Spiritual importance, continued:

• “If you really believe the Bible, then I suppose you believe in slavery and stoning rebellious children as the Bible teaches.”

• “What about my dear Grandmother who died without being baptized? Are you really saying that baptism is necessary for salvation?”

  • Romans 6:3-4; Luke 16:30-31

• “Since the inerrancy of Scripture is a divisive doctrine, we should reject it.”

• “Most scientists believe in evolution.”

• “I know what Matthew 19:3-9 says, but don’t you think God wants us to be happy? You don’t think He wants His people to be stuck in miserable marriages, do you?”

• “Which would you rather believe in – God or evolution?”

• “Which would you rather believe in – a God who saves everyone or just some?”

What is it?

• “A person commits the fallacy of bifurcation when he or she claims that there are only two mutually exclusive possibilities – which, in fact, there is a third option (or more).”

• See John 9:1-3. “The key to avoiding the dilemma is simply to find the third alternative.”

• If there truly is no third option, then no fallacy is committed.

  • For example, Matthew 12:30 commits no fallacy.

  • Matthew 21:25