Understanding Agnosticism: Beyond Skepticism
Explore the concepts of agnosticism, from philosophical to theological perspectives, and the various forms it takes, including limited and unlimited agnosticism. Delve into the idea of knowledge and the existence of God.
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Dangerous Isms Facing The Lords People Agnosticism Skepticism, in its most foundational sense is the refusal to grant that there is any knowledge or justification. A specific kind of skeptic is an agnostic...
Dangerous Isms Facing The Lords People Agnosticism Agnosticism- the beliefthat nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena; an agnostic is a person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in God. The term agnostic was created by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1869... .
Dangerous Isms Facing The Lords People Agnosticism Two Forms Philosophical- The belief that we cannot know anything about reality, that nothing relating to things, events, or thoughts can be absolutely true for all people at all times. This ideology extends to our very existence. The true philosophical agnosticism believes that even true existence cannot be known!
Dangerous Isms Facing The Lords People Agnosticism Two Forms Theological- The theological agnosticdoes not assert that God does not exist for that would make him an atheist. He simply affirms that it cannot be proven that God exist!
Dangerous Isms Facing The Lords People Agnosticism Two Types Unlimited Agnosticism- Asserts that all knowledge or no knowledge, either we can know it all or we can know nothing at all! The question can we truly know anything? The unlimited agnostic would respond by saying I don t know
Dangerous Isms Facing The Lords People Agnosticism Two Types Limited Agnosticism- This aspect of agnosticism states that we can only know something about finite (physical) reality but cannot know anything about infinite (eternal/spiritual) realty such as God. This is the belief of limited agnosticism.
JN 20:24-31 And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are wri (John 20:30 31 NKJV)
Dangerous Isms Facing The Lords People Agnosticism Pioneers Of Modern Agnosticism
Dangerous Isms Facing The Lords People Agnosticism He denied the possibility of miracles citing insufficient evidence to prove them because they are contrary to our experience and violate the laws of nature. He also denied any supernatural intervention in human affairs David Hume
Dangerous Isms Facing The Lords People Agnosticism He contended that the content of knowledge came through the five senses, while the structure of knowledge came from the rationalism of the mind. Since people sometimes sense things differently, and since one person may reason differently from another that there could be no absolute knowledge at all! Immanuel Kant
Dangerous Isms Facing The Lords People Agnosticism The whole attempt to verify God s presence is ridiculous. One is not led to God by reason; only a leap of faith brings on to God . He believed that faith and reason are mutually exclusive opposites. Soren A. Kierkegaard
Dangerous Isms Facing The Lords People Agnosticism He is known for repudiating Christianity's compassion for the weak, exalting the will to power, and formulating the idea of the bermensch (superman), who can rise above the restrictions of ordinary morality. Friedrich Nietzsche (Niche)
Dangerous Isms Facing The Lords People Agnosticism EXISTENTIALISM- philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will. to disparage scientific knowledge, and to deny the existence of objective values, stressing instead the reality and significance of human freedom and experience.
Dangerous Isms Facing The Lords People Agnosticism Two Types Limited Agnosticism- This aspect of agnosticism states that we can only know something about finite (physical) reality but cannot know anything about infinite (eternal/spiritual) realty such as God. This is the belief of limited agnosticism.
Dangerous Isms Facing The Lords People Agnosticism Problems With Agnosticism It denies the process of acquisition. How knowledge (faith) is acquired Induction Deduction Use of empirical data Use of creditable witness Intuition Metaphysical data
Dangerous Isms Facing The Lords People Agnosticism Problems With Agnosticism Rejects the Laws of logic The Law of rationality The law of identity The law of the excluded middle Use of creditable witness The law of contradiction
Dangerous Isms Facing The Lords People Agnosticism The Scriptures Destroy Agnosticism Faith comes from evidence and cannot be not acquired in it s absence (Rom 10:17 Cf Heb 11:1-3) (Jn 3:36; ; 1 Jn 5:13) (2 Cor 5:5-7) (Jn 20:24-31) (*Jn 7:23-24) (Job 38)
Dangerous Isms Facing The Lords People Agnosticism The Scriptures Destroy Agnosticism Empirical evidence leads to and supports theoretical evidence (Psa 19:1-4) (Rom 1:16-32; Acts 17:22-31) (Heb 3:1-6 Cf Jn 12:44-50)
REVELATION 20:11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. (Revelation 20:10 13 NKJV)
