Example Of Apologesis Essay

As our first year of apologetic class, we started out with the basic idea of apologetics. The root word of apologetic, apologia, means “ To speak in defense “ and it is often used in religious matters. The purpose of apologetic is to give a solid and valid defense against the questions that are thrown against the christian society. We give such defense by stating the facts that provide support to the christian statements and views. As a christian, we are supposed to be able to explain our faith as it is said in 1 Peter 3:15 “ But in your heart set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give answer to everyone who asks you to give reasons for the hope that you have. But do it with gentleness and respect.”. We defend our faith not only to have a solid base, but also in order to help those who are in search for truth.

As a fact that supports our faith, one of the point we learned in

the class is that the archeological digs that are found in the area shows totally no contradictions to what the bible saids. There has been over thousands of ancient remains, and none of them opposes the fact that are listed in the bible. Not only it doesn’t contradict the bible, but it supports the data such as the chariots and weapons found in the bottom of the Red Sea. It is said in the bible that the Israelites crossed the Red Sea following Moses, and the Egyptian armies drowned trying to chase the

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Israelites.

There are many more facts that supports the bible, and it is necessary to know this for our defense against these questions.

The topic we learned that was similar to this was the discovery of ancient copies of bibles. There has been over twenty four thousand copies of bibles found by the archeological digs, and these facts support our reliability for the historical accuracy of the bible. The copies of the bible were found in forms of papyrus, stone carvings, and etc. This discovery supported not only the historical reliability, but the accuracy of the bible itself. There was more than twenty four thousand copies found, but the errors found all together was under one percent. I thought this was a pretty good evidence to use in apologetics because there was many authors and scribes writing the bible, but what they wrote was all the same thing. There can`t be a coincidence where everyone made up something random, and it all turned out to be the same idea. These copies were translated into many different translations, and some of them caused a split in the

church.
One of the major split of christianity was the Protestant and the Catholic church. We learned how the line where Jesus is asking Peter a question was interpreted differently by these two different groups, and ended up making an enemy within. The Catholic branch interpreted that the man was given the power to lead the church, where in contrast the Protestant interpreted that Jesus held the power to lead the church. Seeing the Catholic pope today does not give us a good impression, since some of them do not act like christians. Also, the Catholics use only some parts of the bible since they consider the new testament a rather irrelevant books.

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We also learned how the way bible is arranged is very unique. The bible is composed of mainly two sections, the old testament and the new testament. The bible was written over a period of thousand and six hundred years, 1500 BC to 100AD. The range the bible was written in is the longest for a book. All the books in the bible is separated to chapter and verses excluding five special books. There are over three thousand verses in bible that actually fulfilled the prophecy. These verses were sometimes written by an eyewitness, such as Jesus` disciples who were seeing him getting crucified.