I am going to take an English composition course during the summer where I will learn how to write argumentative essays. If I have a teacher who says that you should not use the Bible to defend your thesis or point of view because not everyone accepts the Bible as authoritative, how should I respond?

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Curt Hayashida
member, Community Bible Church (Non-denominational)
Vallejo, CA

Where are you going to study?

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J Baldwin
Keowee Presbyterian Church, PCA
Pickens, SC
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” Luke 10:27

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Be a true presup. Take this time to practice blowing up the oppositions worldview.

CT

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Hermonta Godwin
Christ The King PCA
Raleigh, NC

Well, with an argumentative essay of course!

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Timothy Johnson
First United Presbyterian of Moline
PCUSA (Yea, I know)
Theology/Philosophy Sunday School Teacher
Davenport, IA

Ha, not everyone even believes in logic anymore either. Postmoderners always end up arguing like Jerry Springer because there is nothing else to fall back on except force.

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Pergamum


"If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?"
-- David Livingstone

I would ask your teacher what work you could go to that everyone accepts as authoritative...No such source exists. Then proceed to explain you've finished your homework, and since there's nothing to test you on...ask if you can have your A now, or if you should wait to receive it at the end of the term.

Do it in a nice way...but really, your teacher is really just prejudicially dismissing the Word of God.

The Community College of Denver. I'm enrolled in their distance learning program. I'm not working towards a degree.

Not everyone is going to accept the same authority because different people have different worldviews.

What is an essay?

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John
Evangelical Free Church, no offices held
Langhorne, PA

[B]δός δοξαν τῳ θεῳ.[/B]
[B]ιδου ποιω τα εσχατα ως τα πρωτα.
הבל הבלים[/B]

Usually it will be framed as something like, "I believe God exists because the bible says so, and everything in the bible is true". Of course that begs the question, and is viciously circular. If this is how it is presented (which it usually is), you can agree with your teacher and move on.

Don't be that guy ...

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Caleb
Trinity Baptist Church
Spokane, WA