Theory Ain’t Belief–Thank God!
http://www.johnstackhouse.com/2012/12/10/theory-aint-belief/ December 10, 2012 Philosopher Alvin Plantinga buries a little gem of insight in a footnote to his massive Warranted Christian Belief (Oxford, 2000) that pertains to Christmas and Easter especially: But aren’t there many different theories of (say) incarnation and atonement? Don’t Christians disagree about this? So which of the many views of Incarnation and Atonement are in fact rational? The question is misplaced. [I take Al to mean that the question is "Since Christians can't agree on theories of the Incarnation and Atonement, then isn't it irrational for them to believe in the Incarnation and the Atonement?] There are many different theories as to how it is that people are able to think; it is still plain to many of us that some people do (sometimes) think. There are many theories about what numbers are; it is still plain that 7 + 5 = 12. We can quite properly believe in the Atonement even...