Title: Christianity
Series: The Elephant in the Room (1 of 6)
Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:3-4
Author: Dr. Joey Rodgers
Have you ever heard the elephant analogy that's used to show that all religions are valid ways to God?
The analogy speaks of (6) blind men who are touching some part of an elephant. Since they've never encountered an elephant before, they're curious to explore this new wonder. The 1st man grabs the trunk and says it's a snake. The 2nd guy feels one of the legs and calls it a tree. The 3rd man finds the elephant's tail and thinks it's a rope. The 4th man touches the elephant's side concluding it's a wall. The 5th man touches an ear and thinks it's a fan, while the 6th man touches the tusk and calls it a spear. The proposed point is that each man in his blindness is describing the same thing - an elephant; only they're each describing it in a radically different way.
Of course, when this analogy is superimposed on the different religions in our world, the idea is that they are all describing the same God in radically different ways - attempting to communicate that no one religion has cornered the market on truth - and therefore, they all should be viewed as equally valid.
Problem is, while it sounds nice to co-exist, there are a few issues w/ such a primitive, PC notion that makes our sweet, elephant analogy the elephant in the room.
(1) - few, if any, of the 4200 different religions today would agree that their way is but one of the ways to God - w/ most believing their way is the ONLY way.
(2) - there's a little logical argument known as the Law of Non-Contradiction that wreaks havoc on such a preposterous notion. Let me explain...
The Law of Non-Contradiction is a basic law in classical logic that says something can't be both true and untrue at the same time w/in the same context.
For example - if this table is a table, then it can't, not be a table at the same time. Likewise, you can't be here physically and not here phy ...
Series: The Elephant in the Room (1 of 6)
Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:3-4
Author: Dr. Joey Rodgers
Have you ever heard the elephant analogy that's used to show that all religions are valid ways to God?
The analogy speaks of (6) blind men who are touching some part of an elephant. Since they've never encountered an elephant before, they're curious to explore this new wonder. The 1st man grabs the trunk and says it's a snake. The 2nd guy feels one of the legs and calls it a tree. The 3rd man finds the elephant's tail and thinks it's a rope. The 4th man touches the elephant's side concluding it's a wall. The 5th man touches an ear and thinks it's a fan, while the 6th man touches the tusk and calls it a spear. The proposed point is that each man in his blindness is describing the same thing - an elephant; only they're each describing it in a radically different way.
Of course, when this analogy is superimposed on the different religions in our world, the idea is that they are all describing the same God in radically different ways - attempting to communicate that no one religion has cornered the market on truth - and therefore, they all should be viewed as equally valid.
Problem is, while it sounds nice to co-exist, there are a few issues w/ such a primitive, PC notion that makes our sweet, elephant analogy the elephant in the room.
(1) - few, if any, of the 4200 different religions today would agree that their way is but one of the ways to God - w/ most believing their way is the ONLY way.
(2) - there's a little logical argument known as the Law of Non-Contradiction that wreaks havoc on such a preposterous notion. Let me explain...
The Law of Non-Contradiction is a basic law in classical logic that says something can't be both true and untrue at the same time w/in the same context.
For example - if this table is a table, then it can't, not be a table at the same time. Likewise, you can't be here physically and not here phy ...
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