Cornelius Van Til Denied Sola Scriptura?Is that Apologetics?

Cornelius Van Til is known as one of founders of Presuppositional Apologetics and a Professor at Westminster Theological Seminary. He falsely assumed that God reveals himself outside the Bible -- in nature and in the unbeliever's heart.

But Van Til also correctly assumed that God's Revelation is equally authoritative wherever it occurs.

This led Van Til to an awkward conclusion -- that the Bible is not our sole authority but must compete with the "equal authority" of Natural Revelation.

Note: All quotes taken from "Van Til's Apologetic: Readings and Analysis" compiled by Greg Bahnsen

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[TribulationST]

Ok I've had enough. You need to seriously stop straw manning these men. You distort their views and the scriptures and I believe you to be in sin when doing so. I seriously suggest you study these men's views more before you try to critique it and have some sort of response to romans 1 before you hold this up.

[AndrewcBain]

Godnoliar. com/rom1.htm

[Here4Yeshua]

@Jman3000 I have read much of his apologetic, you are on the right track about what he is saying. From what I have read the context of equal Van Til used was not as this video presents it. It was that general revelation testifies equally to God as creator but man cannot know God personally without scripture, or know anything at all properly. Van til made it clear in my readings that Scripture is self attesting and final, and all things must be interpreted through it. This is a misrepresentation.

[Jman3000]

according to the first quote in the video, isn't Cornelius Van Til saying that man is without excuse? That no one has a good reason to not

believe in God.

That's what I got anyway

keep in mind that i don't know anything about Cornelius Van Til

[joseph82069]

Bunk

[TheHonestTheist]

/watch?v=fFH0khjgA0U

[pwe5000]

When's the last time you got outside your house and shared Christ with someone? Maybe you should make fewer videos and go share you faith...then this needless vituperation could stop

[pwe5000]

wow. You played the quote, then you said, "So Van Til said..." and what you said he said was nothing like what he said.

[richieneels117]

you have NO! idea what your talking about... make sure you understand Van Til before you criticize him.

[bribera]

Your videos are both selfish ambition and vain conceit -- in the Philippians 2:3 sense. You are not so smart. You are not so wise. Hubris, pride, and idiocy have bested you.

[Raskolnikhov]

Nothing me pleases me more as an unbeliever than seeing the moronic debates that take place in Christian theology.

[Jd311989]

Of course he denied Sola Scripture, it says in holy scripture that we cannot look at scripture alone.