Logical Fallacies: PERSONAL INCREDULITY

With God all things are possible. – Mat 19:26

Logical fallacies are flaws in reasoning. They’re used, not necessarily out of ignorance, but out of a devious attempt to sidestep truth and win an argument.

The final sample fallacy charged against us by secular/liberal scholars, but for which they’re guilty of, is Personal Incredulity. This is saying that because one finds something difficult to understand, it’s therefore not true.

A good area where Believers have been lambasted for using this fallacy is in Biological Evolution. When we say we find it hard to believe how, just through random things happening over time, a fish somehow turned into a human being, we’re usually looked upon with some sort of snobbish pity. Like we’re some morons who lack the intricate and special knowledge needed to even begin to grasp how nature works.

However, these same Atheists will tell you that they find it INCREDULOUS that a God somewhere somehow SPOKE this World into existence!

To take it further, they claim we’re expecting too much of them when we ask them to believe that a virgin conceived, that Jesus walked on water, or that He rose from the dead.

However, this is the very “Personal Incredulity” they accuse us of; because that they don’t know HOW these things could happen doesn’t automatically mean these things CANNOT happen.

Here’s the hypocrisy. Millions of dollars are being spent today on research into human Parthenogenesis (female conception without a male); yet when we say it happened in Mary, they say, “Well, we KNOW that’s impossible!”

“Personal Incredulity” – when properly analysed – isn’t really saying, “I can’t believe” but actually “I DON’T want to believe”. It’s a sign of spiritual blindness.

All the fallacies mentioned this week are simply Fallen Man’s attempt to avoid the Truth. Like typical school bullies, they use them to attack Believers in order to hide their own insecurities.

That is why we need to, prayerfully, approach them in love and with understanding; hoping that their eyes be opened to see their need for God: the very same God that loved them and gave His Son to die for their sins.

AMEN.

More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN