My response to this article: “Since Jesus Christ founded the Church about 2,000 years ago, one would expect that “the historic Christian faith” would at least reflect the majority views of that 2,000 year period.” I wish to be brief and only focus on this one quote from the above article, as it is in essence the crux of the entire mindset of the article here. Simply put, this is the logical fallacy known as the “argumentum ad populum” or the appeal to popular opinion, just in a nuanced way here. The majority opinion in the church throughout history is in no way shape or form what our mindset and theology today should line up with, which is the primary inference that may be correctly drawn from the above quote from this article. In short, when we look at even just the Bible itself, the proper view was the minority view even throughout the New Testament era as it was being developed, and even during the time of Jesus Himself. So the next time you wish to bash a solid evangelical group of ministries (which in and of itself should raise a number of red flags in the thinking Christian’s mind), be sure to use good logic and proper argumentation methodology in your discourse! Trevor Ray Slone, M.Min. Secretary of the International Society of Christian Apologetics (ISCA) Host of the apologetics radio show “Think it Through” – thinkitthroughapologetics Author of “Doing Apologetics Without the Need for Apology: Biblical Principles for Confrontational Relationality”
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:20:03 +0000
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