A religiously unequivocal universe.

I just finished reading John Hick’s “Interpretation of Religion” for REL 101, which puts forth the epistemological and metaphysical underpinnings of a pluralistic hypothesis. Hick’s Real is the true ultimate reality, of which the world religions are phenomenal manifestations. What was most striking to me was his position that the universe is religiously ambiguous and can as easily support a naturalist interpretation and a religious one. From this, Hick concludes that both theism, nontheism, and antitheism are rational positions. Many apologists in the Christian church, in taking an evidentialist methodology of defending theism, both cede ground to the secularist by implicitly accepting that nature does not so blatantly proclaim God that man cannot but suppress the truth (Rom. 1:19) and cede ground to the non-Christian theist by trying to prove a “generic” God that is consistent with the natural revelation yet not Trinitarian. Instead, the Christian should bring reason under the dominion of Scripture and accept unequivocally that all men know God, but refuse to worship Him as they ought. Moreover, one cannot be rational without presupposing the Trinitarian God of the Bible. All other schools of philosophy other than the school of Christ cannot be rationally coherent.