The Irrationalism of Infidelity

From: Christianity True: An Unanswerable Truth By: Algernon James Pollock

• 1 min. read • grade level: 11

Thus, in whatever way we look at it, we shall find it really takes more credulity to believe that these miraculous events never happened than faith to believe that they did. Infidelity is indeed a matter of the heart and not of the head. "The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God" (Psa. 14:1¹<<To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.>> The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. (Psalm 14:1)).

Where the heart is right there is no strain put upon faith. It is eminently reasonable. Infidelity, on the other hand, in its attitude to the Bible, bids its votaries to believe that mighty effects of undeniably elevating and purifying power spring out of totally inadequate causes of falsehood and wickedness, putting such a strain on credulity, that it takes all the bias of poor fallen nature and its hatred of God to carry it through.

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Christianity True: An Unanswerable Truth

• Christianity True: an Unanswerable Proof

• Origin of the Proof, The

• Leslie's Four Marks

• What Is at Stake?

• False in Contrast to the True, The

• True in Contrast to the False, The

• Passover and Its Four Marks, The

• Testimony of the Tabernacle Service, The

• Two Sources of Exposure

• Irrationalism of Infidelity, The

• Testimony of the Pentateuch, The

• Our Lord's Testimony to Moses

• Conclusion of Our Argument, The

• An Impossible Alternative

• Death and Resurrection of Christ, The

• Testimony of the Bible, The