A. Give up the faith and become atheist or agnostic
B. Still remain a Christian but rely on emotion or emotional experiences
C. Still remain a Christian but rely on family or social tradition
D. Still remain a Christian but start to believe that all of science is a conspiracy and that all the data used to disprove Christian Theism is fabricated
E. Still remain a Christian but rely on blind faith
F. A combination of B-E
Well I know that if all of them get disproved or certain ones like the resurrection of Christ were disproved I would be forced to give up Christianity and if the cosmological argument were disproved I would have to give up all forms of theism. But also what would you do if things like macro evolution were somehow proven true or that substance dualism is shown to be false? I know that a few, not all, but a few apologists are so dedicated to different types of arguments, doctrines, or flavors of Christian apologetics that if things like substance dualism or even things like young earth creationism are proven false, they would throw everything out, Christianity, Theism all of it, and they would become atheists. Now I personally have spent so much time, effort, money and have so much wrapped up in Christian Theism being true that even though I know my faith is tied to arguments (or certain core arguments like the resurrection) that if they are disproved I would have to give up the faith, but if other things that I hold to like substance dualism, old earth creationism, intelligent design, fine tuning, objective morality, and so on were disproved I could adopt other lesser known, less popular doctrines and arguments to keep my faith going and still keep it reasonable. I call it sort of a step-down plan or a apologetics insurance plan and here is how it works.
Ok, so currently if the universe is proven to be eternal or proven to come from nothing, or if the resurrection of Christ is disproved I will be forced to intellectually give up the faith. The other "sub" views I hold currently are old earth creationism/ID, substance dualism, objective morality, futurism (in terms of eschatology). Now these things are not near as important as things such as core things like the universe having a beginning and the resurrection, but regardless they are very major beliefs that I hold to show to skeptics and to myself that my faith is reasonable and is the most likely view to be true over all other competing views. But thankfully, even in the ultra strange event that some of the other "sub" views get disproved I have backup plans or backup doctrines. Here is a rough draft on how it would work.
Old earth creationism and ID get disproved - I then move to theistic evolution
If substance dualism gets disproved - I then move onto a Christian "physicalism or all physical view of the mind" and I also adopt the soul sleep doctrine (i.e. Christians on this earth who die before the resurrection of the dead are nonresistant until God supernaturally recreates them)
If objective morality is disproved - I concede with the secularists that morality is not objective in a all around social or scientific sense but because God says certain things are wrong certain moral principles would still be objective in that sense alone.
If futurism (in eschatology) is disproved - I would move onto a view of partial preterism or idealism.
That's how my backup plan or my "next step" plan would work. I was wondering if that is something you all have going on with your own Christian views as well or if you let your whole belief in God or in Christianity not just rest on the essential and necessary things like the universe having a beginning or the resurrection of Christ but on other things like Old earth creationism (or young earth creationism for yecers), eschatological views, or even on views of the mind/brain or on objective morality? I know ideas like theistic evolution are very controversial but I know they are out there, they are popular, and many highly intelligent believers hold to it. But just like the many nay sayers of TE, I happen to currently agree with them, that's why I'm not currently a theistic evolutionist and nor will I be one unless things get so bad for all creation views that creation ministries go out of business, big proponents of creationism and ID people like Hugh Ross, Stephen Meyer, Michael Behe, our own Rich Deem recant their views and the whole social, scientific, and philosophical world rejects all forms of creationism without evolution then and only then will I except theistic evolution. Let's just hope and pray that things will never get this bad for oec, ID, and all the other sub views that I and maybe you hold as well, but just in case, like I said, I have back up plans or in this case, a apologetics insurance policy. Anyway, let me know your questions and comments on this. Thanks and God bless.
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