Joe Boot

Joe Boot is refreshingly honest in his apologetic. He demonstrates the impossibility of non-bias and cogently establishes the absolute necessity to understand our presuppositions that undergird our perspective of reality and life. Unless we take the Bible as true we cannot make sense of the world around us because without the Bible we have nothing upon which to fix a point of reference. This book is an excellent example of presuppositional apologetics being delivered tactfully and without compromise. It is a definite must read for anyone looking for an entry book into the often dauntingly large and sometimes scary field of epistemology and apologetics.… (mais)

Outline: (1) What about truth and the Bible? (2) What about Jesus? (3) What about other faiths? (4) What about creation? (5) What about suffering?
(1) Analogy of a man on a raft to explain worldview [about 4 minutes into part 1]
(2) Contradictory versus complementary statements [about 22 minutes into part 1]
(3) There are four basic worldview questions: (1) What is my origin? (2) What is the meaning of my life? (3) How should I live? (4) What is my final destiny?
(4) There are essentially three world views: (1) Pantheism - ultimately, all is one; (2) Naturalism - all is matter in motion, chance, random; (3) Theism - there is a God who is other than us.
(5) Basic assumptions of evolution: Things come from nothing; life comes from non-life.
Quote (Joe Boot): "Faith is a foundation, not a leap."
Quote (Joe Boot): "Every single person has faith of some kind (every single person believes things that cannot be proven)."
Quote (Joe Boot): "We all accept something on the basis of authority."
Quote (Joe Boot, speaking of naturalism): "From the goo through the zoo to you."
Quote (Joe Boot): "The Trinity is like a pink elephant rather than a square circle."
Quote (Joe Boot): "Both the beginning of time and the end of time are a mystery."
Quote (Joe Boot): "The most basic assumption in science is the uniformity of nature."
Quote (Joe Boot): "There is no science without faith; the question is, 'what is that faith?'"
Quote (Joe Boot): "God must have wise reasons to allow suffering to continue."
Quote (C S Lewis): "Pain is God's megaphone to arouse a deaf world.
Quote: (Joe Boot): "Human suffering give us the opportunity to show the character and nature of God by the way that we respond."
Quote (Joe Boot): "Most objections to the Christian faith are morally driven; we do not want to abandon the way we are living."… (mais)

History has progressed as World Encounter > World Viewing > World Making
Includes excellent references regarding the historical accounts of Jesus
OUTLINE: (1) Claims of Jesus (How did Jesus see Himself?); (2) How did others see Jesus? (3) Claims of Christ versus those of other religious leaders; (4) Implications of the claims of Christ
The implications of the claims of Christ are (1) Truth cannot be regarded as subjective, (2) language cannot be just self-referential noise, and (3) history must have an over-arcing meaning.
Quote (Napoleon Bonaparte): "I defy you to cite another life like that of Christ."
Quote (Joe Boot): "Every aspect of the life of Christ, when we take it as a whole, ends up redefining history itself."
Quote (Joe Boot): "The doctrine of revelation from a personal God is uniquely Christian."
Quote (Joe Boot): "Jesus' claims are singular."
Quote (Joe Boot): "If Christ is who He claims to be, then the implications for all of reality are monumental."
Quote (Joe Boot): "Biblical scholars have identified 456 Messianic passages in the OT, 558 references to ancient rabbinic writings support these, and of those about 109 are distinct Messianic prophesies that the Messiah would have to fulfill. The probability of one person fulfilling just 20 of these by chance is less than 1 in 1,125,000,000,000."
Quote (Joe Boot): "The person of Christ is the most compelling apologetic."… (mais)