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Presuppositionalism and Worldview

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… continued from Triggermanblog Getting the Definitions Right Before going anywhere in the post itself, we need to establish what I consider to be solid, consistent, working definitions of the terms presupposition and worldview so that we have a solid foundation on which to work. The folks over at Master Class have provided a good definition for the term worldview , defining it as , “ someone’s set of answers to all the big questions of life ”, adding that this can be constructed either at the individual level–in a sort of smorgasbord approach–or it can be corporately structured, what we one might call a “religion”. They add that a worldview has a number of elements: anthropology, cosmology, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics , among others. It has been suggested that a worldview can be treated like either a pair of glasses or sunshades: it either brings the world into focus or it gives the world a certain hue. Another example is that it functions like a pair of contact lenses: u...

Mark 16:9-20 and Sola Scriptura

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  Introduction Recently, apologetics Wunderkind and genuinely nice guy Wes Huff put out a video looking at the provenance of the largest textual variant found in the New Testament, that of Mark 16:9-20 . In the video, Huff highlights the history of the text in key portions of the textual history as well as extra-textual witnesses to demonstrate the colorful history of the text. He comes to the conclusion that, based on a number of factors, it’s not original to Mark, and therefore not Scripture. Now, such a conclusion is likely to be concerning…especially if you haven't given much thought to the textual issues and their relationship to both inspiration and inerrancy, which is something that I’ve written about elsewhere but haven’t really dealt with in a while. So…why not? Where’s the Inspiration? One of the fundamental questions is, where does inspiration start and where does it end? This question is particularly perplexing because there’s an inherent recognition with even a cas...