There’s a difference between presupposition and what is empirical. The word, “empirical,” means “by experience.” You see, every person who follows Christ is led and taught by the Holy Spirit moment by moment. That’s my experience, too. We all experience His Divine revelation as it’s imparted. However, without Christ and His revelation, no one can ever truly know the difference between reality and make-believe. It’s not that God doesn’t reveal truth to them. He does or they would quickly die. But the Münchausen trilemma makes them process all thoughts by lumping revelation with presupposition, simply because they refuse to acknowledge God or to be thankful to Him. For this reason, the contrast in thinking is between made-up stuff and Divine revelation. People can, of course, deny Divine revelation. That is a universal negative fallacy based on nothing but an unsupported assertion. You can see the problem with Secularist thinking, can’t you?
Now, God speaks through Scripture and every method mentioned in Scripture. Satan and the human mind work together with counterfeits of everything real that God uses to bring us to His good purpose. How can we avoid being deceived. Here’s the way. Know Him. Whoever seeks Him finds Him. The Father knows how to give good gifts to His children. If you’re looking for a spiritual experience, that’s what you’ll get. However, if you are looking for Christ and His righteousness, then you’ll be satisfied. You’ll receive the Spirit of Christ from the Father.
Most, if not all, of us end up on both sides of this equation. We are impure. We don’t fully desire God’s will. We all have a fleshly nature. The flesh desires comfort, money, power, ecclesiastical success, recognition, respect, honor, prestige, glory, pleasure, independence, and many other things rather than desiring God’s will. The Christ nature, Christ in us, the hope of glory, desires God’s will. Each of us must turn our will toward Christ rather than toward our fleshly nature and our carnal mind. Then, we will be able to seek first the Kingdom of God. That will assure that our hearts will be prepared to hear God’s Voice and to respond in submission.
To be sure, this isn’t an instant fix. God describes it as an experience that goes from glory to glory. As we all with open face, beholding as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. There is a veil that is naturally in front of our faces. That veil is the fleshly nature. We must deny it and look into the glass, that mirror, and see the glory of the Lord. Then, we are changed into the same image. He shows us who we are in Him. We see how we fit into the Body of Christ. We see what He is leading us in right at the moment. We’re learning to see better as the flesh dies away. The flesh dies away in the presence of the Holy Spirit. The flesh dies away as we yield the members of our Body to His free gift of righteousness. The very thing that kills the flesh is also building up the Christ and making us alive to Christ. In this way, we make progress moment by moment as we are led by the Holy Spirit and as we yield ourselves to Him in willing submission.
As we become familiar with Christ, we begin to notice differences between self-confidence and the certainty that we call “faith.” We immediately notice the difference between God’s Voice and the demonic voices, but we also begin to discern between human voices and the Divine. We hear the Holy Spirit bringing Scripture to our remembrance to refute the lies of our own minds or the minds of others. We also begin to recognize the difference between the Peace that Jesus gives and the peace that the world, the human mind, the human flesh, or the deceiver gives. ?This is how discernment is imparted and how we are changed.
