Many people demand comprehensive explanations with reproducible experimental proof and predictive power for intelligent design arguments. When you provide the ideological proof for an intelligent designer, they reject it, and demand material proof for a spiritual and infinite being. Then when you point to the historical resurrection as the physical and material proof of the intelligent designer, they simply deny it as historical and unverifiable and unreproducible. Then you cleverly point to the leading materialistic origins theory and say that it too is historical, unreproducible, and and unverifiable. The materialist then quickly responds rejecting the notion saying it's parts of their theory can be reproduced to a degree and has been observed scantly throughout the scientific community. You respond by saying, the resurrection can also be reproduced to a degree and has been observed, citing historical and present sources, of the many supernatural and near death occurances that have been documented that do take place.
The materialist denies all such evidence saying it requires too much "blind faith", what the materialist does not know is that he is demanding that kind of faith from the intelligent design advocate for his own personal materialistic worldview.
Then it becomes clear, the materialist is not stricly concerned with evidence as he claims, rather is decapacitated by a personal philosophy and disposition for life, particularly his morality, the glaringly obvious distinction and primary concern of his worldview. You see from a theistic standpoint advocating intelligent design is not hindered by personal moral outlooks, since in his worldview the designer has provided guidelines for moral behavior and thought, and he has submitted to these guidelines and conforms to them. Even if he were to reject the notion of intelligent design and advocate materialism, his reasoning would not be hindered by a necessity to change moral outlook and perspective. It could be possibly hindered by a resistance to being wrong, possibly a moral trait he inherited from ancient primordial ancestors that so happened to survive better with that mutation, or he is a depraved human soul unwilling to yield his spirit to the truth, or the coherent view of reality, both of which the materialist is likewise suspect of. The theists reasoning would be more objective, one could even argue, in one sense of the word. But the same cannot be said about the materialist which must come to grips with the intelligent design argument by overcoming his personal decapacitating moralistic framework.
This particularly applies to the Christian faith and worldview. In other words a Christian need not repent of his belief and embrace naturalism, but the naturalist has the extremely expensive moral cost to pay for embracing Christianity specifically, and that cost is repentance, in addition to the possibility of being wrong and having predisposed genetics for resisting truth, and bearing the public shame he might receive from his community, that he must bear for the switch in reasoning. Turning from previously held moral evils in thought, word, or deed, and trusting in God's only Son, Jesus Christ for forgiveness, and walking in light of this truth by the power of the Holy Spirit. Acknowledging a need for forgiveness, can they even overcome their own pride? The answer is no, that is why the Gospel message is absolutely necessary and Christ's blood and act of grace at the cross, on our behalf is the only power big enough to disarm human pride and redeem broken people.
Glory to the eternal Son, who on the Cross, while being crucified by his creation, said with his arms outstretched "this is how much I love you".
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