An Argument for Secularism's Required Belief in Unproven Multiple Negations as an Occasion for Conversion to Christian Belief in Multiple Proven Affirmations.

Secularism implies a belief in multiple negations to conclude that the only reality man is involved in is the current secular existence of the here and now that ends at death. To arrive at the conclusion that man only has access to the current life, without any prospect of life after death, the secularist must affirm several negatons without proof. 

1) The secularist must affirm the non-existence of the human soul. By denying the existence of the spiritual soul, the secularist affirms a materialist understanding of man. And yet materialism is shown to be false in the post (Exposing the Error of Materialism) and therefore the affirmed non-existence of the human soul is only a belief that is never proven true.

2) The secularist must affirm the non-existence of any divine activity in human history. To make a universal denial of divine activity in human history is to make an affirmation of a universal negative regarding the divine activity. As the divine activity is possible, (for God exists and has infinite power) and never proven impossible, a universal denial of divine activity is therefore never proven. For a universal denial of any possible act cannot ever be proven true. for what is possible, may be actual, and what may be actual is actual even if not known have acted.

3) The secularist must affirm the non-existence of God, or an agnostic answer to the question of the existence of God. Yet the existence of God is proven in several ways, such as the five ways of St Thomas Aquinas. The affirmation of atheism and agnosticism is never proven.

4) The secularist must affirm the non-existence of human fulfilment as a possible goal that can be attained. For if secularism is true, there is nothing in the current existence that can make man happy. Yet because the nature of man is ordered towards the good, the attainment of happiness is in accord with the nature of man who always acts teleologically towards an ultimate good. The universal denial of man's happiness is then never proven, but only believed by the secularist.

As points 1-4 above are never proven, but only believed to be true, the belief in the secular nature of human existence is then only an unproven belief. As the belief is unproven, the secularist is then locked into a worldview that is only belief based, whilst simultaneously acting as a rational animal in accord with reason. The two truths of 1) man living by belief and 2) man as rational are then an occasion to move from a belief in a secularist worldview without central tenants proven, to a belief in another worldview with central tenants proven. The other worldview is a Christian worldview, whereby -

1) The existence and nature of the human spiritual soul is proven from reason.

2) The existence of divine activity is affirmed within the biblical narrative and also within church history with many documented evidence.

3) The existence and nature of God can be known by reason alone as deduced in natural theology.

4) Human fulfilment is attained in the next life through the direct vision of God (1 John 1:3).