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Human thought pulls ideas out of imagination, which is haphazard. Divine revelation isn’t haphazard. For instance, God reveals reality to us through Scripture like the history of the universe. He defines right and wrong. He tells us about the future. He reveals the order for the Church, marriage, and families. He also explains the ways to get close to Him. He shows us the ways He speaks and leads.

God teaches us reality through the Bible, but only under certain conditions. We must stand in His presence and depend on Him to interpret the Bible.  We must avoid leaning on human ability to understand the Bible. The so-called “human ability to understand” doesn’t work. This so-called “ability” is always based on made-up stuff. Made-up stuff is haphazard.

How different when we follow the Holy Spirit! As we walk in submission to the Holy Spirit, we walk in submission to those ministries and offices God has appointed over us in the Church where the Holy Spirit indicates. In other words, the Holy Spirit even leads us to find the right counselors and teachers, the ones God sets to lead us.

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Is it possible to always be rational, to never lapse into irrational thinking, to never commit any fallacy? It is possible even though it seems impossible. It seems impossible since each of us has two minds. These two minds are in a battle to the death. As Christians, we each have a natural, carnal mind, and we also have the mind of Christ. But we can’t reconcile these two minds. So we’re limited this way. And yet the Holy Spirit will lead us to the vision He provides. And He Who started a good work in us will continue to complete it. ^{(Philippians 1:6)} He’ll complete it in everyone who’s willing. So He continues the work. He continues until we come to the unity of the faith and knowledge of the Son of God. All must come to unity as one complete man. We must continue to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. ^{(Ephesians 4:11-13)}

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In our individual walks, we Christ-followers do wander from the way and do commit fallacies sometimes. If we would only say and think what the Holy Spirit gives us, we would never commit any fallacies. We wouldn’t commit fallacies since we would have a Foundation for thought.

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Well, if learning about logic and fallacies isn’t going to help, how do we keep persuaders from deceiving us? The answer is simple. We keep our eyes on Jesus. We don’t get distracted. We listen to Christ’s voice. We ask Him to make our hearts soft toward Him. We spend time with Him in prayer. We ask Him to create a hunger for His righteousness within us. We don’t get proud but remain humble and teachable, realizing God has much more to show us. We avoid ungodly counselors wherever they may be whether in print, in classes, on TV, or on the radio. We avoid them when they come through movies, music, or self-help resources. Whenever God puts a check in our hearts, we pay attention. You may even find ungodly counselors in some churches, but only the Holy Spirit can give you the sensitivity to avoid them.

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The ungodly refuse to thank God or glorify Him. And yet, the unthankfulness of the ungodly doesn’t stop God from taking care of them. Indeed, God preserves them so they have the opportunity to reach out to Him. (Acts 17:27) He loves them so. God reached out to us who now know Him. He reached out to us while we were still in total rebellion against Him. When we step off the way and step into rebellion, the Good Shepherd does whatever it takes to bring us back to the way. Therefore, we should rejoice when He does the same for those others who are in full rebellion against Him.

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There’s a reason ungodly thinkers can only understand the terms superficially but have no understanding of how to apply those memorized definitions rationally. Though they know all these concepts about logic and fallacies, they don’t know the basics of truth. Since they refuse to acknowledge God, they can’t know the difference between what they’re making up and what God reveals. They can’t discern between good and evil, truth and error, or reality and make-believe. They’re willingly ignorant. They’ve suppressed the truth in their unrighteousness [deceitful trickery]. And God has turned them over to their own reprobate minds. They only have opinions. They have nothing other than their opinions. However, that doesn’t stop them from being dogmatic or from calling their opinions “facts.” Even when they admit they know nothing as the skeptics do, this admission doesn’t stop them from scoffing at God and ridiculing those who follow God. On the contrary, the ungodly are increasingly irrational, violent, and vehement in fighting against sanity and goodness.

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Memorizing hundreds of fallacies has no power to keep anyone from deception. For several reasons, people who study logic are often more blinded by illusion than those who don’t study logic. For one, those who memorize fallacies often don’t understand the terms. They passed the test in school. They don’t understand how to apply those memorized definitions rationally. They accuse others of committing fallacies when those people haven’t committed fallacies. And they can’t see their own fallacies. They twist the rules of logic to fit their desired conclusions. They blatantly use fallacies to prove their points. They begin every bit of reasoning with bare claims. That’s how they deceive others. Mostly, they deceive themselves.

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Humans invest an amazing amount of time and effort trying to know the truth. But ungodly thinkers can never find truth regardless of their efforts since ungodly thinkers refuse to acknowledge God. Logic and epistemology classes teach about valid form and many fallacies, but that doesn’t help. It’s still easy to make statements that seem true when they’re not true since the flesh finds many ways to deceive human minds. All godless thinking fails because godless thinkers can’t have a premise they know is true.

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Ungodly thinkers make no distinction between revealed truth and made-up stuff. They think every thought comes from assumptions. However, assumptions consist of made-up stuff. So they make up stories to pretend it’s sane to base thinking on assumptions. That’s why they can believe the lies they like as firmly as they believe the revealed truth they like. They deny the lies they don’t like with the same confidence they deny the truth they don’t like. Alternately, they try to play mind games with the definition of the word “assumption” and confuse the issue. Of course, Christians are in the same mess when we follow rationalized theologies, organizations, or intellects instead of following God’s leading.

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Ungodly thinkers often are right in their conclusions because God reveals reality to them just as He reveals reality to every person. However, they refuse to give Him glory or to acknowledge Him for His gift to them. And we understand that when God says He reveals Himself to every person, He includes those who resist Him. ^{(Romans 1:19-20)} So, even those who resist Him have revelation of right and wrong, yet they refuse to acknowledge God because they love darkness rather than light. ^{(John 3:19)} God reveals right and wrong to them, but they can only react pragmatically to what God reveals since they refuse to acknowledge God. They refuse to acknowledge the source of knowledge, so they don’t distinguish between what God reveals and what brute-beast minds fabricate. And because they don’t want to worship God or serve Him, God turns them over to their own reprobate minds. ^{(Romans 1:28)} They also know that they’ll receive judgment for the things they do, and yet they do them. ^{(Romans 1:30)}

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