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How Did Science Lose God?

Posted on March 10, 2021March 10, 2021 by Petros

A Little History

Why do scientists dogmatically eliminate the Bible and God from science? How did society come to believe in naturalism, materialism, and uniformitarianism? Let’s briefly explore what happened. We have to go way back.

The church started on the right foot. It followed the order God established for about 200 years. Then, it bowed to fear and slowly started making changes. Satan brought in challenges and politics, and he was able to plant new ideas that conflicted with Scripture. Over the centuries, the church turned from the pattern of God as revealed in Scripture. Then, the church became part of the secular government and gained political and coercive power. That power was concentrated in a few ruling individuals who were no longer walking according to God’s pattern. Power allows the fleshly nature to perform its corrupt purposes. The warped church became oppressive.

God never forces Himself on anyone, but the church now had the coercive power of government. It began to force “conversions.” It began to brutalize anyone who expressed any disagreement with the unbiblical church leadership. And many people grew tired of it.

This distorted church also rationalized religious-sounding ideas into science and often weighed in on the wrong side of science. A lawyer, Charles Lyell, who was interested in geology, came up with a plan. He wrote that he wanted to “free the science from Moses.” Lawyers are good at “proving” things and persuading others. And Lyell did just that. He introduced an assumption called “uniformitarianism.” He assumed the Genesis Flood never happened. He filtered geology through this lens of “no Flood.” Then, he made some blunders in his observations and came up with an extended age for the earth. A few years later, a theology student named Charles Darwin built on these ideas and sold the idea of evolutionism to the scientific community.

Neither Lyell nor Darwin based their ideas on observations. They did observe. However, their ideas added made-up stuff to what they observed. They based their ideas on storytelling. Skillful storytelling can easily influence the human mind.

Lyell and Darwin worked with others to remove God and the Bible from science and history. Once they did that, dogmatism and resistance to God cemented the new unscientific distortion of “no God” as “essential for science.” From there, naturalism, materialism, and uniformitarianism crept into society. Naïve people in the media had already exalted science as unquestionable and promoted these three unfounded lies as “science,” deceiving many. Deceived teachers began teaching these lies in schools. Spiritually dead politicians, bureaucrats, and judges established them as laws and regulations. These lies even slithered into the thinking of Christians.

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Naturalism

Posted on March 9, 2021March 9, 2021 by Petros

The Assumption of Naturalism

It’s sane to do a thought experiment. We could say, “Just suppose for a moment naturalism was part of reality.” We would be doing a thought experiment. It would be sane. Paul used similar logic about the resurrection when he said, “And if Christ has not been raised, then also our preaching is void, and your faith is void.” On the other hand, it’s not sane to think naturalism is part of reality. And it’s insane to think naturalism is obvious. Naturalism is just an arbitrary assumption—a false assumption by the way.

If we absorb this assumption into our minds, it becomes part of our worldviews. We cement this assumption into our viewpoints. The assumption seems more real than reality. For Christians, presupposing naturalism creates a devastating inner conflict. It’s the conflict between the reality of Christ in us and the fake reality of the naturalistic worldview.

For those who don’t know Christ, the worldview creates a unified captivating illusion. Only a miracle can release the captive from insanity. Those enslaved by naturalism need the Holy Spirit.

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Naturalism and Materialism

Posted on March 7, 2021March 7, 2021 by Petros

We’re not immune from the pressure of the world systems to enforce naturalistic thinking. The world-systems pressure us to doubt the real God even though we sense His presence, He shows us what’s right or wrong, and He’s our constant friend. The culture pressures us to think of Jesus as an idea or theory rather than knowing His reality. It tells us to think of our beings as natural rather than spiritual. Intricate indoctrination devices pressure us to lean on human understanding rather than noticing God in all our ways. However, we can’t know anything through naturalism. Only through Christ can we know anything. That’s why naturalism is a great hurdle to sanity.

Both naturalism and materialism destroy rational thought. Both are assumptions. Both eliminate the possibility of knowing the truth about anything. We can’t detect, experience, or know either assumption. They aren’t real. They both deny God, though we can detect, experience, and know God. And yet, both assumptions influence the thinking of every person.

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Naturalistic Science

Posted on March 6, 2021March 6, 2021 by Petros

In Christ is hidden all wisdom and Knowledge. He is the truth. We need truth to think rationally. Without Christ, we base our thoughts on made-up stuff. We’re learning to listen to His voice and yield to His righteousness.

Naturalistic science works on the level of an animal mind, reacting to sense-data but incapable of rational reasoning.

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Naturalism Denies God

Posted on March 5, 2021March 5, 2021 by Petros

The idea that God can’t reveal reality to us is part of naturalism. The Bible says God leads us. The Bible says the Holy Spirit teaches us. The Bible says all wisdom and knowledge come from God. The Bible doesn’t glorify or direct us to follow what comes out of our own minds, hearts, or fleshly nature.

Naturalists have exerted tremendous effort to rig society against anything that conflicts with naturalism. As a result, ungodly people accept naturalism as fact. These persuaders even influence those of us who follow Christ.

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Can Naturalism be a Way of Knowing?

Posted on March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 by Petros

Naturalism as a Way of Knowing

For many decades, ungodly persuaders have been using education, entertainment, news media, and other propaganda to indoctrinate students in naturalism. Not only so, but they also falsely claim we need naturalism for science and knowledge when naturalism destroys science and knowledge.

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Ontic Fallacy Final

Posted on March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 by Petros

“Ontological Observation as a Way of Knowing” from “Real Faith & Reason” (End of Series)

Ontic Fallacy : Thinking we can get knowledge through raw perceptions. Ignoring the filter of the human sensory and worldview limitations. Ignoring how this filter affects perception.

Imagining we can be objective. Thinking we can avoid bias.

Purely objective perception doesn’t happen. We just can’t get outside ourselves to be objective. Bias seems like reality so we have trouble telling the difference between reality and make-believe.

“Now, what we found is that public school textbooks present the evolutionary tree as ‘science’, but reject the Creation orchard as religion. However, observational science confirms the Creation orchard, so public school textbooks are rejecting observational science and imposing a naturalistic religion on students. The word evolution has been hijacked, using a bait and switch, to indoctrinate students to accept evolutionary belief as observational science.” ~ Ken Ham

Ken Ham pointed out the conflict between observation and the ungodly evolutionary tree. He exposed the way textbooks use the bait-and-switch fallacy to brainwash students. The ontic fallacy makes evolutionists believe they’re thinking and observing objectively. They don’t realize the shared evolutionistic worldview is a filter, and they aren’t aware they’re shoehorning observations into the evolutionary tree.

Of course, we’re just using evolution as an example. The ontic fallacy causes problems for us as humans. It limits us. It deceives us.

We see a group of diplomats accusing the President of the United States of wrong-doing, but they’re all just repeating the gossip of one man. When some elected representatives get to question this one diplomat, they ask him whether he’s actually heard these accusations from anyone or seen any evidence of these accusations. The diplomat says he has not. The elected representative tells the diplomat he has nothing. The diplomat replied, “Other than my presumption!” The elected representative says, “Which is nothing.” The diplomat looks shocked to find out his presumption isn’t the same thing as reality. That’s the ontic fallacy at work.

The same thing happens whether observing political activities, parts of nature, or the Bible. One man had the idea. He thought the Holy Spirit is not God. He thought he saw that in the Bible. When challenged about his interpretation of the Bible, he said he doesn’t interpret the Bible. He just reads it as it is. That’s the ontic fallacy.

Fortunately, we have a way we can bypass our human limitations, but only God can do it. God bypasses human limitations through divine revelation, so the Almighty God overcomes the ontic fallacy. He alone can overcome our human inability to find the truth. He overcomes our weakness when we submit to the Holy Spirit. Then He pulls back the fleshly veil so we can see. We may wish this would happen all at once, but He leads us step by step.

God also uses the body of Christ to keep us from deceiving ourselves. Humility is in order. We must be willing to accept correction from our brothers and sisters. No one has a superior pipeline into the mind of God. Many have thought God given them a revelation when God didn’t tell them anything. We have the historical examples of Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, and many others who caused damage and defamed anyone who disagreed with their “revelations.” God built wonderful safety into the order and pattern we find in Scripture. God is restoring that order and pattern, but we’re used to the unscriptural systems we’ve seen all our lives. In theological disputes, we should never be so sure of ourselves that we’re unwilling to allow the Holy Spirit to correct us. Often, the Holy Spirit will speak to us through a brother or sister.

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Ontic Fallacy Causes Disconnect

Posted on March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 by Petros

Continuing “Ontological Observation as a Way of Knowing” from “Real Faith & Reason”

Ontic Fallacy : Thinking we can get knowledge through raw perceptions. Ignoring the filter of the human sensory and worldview limitations. Ignoring how this filter affects perception.

Imagining we can be objective. Thinking we can avoid bias.

In contrast to evolutionistic claims, real observations show kinds of living organisms at the level of families and only show variations within the kinds. For instance, we find variations within the cat kind, but we find no examples of cats turning into non-cats. And yet some people think they see ontological evidence for these stories about supposed past events when they only see a vision that comes out of their own deceitful minds.

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They Became Fools

Posted on March 1, 2021March 1, 2021 by Petros

Since only God sees all and knows all, only God can reveal truth.

Evolutionists often claim to observe the stories of evolutionism. However, they can’t observe the stories of evolutionism. They can’t observe molecules turning into people. They can’t observe billions of years. They can’t observe big bangs forming the universe. They can’t observe life springing from non-life. They can’t observe an evolutionary tree. They tell us about the evolutionary tree of life. And yet, they only show us an imagined concept in a drawing, animation, chart, or presentation. We wouldn’t think anyone would believe the stories, but evolutionists have hypnotized many. Some people believe they’ve seen this tree. They’ve only seen people telling stories and presenting evidence of possibility while hiding assumptions and evidence of impossibility.

The ontic fallacy causes blindness and dogmatism. Blindness grows into boldness. Then people think they see proof when they don’t see proof. Many people think they see the unobservable past. And when they realize they’re just making up the whole illusion, they justify making up stories and calling the stories “observations.”

Evolutionists and scientists commit the ontic fallacy. Theologians and philosophers do it. This is a human weakness, and we all deceive ourselves sometimes. We confuse make-believe with reality when we decide what to believe. We do it when watching the news, reading, or talking with friends. This problem is everywhere. There’s only one solution to it. Here’s the solution. We need to stop adding to what God tells us and listen intently to Him. We need to stop leaning on our brute-beast minds and worldviews.

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