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6 Other Religions Christians Secretly Believe [Excerpts]

Many Christians find it hard — or at least unnatural — to think like a Christian all the time, and most don't really know what it means. Christians often see the world, humanity, and even God in ways that are fundamentally incompatible with Christian doctrine, and most of the time, they don't even know it. In effect, they are following other religions.

"Contemporary Western society is awash in competing visions of ultimate reality. Christians who do not know any better often absorb beliefs about reality from worldviews completely alien to the Bible and in radical conflict with it," warns Roger E. Olson in his book The Essentials of Christian Thought: Seeing Reality Through the Biblical Story. [Olson] explains what a Christian should believe about God, the world, and humanity, based on the Bible — and why at least six different popular worldviews are in conflict with the essentials of biblical Christianity.

[For example] many Christians think and act as if the material world is all there is, and many atheists argue that science proves as much. But there is a difference between methodological naturalism  (ruling out the supernatural in order to study science) and metaphysical naturalism  (denying the existence of any reality beyond atoms and energy).

As Olson argues, "if nature is all there is, then there can be no moral absolutes and life has no meaning." Worse, if naturalism is true, "then all our ideas are products of forces in nature over which we have no real control (as all is ruled by natural laws). Our very thoughts are products of chemicals in the brain." In fact, naturalism implies that "our beliefs, whatever they are, are controlled by nature, which is a closed system of mathematically describable laws and material-energy forces and phenomena."

The very idea of truth, or even free will, becomes absurd. This means that even science becomes meaningless. Rather than a search for truth, it is a tactic for survival.

The denial of God is obviously incompatible with Christianity. Not only does the Bible begin and end with God, but it presents a God who created and sustained the universe, and who pursues a personal relationship with human beings. Nevertheless, many Christians operate their daily lives as if God did not exist.

(Oneil, “6 Other Religions Christians Secretly Believe,” PJ Media Online, 4/9/17).