Do Christians Commit the Fallacy of Special Pleading?

Today, we are going to deal with a particular issue regarding the Fallacy of Special Pleading.

Now, do Christians commit the Fallacy of Special Pleading? Absolutely not!

Let us first define the fallacy of special pleading. Special pleading is an informal fallacy wherein one cites something as an exception to a general or universal principle (without justifying the special exception). This is the application of double-standard.

For someone to commit this fallacy, he must be bound by the rules that he made or the argument that he presented. He must be within that same category. For example, I will argue that stealing is absolutely wrong and I will make an exemption except if you are poor. I am poor, therefore I am exempted. Now, this is a special pleading fallacy because the rule “stealing is wrong” applies universally.

Let us deal with a particular premise and examine it. The premise is, everything that exists has a cause. Now if someone will use this premise to argue against the existence of God, that would be wrong. Rather, everything that begins to exist has a cause. It means that everything begins to exist only because God created them because there is a Creator. In fact, God is the creator, the Christian (Triune) God is the Creator.

Now, a non-believing worldview, most especially, atheism uses this premise to argue against the existence of God or to invalidate the existence of God and call it a special pleading fallacy. Now, the God of Christianity is ever existing. No beginning and no end. He is eternal, without Him, there can be no existence. God is outside the category of those things that begins to exist. as if God did not exist at a particular time then began to exist. In fact, without Him, there can be no time itself.

Therefore, there is no special pleading fallacy committed by the Christians (in making God an Therefore, there is no special pleading fallacy committed by the Christians (for making God an exemption in the premise “everything that exists has a cause“) because the premise is wrong, to begin with. The thing is, atheists commit a strawman fallacy by using a premise that Christians don’t believe.

Let us define the straw man fallacy. The straw-man fallacy occurs when a person misrepresents the position of his opponent and then argues against this counterfeit (“straw man”) position. His argument may be a very good one, but since he is not arguing against that actual point at issue, the argument is therefore irrelevant.

So atheists, are you still going to use this fallacious argumentation. I tell you, it is not gonna work. For Christians, Don’t be afraid to argue against them because most of their arguments are fallacious.

SOLI DEO GLORIA!

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