Since they prefer darkness, God lets them have their way. Into the darkness they go.

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The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen. For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them. ~ Romans 1:18-32

Notice what’s happening. They refuse to acknowledge God. God has been giving them everything they need to survive, and this includes the revelation of reality so they can think and survive. But they refuse to thank God or glorify Him. They turn from the Light into darkness. Their foolish hearts, or minds, become dark. And they can’t see in the dark. Their thinking becomes futile. They think they’re wise, but they start to become fools. Since they prefer darkness, God lets them have their way. Into the darkness they go.

The first chapter of Romans applies also to Christians. You must be intimate with Him. You must be listening to His voice and allowing Him to correct you and have full sway over you. You must acknowledge Him and glorify Him when He speaks. If you are walking in the Spirit and learning to yield to God’s leading in your life, you’re finding out just how difficult it is to do this. How far does God want you to go? He wants you to go all the way with Him.

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Those Who Walk in the Light Will Shine in a Dark World

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As the children of the Light walk into the Light and shine out, those who hate the Light will hate the children of the Light. The Light is Christ Himself flowing out through His people. The righteousness of Christ flows out like Light. Some people love sin and hate righteousness. They turn from the Light and walk into darkness.

Those who hate the Light react when they’re exposed to the Light. They retreat further into the darkness of their own minds. Their senseless minds are darkened. They finally come to the place where they can’t tell virtue from wickedness or what’s real from what’s imaginary. They leave sanity and they’re clever at devising evil plans. You’re seeing this now all around you as it’s playing out before your eyes. It’s why the world is so crazy.

The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen. For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them. ~ Romans 1:18-32

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Some people are walking in the Light

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And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book. Daniel 12:1

Life without Christ eventually leads to closeness to Satan. Even among those who say Satan doesn’t exist, they begin to flow in Satan’s spirit. They start to carry an evil that any follower of Christ can sense. Many of the godless try to walk a line of self-righteousness and virtue signaling. They want to look good without Jesus Christ. However, that way of living is empty, and increasing numbers of ungodly thinkers are turning to the occult in one form or another.
On the other hand, some people are seeking the Light, walking in the Light, and becoming the Light. As Christ said:

You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. ~ Matthew 5:14

The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday. ~ Proverbs 4:18

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They Don’t Want to Listen to Jesus

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Divine Revelation, What They Don’t Want

You can’t use the trilemma to get truth. You can’t use demonic influence to get truth. That leaves divine revelation as the only Source of truth. You can only get divine revelation through Jesus Christ. However, those who hate light and truth won’t listen to Jesus Christ. Christ reveals reality through Scripture and every method of divine revelation mentioned in Scripture.

Those methods of divine revelation mentioned in Scripture never conflict with Scripture. Nor does any part of Scripture conflict with any other part of Scripture. Interpretations (even if they are falsely called “revelations”) may conflict with Scripture and often do, but divine revelation never conflicts with divine revelation. Divine revelation never conflicts with the divine revelation in the Bible.

The arbitrary assumption of Naturalism denies God’s existence, so it denies divine revelation. And yet, every follower of Christ experiences divine revelation. Christ shepherds, coaches, and corrects everyone who follows Him.

Non-believers experience divine revelation too. Since Christ is the Light and He lights every person who comes into the world, every person experiences the Light of Christ. Some people may reject Christ’s Light, but they experience it nonetheless. All who repeatedly fail to acknowledge Christ and thank Him will eventually turn toward darkness. Darkness is what follows when they turn away from the Light. When they turn away from Christ, the darkness becomes gradually more deep. It’s a downward spiral. Eventually, godless thinkers will lose all distinction between good and evil, right and wrong, truth and error, or reality and make-believe. You see this in society as many people are moving toward total insanity. That explains why the world is so crazy. And it’s going to get much worse.

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Here’s the trilemma

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Here’s the trilemma (3 bad choices):

Naturalists have three possible foundations for thought: infinite regression, circular reasoning, and axiomatic thinking (bare claims). These are all fallacies. There’s no truth value in any of them. That creates a problem for syllogistic thinking and science. In essence, Agrippa was claiming to know no one can know anything about anything.

I discussed the trilemma in more depth in the three-volume set titled Real Faith & Reason. I’ll give a short description here. If you want to know more, you can download that three-volume set for free from RealReality.org/downloads.

Five Choices, Not Three

Fortunately, Agrippa’s trilemma is wrong. It’s a false trilemma. The trilemma refutes itself. It falls into the pit it dug for others. Agrippa used one of the three fallacies of the trilemma when he claimed the trilemma exists. Therefore, his trilemma is self-refuting. It disproved itself. That’s just one problem.

Here is a simple example of the self-refuting logic:
1. Take Naturalism as an Axiom. (unproven statement taken as fact without evidence)
2. Commit the Axiomatic Thinking Fallacy. (Make up stuff)
3. Use that Fallacy to Claim “Only 3 Choices Exist.”

Agrippa also missed some information. His trilemma eliminated two choices that go beyond the three he proposed. Five choices exist, not three. The reason he missed two choices is he took the philosophy of Naturalism as an axiom. He committed the axiomatic thinking fallacy. Then he used that fallacy to claim only three choices exist. The trilemma has three horns. One horn is the axiomatic thinking fallacy. That’s why the trilemma refutes itself. And Agrippa left out the two choices that aren’t naturalistic. The trilemma assumes Naturalism. Assumption is one flavor of axiomatic thinking fallacy.

The trilemma only limits ungodly thinkers. Ungodly thinkers take Naturalism as an axiom. Naturalism eliminates the chance for ungodly thinkers to be rational. That makes the trilemma irrational since it’s the product of ungodly thinking. The trilemma leaves out the supernatural. It leaves out divine revelation and demonic influence as possible foundations for thinking. Of those two, only divine revelation can get you to truth.
If you eliminate the axiom of Naturalism, you have the freedom to examine the other two choices. Those two choices are divine revelation and demonic influence.

Then, you have five choices. If you choose infinite regression, circular reasoning, or axiomatic thinking (a fancy way of saying making up stuff), your reasoning will always be irrational. That leaves the two choices: demonic influence or divine revelation.

Demonic influence is real. Part of Naturalism denies this reality. However, this denial of demons also depends on axiomatic thinking. And the denial of demons is also an assertion contrary to fact. Spirits are involved in Wicca, witchcraft, Satanism, the occult, paganism, Neopaganism, religions with multiple gods, religions following impersonal gods, and New Age religions. Those who conjure demons know the demons are real by their experiences with those demons. They might call them helpers, familiar spirits, gods, or other names. They’re demons.

Demonic influence is dangerous. It cannot lead to truth. Therefore, demonic influence will always result in irrational thinking. Demons can be extremely clever and deceptive. They answer to Satan who is the father of all lies.

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The philosophy of “Rationalism” claims human reason in the human mind can conjure knowledge without the benefit of either revelation or observation. The human mind can’t reason to truth, and rational thought depends on truth. Jesus is the Truth, and ALL wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Him.

You might wonder how the philosophy of Rationalism deals with the problem of truth. Some rationalists claim they have built-in and true knowledge they can use as premises for logical arguments. Others say they can grasp certain truths directly. In other words, they believe they can make up stuff, and the made-up stuff is true stuff because of some miraculous ability they have. However, there’s no proof of the philosophy of Rationalism other than a bare claim and circular reasoning. Rationalists make up stuff and use that made-up stuff to “prove” the philosophy of Rationalism. It’s circular support for the claim. In other words, they base their claim “the human mind has built-in and true knowledge” on itself. Rationalism is a circular-reasoning fallacy. For rationalists, all logic resolves to one final premise of “It’s true because I think it’s true.”

Other people believe imagination can self-generate truth. These people use the same loopy logic the Rationalists use to support their claims.

And we’ve already discussed the people who believe no one can know anything, but there’s no proof of that belief either. It’s a self-refuting belief as I’ve already pointed out. These are the skeptics.

In the first century, a man named Agrippa the Skeptic defined a trilemma that no one who assumes Naturalism has successfully refuted in 2,000 years of trying. A trilemma is a problem where only three choices exist, but not one of the choices is a good choice. In this trilemma, all the choices for reasoning are fallacies. You can’t know any truth through fallacies. Agrippa observed this problem. He tried to disprove it, but he wasn’t able to because he assumed Naturalism.

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Three Problems: bare claims, infinite regressions of unproven proofs, circular reasoning.

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All human reasoning ends up in either a bare claim, an infinite regression of unproven proofs, or circular reasoning. Human reasoning can’t be trusted. Jesus can be trusted. All who sincerely seek Him and His will do find Him. If you ask, He will answer you. You must wait in His presence, listen to His voice, and yield to His Spirit to the point of obedience. If we add anything to what Jesus says, we have spoiled it. That includes our interpretations of experiences, conversations, interactions, observations, or even Scripture. The problem is that we sometimes add our preconceived ideas without even realizing we’re doing so.

What is an infinite regression of unproven proofs?

1. Ungodly Thinker: A is true
2. Questioner: How do you know A is true.
3. Ungodly Thinker: A is true because of B
4. Questioner: How do you know B is true.
5. Ungodly Thinker: B is true because of C
6. Questioner: How do you know C is true.
7. Ungodly Thinker: C is true because of D
8. Questioner: How do you know D is true.

The ungodly thinker is no further ahead than when he or she started. That’s why a person without God ends in an infinite regression of unproven proofs. This fallacy is a smokescreen.

Smokescreens cover the real problem. The real problem is the bare claim. Bare claims are axiomatic thinking fallacy. Axiomatic thinking is the art of making up stuff. Smokescreen fallacies are ways to give the illusion that made-up stuff is true stuff. In all cases, ungodly thinker’s premises consist of made-up stuff—if they even bother with premises. Most ungodly thinkers just make bare claims and don’t bother with premises. Some ungodly thinkers use all sorts of smokescreen fallacies to make their bare claims appear reasonable. They generally include one or more smokescreen fallacies to give the illusion their made-up stuff is real stuff. However, it’s not real. It’s just made-up stuff.

We see infinite regression in the idea of citations.  If you ask ChatGPT artificial intelligence how infinite regression applies to citations, ChatGPT’s programming will defend citations.

Here’s part of the answer I got:

Why Citations Aren’t an Infinite Regress

Citations usually trace knowledge back to some foundation. That foundation might be:

Empirical evidence

• Experiments
• Observations
• Measurements
• Statistical data

Artificial Intelligence programs tend to give extremely secular answers when asked this type of question, but they often back down when asked a follow-up question. I asked this question:

Do the citations just cite the experiments, observations, measurements, or statistics or do they also state the conclusions based on those experiments, observations, measurements, or statistics?

Here’s part of the answer I got:

Citations typically do both of these things:

1. Point to facts (data, observations, experiments)
2. Point to conclusions or interpretations drawn from those facts

So the citation refers not just to the data but also to reasoning and conclusions.

I asked a second follow-up question:

Is there any truly empirical evidence given the fact that no one can get outside himself or herself to be objective?

From that, I pulled out this information:

• We can’t be purely objective.
• Peer review can become groupthink.
• Science operates in paradigms.
• Grants are written to get funding, not just to explore truth.
• Researchers may focus on data supporting the funded hypothesis, avoid exploring unexpected results, “torture the data” to find statistically significant findings.

There’s more to this, but the bottom line is that citations are indeed an example of infinite regression.

A solution for infinite regression is to just hook the logic back into itself. That’s called circular reasoning or reasoning in a circle.

We know how old the various rock layers are because of the index fossils in the rocks. And we know how old the index fossils are because of the rock layers they are in.;

Only the material realm exists. Therefore, only what I can physically observe and test exists. Since I can’t observe or test the spiritual realm, the spiritual realm doesn’t exist. Therefore, only the material realm exists.

If ungodly thinkers are skilled persuaders, they might fool you. What they say can seem reasonable. Smokescreen fallacies make it seem reasonable. And yet, where is the proof for what they say? A charming or charismatic person can suck you in, and you may never realize you’re being taken along for a ride into the land of fantasy. Most ungodly persuaders don’t even know they’re lying. They’re sincere as they try to convince you of things that aren’t true. They’re sincerely deluded.

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Proving Proof, Circles, Claims, and Other Smoke

Relativism and postmodernism deceive ungodly thinkers. That’s because ungodly thinking is limited to those philosophies. Without divine leading and divine wisdom, you can’t know anything for certain. Without divine leading and wisdom, no one can reason to true premises. And without true premises, no one can know anything. That’s the trap skeptics have fallen into.

The problem with proving premises is simple but difficult to explain. How do you know your conclusion is true? You have a premise you use to prove your conclusion. How do you know your premise is true? If your premise isn’t true, it can’t prove anything. You need proof for your premise. You need a premise for your premise. How do you know your premise for your premise is true? You need a premise for your premise for your premise. You can never prove your premise is true.

What God says is true. God never has this problem. God can reveal the truth to you and give you discernment so you know He is the One Who is revealing the truth. He shows you He cannot lie and He knows all things. He also reveals He wants to reveal certain truths to you and wants to keep certain truths from you. God is the ultimate authority. He’s the only legitimate authority. Some intellectuals would object since they think they have authority. They don’t.
However, those who don’t want to depend on God and honor Him as God never have a way to reason to true premises. Their proof always needs proving no matter how many layers of logic they lay down. They must prove the third set of premises and the fourth and the fifth and so on. It’s called an infinite regression of unproved proofs. Finally, they usually get confused and confuse everyone else.

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Why do some people say you can’t know absolute truth?

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Why do some people say you can’t know the meaning of life? And why do they say you can’t know absolute truth? It’s because the human mind has no way to reason to true premises on its own.

They don’t consider God.

They eliminate God because they don’t want God and His righteousness. Ungodly thinkers can try to find meaning or truth, but all they do is deceive themselves. Every time they try to reason to a conclusion, the conclusion isn’t conclusive. Every logical argument they make requires further proof. No logic is sound unless the logic begins with truth. And truth only comes by divine revelation. The human mind can’t self-generate truth. Instead, the human mind self-generates made-up stuff. Some people accurately call this naturally-generated product of the human mind hot air or lies. Call it what you will, the human mind can’t self-generate the truth. It generates something else.

And yet, you can find the truth. However, any truth must come from God. You must stand in His presence and listen to His voice. You must yield to His Spirit to the point of righteousness. You must allow God’s love to flow through you.

The human mind can’t reason to anything true unless it starts with truth. Agrippa, Münchausen, and many other philosophers have tried to get around the problem of the inability of the human mind to reason to anything true. They’ve all come up empty. Modern scholars have struggled with this problem without finding a rational solution to it. Most scholars ignore the problem or try to project it onto others without dealing with their own lack of substance and inability to think rationally. Here’s what they ignore. Before they can rationally claim anything, they need a true basis for that claim. They need truth but avoid the obvious answer to their problem. They could have the path to truth. There’s a solution, but they don’t want that solution. They don’t want Jesus Christ and His righteousness. Sadly, they can’t handle the truth.

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If an idea or philosophy conflicts with itself, then it’s called “self-refuting.” To refute is to prove something false or wrong. Skepticism and relativism refute themselves. They prove themselves false. Skepticism and relativism are self-refuting. They are philosophies that demonstrate they aren’t true. The same arguments the skeptics and relativists use to support their claims also prove their claims false. Here’s why skeptical and relativistic thinking is irrational. If “no one can know anything absolutely,” then no one can know “no one can know anything absolutely.” If you “can’t know some things for certain,” then you can’t know for certain you “can’t know some things for certain.” You might have to think about that for a while to understand it. Self-refuting claims tend to confuse most of us. Relativism and skepticism don’t work in the real world since they always refute themselves.

Of course, some thinkers speak only for themselves. They don’t presume to speak for all humanity. They may just assert they don’t know any method by which anyone can have certainty. And it may be they don’t know any method. How sad it would be for them to go through life not knowing anything! They need to know how they can know the important things in life with absolute certainty.

Sound reasoning is impossible without truth. Being rational is all about finding the truth. And yet, many people say truth is too high a goal. They say something like this:

Just surviving is the best you can hope for.
Life can never have real meaning.

Instead of meaning and truth, some people say you should just live for sensual pleasure. That’s called hedonism. It’s just one of many philosophies people invent trying to deal with not having any truth or meaning. Hedonism is an empty philosophy. None of the other godless philosophies work either. You need the truth. You need meaning. No philosophy will give you the truth. You can’t get to the truth through any philosophy. You can get to the truth, but not through any philosophy. Philosophy isn’t the way to truth. Philosophy is a way to deception. Without truth, there’s no hope of sanity. Truth is a Person: Jesus Christ.