2 Peter 2:12a and Jude 1:10 & 19 speak of those who are like brute beasts, unable to process rational thought and only able to respond to their five senses because they don’t listen to the Holy Spirit.

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God reveals five spiritual senses, and we can read about spiritual senses in Scripture.

Taste and Vision: Psalm 34:8

Smell: 2 Corinthians 2:14-16

Feeling: Acts 17:27

Hearing: Romans 10:17

God uses these spiritual senses to communicate with us, yet humans and demons can counterfeit God.

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Without divine revelation, how do we interpret Scripture, observation, and experience? Is there any way other than believing made-up stuff? Without a doubt, divine revelation is a controversial subject, so we don’t enter it lightly but fully explore the issue.
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False prophets and false teachers have two tactics. They might tell us that their assumptions come from God. They might try to make assumptions appear true without God. Error causes damage, and the damage is the same whether there was malice of intent or not. While the truth will set us free, lies make us slaves to the liar we believe even if the liar is our own fleshly nature.
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<quote> Whenever we consider divine revelation, we’re rightly on guard against the real possibility for false prophets and false teachers. Through Scripture, God warns us to be alert against these counterfeits. Counterfeits can fake revelation, so claims of revelation can introduce the possibility of error. On the other hand, assumptions assure error. </end quote>

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Basing Reason on Assumptions

Must we base all thought on assumptions?

Rocky Rockbuilder: It sounds like you’re basing your interpretation on assumptions. Assumptions are things made up and called true.

Sandy Sandbuilder: How do you manage to read the Bible without assumptions?

Rocky: Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal the interpretation of Scripture to you, and don’t be double-minded.

Sandy: What does “double-minded” mean?

Rocky: God speaks through Scripture and every method of revelation He mentions in Scripture. Acknowledge God and don’t lean on your own understanding. Don’t try to acknowledge God and lean on your own understanding simultaneously.

Sandy: That’s not a particularly sophisticated hermeneutic.

Rocky: Are you looking for sophistication by making up stuff and calling it true? I’m concerned about finding truth rather than sophistication.

Sandy: You seem to have a shocking level of confidence in your intuition.

Rocky: Are you saying the Holy Spirit is limited to human intuition?

We’re looking at the choice between assumption and divine revelation. This exchange reveals that ungodly thinking doesn’t acknowledge God or thank Him for His gifts. Both men are Christians. Sandy implies that his assumptions are objective knowledge and that the Holy Spirit is limited to human intuition. However, he never made his statement clear since he never answered the clarifying question.
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God speaks through Scripture and every method of revelation He mentions in Scripture. Acknowledge God and don’t lean on your own understanding. Don’t try to acknowledge God and lean on your own understanding simultaneously … God speaks through His creation in real time, and God speaks through the Bible in real time. He didn’t leave these things for us to figure out by making assumptions and basing logic on assumptions.

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Abductive Reasoning: In the absence of a true premise, both deductive and inductive reasoning default to abductive reasoning, which some people say is guessing. However, abduction isn’t always guessing. It’s intuitive. Abduction is a source of information in the same way that observation is a source of information. God can speak through the intuition, but so can demons, and so can our fallen fleshly minds. God tells the truth, demons lie, and the fleshly mind makes up stuff. We pray for God to make the difference plain to us, and He promises to answer that prayer.

Someone may say that the Holy Spirit’s work isn’t personal and that we can’t know Christ in any real way through His Spirit. They may point out that one person’s claim of “Spirit-given intuition” may totally contradict another person’s claim. From this, they imply that we can’t depend on the Holy Spirit. They see dependence on the Holy Spirit as subjective. Another person may say that we should be skeptical about any experience with the Holy Spirit. They may try to equate any such experience with human emotions or teachings that conflict with Scripture. For instance, they may claim that all people who experience the leading of the Holy Spirit are teaching that the Holy Spirit isn’t a person but that the Holy Spirit is an impersonal force. Some people even say that the leading of the Holy Spirit isn’t in Scripture. They may say that Christians need not seek leading or revelation from the Holy Spirit. They imply that God never promised to have the Holy Spirit lead us. Then they say that, given the many possible choices, Christians are free to use “their God-given wisdom” to choose from among those choices as long as they don’t choose something that God forbids in Scripture. These are only a few of the arguments people use against following the leading of the Holy Spirit. We’ll go over many more of them in the book Real Faith & Reason Volume Three.

We can acknowledge some points. It’s true that Christians have conflicting doctrines, but we can’t blame the Holy Spirit for that. The human mind has no way to determine doctrine without divine revelation, so the human mind without divine revelation is going to create conflicts in doctrine. It’s true that some Christians disregard the Bible or parts of the Bible. The Holy Spirit draws us to read the Bible, and He’s right there to bring light to the Scripture if we don’t block Him out with our preconceived ideas. Christians need to remember that the emotions they may feel when they come in contact with the Holy Spirit are just the flesh’s reaction to the Holy Spirit. Those emotions aren’t the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit can move without emotional feeling. Some Christians do interpret the Scripture in a subjective way, but they become subjective by ignoring the Holy Spirit. Since Star Wars introduced The Force, many Christians have been deceived, but that movie series was based on Buddhism rather than the Holy Spirit.

All these push-backs against the Holy Spirit have problems. Most notably, the only alternative to divine revelation is made-up stuff. All reasoning without the Holy Spirit is subjective. Without the Holy Spirit, all attempts to interpret Scripture are subjective. Someone may have a rationalized interpretation of Scripture and try to defend that rationalization by saying, “God showed me.” However, it’s more common for them to say, “The Scripture showed me” or “Common sense showed me.” Contradictions among Christians are a function of refusing to follow the orders that God lays out in Scripture for receiving revelation. Contradictions aren’t caused by asking the Holy Spirit to reveal reality as it really is. God does promise to lead us. Jesus said that the Holy Spirit would lead us into all truth. It’s true that God gives us the freedom to ignore His leading. He never forces anyone to follow Him. If we think we can have some sort of “God-given wisdom” without the God Who gives the wisdom, we are mistaken. Jesus Christ is our wisdom. When we disconnect ourselves from Him, we are truly on our own with our own made-up stuff as the basis for our reasoning. That’s what the brute-beast mind, devoid of the Spirit, is all about.

We know Christ is real because we know Him. He reveals Himself to every person, so no one will have an excuse. We know that the Bible is God’s word (utterance—He speaks through it) without error because He reveals this fact to us. Only by divine revelation can anything be known. Ungodly thinkers base every conclusion on made-up stuff. Ungodly thinkers base every interpretation of the Bible, observation, or anything else on made-up stuff. They just make it up and declare it “true.”
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Intellectuals argue against the problems they have with rational thought. When a person exalts the human mind and its ability to reason, the Münchausen trilemma (ungodly thinking problem) is an irritation that they must explain away. We’ll expose the ungodly thinking problem in detail before we’re finished. As we will show, the ungodly thinking problem keeps human minds from having true premises without divine revelation.

Intellectuals have many ways to explain away this problem, and one of those ways is by appealing to induction. Typically, intellectuals will make an assertion that goes well beyond the information that they can get from their five senses. For instance, they may deny that anyone can know God. They may dogmatically believe in evolutionism or old-earthism. They may make statements about morals or history. They have no way to have a true premise for claims that go beyond their five senses, but they say, “I use inductive reasoning rather than deductive reasoning, so it doesn’t matter that I can’t prove my premises.” However, that isn’t true. Both inductive and deductive reasoning require true premises. If premises aren’t true, the reasoning or logic is irrational. It isn’t sound. It isn’t sane.
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While inductive reasoning can’t lead to knowledge of truth, we can use it to extend our observations and make predictions about the physical realm. The classic example is the ball on the table. We roll the ball off the table, and we observe that it falls to the ground. It never floats in the air. It never rises. If we do this multiple times, we can plan that the ball will fall the next time we roll it off the table. We can extrapolate that the ball will fall off the table every time if we do this same experiment once a minute for one year, ten years, or a thousand years. That’s inductive reasoning. It’s a form of inductive reasoning.

This principle works well for a ball on a table and its behavior when it hits the edge of the table. It doesn’t work at all for telling us why the ball always drops and never goes up. It doesn’t tell us whether there’s something about our observation that we don’t understand. Therefore, by this inductive inference, we can’t say for certain that the ball won’t float up the next time we knock it off the table. Inductive inference provides a way of survival, but it doesn’t lead us to knowledge of the truth.

By comparison, deductive reasoning is absolute but also requires a true premise. Only divine revelation can provide a true premise. By revelation we can know that God is faithful to enforce the laws of nature, so we can be confident that He’ll continue to enforce the law that makes the ball fall off the table. If He chooses to do a miracle (do something different), we know that He’ll make that slight and temporary exception in His wisdom and to complete His good purpose.

Since the premise for this knowledge about gravity is divine revelation and truth, we have a true premise, and we can use that true premise to reach a true conclusion. We can know with certainty. Therefore, we can continue to do science using inductive reasoning. We can continue to have absolute knowledge using deductive reasoning based on divine revelation. However, we would be irrational if we were to have absolute belief or conviction based on inductive reasoning.
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We can trust that gravity will continue but not because of inductive inference. The reason we can depend on that ball falling when it hits the end of the table rather than floating up is that God enforces what we call the laws of nature, and God is faithful. We can depend on Him. By Jesus Christ, all things hold together. He reveals this fact about Himself as He speaks to us through Scripture.

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