About this episode

Andrew Rappaport engages with deconvert Landon Pontius to explore whether presuppositional apologetics can effectively address the concerns of honest skeptics.

He grew up on a missionary campus in rural East Texas. He played music in church, attended every summer camp, became a worship leader in Orlando, and fully invested himself in the Christian faith he loved. Then he walked away. Landon Pontius is the kind of deconvert most apologists are not used to engaging — articulate, kind, not bitter, and openly stating he would almost prefer to still believe. In his widely shared essay, he explained that the Christian apologetic arguments he encountered either "rest on presumptions of the Bible's historicity" or rely on "ideas that are too abstract to directly dispute." That second category is the heart of this episode. This week, host Andrew Rappaport sits down with Landon to test whether the Transcendental Argument for God (TAG) and the broader presuppositional method can do what evidential apologetics, in Landon's experience, did not. Anchored in Proverbs 1:7 , Colossians 2:3 , and Romans 1:18–22 , the conversation will press the foundational question every worldview must answer: How do you account for logic, induction, moral realism, and the very reliability of reason itself? Andrew will not be arguing that Landon needs more evidence. He…

People in this episode

Host: Andrew Rappaport

Guest: Landon Pontius

Topics covered

• presuppositionalism
• apologetics
• skepticism
• Christian faith
• worldview
• logic
• moral realism

Keywords

• deconvert
• apologetics
• TAG
• Christianity
• evidential apologetics
• worldview
• logic
• reason

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Transcendental Argument for God, Proverbs 1:7, Colossians 2:3, Romans 1:18–22

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