A Religious Skeptic

There is a rising trend of Modern Skepticism in today’s culture. It’s not an atheistic skepticism, post-modern skepticism, or even an apathetic skepticism; rather, it’s a form of philosophical skepticism. It’s a skepticism that believes in the existence of truth, and even pursues after truth. However, this new skepticism, while it searches for truth, claims it cannot be objectively known. This skepticism is starting to creep into the evangelical church. The most obvious modern evangelical skeptic is Pastor/Author Rob Bell.

Rob Bell will passionately search for truth; however, he won’t claim to have found it. Rob Bell will say, “How we respond to Christ is terribly important; but, how things play out is firmly in the realm of speculation”.

Read that sentence again. “Firmly in the realm of speculative thought”. The problem with this statement is that man is still stuck in Plato’s cave. All man can do is speculate at the shadows cast on the cave’s back wall. It denies the doctrine of Revelation. The idea that God has revealed certain things to Man through Scripture and that Man can come to know absolute Truth through the study of scripture. The Skeptic will merely view scripture as an intellectual stimulation, not  as truth.

This is the same type of skeptic that St. Augustine fought against. As Christians, we should rejoice in the fact that God has revealed truth and knowledge to us, not cover it up with Skepticism.