12-Step Methodology for doing Christian Apologetics: adapted from Norman Geisler’s Baker’s Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics (Grand Rapids: Baker,

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12-Step Methodology for doing Christian Apologetics: adapted from Norman Geisler’s Baker’s Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1999). 1. Truth about reality is knowable. 2. Opposites cannot both be true (Law of Non- Contradiction). 3. The theistic God exists.

12-Step Methodology for doing Christian Apologetics 4. Miracles are possible. 5. Miracles performed in connection with a truth claim are acts of God to confirm the truth of God through a messenger of God.

12-Step Methodology for doing Christian Apologetics 6. The New Testament documents are reliable. 7. As witnessed in the New Testament, Jesus claimed to be God.

12-Step Methodology for doing Christian Apologetics 8. Jesus’ claim to divinity was proven by an unique convergence of miracles. 9. Therefore, Jesus was God in human flesh.

12-Step Methodology for doing Christian Apologetics 10. Whatever Jesus (who is God) affirmed as true, is true. 11. Jesus affirmed that the Bible is the Word of God. 12. Therefore, it is true that the Bible is the Word of God and whatever is opposed to any biblical truth is false.