Critique of Presuppositional Apologetics
Presuppositional Apologetics argue that presupposing God is necessary. God need to be assumed in the beginning as a starting point in every apologetic discourse without any evidences about that God being presented per se. Van Til as the father of presuppositional apologetic himself said in his book Christian apologetics (2nd ed.) he himself wrote, ''The Reformed apologist will frankly admit that his own methodology presupposes the truth of Christian theism. Basic to all the doctrines of Christian theism is that of the self-contained God, or, if we wish, that of the ontological Trinity. It is this notion of the ontological Trinity that ultimately controls a truly Christian methodology.'' In other words, what Van Til try to establish is the order of argument in such a way that the fallible human reason is not the ultimate judge of God. The reverse need to be done. Unbelievers and every human way of understanding God need to be judge by God. Thus, there's is a tende...