Schaeffer's allegory of "the universe and two chairs." The parable says that there are two men sitting on their chairs in a closed room. The room is all there is, so that it would be possible to study the room and come up with some valid theories about it within a relatively short time. But the one man is a materialist and the other is a Christian. When the materialist finishes his study, in which he benefits from the tools of modern disciplines such as chemistry, biology, physics, etc., he shares his conclusions with the Christian, who then tells him his findings are "drastically incomplete." What he is missing is the Bible, which holds the key to the story. Without it, the materialist will never know the origins of the universe, nor the reality of the invisible world, nor a true philosophy of history.Schaeffer missed a few hundred people; those who insit the story is incomplete without the Koran, Bhagavad Gita, Navajo creation story, Greek myths, Celtic creation myths....
When it comes down to it, the only one without a missing element that no one else can agree on is the materialist.
Schaeffer missed a few hundred people; those who insit the story is incomplete without the Koran, Bhagavad Gita, Navajo creation story, Greek myths, Celtic creation myths.... The law of noncontradiction would narrow it down a bit, not? Add to that the logical impossibility of more than one First Cause, more than one omnipotent God, and the field becomes very narrow. The existence of personal beings necessitates the existence of a personal Creator which rules out Allah. Guess what? There's only one God left: The One that the ACLU specifies and the only One the materialists loathe. Coincidence?