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Why does Dr. Groothuis use the “cumulative case” as his apologetic method for Christianity?
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Using the Apologetic method of cumulative case is combining biblical history, various forms of science, a collective of philosophy, and human experiences to bring forth God’s truth.
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The Cumulative Case is the multi-faceted analysis of the truth claims that encompass Christianity. It would be to take a holistic approach in exploring the foundational facts and truths pertaining to a certain aspect of Christianity and the reasonable approaches that can be employed to conduct subject research while incorporating historical context, science, philosophy, documented evidences and scholastic disciplines based on logic and reason.
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He focuses on the laws of logic. This means that something cannot BE and NOT BE at the same time.
He states that something IS what it IS. -
Cumulative relies on the ability to prove that what you believe is true drawing on the evidence of historical evidence, scientific evidence and eyewitness testimony and any other source of information that develops into proof for what you are proposing to be true.
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So, we can have an overall case that Christianity is true, and reasonable and makes more sense of the world than any other religion or philosophy.
