Recently a young pastor and apologetics person (sorry, don’t know the technical name) Jason Dollar spoke at our church. He really got me thinking, which is what apologetics is supposed to do. So, I thought this would be a great blog question.
The Context:
Jason Dollar (www.jasondollar.net) has developed The Four Squares of Apologetics that center on four topics: Creation, People, Jesus Christ, and the Bible. His thinking is that most theological/apologetics questions can be placed in one of those four categories. Since I did get to hear the first part of his discussion on the Four Squares I will “level the playing field” and share his introductory comments about how the Four Squares work. All squares are related, depend upon, and support one another. Creation and People are on the bottom as a typical starting point. You will notice “theism” is between the two squares. He says that it is possible to prove creation and people by proving that a god, not necessarily the God, is the author of each. “Christianity” is between the Bible and Jesus Christ because it is at this point that proof of Christianity is evident. He did such a better job than I but maybe it makes sense.
The Definition:
Do you know what apologetics is? Honestly, I didn’t. According to Jason apologetics is what we use to “show what we know” about Christianity to an unbeliever. That makes sense. If we really felt like we had it all together we could say it is showing what we know to an atheist.
The Assignment:
Let’s take the four squares one at a time. We will go in the order of Creation, People, Jesus Christ, and the Bible.
So, for this post let’s focus on CREATION: Can you show what you know?
