Absolute Materialism Threatens Christianity

Absolute Materialism In general, the phrase “materialism” is used to refer to metaphysical theories regarding the nature of reality. Absolute materialism holds that matter is the only reality in the world whose conditions and activities render meaning to every event in the universe (Knight, 2012). Put simply, absolute materialism commits to the following principle; that all that exists is ultimately physical – that matter contains electrons, protons, atoms, and molecules, all of which are bound by continuous physical processes that are reducible. To this effect, absolute materialism passionately denies that immaterial substances such as minds exist, and, instead explains them as being mere motions of material things
How Absolute Materialism Threatens Christianity To understand how absolute materialism threatens Christianity, there is a need to first understand how Christianity views the existence of things (referring to both material and immaterial). According to Knight (2012), Christianity believes in the existence of a Supreme Being, God, who is the creator of things. God …show more content…
In contrast, Islam believes that the opposite of spirituality is materialism, which it defines as the mere focusing on surface appearances. From the Islamic perspective, absolute materialism offers the notion that the understanding of the world can only be discussed from a materialistic point of view. In contrast, Islam holds that such understanding of the world from a materialistic viewpoint is greatly limited by nature because nature itself is incapable of generating organisms with minds capable of comprehending it. Instead, Islam, like Christianity and Judaism, asserts the position of one true supreme God who is the creator of the universe and the giver of life, without whose control the operations and functions within the universe would cease to