However you wanna, you know, name it, presuppositional apologetics says what, Eli? How is it distinct from other Christian apologetic methodologies?

Well, first I'd like to define it in Biblical categories, and my fa- one of my favorite definitions of presuppositional apologetics, um, goes like this: Presuppositional apologetics is the attempt to bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, even the thoughts of the unbeliever.Um, so that, that we argue that unless the unbeliever starts where we're starting, God's revelation, God's existence, God's revelation, um, they can't have anything.

And those who listen to your channel here are familiar with the details of that.

Now, um, in terms of differentiating the presuppositional approach from, say, the classical approach and the evidential approaches, I like to define, um, those approaches, classical and evidential, as bottom-up approaches.

They work their way up to the conclusion, God very likely exists, it's most reasonable to believe that He exists, and all the rest, whereas the presuppositional approach is a top-down approach, which I think is biblical, right? We start with God and His revelation, and we argue that unless you start with God and His revelation, you can't have anything else.

So, um, traditional approaches are bottom-up approaches.

The presuppositional approach or the covenantal approach, or however you wanna refer to it, is a top-down approach.

That was a word salad.