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?”

“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