Philosophy Apologetics & Theology - B. Kyle Keltz
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Philosophy Apologetics & Theology - B. Kyle Keltz
I earned an MA in Apologetics and a PhD in Philosophy of Religion from Southern Evangelical Seminary, and I have studied English Composition at the graduate level from Liberty University. I am Assistant Professor of English and Philosophy at South Plains College where I teach courses on English comp...
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Scientism
Some people elevate science to the level that they believe it is the only way to truth. If something isn't scientifically provable or testable, they s...
Faith and Reason
Popular atheists claim that "faith" is believing something you know to be false or believing in spite of the evidence, but this is not what Christiani...
The Bible and Evil
Traditional answers to the problem of evil show why God might allow evil, but they leave many questions unanswered. So, in this episode, I discuss wha...
Theodicies
The existence of evil in this world is a large barrier for many people considering whether the God of theism exists. If God is all-powerful, all-knowi...
The Problem of Evil
If God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good, then many people think that evil should not exist in the world. If God wants to eliminate evil and...
Destiny of the Unevangelized
If salvation is only available through Jesus Christ, then what happens to people who never hear about the gospel before they die? In this episode, I w...
Religious Pluralism
It is claimed that all religions are the same at the core, so it doesn't matter what people believe as long as they believe in something. However, thi...
Inerrancy and Inspiration of the Bible
It is claimed that believers cannot view the Bible as the word of God without being guilty of using circular reasoning. So, in this episode, I will di...
The Modern Trilemma Argument
The truth of Jesus' resurrection is the basis of Christianity, and in this episode, I will defend Jesus' resurrection using the Modern Trilemma Argume...
The Resurrection of Jesus
The three-step apologetic method culminates in defending the historicity of Jesus' resurrection, and in this episode, I will survey three arguments fo...
The Synoptic Problem
Although there is evidence that the New Testament manuscripts and writers are reliable, there seem to be several places in the Synoptic Gospels where...
Jesus’ Self-Understanding
Some people have claimed that Jesus never said He was God, so in this episode, I discuss several claims Jesus made about Himself that are found in the...
The New Testament Writers
In this episode, I discuss how the New Testament writings (and other extra-biblical sources) provide evidence that the New Testament authors wrote rel...
The New Testament Manuscripts
In this episode, I discuss how the New Testament manuscripts provide evidence that we are certain that we have the original words that the New Testame...
Historical Knowledge
In this episode, I argue that we can have objective knowledge of past events. After discussing the beginnings of modern historical methods, I explain...
The Possibility of Miracles
In this episode, I will discuss why the possibility of miracles is so important when transitioning from defending God's existence to defending Jesus'...
The Argument from Reason
In this episode, I discuss a few objections to mind-body dualism and then explain and defend two arguments showing that it is self-defeating to believ...
Arguments for the Soul
In this episode, I discuss and defend two arguments for the existence of the soul that are against property dualism and for mind-body dualism. These a...
Mind-Body Dualism
In this episode, I discuss mind-body dualism, which is the view that a human being has both a physical body and an immaterial soul. I discuss mind-bod...
The Moral Argument
This episode presents and defends the moral argument for God's existence, which is the argument that says that moral values and duties can only be obj...
Ethical Relativism and Ethical Objectivism
This episode defines and discusses ethical relativism and ethical objectivism. Several types of ethical relativism are explained and arguments for and...
Argument from Fine-Tuning
This episode discusses the argument from fine-tuning, which is a design argument for God's existence that emphasizes the cosmological constants found...
Design Arguments
Like my video on cosmological arguments, this video will introduce design arguments and briefly survey three major formulations of the design argument...
Kalam Cosmological Argument
This episode provides an analysis of the Kalam Cosmological Argument. I explain how the argument is defended and then briefly mention some objections...
Cosmological Arguments
This episode introduces and briefly explains several cosmological arguments for God's existence.
Truth Defined and Defended
This episode discusses three theories of truth and argues that the correspondence theory of truth is the most rational theory as well as being essenti...
Apologetic Method
This episode discusses the three-step method of doing apologetics and gives some helpful tips to focus on while doing apologetics in an evangelism con...
Biblical Basis for Apologetics
This is an episode discussing Bible verses that command Christians to defend their faith and/or show Jesus and the apostles doing something like apolo...
Introduction to Apologetics
This is the first in a series of apologetics episodes that will explain what apologetics is and show the topics that will be covered in the rest of th...