Homeschool NCFCA Apologetics questions

[DanLeaAnn]

Hi, I hope somebody can help me here. My 5 high school age children are participating in the NCFCA speech & debate apologetics - I am very concerned that the Protestant answers to the 105 questions are very much different than the Catholic answers. I need help to know my faith better to know the difference - quick ! Is anyone familiar with the National Christian Forensics and Communication Association apologetics ??
Then I just learned that one of the founders of this league
theapollosproject.com/2012/08/28/why-i-dont-believe-in-the-apostles-creed/
Chap Bettis put together a whole curriculm package that our club wants us to use, - we opted out !
Some of the questions are easy, like “What is the role of the Holy Spirit” and “Jesus clearly demonstrated His belief in the authority of Scriptures. Defend this statement with evidence.” The questions get harder quickly " Explain the meaning and significance of regeneration" and " Explain the meaning and significance of higher “historical” critism and lower “textual” critisim. There are 105 of these types of questions. Any help would be appreciated or even if you can direct me to somewhere else - thanks in advance, Lea

 

[inkaneer]

Hi, I hope somebody can help me here. My 5 high school age children are participating in the NCFCA speech & debate apologetics - I am very concerned that the Protestant answers to the 105 questions are very much different than the Catholic answers. I need help to know my faith better to know the difference - quick ! Is anyone familiar with the National Christian Forensics and Communication Association apologetics ??
Then I just learned that one of the founders of this league
theapollosproject.com/2012/08/28/why-i-dont-believe-in-the-apostles-creed/
Chap Bettis put together a whole curriculm package that our club wants us to use, - we opted out !
Some of the questions are easy, like “What is the role of the Holy Spirit” and “Jesus clearly demonstrated His belief in the authority of Scriptures. Defend this statement with evidence.” The questions get harder quickly " Explain the meaning and significance of regeneration" and " Explain the meaning and significance of higher “historical” critism and lower “textual” critisim. There are 105 of these types of questions. Any help would be appreciated or even if you can direct me to somewhere else - thanks in advance, Lea

First of all why did you enroll your kids in a protestant organization if you are worried that they will learn protestant answers. Why not a Catholic school? Catholic school students have scored better than secular or home schooled students. I would say that if you are worried about then get your kids out of the program and into a Catholic school or at least a good CCD program.

 

[DanLeaAnn]

That is news to me, It is my understanding homeschooled children out-perform private schools as well as public. We live in a very small town, the nearest Catholic school is an hour away, and I have 5 children in high school, the costs would be too high. My children are fully enrolled with Seton Home Study, in my mind it is the best schooling option for my children.
I choose to have my children participate in a Protestant group because there are many venues for the kids to participate in and grow their public speaking and oratory skills. The Catholic families in the club work together to answer the apologetics questions. I think it is important to know the Catholic answers to the questions, vs the Protestant answers. It concerns me that the person who wrote the curriculum that our NCFCA club uses, Chap Bettis, has some very different ideas, I want to know those differences are.

 

[Dave_Noonan]

That is news to me, It is my understanding homeschooled children out-perform private schools as well as public. We live in a very small town, the nearest Catholic school is an hour away, and I have 5 children in high school, the costs would be too high. My children are fully enrolled with Seton Home Study, in my mind it is the best schooling option for my children.
I choose to have my children participate in a Protestant group because there are many venues for the kids to participate in and grow their public speaking and oratory skills. The Catholic families in the club work together to answer the apologetics questions. I think it is important to know the Catholic answers to the questions, vs the Protestant answers. It concerns me that the person who wrote the curriculum that our NCFCA club uses, Chap Bettis, has some very different ideas, I want to know those differences are.

It looks like Chap Bettis draws on material drawn from Wayne Grudem, who holds typical Calvinist/evangelical viewpoints, and Josh McDowell, who is a sort of a self-made apologist whose materials are quite popular but not very credible from a scholarly standpoint.

Beyond basic Trinitarian theology and Nicaean Christology, their views will be quite a bit different from the Catholic viewpoint.

I’m not sure why you would want to be mixed up in any of this.

 

[inkaneer]

That is news to me, It is my understanding homeschooled children out-perform private schools as well as public. We live in a very small town, the nearest Catholic school is an hour away, and I have 5 children in high school, the costs would be too high. My children are fully enrolled with Seton Home Study, in my mind it is the best schooling option for my children.
I choose to have my children participate in a Protestant group because there are many venues for the kids to participate in and grow their public speaking and oratory skills. The Catholic families in the club work together to answer the apologetics questions. I think it is important to know the Catholic answers to the questions, vs the Protestant answers. It concerns me that the person who wrote the curriculum that our NCFCA club uses, Chap Bettis, has some very different ideas, I want to know those differences are.

In our area there is a lot of controversy about the so called “results” of private and charter schools. It turns out that the testing was not all on the up and up and some “extra” help was employed to assist some students. To be fair the same charges were made at some public schools that were poor performing also. No such charges were leveled at any Catholic school. As for costs there is financial help available for that. In addition, school districts are required to bus students to non public schools that are up to 10 miles away from the nbearest border of the school district. I drive a school bus and drive students to three different Catholic high schools, one is all male, one is all female and the third is coed. The ride time is about 1 1/2 hours each way. Unlike their public school counterparts, the Catholic students use this time for study.