2026 Sacramento Saddle-Up: Limited Prep Tournament

Contend Speech & Debate (CA) · Oct 2-3, 2026

Completed 9:31 AM Pacific

Novice Apologetics

There will be 3 rounds for this event. Students must answer a different question each round.  The questions for every round will be chosen randomly from the following list:

Category 1: Nature of God
1. (1) What does it mean that God is triune? Why is this important?
2. (2) What does is mean that God is omniscient? Why is this important?
3. (3) What does is mean that God is omnipresent? Why is this important?
4. (4) What does is mean that God is immutable? Why is this important?
5. (5) What is the meaning of the sovereignty of God? Why is this important?
6. (7) What evidence is there for the existence of God in our physical universe?
Category 3: Bible
7. (3) What does the inspiration of Scripture mean? Why is this important?
8. (6) Is the Bible historically reliable? Why is this important?
9. (8) What does it mean that the Bible is inerrant? Why is this important?
10. (13) Does God reveal Himself to man? If so, how?
Category 4: Jesus
11. (1) What does it mean that Jesus Christ is the Messiah? Why is this important?
12. (6) What is the importance of the resurrection of Jesus?

Novice Apologetics is a non-NITOC qualifying event. To be eligible for this event students must be between the ages of 11 and 14 in 2026 and not have any "green checkmarks" for Apologetics.

The novice division is designed to allow younger students to gain experience and practice without having to have all the knowledge necessary to be prepared to answer the complete list of Apologetics questions.

 
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