Skeptics Aren't Skeptical Consistently

Skepticism

Since the nature of reality severely restricts knowledge of truth, many ungodly scholars say no one can know truth. They’ve observed that ungodly thinking can’t know anything. They don’t want godliness, although godly thinking could free them. In fact, skeptics are certain that we can’t be certain about anything, so they believe that it makes no sense to believe anything. But how can they be certain about this uncertainty if no one can be certain about anything? And why would they believe this idea when they say no one should believe anything? Their self-refuting claims are nonsense. But many teachers proclaim skepticism as a way to overcome their other fallacy of claiming the universal negative: “God doesn’t exist.”

When anti-God thinkers claim, “God doesn’t exist,” they assert a universal negative, and since universal negatives claim omniscience, this claim falls apart for anti-God thinkers. Not even circular reasoning can effectively camouflage the foolishness, so some atheists redefine the word “atheist” to mean someone without a belief in God. They redefine “atheist” to try to hide this problem in their thinking. In short, they claim that they simply lack belief. Craftily, they make this claim to frame the discussion so they can use an argument from ignorance fallacy to imply, “Prove God, or He doesn’t exist.” They go through these mental gymnastics to make it harder to detect their universal negative of “God doesn’t exist.”

Atheist: I simply lack belief in God. Prove to me that God exists, and I’ll surely believe in Him.

Christ-follower: I simply lack belief in the lack of belief in God. Prove to me that God hasn’t revealed His existence to you, and I’ll surely believe you.

Atheist: I told you I lack belief. I know whether or not I have belief.

Christ-follower: God tells me you’re willingly ignorant. He says you refuse to acknowledge Him, thank Him, or give Him glory. You refuse even though He has revealed Himself, through the things He has created, to all people including you. Why should I accept your personal testimony rather than His? And why don’t you hold my personal testimony in the same regard as your personal testimony about a supposed lack of belief?

The new definition of “atheist” is a definist fallacy that doesn’t help the anti-God thinker’s case for several reasons. It gives no rational way to support a claim like “I don’t know whether God exists.” Anti-God thinkers can’t prove that they haven’t suppressed this truth in unrighteousness as God says they have. They can’t prove that they don’t know. They can’t even prove their claim to themselves. They may insist that they don’t know, but they can’t insist on it without committing fallacies. Since God says anti-God thinkers know He exists, God’s words are proof that they know. And He also says they know a lot about Him, His righteousness, and His judgment, but God says He turned them over to their own corrupted minds, and they’ve suppressed the truth in their unrighteousness [deceitful trickery]. Also, God says they’re willingly ignorant of the Creation event, the global Flood, and the coming judgment.

In response, anti-God thinkers claim that God is untruthful and that they’re the truthful ones. They ask us to believe their bare claim of “lack of knowledge.” They ask us to disbelieve God when He says they know. However, they can’t prove this claim or any other since they suppress truth through their deceitful treachery, and their corrupted minds deceive them. They’ve closed their minds to God, building elaborate worldviews and filling their lives with many distractions to keep themselves from being aware of His reality.

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