I am responding to Jim Stovall’s article in Tulsa Beacon
September 17, 2020, “You have to admit to your own bias”.
The article title is true. World views are not optional.
Everyone has one. For instance, answer these questions: Is
there more to me than flesh and blood? If yes, then what
happens to me when I die? Everyone acts in accord with
their belief in their answers to these questions.
In closing Jim says “If you’re going to combat your own
bias, you have to admit you have one and deal with it on
every front. … develop your thinking by keeping an open
mind.” What does this mean? If it means changing one’s
world view such as Antony Flew did in 2004 then I’m in
agreement.
Everyone should test their world view, i.e.,
presuppositions: those ideas we believe cannot be proven but
simply accept as truth.
Probably most of the readers of Tulsa Beacon would say they
hold a Christian world view. The historical truth of Jesus
Christ is most accurately recorded in the Bible. What parts
are replaced by something else in your world view? Why?
What reasons or logic have you used to choose to believe
something else rather than the Biblical record?