Evangelical Christianity

There are many in Christianity who make the argument, "Don't worry about doctrine! Religion is about what you feel! If I have peace in my heart, then that's all I need." These are those individuals in Evangelicalism who don't argue for objective truth. We have largely adopted the culture's separation of the "secular" and the "sacred". For some reason, many Christians separate their Christianity from their everyday lives. The way they know they're Christians isn't the same way they know they have money in their bank account. They act as if religion is a separate world than the secular world; as if religion is governed by different laws and truths than other reality. However, if this is God's world, and we're just living in it, then all truth is God's truth. All truth must begin with Him, and go back to Him.

This is why these Christians can inconsistently argue that "when politics are being discussed, religion doesn't have a seat at the table"; they argue this way because they've separated the secular and the sacred. None of the apostles or Scripture writers argued for Christianity based on "feelings". They argued objectively, absolutely, not relatively or flippantly. The apostles and Scripture writers asked us to believe in objective truth, in eyewitness accounts, not in their whimsical feelings. Not only these things, but if feelings are a valid argument for religious truth, then every other cult or atheistic movement can make a valid argument concerning their fallacies.

Even Furthermore, if feelings validate truth, or experience does, then anything that helps people change their lives for the moral better, have proof for their own "truth". The fact remains that Christianity is historically based on objective events; therefore, it can only be seen as objective truth or false altogether. If feelings are valid to prove truth, then there is no truth.

This doesn't mean that feelings are bad or evil; it simply means that they're not a source for divine or even secular truth. The feelings and emotions of Christians shouldn't determine truth, but should follow truth. If Christians will simply get their minds wrapped around the truth, then their feelings and emotions will follow; however, if Christians refuse to start with the Objective Truth, then their feelings and emotions may never find the Truth. Furthermore, if feelings and emotions determine truth, then it's simply relative, and the truth is lost in a sea of relativity.