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A World of Fallacies

As already demonstrated, ungodly thinkers have to base all their thinking on fallacies. However, that’s not to say ungodly thinkers can’t be successful or can never be right. They can succeed at doing evil as demonic powers, interdimensional beings, spirit guides, work with them. They can succeed because God reveals parts of reality to them through His creation, and He cares for them even though they refuse to acknowledge Him or thank Him. Since they won’t acknowledge God, they can’t tell the difference between the truth God reveals and the fabrications of the fallen human mind. He provided them a brute-beast mind that can reason pragmatically, but it can’t be rational. It can’t consider the truth. It can only guess about what seems to work at the moment.

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It makes sense for ungodly thinkers to avoid scientific issues since science isn’t on their side, and philosophy can’t help them either. We’ve already understood why ungodly thinkers have to base both science and philosophy on fallacies. No one can reason to any truth without God’s revelation. We’ve already seen that ungodly persuaders use words like “science,” “evidence,” and “logic” as magic words, but those words mean “made-up stuff” when ungodly persuaders use them. And we’ve discovered that ungodly thinkers can never think based on substance but always think based on made-up stuff. So when they speak of science, evidence, and logic, they never touch real science, evidence, or logic. Instead, they can only present phantom science, phantom evidence, and phantom logic.

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And though ungodly thinkers like to think logic and science can only work for ungodly people, we found out that just the opposite is the case. They like to believe following Christ is irrational, but not following Christ assures irrational thinking. Given the way logic and reason work, ungodly thinking can’t possibly result in rational thought. Neither logic nor science has any basis in the ungodly thinker’s worldview, but both logic and science make perfect sense for the person Christ is leading, teaching, and correcting. Godly thinking can always give a sane reason for any belief based on divine revelation, but ungodly thinkers can’t present real evidence for their claims. Ungodly thinkers use fallacies to make fake evidence seem real. We’ve fully explored this fact on this journey, but we also find ungodly thinkers continually confirm this to us every time we confront them. In this light, here’s a comment about another debate:

“We, along with two other men, attended the debate anticipating a thorough discussion of the scientific evidences; however, we were sadly mistaken. During over 1 ½ hours of discourse between them the two U.T. professors failed to present one single argument favoring the evolution theory. Mind you, they introduced not one affirmative argument which defended evolution! It was thoroughly disappointing! One would expect, as we did, that men with Ph.D. degrees and supposed specialists in their fields could give at least a defense of the theory.”

“However, their speeches abounded with broad generalizations completely evading the real issue. They constantly strayed into philosophical and religious areas, when the debate was supposed to be centered around scientific information. In fact, they made fun of conservative biblical interpretation and tried to cast reflection on anyone not believing in evolution. Yet the whole time they offered no scientific material to support their opinionated speeches. They repeatedly said they believed evolution to be a better explanation of life than creation, but were utterly destitute of reasons WHY they felt this way!” ~ icr.org

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We’re searching for truth. Ungodly thinkers sometimes try to make this search into a game of wits, but this search isn’t a game. It’s not about winning or losing. It’s about sanity, but ungodly thinkers don’t understand we ought to be searching for truth rather than playing mind games. Without the truth, there is no sanity. No one can know the truth without Christ. Since untruth can’t be rational and no one can know the truth without Christ, ungodly thinking is always irrational.

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Anyone can know Jesus Christ. We know this because we know Him, and He reveals this fact to us. He reveals that whoever seeks Him finds Him. He continues to reveal more of Himself and His will to us. He leads us, corrects us, and purifies us, and we know many people who also know Him and are led by Him in the same way we are.

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Let’s review something we glanced at previously. The English word “logic” comes from the Greek word “logos.” God uses the word “logos” in referring to Jesus Christ in the Bible—Jesus is the Logos. “In the beginning was the Word [Logos], and the Word [Logos] was with God, and the Word [Logos] was God.” ^{(John 1:1)} And Jesus is also the Truth. ^{(John 14:6)} Since truth is another word for reality, Jesus is the Reality. The word “science” comes from the Latin to know. “Science” means knowledge, and all knowledge is hidden in Christ. ^{(Colossians 2:3)} Christ Jesus is the revealer of the scientific method and the revealer of science (knowledge). He leads us into truth and righteousness. (end quote)

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Divine Revelation and Logic

So we’ve already seen that truth must support sound logic. Without truth, logic isn’t sound but rather is irrational. And while unsound reasoning can’t lead to certainty, sound reasoning does lead to certainty.

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Through the Bible, God tells us about the ways He speaks. Every utterance of God is refined. But we don’t add to His words, lest He reprove us and we be found to be liars. ^{(Proverbs 30:5-6)} The Father sends the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Ghost teaches us just as He teaches everyone who’s following Christ. ^{(John 14:26)} The Holy Spirit testifies of Jesus. ^{(John 15:26)} He’ll show us things to come and guide us into all truth if we continue to listen to Him. ^{(John 16:13)} When we’re weak, He helps us. He even intercedes for us when we don’t know how to pray. ^{(Romans 8:26)}

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God didn’t delegate the responsibility to discern divine revelation without giving us the power to discern. The fallen human mind can’t tell the difference between divine revelation and a clever fake. Discernment isn’t innate in us, but the Holy Spirit must live and move in us for His power to work. The Holy Spirit in us is the power to discern if we’re in submission to Him. Therefore, revelation is direct and doesn’t use our human interpretation of God’s revelation. If we’re rebellious, if we try to be independent of the Holy Spirit, we won’t have discernment. If we continue to interpret after God reveals, our interpretation twists what God revealed. So the double-minded person, the person who tries to follow both the human mind and the mind of Christ, receives nothing from the Lord. Double-minded thinkers twist and distort whatever they receive. And that’s why those who lean on their own minds cannot receive God’s revelation.

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” ~ Proverbs 3:5-6 Authorized King James Version

We receive this trusting as a gift since we can’t trust God through human effort. Faith is free. It comes from God as He leads us. God gives faith and Christ is the Author of this faith. So when we stand in His presence in deep respect for Him and submission to Him, He speaks to us. And when we hear and acknowledge Him, faith comes by hearing Him. If we resist Him, He won’t force Himself or His wisdom on us.

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So only the Holy Spirit can reveal the meaning of Scripture. And it’s not just Scripture, but when the Holy Spirit interprets any observation, experience, or revelation, the Spirit pulls our fleshly veils away so we can see reality as it is. The Holy Spirit never adds anything from unreality. On the other hand, when we interpret observation, experience, or revelation, we go beyond observation, experience, and revelation. We add some thoughts of unreality. We may even add unreality by failing to see something from the observation, experience, or revelation. Or we may deny some part of it. The fallen human mind may claim this process of adding unreality is reasonable. Technically, it’s a form of reasoning, but it’s not sane reasoning or sound reasoning. It’s insane since we can’t manufacture truth. We can only manufacture lies. We must get truth from somewhere. All truth is hidden in Christ. The Holy Spirit must reveal it to us. When the human mind tries to manufacture information, it just makes up stuff and calls the made-up stuff “true.”

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