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The human mind isn’t the source of any truth. In me, that is in my flesh, dwells no good thing. And yet, God does anoint people with certain skills and wisdom. Often, the people God anoints are unaware of the Source of their blessings. Sometimes, they take the glory to themselves.
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Anyone who tries to reason beyond his or her senses without the light of Christ is going to be irrational because of the way truth and logic work. The further people extend reasoning beyond what they observe and test, the more irrational they become.
God reveals Himself to every person, so no one has an excuse. God also reveals Himself to atheists and agnostics. They know. Deep down inside, they know and often react in anger toward even the concept of God.
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Although Christ shows even unbelievers the difference between good and evil, ungodly thinkers can’t tell the difference between divine revelation and made-up stuff. That’s because, in failing to acknowledge the voice of Christ and neglecting to thank Him for His divine revelation, they think God’s truth and the vagaries of the human mind are the same. They make no distinction between the two. They attribute God’s truth to a source other than God.
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Ungodly thinkers can survive by finding out what works. They can be quite clever and creative. At the same time, they can’t reason rationally beyond what they can observe and test.
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Some ungodly thinkers claim to know God doesn’t reveal anything to anyone. They give various arguments, but they always base their claims on made-up stuff. Every argument against the Bible or the God of the Bible is based on made-up stuff. It’s always divine revelation versus made-up stuff.
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Ungodly thinkers often stoop to defending the art of making up stuff and basing reasoning on made-up stuff. Then, since they can make up anything, their adventure into fantasy land can go anywhere.
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Scholars tell us about various methods by which we supposedly can “know” about reality. Most of the methods intellectuals propose for finding the truth actually deceive us. Christ often shows us truths through scientific observation and testing, Scripture, math, and other means, but it’s still Christ Who is revealing reality. And yet some people claim Christ’s glory for themselves and fail to thank Christ. Without Christ, we can know nothing. Our minds can even misinterpret the Bible if our minds aren’t depending on the Holy Spirit. How much more do we misinterpret scientific observations when our interpretations depend on made-up stuff (assumptions, axioms, or preconceptions)?
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Sometimes, persuaders define nonexistent concepts in great detail as if they existed. Sometimes persuaders define real things in ways that cause confusion and deception.
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All kinds of ideas come to an unsuspecting mind. These ideas come from many sources. They come from friends, teachers, and many forms of media. These ideas can seem real when multiple sources repeat the same lies.
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Human senses are weak and tricky and that makes human interpretations of observations or experiences unreliable. Human appetites, preferences, and preconceptions create biases. The biases deceptively concoct stories. They make up notions beyond reality. They filter the ability to see reality as it is. That bias acts like a filter that controls interpretation, which, in turn, confirms the bias and reinforces the appetites, preferences, and preconceptions.
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