Is Christianity True
In “Christianity and the Machine Age,” Eric Gill attempts to prove that Christianity is true. To answer this question, Gill turns not to philosophers, theologians or archaeologists, but to his own consciousness. “If there be God, if there be Christ,… it is to man, to the individual man that he calls.” (Gill, 219)Gill bases his argument on the presumption that the truth is the correspondence of thought with thing. “In Christianity thought and thing correspond. It is in that sense that we say Christianity is true, is the truth.” (Gill, 219) Gill says that what he knows of Christ corresponds with what he knows and desires and loves as a human. Gill also asserts that he has no reason to suppose that he is any “different in kind or in powers or in experience from other men.” (Gill, 219) Gill says it follows that since Christianity is true for him, it must then also be true for all men. According to Gill, those who do not accept the truth of Christianity are simply wrong. Gill continues, asserting that Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and all other faiths are lesser because they are “more partial, less profound, and therefore less widespread.” (Gill, 219) This is a poor argument considering that Christians were a minority
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