Advanced Apologetics Part Six | Dr. Phil Fernandes | Shepherds Bible College

In this sixth session of AP 301: Foundations for Apologetics, Dr. Phil Fernandes of Shepherds Bible College in Bremerton, Washington introduces the major worldviews and the criteria by which they should be tested, equipping students to evaluate any belief system with rigor and clarity.

Dr. Fernandes surveys the landscape of worldviews from atheism to theism, exposing the internal weaknesses of each alternative to Christian theism while explaining why the tests of logical consistency, explanatory power, and livability consistently point toward a personal creator God.

Topics covered in this session:

• What is a worldview and why does the God question define it?

• Five tests for evaluating any worldview: logical consistency, explanatory power, correspondence to reality, livability, and societal impact

• Atheism and agnosticism — how the redefinition of atheism is a philosophical retreat

• Why you would need the attributes of God to disprove God's existence

• Pantheism, panentheism, and process theism — and why each falls short

• The societal consequences of other-worldly vs. this-worldly pantheism

• Polytheism and finite theism — why finite gods require an infinite ground

• Deism — the watchmaker God who cannot act

• Theism — the personal creator God who is both immanent and transcendent

• Rabbi Harold Kushner and the problem of the finite God

Taught at Shepherds Bible College | Bremerton, Washington
Part of the AP 301 Foundations for Apologetics course series