Ever Brighter!

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We intuitively know that Jesus Christ is the Source, so we walk in the Spirit. Walking in the Spirit, we proceed out of darkness and into His marvelous light. No, we don’t pretend to walk without actually going anywhere, but we progress into truth as the Holy Spirit leads us and we submit to Him. As a result, we’re constantly leaving darkness behind. Rather than darkness, we love light. And so, we don’t harden our hearts. Even though God shakes our darkened and fallen fleshly natures when He exposes us to His light, we don’t cling to our former lies. Instead, we walk into ever-brighter understanding and clarity.

The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn that grows brighter until the full light of day. ~ Proverbs 4:18 International Standard Version
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All Wisdom and Knowledge is Hidden In Christ

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All treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Christ. And Christ is our wisdom, which is righteousness, holiness, and redemption. And that’s why respect for Christ is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge.

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Christ, the Way, the Truth, and the Life

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We want to be rational. We desire truth, wisdom, goodness, and righteousness. Therefore, our desire points us to God Who created us. So we follow Christ, the Source of all truth and wisdom. Jesus Christ is the Truth, and God is Love. That means both Truth and Love are impossible without God, and this journey will uncover proof for this statement before we’re finished traveling. Not only that, but Love fulfills the whole Law. Breaking the Law is straying from the Way, and straying from the Way is sin. To understand this truth, we must realize that Christ is the narrow and restricted Way Who leads to the Life, and Christ is also the Life we want and need. He’s the Way, the Truth Who guides us on this way, and the Life to which the Way leads.

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The Only Sure Foundation for Thinking

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Remember when Jesus asked His disciples who they thought He was? Simon said that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed One, the Son of the Living God. And Jesus told Simon that God the Father had given Simon this revelation. Then Jesus called Simon “pebble” (Petros). Jesus said He would build His Church on a mighty boulder (petra). This mighty boulder is the Foundation of salvation, wisdom, righteousness, holiness, reason, and the Church. While some theologians teach that the mighty boulder is Simon, in truth, Simon is just a pebble built on our firm Foundation, and Christ is that Foundation. So this journey isn’t about Petros. This journey is about Christ, our firm Petra Foundation for everything including reason. God says a lot about foundations through the Bible:

“By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise master builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one must be careful how he builds. For no one is able to lay another foundation, besides the one being already laid, which is Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 3:10-11 Berean Study Bible)

“having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone” (Ephesians 3:20 Berean Study Bible)

“This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:11-12 English Standard Version)

“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall because its foundation was on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its collapse!” (Matthew 7:24-27 Berean Study Bible)

Can we find a sound foundation for thought without Christ? Though the world uses many methods of thinking, can even one of these ungodly methods claim sanity?

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As I started writing these books about seven years ago, I kept thinking that no one will believe how dependent we are on God. I could hardly believe it. I didn’t have confidence that I wasn’t wrong. But I’m thankful to other Christians who assured me that they were also experiencing exactly what I was. They confirmed that God was showing them the same truth He was showing me.

I posted to Christian discussion groups, Twitter, and Facebook pages and spent six years being beaten up on the Internet, giving the message as faithfully as I could:
Christ is real and knowable. Everyone who seeks Him finds Him. He leads, teaches and corrects every person who follows Him. He provides the discernment. Our part is to listen, yield, and obey. The human mind has no path to truth. If we don’t base our thoughts on truth, they aren’t rational. Any logic that doesn’t have true premises is unsound, that is, insane. Christ is the only Path to Truth. Only He can provide true premises for reasoning. Therefore, rational thought without divine revelation is impossible.

Atheists hate that. Naturalistic Christians and deistic Christians hate that. Christian naturalism is deceptive and it has crept into the Church. Through six years of being defamed on the Internet, the Holy Spirit has taught me that the human intellect has nothing to offer. The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. Who can know it? Everyone who is on the side of truth listens to Jesus.

I used to tremble when people would attack me, but it doesn’t matter now. Many have tried to convince me that they can make-up stuff and that by the power of their great intellects whatever they make up becomes true. Now, I know beyond any doubt that they have no way to defend that position. I also know that every argument against the Bible or the God of the Bible is based on made-up stuff.

While many Christians encouraged me or posted “Amen,” I was almost always in an intense discussion with at least one person over those six years, but most of the time I was having three or four discussions at once. I chatted online with many angry people who went to lengths of irrationality that I wouldn’t have thought possible. It wasn’t easy.
Having gone through all that, I don’t want this book to go unread. I want people to read it. That’s why I give the eBooks for free, and I hope you share the link with those you care about.

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Anyone can download this book at no cost. I firmly believe that anyone who seeks Christ as described in this book will experience a new level of living beyond what they could ever imagine. Christ is real and wonderful.

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I’ll read your review. I care about what you think. I sincerely hope this book has been transforming and encouraging for you. I pray that your life is better in specific ways that you can identify and thank God for. I want to know about that. I can’t over-emphasize how encouraging it will be for me to read your review of this book.

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Jesus is Truth–the ONLY Truth

Jesus said, “I am the Truth.” “that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” Colossians 2:2b-3

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The Foundation of Thought

We’ve found, without exception, that all sound reasoning starts with a true premise. The premise is the proof. Therefore, if no one has proved the premise, the reasoning can’t prove anything. A premise is made-up stuff if we don’t know it to be true. It isn’t sane to make up stuff and call the made-up stuff “true,” nor is it sane to use made-up stuff as proof for something else.

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Ever Learning but Never Coming to a Knowledge of the Truth

Without Christ, truth is just a word. The word “knowledge” has no meaning. Without Christ, no one can know anything for certain.
 
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We’re defining “knowing” as precise, correct, and accurate knowledge of reality, and we’re defining “knowing” as knowing the truth with certainty. In an opposing viewpoint, some thinkers are certain no one can be certain of anything, but the journey we’re taking will disprove this self-refuting myth.
 
Truly, Jesus Christ cares about our thinking since He speaks through Scripture about how to think, and He wants to guide our thinking in the right way. Not only does He reveal this truth, but we also know Him, and He’s our wisdom. Since we’re open to knowing Christ more deeply and following Christ more closely, this expedition is going in the right direction to meet our goals. We groan for this relationship. Our entire beings cry out for Him because following His Spirit will result in a sound mind and every good blessing. Our relationship with Christ is the key to happiness, fulfillment, and satisfaction.
 
“For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” ~ 2 Timothy 1:7 King James 2000
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What is Truth?

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What is truth? ~ Pontius Pilot, speaking to Jesus Christ

Pilot, a sincere ungodly thinker, didn’t see truth as a sensible goal or something we can know or even define. We’ll follow the lead of The Truth Project (http://www.thetruthproject.org/) and define “truth” as reality and “reality” as what has substance or has real existence. Knowledge, as we’re defining it, is certainty about reality. We see a distinct difference between concept and reality since concept consists of mere thoughts about reality. The conceptual part of those thoughts is made-up stuff. For example, reality isn’t any of the following:

  • opinion
  • assumption
  • concept
  • theory
  • theological concept
  • lie
  • misconception

 

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Vacuous Thinking

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a CREV Creation-Evolution Headlines Newsletter states:

. . . evolutionary explanations are vacuous stories floating over the observations . . .

“Vacuous” means without content, empty, silly, or mindless, but evolutionary explanations aren’t the only vacuous explanations. In fact, human explanations of many types go beyond the observations and experiences, and these explanations may stretch the truth or add made-up stuff to the truth. Sometimes, these explanations diminish the truth. When human explanations expand on reality this way, they distort reality and are mindless, twisting reality in vacuous thinking.

Therefore, it’s not the subject that turns human explanations into mindless stories, but whenever premises don’t prove that the conclusion is true, the result is mindlessness. Simply put, whenever a persuader’s supposed proof doesn’t prove that the persuader’s claim is true, the result is mindlessness. For example, if proof isn’t true, we can’t use it to prove anything. Untruth can’t prove anything. Untrue or unproven “proof” isn’t proof; it’s phantom proof. Vacuous stories are vacuous regardless of what they explain.

As a result, when humans make up stories, those stories are always mindless, and those stories are mindless because they consist of made-up stuff. Those stories always float over substance, whether substance consists of observations, experiences, Scriptures, or other truths. The problem comes in if we confuse made-up stories and assumptions with those observations, experiences, Scriptures, or truths. Obviously, the made-up stuff is never the same as the observations, experiences, Scriptures, or truths, so confusing the two is insane.
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Godless Thinking is Irrational Thinking

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Sanity Killing Thought Patterns

Certain ways of thinking frustrate logic, and some ideas distort reason. Also, a countless number of thought patterns kill sanity, while unstable philosophies destroy our ability to be reasonable.

“When philosophy leaves out God and looks for answers to life only within the natural world, it cannot discover reality.” ~ The Truth Project

This quote mentions philosophy, but philosophy isn’t the only place humans have trouble discovering reality.

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