School of Apologetics

The CARM online School of Apologetics is designed to help you easily learn how to answer problems and positions of false religious groups, atheism, evolution, and more.

The online school is not accredited.  It is simply a CARM-based effort.  But, going through the school is beneficial since it takes you step-by-step through various apologetic topics.  You can proceed at your own pace, print out the papers, answer the questions, print out the answers, and put them in a notebook.  You can then add more notes as you desire.  So, you can develop a nice notebook to help you learn Christian theology.

Foundations are so important

The School of Apologetics contains focus points and actual dialogues.  The focus points are summations of the major points of each paper.  This way, you can print out the summations (found in each section) and study them.  Also, dialogues are taken from the CARM site and analyzed, so you can see how the principles you have learned in each section are applied in actual dialogues.

I hope you enjoy the apologetics school, and that it enables you to be a better defender of the truth of Christianity.

Course Contents

1. 0.00  INTRODUCTION
   1. .01 Introduction
   2. .02 How to use the online school
   3. .03  Dictionary of terms
   4. .04  Update Information
2. 1.00  THE BIBLE
   1. .01 The Bible
   2. .02 Is the Bible reliable?
   3. .03 The Documentary Hypothesis
   4. .04 Bible Difficulties
   5. .05 Defending the Bible
   6. .06 Focus Points
   7. .07 Dialogue on the Bible
3. 2.00  APOLOGETICS
   1. .01 What is Apologetics?
   2. .02 Evidential Apologetics
   3. .03 Classical Apologetics
   4. .04 Presuppositional Apologetics
   5. .05 Logic in Apologetics
   6. .06 Logical Fallacies
   7. .07 Memorizing Scripture
   8. .08 Suggested Memory Verses
   9. .09 Focus Points
   10. .10 An Apologetics Dialogue
4. 3.00  RELATIVISM
   1. .01 What is relativism?
   2. .02 Refuting relativism
   3. .03 What is truth?
   4. .04 Focus Points
   5. .05 Dialogue with a relativist
5. 4.00  ATHEISM
   1. .01 What is atheism?
   2. .02 Answers to atheist positions
   3. .03 The Cosmological Argument
   4. .04 The Transcendental Argument
   5. .05 Guidelines
   6. .06 Focus Points
   7. .07 Dialogue with an atheist
6. 5.00  EVOLUTION
   1. .01 What is evolution?
   2. .02 The origin of life
   3. .03 Mutations
   4. .04 The Fossil Record
   5. .05 The Cambrian Explosion
   6. .06 Icons of evolution, Part 1
   7. .07 Icons of evolution, Part 2
   8. .08 Intelligent Design
   9. .09 Focus Points
   10. .10 Dialogue with an Evolutionist
7. 6.00  ABORTION
   1. .01 Abortion
   2. .02 Development of a baby
   3. .03 Abortion Procedures
   4. .04 The vocabulary of abortion
   5. .05 An argument against abortion
   6. .06 Abortion defenses answered
   7. .07 Focus Points
   8. .08 Dialogues with abortionists
8. 7.00  ISLAM
   1. .01 Introduction
   2. .02 What is Islam?
   3. .03 Islamic Doctrine
   4. .04 Muhammad
   5. .05 The Quran and Hadith
   6. .06 Attacks against Christianity
   7. .07 Refuting the Quran
   8. .08 Refuting the Hadith
   9. .09 Focus Points
   10. .10 Dialogue with a Muslim
9. 8.00  CULTS
   1. .01 What is a cult?
   2. .02 Cult characteristics
   3. .03 What is the truth?
   4. .04 Cultists’ testimonies
   5. .05 Focus Points
10. 9.00  JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES
    1. .01 Jehovah’s Witnesses
    2. .02 JW’s Doctrine
    3. .03 JW’s and the Watchtower
    4. .04 JW’s and Jesus
    5. .05  JW’s and Trinity
    6. .06 JW’s & Jesus’ Resurrection
    7. .07 JW’s and salvation
    8. .08 Focus Points
    9. .09 Dialogue with a Witness
11. 10.00 MORMONISM
    1. .01 Mormonism
    2. .02 Mormon Doctrine
    3. .03 LDS Sacred Texts
    4. .04 Mormon Terminology
    5. .05 Book of Mormon
    6. .06 Selected LDS Quotes
    7. .07 Salvation and response
    8. .08 Witnessing to Mormons
    9. .09 Focus Points
    10. .10 Dialogue with a Mormon
12. 11.00  ROMAN CATHOLICISM
    1. .01 What is Roman Catholicism?
    2. .02 Sacred Tradition
    3. .03 Salvation
    4. .04 Mary
    5. .05 Purgatory
    6. .06 Penance
    7. .07 Focus Points
    8. .08 Dialogue with a Catholic
13. 12.00  OPEN THEISM
    1. .01 What is open theism?
    2. .02 Basic beliefs in open theism
    3. .03 The plain reading of Scripture
    4. .04 God makes mistakes?
    5. .05 The atonement in open theism
    6. .06 Refuting open theism
    7. .07 Logical refutation
    8. .08 Focus Points
    9. .09 Dialogue with an Open Theist
14. 13.00  CONCLUSION
    1. .01 Summary
    2. .02 All Focus Points
    3. .03 Certificate of Completion