Great advice, but i've found that whatever questions i ask, i'd better be ready to answer if the same questions are asked of me.

Yes, I am reading through Tactics right now. EXCELLENT resource. I recommend y'all purchase it.

Man he’s actually so right about the new religion. Been trying to fight my own desires for a long time and my man Frank just laid it out

Walking away when either you or the other person is getting agitated is good advice. He forgot to acknowledge that you, the apologist, may become the emotional one. Also, don't make assumptions about what the other person's thinking. He committed the mind-reading fallacy by using the They-just-wanna-sin attribution. We all commit that fallacy sometimes. When you ask your questions to a nonbeliever, don't respond with a counterargument right away. Rather, really be interested in their response. Paraphrase it back. Ask another question. Paraphrase. Repeat. They will be more likely to become open to hearing you out afterwards.

18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. 20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

I actually do ask those questions of my wife, particularly what do you mean by that. I might not phrase it exactly like that, but seeing as how my native tongue is American English and hers is Korea, I want to make sure we are talking about the same thing at the same time rather than get into an argument about semantics. She also asks them of me and for 32 years it has worked just fine.

One of the things I admire most about you Frank, is your level of patience for the most hateful, self-defeating people. More often than not, I want to go all Highlander on them, metaphorical sword in hand; it amazes me you don't lose your cool.

So educational, such good info, so helpful and honest! I appreciate your ability to share with love and patience. Thank you!

Man. This is just facts at it’s best

W. H. H. Y. W-hat do you mean by that? H-ow did you come to that conclusion? H-ave Y-ou considered...? 😊

On point Doc! Sexual immortality is very strong in this day and age.

frank thanks for the great videos/info, your awesome!

Whole thing great. Ending hilarious!

So good. It's true about the new religion. I totally agree. I'm really interested in apologetics as a fairly new Christian. I've come into it just as the gender issues have begun to harm our young people - where the church are saying it's okay to celebrate same sex union here because the church needs to update their image and please the people rather than God!!!. There's a lot of work to be done 🙂

I love Frank's explanations, and also his sense of humour.

the "Brilliante Award" is surely yours for this Frank.. Thanks and Shalom

I like this guy.

As an apologist, it's best when communication with non-believers is to NOT place yourself in the position of being the one to answer their questions, but rather first acknowledge them, then be the one asking them questions. When they say, "I don't believe in God." Respond with, "Many people don't, and I can understand why many people wouldn't. But tell me...what is your reason for not believing?" Eventually, isolate what their reason is for being a non-believer. Then, ask them, "What would it take for you to become a believer...what would be your proof?" When they answer, then ask them, "How would you manage the person next to you that is not convinced with your proof?" Game over.

One of your best Frank, thanks

I 100% agree.

Great teaching! Thank you for your definitions while speaking or interacting with someone else. Those questions you can ask are very helpful.

Wow! That was Brilliant!

Somo zuri sana...ubarikiwe 🙏

He said it, guys! Agree absolutely.

The way I approach it is if they're asking a sincere question I give a sincere answer but if they're asking questions just to be confrontational or argumentative that's where I shut it down. I will not cast my Pearls Before Swine

Tactics is a great resource! Is it possible? Is it plausible? Is it probable? Good read!

The who, where, when & why questions about GOD are good questions!

This was beautifully said.

What do you mean by that? How did you come to that conclusion? Have you ever considered same thing for Creator.

The best way to have a constructive dialogue with an atheist is to do at least as much listening as you do talking. Greg Koukl's book is full of things that he *thinks* an atheist will say in response to a challenge. If you speak to a nonbeliever and you approach it as a "tactical" discussion, and think you know what they are going to say before they say it, and how you are going to respond in an imaginary conversation that hasn't happened yet, then you are *not* listening. There are numerous examples of things that atheists actually say that are simply not addressed by Koukl. If you want them to listen to you, you have to listen to them. Don't just do it through the lense of somebody who has the same viewpoint as you. Listen to the person you hope will agree with you. You will never give a satisfactory answer to somebody if you are not listening to what their actual issues are. Try and deal with the points they make, not ones an author *thinks* they will make. If you have a good case, you *will* be able to respond.

Appreciate your work!

These Words are truer then ever in this day and age..

God has really blessed Frank.

Those who will remain lost are those who refuse to give up the worship of "self."

I get it now. God is a make believe person and I have to try to talk other people into believing it is real.

While I couldn't answer this question at all, I want to add that you have to validate the person you interact with. If he is really into the conversation it's fine but most of the times ppl only want to argue about it and have no intent to let you speak or understand you. In the second case you have to leave from there...

Tactics... Great book, very informative and VERY practical

Not to split hairs, but I think Frank's question should be, "If Christianity is true, would you become a Christian?" Not "If Christianity "were" true." I don't think it is too fine of a distinction.

It’s an impossible question for any to answer is yourself. You do it with love. This is a good tactic

A Christian once asked me to prove I had a brain, I said okay, but he'd have to pay for the MRI!

Yurp. Nail on head again. All we can do is plant seeds and pray for those we witness to. Yes we may not be popular for speaking Truth but we know in our hearts we got them one step closer to consider Christ, to save a soul. It was no coincidence you were put in someone's life. ❤

Thank you!!

Sometimes I feel sad, trying to convince faithless people, and in 2019 I pray to Jesus, and called upon his name and he heard me, I ask Jesus that I wanted to see him and I wanted to take his picture, and then it happened his face appears on the clouds, and I took his picture, this is the one Im using on my Logo , now I tell my testimony and show people the picture I took, but people still don't believe me. Praise the Lord for he heard my prayers, GOD Bless you

Be honest...who here bought some of Peter Popoff's "special water"?

Joh 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Great word !

Indeed. Aldous Huxley, in his book, "The Perennial Philosophy", admitted that he and his friends, when they were in college, didn't WANT to believe in God because if they did, then they would have to give up indulging in all the sinful behavior that they were enjoying (drinking, sex, etc.).

When I wasnt christian, I would get mad when my gf brought it up. I believe it was the evil in me hating christ, not me or my mind, but the demons in me. Now that I believe I can see it in other people when I bring it up.

Turek: I'm a logical person, so let me tell you about the magical man in the sky who governs my life.

I highly recommend the Cross Examined App and you can get it in the Google store and Apple Store!

great question

“Why should we turn to someone other than historians or scientists, the experts in their related fields of research, for answers related to history or science? Apologists are just there to take advantage of you, telling you what you want to hear when the evidence tells you otherwise. The sheer existence of apologists is reason alone to raise suspicion. Their dishonesty is blatant when you simply double check what they say. In the end, historians and scientists are not just one big conspiracy against Jesus, the Bible is simply wrong about most things.” -Joseph R. Hanson

What he has said has some truth to it, but it ignores the real elephant in the room. Protestants do not believe God's Law is binding for them today and they do not believe they can stop sinning, even by the power of the one given to us for this purpose: the Holy Spirit, and cheap grace allows anyone wearing the name of Christ as a badge to continue sinning and asking for forgiveness and thinking they will not suffer the judgment of God. That is the REAL elephant in the room. Why? Because all of these stand opposed to the Scriptures. Any non-believer who has picked up the Bible can see easily, especially when using Jesus' teachings a the standard, that these things of the Protestants are not true. THAT is the real elephant in the room. These Protestant evangelists and apologists do not profess the same principles that are in the text that they quote and they certainly do not live by them. Jesus said to the woman caught in adultery, "Go and try not to sin and when you do, don't worry, it's covered and just try a little harder next time, and if you never quit sinning, don't worry, you'll still get in." NO!!!! Jesus said to her, "Go and sin no more!". James said faith is made complete by actions/works. In fact, he declared that faith without actions/works is not real faith. It cannot save a person. It is dead. And if your faith is dead, it has no power to save you! That is the truth of the Scripture.

Dr. T is the great combination

Good strategy , ask questions ...i think they call it the sacrotic method.

This is like a poker player asking "pro" player for advice on what to do if you have nothing on your hand, but want to win a game.

To argue that atheists "just don't want moral accountability," is the same as me arguing that Christians "just love God micromanaging them." Turek expects us to sacrifice a huge part of ourselves for a God we don't believe in. There's no reason to make us seem un-human, especially when you won't even sacrifice drinking caffeine because the Mormon up the road said, "You drink it because you just want to sin."

And I didn't realize Frank is marriage counselor also.

If Frank Turek and Dr. DINO (Kent Hovind) sat down and had a cup of coffee together, it'd be an extremely important event. I don't think they'd have much to debate about, but I'd definitely pay to see then have a general discussion

I wish faith-heads would just admit they have no evidence, no valid argumentation, just faith.

A good reminder of how terrible apologetics is.

Thank you

At the 3:00 to 3:20 mark when he speaks of the 'elephant in the room' to 'the real issue'... In my experience, it's the complete opposite... it is about the evidence and it is about non-believers taking something away from believers, not the other way around.

I grant that there is a point of friction, but it isn't religious as you presented it. It is a host of issues: 1) Morality a) The idea of Christians imposing that their notions on others is not acceptable any more than someone else imposing their notions on a Christian or anyone else for that matter. The public space is about our freedom to be and hold whatever perspective so long as that perspective doesn't assault others to have the same for their lives. b) I (and it seems many others) don't find the Bible to be moral. The genocide, capacious killing, slavery, and more are simply putrid. 2) Fictional Notions versus Reality The Bible has numerous falsehoods that many Christians take to be true. I grant that this issue extends to other Abrahamic claimants as well. I can't really comment on whatever cognitive compromises by other religions since I have no reviewed sufficient numbers of the various others. You presented the idea that evolution was not true, which was the end of my simply watching your "I don't have enough faith to be an Atheist", since, I didn't find your miseducating people to be at all decent. I grant that the Republican party isn't representative of all Christians, but the level of scientific ignorance that is generally presented and the subsequent boneheaded decision making is simply putrid. So, yes, some of us hold a degree of hostility to the label Christian, since, it is often the case that there is a lot of baggage which will be problematic to someone. I grant that there are numerous bright and decent people who claim the label Christian, but the label itself is quite tarnished.

Interesting that he needs a strategy to defend his position. It is almost as if he has no logic and evidence to support his claims. It is almost as of he cannot deal with opposition directly and intentional asks distracting questions to take the attention away from the assertions of people who spend their life studying science.

He is so right about this. I have ask many times what is your basis for that view? Most say that how I was raised up, or they say I read it off the internet.

5 years later ... it's the new religion of self

Why do you think it's a matter of your own personal opinion when you try to legislate your superstition? You are imposing your superstition on others. Keep it to yourself.

....or you could just dispense with apologetics altogether and simply demonstrate that your God exists.

Luke 19:27 But bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and slay them before me.’ ”

Show me evidence that there is a god, then we'll talk about not wanting a god. Until then just accept that I reject your claim of a god due to lack of evidence.

"If Christianity were true, would you become a Christian?" What if they say no? Shake the dust off yer feet?

😂 thanks uncle Frank

wow

I have formed a video response, shall link below.

Hmmm... I don't know of any atheist that is not a Christian because they don't like Christianity's morality. It is because they don't find the evidence compelling enough to be true. Personally, I was completely happy with "no sex before marriage". I only changed my behavior after reading completely through the Bible 4 times and realizing that it didn't present me with any compelling evidence of a supernatural. I don't say this to start an argument about whether it is true or not. I only say it because atheists are not trying to escape the Christian God's morality by claiming he doesn't exist. The truth is, they don't subscribe to the Christian God's morality because they don't believe he exists.

Agree.

What if truth is there for those who seek it, a muslim friend told me that we only need to search for the truth and then we will see who is right or wrong

The best apologetic to apply when talking to Atheists is none at all. We've heard the fallacies a hundred times before. Special. Pleading, circular reasoning, Pascals Wager, and that idiotic Kalam thing that WLC does. Concede the point that there is insufficient credible evidence for god and we can start to have a conversation. Until then I will regard your 'Apologetics' as propaganda and you as a dishonest interlocutor.

I just don't get it how people can't see that Yahweh, the Bible, religions in general are man made. I really do think that most Christians avoid actually thinking about why they believe it. It provides a psychologically pleasurable feeling of security and fellowship that they just don't want to give up. I understand that part.

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At 1:50 or so I wish you had said, "Let me be very frank with you, not that I haven't been so far..."

I think you should first try to reach your fellow "Christians" and work through your disagreements over your holy book, and your different god beliefs. Even in Christianity there are thousands of different things that they disagree on. So until you guys figure out what in fact your god says or said, then you can attempt to come to other people, religious or non religious, and try to convince us.

You could ask your self; what are apologetics and why does religion need it? Definition: Apologetics is the religious discipline of defending or attempting to prove the truth of religious doctrines through systematic argumentation and discourse. Translation: Making up excuses for believe without evidence... So why would you need to make up excuses... Perhaps because the whole thing isnt true... ???

Truth Frank, Truth!

Amen.

So you need tactics to argue for your belief? Why not call it tricks? It needs tricks to trick out the natural human rational faculties, that could develop freely in a child if it is not tricked.

You're exactly right sir they don't want to deal with the confrontation and let's face it with the way the world is today God has too many rules according to them even though there's only 10

God does take anything away he makes not want to do it (some one ask me do you have stop drinking if go to church I replied no but if u put your heart really put I heart ur not going to want to.)

I think sex IS the main religion of the lost, but they also have Environmentalism and Stateism as well. For some people, they are even more attractive than sex, because they feel they can say later that they were a part of a big, significant movement that promoted x, y, and z, and they get to feel good about themselves with NO accountability. A win win for the unsaved.

There's an app??? Play store here I come.

The truth is as simple and plain as two parallel lines that would never meet. People who do not want to accept the truth do so because their deeds are evil, so the find consolation in contrary and confusing theories that accommodates their sinful lives. In the book of Acts, when Stephen was peaching the truth to them and backing it up with evidence and historical facts, they all stopped their ears from listening to him and started to attack him with stones.

Love Frank

I am going to add to what you said about the new Religion: SEX. I have also come across a new Religion called : SELF. I believe it sits on a higher hierarchy of all the other new religions i.e. New Age Spirituality , Yoga, Meditation, Astrology, SEX, etc. And they are all here right now . It seems people are now doing everything under the guise of SELF ignorance or SELF consciousness to make the right moral choice . Do you have any advice on how we can deal with these. Cautious I listed quite a lot of things 😆

Save it for the choir.

dude you watch Ray comfort in Living waters

3:00 This is exactly what I see with a lot of people.

Ive heard a guy tell me God is love everything is love- there is no right or wrong, good or bad. I told him if I murdered his gf hed be outraged and demand moral justice- so the question is where is he getting his moral standard from if he doesn’t believe in a moral God? Needless to say he bolted I’ll try these on him next time:: What do you mean by that? How did you come to that conclusion? What evidence do you have for that? If Christianity were true would you believe it? Have you ever considered that the evidence used to point towards a common ancestor could also be used to be point towards a common designer?

It's not just belief. It's patently obvious ACTION and BEHAVIOUR as well. You can believe what you want. When you move to impose those beliefs on others, when you move to have those beliefs enshrined in enforceable legislation -- then you better expect push-back in the form of people demanding you rationally justify your demands. When your demands pretty much end up being "because it's in this book" and that's it -- then you are going to be ridiculed.

I have a corollary to Frank's point about the religion of sex. It's also the religion of SELF. As to why there is such animosity, I think it is because of what Blaise Pascal pointed to, that we have a 'God shaped hole' inside of us. This means that on a fundamental, spiritual level, like it or not, atheists are angry because, deep inside they know its all true, and that is offensive to their conscious mind which worships self and logic before faith and God. It is so frightening to them, this idea that they are not the center of the universe, that they act out against anyone who tries to lead them to the truth. In their mind they will not only lose the kind of sex they worship, but they lose themselves as being preeminent in their own security-blanketed world. The fact is that realizing the truth of God is really awesome, but it must be embraced to be appreciated. They fear that. In fact, I have nearly stopped arguing with them about it. I share thoughts in the comment section of these videos, and then I go, having cast some seed, as in Matthew 13:3. Not all will be saved. Some will be lost. The Italian term is "Stunod," a person who will not let a truth penetrate their thick skull. I can share with them, because of Matthew 28, but I know that some of the ground will be rocks, and the seed cannot grow there. Still, I will cast the seed of truth.