Christians believe in the virgin birth of Jesus. Materialists believe in the virgin birth of the cosmos. Choose your miracle. (1)
~ Glen Scrivener
If you’ve ever had a toddler around the house, you know what it’s like to get asked “why” 43 times in a row.
It’s a brilliant tactic to use for yourself.
“One effective way of responding to doubters and skeptics,” as Nancy Pearcey instructs, “is to help them face the real-world implications of their own views.” (2)
To do this, we need to remember that every non-Christian worldview breaks down in contradiction somewhere and we just need to find that soft white underbelly and start poking.
Whether you’re talking about where babies come from, the origin of the cosmos, or deconstructing a false worldview, if you keep asking “why,” sooner or later you will get to the place where they either need a First Cause (God!) or a nifty pair of dancing shoes to answer the question of causation.
So, like the toddler, you just keep asking questions until you get to the real question on the table: “
Which miracle are you going to choose to believe?
Roger Courville, CSP is a globally-recognized expert in digitally-extended communication and connection, an award-winning speaker, award-winning author, and a passionately bad guitarist. Follow him on Twitter -- @RogerCourville and @JoinForTheHope – or his blog: www.forthehope.org.
Notes
(1) https://twitter.com/glenscrivener/status/419856132190924800?lang=en
(2) Nancy Pearcey, Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes (Colorado Springs, CO : David C. Cook, 2015), 248. Kindle. I’d recommend this and most everything Pearcey writes. You can preview this book on Google Books.