It is not my goal to prove people wrong. The goal of Christian apologetics is not to prove people wrong simply for the sake of it. It is to defend the misunderstood foundations of Christianity.I believe that because of the complexity of God and His sovereignty, it is not possible for man to understand everything. What divides believers from non-believers is this pathetic intolerance of one another. I believe that Christ Jesus did not come to start creating division like we have done even in our own churches. He came to love, humble himself, and share truth. One of the biggest arguments against Christianity is a lack of proof from earthly speculation. Many scientists & theorist have concluded a fatal fallacy saying because Christianity cannot neither be proven nor put in a raw form, therefore it cannot be concluded as a fact.
Here are 10 truths and premises that try to strike down Christianity. Some of these are my responses, and some are principles to remember.
1. Christianity is not based on a earthly element. It's source is an exterior foundation that cannot be put into worldy logic. Why? Because if we understood the foundations of human logic, we would see that the purpose of such thought is to understand things to fit into our brains.
2. Humans can only be so smart (hence IQ tests). We cannot speculate things beyond our own control. It is my belief that the main reason people are atheist or agnostic is a fear of control. If there is a force beyong human logic that can control things that we cannot literally see or completely understand, then humans by social nature tend to not be comfortable with it. I speak on this from experience because I have personally dealt with this on the subject.
3. To doubt somethings existence is to admit that there is a possibility it is real. This isn't something a Christian once said, it is a philosophical law of thought. Before someone can identify as a nonbeliever, he must first acknowledge the very idea, or concept, or possibility of God so he can then deny His existence So...you must acknowledge God before you can deny Him..so in theory you admit that God is real so you can refute Him. David saw the fallacy of this long ago when he said, "Only the fool has said in his heart, 'there is no God.'" (Psalm 14:1).
4. Agnosticism is a broken system as well. "Neither the existence nor the nature of God, nor the ultimate origin of the universe is known or knowable" is the premise . In other words: "I can't know, you can't know, and nobody can know." So because one person cannot understand, noone else can. Leith Samuel wrote in "The Impossibility of Agnosticism", mentions three kinds of agnostics: Dogmatic. "I don't know, you don't know, and no one can know."Here is a person who already has his mind made up. He has the same problem as the atheist above--he must know EVERYTHING in order to say it dogmatically. This person must know everything about everything about everything. Mathmatically, this is impossible. Indifferent. "I don't know, and I don't care." God will never reveal Himself to someone who does not care to know. Basically, life is meaningless. We could kill other people and it mean nothing. Life can be lived anyway because life is nothing. Dissatisfied. "I don't know, but I'd like to know." Here is a person who demonstrates an openness to truth and is willing to change his position if he has sufficient reason to do so. He is also demonstrating what should be true about agnosticism, that is, for one who is searching for truth, agnosticism should be temporary, a path on the way to a less skeptical view of life.
5. Before I was a Christian, I wondered about this Jesus character. Either he was who he said he was or he was a complete lunatic. We cannot doubt Jesus was real. His name, character, and actions (death by crucifixtion) is written all throughout history and not just the Bible.
6. I doubt there are many true non-believers in God; it would be dangerous even from a secular view. It is not humanly possible to be able to conclude there is no God. As I said, humans are only smart to a certain extent. This would mean, that is it possible then, that because there is more knowledge, that there is much more out there than we know? I believe so.
7. If there were many gods, instead of an absolutist god (Judeo-Christian God) then the world would be chaos. Nothing would function. Why? Because all the gods would be fighting for their own solo gratia (single glory alone).
8. Non-believers in God must believe that metaphysics are invalid. They would have to believe that nothing came from nothing. Reality, human cognition, and atomic matter are all created by blind chance. This is could hardly be true. I think it would be rather unsafe to live life based on everything being an accident. An atheist would have to agree that they came from nothing, they live in nothing, and life is about nothing.
9. Human existence on Earth is no accident. It's atmosphere is made of 78.08% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.038% carbon dioxide. If any of those levels were to change, life would not exist. To believe this was an accident is completely ludacris.
10. I don't want to argue secular evolutionism. The father of biological evolution, Charles Darwin, reputed his own doctrine. I believe it is almost a waste for people to argue pro-darwinism when the man himself wrote that his theory could not possibly be correct. Despite what many people think, Christians can believe in some of these evolutionary theories (although some are not anti-theist): Cosmic, Stellar and Planetary, Biological, Chemical, Molecular, Prokaryotic, Eukaryotic, Multicellular, and Social Evolution. Ergo?Although many would claim "since you say it is humanly impossible to claim there is a God, it would be humanly impossible to conclude there is." This is a good secular argument but it cannot taken away from the subjectivity of a personal attribute. If I was once not a believer with all the reliance of worldly speculation, then I must have some collective truth to attribute where I am today as a believer in God. I cannot explain my experience with God. I cannot put into form "GOD" because I am human. Noone can put everything into a perspective that is 100% undisputable from a worldly form. Many may say there is just to much ambiguity. But my belief is that if I am wrong, then I would've spent X amount of years of my life believing...but if the folks that disagree with my believes are wrong, I would hate to be in their shoes.
Grace and Peace be with you.
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