Worldview

As most of you know I went to a Worldview Academy last few days. It was pretty epic, but instead of just talking about it I'm gonna try to put the main points of the many lectures in different posts and see how that goes. I am gonna do them in the order that they appear in the book, not how I got them. Without further delay, enjoy...


Blind Faith

First off there is no such thing as an unbeliever.
The absence of belief or faith is just not possible. In fact those who say that they rely on only logic and reason, namely the atheists, rely heavily on faith. For example there are actually at least twelve (12) things that an Atheist MUST take on faith. Here they are:

1. There is no God.
2. Free will and dignity do not exist.
3. Something came from nothing.
4. Life came from non life.
5. Mind and thought do not exist.
6. There are no absolutes.
7. Conscience does not exist.
8. There is no afterlife.
9. There are no angles or demons.
10. Your life has no meaning or purpose.
11. Miracles can not happen.
12. Souls do not exist.

Now I will briefly try to explain why all of these must be taken on faith:

1. Because you must search all knowledge to prove there is no God and when you have searched all knowledge they you will have become God the only way to say that He doesn't exist is faith. (original idea from David Platt)

2. Because, if we evolved and everything is scientific, we are run by different reactions stimulated by different events or emotions we are just robots. Dignity doesn't exist where free will doesn't.

3. Almost all atheists are willing to agree that the universe had to have a definite beginning point and because there was nothing before that then something had to come from nothing.

4. Even scientists with rigged science rooms have never been able to make life from non life, much less watch it happen with no prompting.

5. If we have no actual physical thoughts and there is no such thing as the spiritual dimension thoughts must not exist.

6. Unless you have a holy, eternal, loving, unchanging God you can't have absolutes.

7. If there is no standard for moral values we can not feel bad when we do something wrong because it would not, in fact, be wrong.

8. Pretty self explanatory. If there is no way to prove that there is no afterlife then it must be taken on faith.

9. With no spiritual realm at all them there must be no angles or demons. Hard to explain possessed people then.

10. Life is meaningless with no one giving it meaning. Mortal men can not give meaning or value to anything spiritual, much less life.

11. When you have mathematical proof (another lecture) of the historical accuracy of the Bible and it speaks of miracles but there is no spiritual dimension then something has to give.

12. Souls do not exist. No afterlife, no souls, no nothing.

So the question is not "who has faith and who has reason" it really is who uses the most blind faith.
For a worldview that claims to rely on reason and logic, it is strange that try would require so much faith.