What Kind of Certainty Does Christianity Offer?
February 9, 2008 – 1:37 am - By DerekUltimately, the certainty of Christian Truth is found only in the internal testimony of the Holy Spirit. From the outside, this is purely a subjective interpretation of truth. An unbeliever hearing such a testimony has no way of empirically testing this sort of assertion. However, one is not left without a test at all. The ultimate ‘test’ of the certainty of Christianity lies in the true conversion of the soul.
If a man were to become a true believer then a spiritual dimension enters in and confirms the Truth of the Christian claim. At that point, it is no longer a subjective matter to the believer because the confirmation comes from something other than one’s ‘self’ and it is this attestation of spiritual certitude that is universally experienced by all true believers. Thus, the gap between apologetic argumentation and true belief is faith. The apologetic arguments can lead one to a limited level of probability in the sense that Christianity is ‘probably’ true; but faith is necessary at some point to fill in the gap between probability and certainty.
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