So I'm still trying to decide how to write this paper and I was thinking about somehow finding a theme we've talked about and combining it with the Christian perspective. Kind of irrelevant to this post but that's where this question came from...
Do you think that as Christians we should also argue a certain view of Causal Determinism or the memory theory or any of the countless philosophical themes from a nonChristian perspective? I mean, I can see the value in being able to defend your position without the assumption that God exists (or other Christian views), especially when arguing with an atheist or someone with different beliefs. However, at the same time, since we are Christians, that IS our reason sometimes. God IS our response. We can't help it if it doesn't necessarily make sense to someone else or if we can't prove it. He just is our answer for some things. So what do we do then? Should we have a back-up arguement or just accept that we're not going to be able to convince that person of that certain point? Sorry if this doesn't make sense, it came out as I thought it. :)
Do you think that as Christians we should also argue a certain view of Causal Determinism or the memory theory or any of the countless philosophical themes from a nonChristian perspective? I mean, I can see the value in being able to defend your position without the assumption that God exists (or other Christian views), especially when arguing with an atheist or someone with different beliefs. However, at the same time, since we are Christians, that IS our reason sometimes. God IS our response. We can't help it if it doesn't necessarily make sense to someone else or if we can't prove it. He just is our answer for some things. So what do we do then? Should we have a back-up arguement or just accept that we're not going to be able to convince that person of that certain point? Sorry if this doesn't make sense, it came out as I thought it. :)
posted by Rachel at 1:21 PM
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Wow, this is a good question. I believe that as a Christian, one should first formulate arguments from a Christian perspective and then work out from there building his or her opinion with science or philosophy or whatever other information there is. As Christians, there are some things that can only be explained "God" but there are some things that we can understand better with information outside of religious texts. Creation for example. You could argue that God did it and leave it at that, or you can try to science and reason to make an argument that goes deeper than pure faith. I don't know if this will make much sense to anyone else, but I tried my best to make it intelligible.
i think that we should not as christains think about things on how poeple are going to react to what we belive but try and just tell them the truth the best we can and let God do the rest buti mean if someone dose not want to hear the answer of "God" that dose not mean we should not tell them
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