That’s Just Your Opinion
Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason shares how to respond when someone says, “That’s just you’re opinion” when you’re sharing your faith.
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Glad I caught this 10 years later. You have been talking in circles for a long time. It is possible that the guy in the white suit created the universe. It is also possible that no one has any definitive proof of what caused the big bang. But science has more answers regarding the creation of the universe than you do–even if you do not like them. Theology is not science in any way and scientists are always open to new ideas especially when they know they do not have all the answers. Christians would be wise to follow suit. It is ok to say i do not know. In science or in spiritual matters. God is a mystery you and I cannot explain. Quit wasting everyone's time pretending you know something they do not. It is hard to convince people of the glory of God when they know you are not telling the truth.
"Just your opinion" could mean just YOUR way of looking at it, not mine.
Proof positive text reading – makes ppl think they “know”. Read The Sin of Certainty. And understand the origins of what you believe (Stone Campbell interpretation, which is one of MANY ways of interpreting the Bible). When ppl only surround themselves with ppl who were indoctrinated into the same belief – that vacuum makes them think it’s “true”.
The “true for you but not for me” view of religion is deeply ingrained in our culture. But Christians make claims that they believe are objectively true descriptions of reality. Are these claims only subjective opinions? How can we recognize truth? Can we gain knowledge from more than just science? Here are some resources to help you answer these questions:
What do you say to someone who says you can’t ground objective morality in God because every religion is just opinion?
https://rsn.pub/42kj1SI
“You’re Not Objective So Your Opinion Doesn’t Count”
https://rsn.pub/3SuWcbC
Scientism: An Obstacle to the Gospel
https://rsn.pub/47NMDsD
Jeff Myers – Truth Changes Everything
https://rsn.pub/3Ua7aEH
Intuition: A Special Way of Knowing
https://rsn.pub/3vQHbrK
Brilliant thankyou
When miracles are taken for granted, of course, there's no God. Buy 2 pounds of hamburger, roll it in a ball, slap it down on a table. Tell yourself a piece of meat, capable of making decisions, and coming up with inventions, is not a miracle. Well then, of course there's no God. When miracles are taken for granted, of course there's no God.
The cause of time, space and matter cannot be made of time space or matter since they didn't yet exist. Even most scientists now agree that the universe had a beginning.
What did Jesus have for breakfast three days before his 12 birthday and how do you know?
Opinions just don't happen nor are they created out of nothing. We form opinions for reasons and many may be based on actual observations and experiences. Reason can be facts.
Very nice
Good questions.
When it comes to things like math or even physics, to convince someone of something, do they have to go through this strange language that Koukl thinks is necessary to prove Christianity?
That your belief in your faith is based on factual things is also just your opinion.
that's how I feel
Big bang? don't mix Hinduism with Christianity. Look into the pagan roots of evolution!
Infinite regression is really not an answer. I REALLY want to find God, but the Bible is like Korean stereo instructions, for every point it makes a contradictory point can be found. When you use science as a boogey man that prevents you from making a "Leap of faith", you are undermining your argument. Faith is an acceptance of an unprovided hypothesis. What I had for breakfast (and by the way I could have my stomached pumped and it's contents analyzed), doesn't seem to me to be in the realm of is there a God, and does he care about me as an individual. It seems to me that you are trying to take someone searching for truth and using "tricks", such as "What are your reasons" in order to corner someone that's not literate to use memory and testimony (both of which are not tangible facts) to persuade them. Sorry, but I'm not seeing God in your argument…
The Universe didn't come into being. And it is very outdated to spout the Big Bang as evidence for the Universe beginning.
It doesnt even make coherent sense to say all of the physical realm came into being, since only the physical has causal agency on its own, to begin with.
STRvideos As a nonreligious person, I get this answer whenever I talk about morality with a Christian. I'm wondering what you think of that. This 'just your opinion, maaaan' thing seems to go both ways, depending on the subject.
Since science can't account for its own success (by scientific means) it is also just an opinion. Philosophers since David Hume told us that.
"opinion vs knowledge" goes back all the way to the Greeks. Leftists simply rehash that old flawed argument. They assume your statement isn't "knowledge" because it depends on you therefore it's not "absolutely objective" but contingent. "absolutely objective" independent of the subject is not the definition of knowledge. After all scientific postulates are also dependent on subjects, but not on that account unreal. Leftists simply can't account for plurality: If there is plurality (of views), they are not real simply because they are many. It doesn't occur to them that knowledge is any statement which successfully predicts experience. If the statement "the judgment day is coming" predicts future event then it's knowledge.
If someone says "that's just your opinion", I think it's pretty self-explanatory what they mean.