to give you just a gist of what we're doing, what I do, so that you'll get a grasp of it.

And once you get a grasp of it, you will do your own search.

Nobody can do neutral inquiry because we are all biased.

So if everyone is biased, You shouldn't call anyone biased.

I'll use the word think more than once, all right?

If everyone is biased, how can you call anybody biased?

Just drop the word bias and do your argumentation.

Number 1 and 2, always make 2 competing theories.

We already have 2 right now, because we already said God's existence.

So 1 side of the theory is God exists and the other side is God does not exist.

You do not want to make default conclusions.

You will see this is nice and you grab it but wait, if you looked at the other side that is better.

So choosing the good is bad when there's the best available.

Similarly you think there's a questionable thing here, throw it out.

If you throw this out and go for the other 1, that's worse.

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Apologetics

01 Come, Search With Me

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