Are you disparaging Christians having a Biblical worldview?
Psalms 119:89 For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
Psalms 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Could you be more specific regarding your terms "reasonable", "evidence" and "circular framework".
I think the most important comment for me to inject is that we believe the Holy Spirit has supernaturally protected & preserved the Word of God for all generations. God places the Word of God above His own name.
Psalms 138:2 ... for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
I take this to mean that what He has promised (His Word), He will do because His name is at stake.
We can trust His promises as revealed and preserved in His Word, with our very lives. We are not talking the shifty Koran, or some musings of Budha, or even Hindu wisdom. We are discussing the revealed Word of the God who inhabits eternity, and created our universe.
>>Are you disparaging Christians having a Biblical worldview?
No, but their "biblical" world view is organized not around the bible alone but the systematic theology of the founders of their Church.
This organiztion of theology is apparrent in their framework. When you offer contradictory biblical evidence, they simply minimze it and revert to the arguments from their framework.
>>Could you be more specific regarding your terms "reasonable", "evidence" and "circular framework".
Sure, here is an example:
Explain how Martin Luthor added the word "alone" to his translation of scripture concerning justification. You can find it in his German translation.
The word never existed in scripture before this, and while protestants didn't adopt Luthors editing of Scripture, they certainly adopted his thelogical idea of justification by faith alone.
In response, an EF will show you scripture which says that works do not play a role in justification. But the correct context of that chapter is actually works of the Jewish law, not Christian works. They have a hard time accepting this even if they read the whole chapter.
Show them James and how [christian] works do play a role in justification, and they revert to the framework once again, minimizing this scripture passage.
The EF won't reject the role of works in justification because it's unscriptural. They reject it because it doesn't fit in their framework. They will simply revert back to justification by faith alone, and will explain away the role of works in justification.
This is what I mean that EF tend to be unreasonable. For one to be reasonable, one has to have the ablity to reason and consider evidence. One who is not reasonable simply rejects evidence and reverts back to their framework.
I've had this discussion hundreds of times with EF. It's always the same.