1. deeper.

2. last week what is christianity? what is christianity? doctrines doctrines apologetics apologetics

3. truth and knowledge. class 2 deeper

4. relative truth. relativism. all views are equal.

5. problems with relative truth. contradicts. impossibilities.

6. absolute truth. “God is all that ever was and all that will ever be. God is absolute.” absolutism.

7. absolute truth continued. narrow minded?

8. truth knowledge

9. knowledge belief belief true true justified justified knowledge = “justified true belief”

10. types of knowledge i know i am holding an iphone i know i am holding an iphone i know how to use an iphone i know how to use an iphone i know that apple made this iphone i know that apple made this iphone intuition know-how propositional knowledge

11. sources of justification intuition (a priori) intuition (a priori) evidence (a posteriori) evidence (a posteriori) witness of Holy Spirit witness of Holy Spirit

12. witness of the Holy Spirit 1 John 5:6-10 And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is the truth.... If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has borne witness to his Son. He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne to his Son

13. skepticism philosophical viewpoint that we can’t know anything

14. can we know anything with certainty?

15. refuting skepticism why think we need certainty?

16. refuting skepticism we can know some things with certainty

17. “cogito ergo sum” Rene Descartes (i think, therefore i am)

18. refuting skepticism not the way we really live

19. relevance. schools. no matter what. diversity.

20. questions?