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The Source of Knowledge

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On this trip, we’re going to island-hop from one supposed way of knowing to another. And we’ll start with a proposed way of knowing called “the scientific method.” Then we’ll proceed through several other proposed ways of knowing. In the process, we’ll learn something about how to know truth. Likewise, we’ll also expose the foolishness of some of these proposed ways of knowing.

We’ve already established the fact that all knowledge is hidden in Christ Jesus and that there’s no other source. We’ve also seen that made-up stuff is the only alternative to revealed knowledge. We’ve learned that worldviews, confirmation bias, and the axiomatic thinking fallacies cause a form of insanity. We also understand that the human mind can’t self-generate knowledge.

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Ever Learning but Never Coming to a Knowledge of the Truth

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The apostle Paul wrote prophetically about perilous times when people would love pleasure more than they love God. And Paul went on to say they would be “ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of the truth.” (2 Timothy 3:1-7) From this Scripture, we see that it’s possible to learn untrue concepts and ideas, and in those cases, the words “education” and “learning” don’t apply to anything real. Education without truth is brainwashing and indoctrination. It educates students into ignorance and keeps them from knowing how to tell the difference between good and evil, truth and error, or reality and make-believe. So, many courses that propose to teach this difference fall short of it, but they encourage irrational thinking instead.

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Proposed Fake Paths to Knowledge

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We hear some thinkers speak of various forms of knowledge such as the following:
 
  • a posteriori knowledge
  • a priori knowledge
  • dispersed knowledge
  • domain knowledge
  • empirical knowledge
  • encoded knowledge
  • explicit knowledge
  • known unknowns
  • meta-knowledge
  • procedural knowledge
  • propositional knowledge
  • descriptive knowledge
  • declarative knowledge
  • situated knowledge
  • tacit knowledge
  • non-propositional knowledge
  • logical knowledge
  • semantic knowledge
  • systemic knowledge
 
The problem is that not one of these supposed forms of “knowledge” can get us to knowledge of the truth. When we examine each of them, we find hot air and no foundation for truth. Then the same people talk about concepts such as the following:
 
  • coherence theory of truth
  • correspondence theory of truth
  • pragmatic theory of truth
  • semantic theory of truth
  • redundancy theory of truth
  • logical empiricism to reason to truth
However, not one of these concepts can get us to knowledge of the truth either.
 
And then there are those who claim to know that no truth can be known, but they’re refuting themselves. Their claim is internally conflicted. Plus, they’re claiming to know the status of every person who has ever lived. They’re denying that God knows all things, cannot lie, and reveals truth to those who seek Him. But they’re making that denial based on a bare claim. They’re just making it up and claiming that it’s true. They have no basis in fact. They’re claiming to know the spiritual experience of every person who ever lived, and they’re gaslighting millions of followers of Christ to whom Jesus Christ reveals absolute, though partial, truth. In other words, they’re claiming to be omniscient, knowing all things. But they’re lying to us.
 
And these are the experts on knowledge. They know nothing about truth, and they teach in universities.
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ALL Knowledge is Hidden in Christ Jesus

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Let’s get obvious again. There’s a difference between knowledge and opinion. Unfortunately, this difference isn’t always clear. Reality is real and excludes all unreality. Knowledge is knowledge because it’s certainty about reality and truth. However, if we can’t know truth with certainty, everything is vapor. So without certainty, what poses as discussion merely attempts to manipulate others and gain control over them.
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We Need You, Lord

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We can see that, in our own strength, we can’t overcome our tendency to fall into error. We need You, Lord. Help us to know You better. Take away the barriers that we have set up, barriers that keep us from knowing You in a more intimate way than we have ever imagined. Amen.
 
This leg of our quest finally ventures into the territory of knowing, and we’ll travel all the way to truth. So we must leave the land of opinions behind us and firmly take hold of reality.
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Truth is Absolute

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<quote from Real Faith & Reason, vol 2> Truth is absolute by nature even if incomplete. And truth excludes all made-up stuff and everything false. Fortunately, there’s a way to have truth, and this way is knowing the Person Who is Truth. Outside of Him, no one can have truth, which is why ungodly thinkers are forced to rely on fallacies if they refuse to acknowledge Him. And we can only have a true premise by divine revelation. That’s why, without divine revelation, we lose touch with reality. <end quote> #RealFaith&Reason Have you read this FREE book yet? “Real Faith & Reason” gives the absolutely certain proof of the Bible and the God of the Bible and shows how you can have real faith. This is faith that changes situations and transfigures you from glory to glory. Amazon sells it, but you can get your FREE copy of Real Faith & Reason, which shows the intersection of faith, reason, truth, and sanity. http://RealReality.org/Real_Faith_and_Reason_Vol_2_-_Scientia.pdf

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Irrational Thinkers

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We’ve looked at several ways thinkers lose touch with reality. However, irrational thinkers can find hundreds of creative ways to lose touch with reality, and we’ve only mentioned a few. Each of these ways confuses made-up stuff with reality. All these ways blur the distinction between what’s real and what’s not real. Fallacies are the mechanisms used to blur this distinction. We can sort all fallacies into two types: axiomatic thinking and smokescreen. Axiomatic thinking and smokescreen fallacies are the problems. The solution is reasoning from a true premise and never adding made-up stuff to our reasoning.
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They Rejected Light

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 “And most of all, as I said to you, the Bible says that if you come to God believing that He is, He’ll reveal Himself to you. You’ll know. If you search out the truth, you really want God to show you as you search out the silver and gold, He will show you. He will reveal Himself to you.” ~ Ken Ham

This quote is the strongest point Ken made during the Nye-Ham debate as Ken is referring to divine revelation and talking about a relationship with Christ. However, inner bias (idola specus) is the reason that ungodly thinkers refuse to “come to God believing that He is.” They don’t want Him to “reveal Himself to” them. So they won’t receive Him but reject Him instead. They refuse to “search out the truth” because they don’t want the truth but rather love a lie. And, as we’ve seen, this truth isn’t just a Christian opinion or Ken’s opinion, but it’s how God explains it:

“And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness more than light, because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be clearly seen that what he has done has been accomplished in God.” ~ John 3:19-21 Berean Study Bible

Anyone can test what Ken described, but no ungodly thinker gives us a way we could prove any of their assumptions. Instead, we’re just supposed to take their word for those assumptions, but mostly, they hide their assumptions from us using smokescreens to conceal the made-up stuff or to make made-up stuff seem real.

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We Are Saved From Sin

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Some people desire to know and obey God. They’re thankful to Him, listen to His leading, and accept His corrections that conflict with their hardened false beliefs. They glorify Him and forgive those who hurt them without trying to get even. Of course, they also battle a fleshly nature that’s contrary to God. Salvation overcomes this fleshly nature and sets us free from it. If we’re redeemed, we’re set free. While Christ completed the work on the cross, we allow Him to apply His work to our lives, but He doesn’t force us against our wills. Rather, we allow Him to change us by believing and following Him as He gives us the power to believe Him, do His will, and follow Him. Our part is receiving this power.
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Why Not Come to Jesus?

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God tells us why some people don’t want to acknowledge Him. They love unrighteousness and enjoy engaging in sin. They don’t want God to expose that sin or to be in control of their lives. When we think of unrighteousness or sin, we may think of a certain sin or a certain form of unrighteousness. However, God defines sin as straying from the Way, and that Way is Jesus Christ, so any thought or act not guided by the Holy Spirit is a sin. When we want to do our own wills, we want to sin.
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