2 Peter 2:12a and Jude 1:10 & 19 speak of those who are like brute beast, 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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The non-rational mind can reason, but it can’t reason rationally to a conclusion beyond the five senses. We’ll explore the reasons for that limitation during this journey. The sarx mind can compare two choices, sort objects by various criteria, memorize phrases or concepts, write poetry, and perform calculations. It can record data from experiments and then use that data to design working products. This mind can rationalize and argue. The self-righteous carnal mind can make a show of false love, goodness, mercy, humility, and virtue, but it can’t self-generate any of these fruits of the Spirit. It can pretend hypocritically. It can produce sexual immorality, impure motives, unbridled desire, idolatry, sorcery, drug abuse, drunkenness, and wild partying. It can self-generate hatred, discord, jealousy, rage, rivalries, divisions, factions, envy, and the like. It can’t produce love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Galatians 5:19-23 However, it can produce hypocritical fakes of all of these. It can have natural affection for its family members just as animals show this same natural affection. It can control itself to a point, but it won’t allow the Holy Spirit to control it.
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Some people say we probably live in a computer simulation. In other words, we have no real existence. Of course, the Hindus say that we don’t have real existence either but are parts of a dream of Brahma. Let’s dispel the idea that we live in a computer simulation. We shouldn’t have to mention this computer-simulation story, but it’s a story that’s coming up increasingly. Some people take it seriously. Of course, without divine revelation, we wouldn’t be able to prove either this wild computer-simulation story or the dream of Brahma story wrong. However, God reveals that we live in real reality. He reveals that our senses are somewhat reliable. And He also reveals that truth is from Him and Him alone.
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If we only follow our sense data, we can’t test anything except what we test with our natural senses. Does that sound too obvious? Why then do intellectuals think they can test ideas and concepts that they can’t test with their physical senses? They think they know things using only sense data and what they call “reasoning.” However, we can’t check their claims using our five natural senses. They add information to their sensory data to make their assertions, but they don’t have a source for the information they add to their sensory data. They just make up stuff and add it to their sensory data. Then they call that “reasoning.” Why does an ungodly thinker have feelings about morality, the origin or age of the universe, or the source of all the life that we can now observe? They can’t follow sense data to prove any of these inner feelings.
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The brute-beast, human mind can do science, but it can never know absolute truth. Since truth is absolute by nature, the brute-beast mind can never know the truth. It’s pragmatic. Science only works where scientists can observe and test. The further scientists try to extrapolate beyond those observations and tests, the more they leave science and drift into the land of make-believe. Science can deal with the material world in the present, but it resorts to storytelling when it tries to deal with the spiritual realm or history.

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If we acknowledge God when He reveals material and natural reality to us, we can say we have knowledge. However, when we fail to acknowledge God, we can’t have precise, accurate, and absolutely certain knowledge of truth. In that case, we’re blind, incapable of rational thought. This brute-beast mind drives naturalistic, materialistic science.

“Although it is reliable and durable, scientific knowledge is neither set in concrete nor perfect. Rather, it is subject to change in the light of new evidence or new interpretation of existing evidence. Because of its tentative nature, we cannot claim ‘absolute truth’ in science. The tentative nature of scientific knowledge also means that laws and theories may change.” ~ sciencelearn.org

“Different scientists can interpret the same datasets differently. How can this conflict happen? Scientists do strive to be objective, but it is just not possible to make truly objective observations and interpretations without any bias. A scientist’s mind is not a blank slate. Individual scientists have their prior knowledge, theoretical beliefs, experiences, cultural background, training, expectations and biases, each of which will affect their observations and conclusions.” ~ sciencelearn.org

“Science is pragmatic. Theories are judged by a single criterion – do they work? Their origin does not matter. They may be inferred, or invented, or dreamed. Until they are tested they are merely working hypotheses; in other words, they are plausible interpretations of data already available. Ingenious men can and do invent many theories to account for a given set of data.” ~ cs.cmu.edu

“. . . science is necessarily restricted to one aspect of the universe – the objective world of phenomena. It deals with probable knowledge only, its methods are empirical, its philosophy is pragmatic. The scientist explores the world of phenomena by successive approximations. He works in an atmosphere of probabilities; he knows that his data are never precise, and that his theories must always be rested.” ~ cs.cmu.edu
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In sharing snippets like this, they’re always out of the context of the entire book. With this one, someone may say, “Wait a minute. You’re thinking you’re infallible.” However, that’s not how divine leading works. As we walk in the Spirit, the Holy Spirit makes us humble. He takes away our pride. The key to discerning God’s voice from all others is thankfulness and glorifying God rather than self. The mark of those who depend on their own understanding is that they aren’t thanking God for any revelation, and they’re glorifying their own intellects.

When we become aware of the fact that all truth, wisdom, knowledge, understanding, and righteousness come from God, we also become aware that we know in part. We realize that God will be continually correcting us. Indeed, we begin to see the similarity between true science and true divine revelation. And since true science is one of the ways that God reveals reality to His people, we would expect that similarity. If we were infallible, there would be no need for God to lead us.

However, when Christians think that they have everything figured out and they follow doctrines rather than Christ, they become dogmatic about those doctrines. They won’t accept correction from the Holy Spirit even when the Holy Spirit brings that correction through a brother or sister in Christ.

The bottom line is that we wait before the Lord in humility. We don’t get over-confident. Even our most treasured beliefs are subject to correction or expansion by the Holy Spirit. Then, when we read the Scripture, a verse will come alive to us. The Holy Spirit will speak to us through that verse, and we may find that we have to change a part of our former interpretation to accommodate this new revelation. However, we don’t try to work out that change on our own. We pray about it. We talk to other Christians we know and let the Holy Spirit move in our discussion, not trying to figure things out but acknowledging God in the process. We pray about those things we don’t understand rather than trying to develop our own little pet theories that we defend through debates and infighting.

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“always learning and never being able to come to a knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these oppose the truth, men being depraved in mind, disqualified regarding the faith.” (2 Timothy 3:7-8 Berean Literal Bible)

Animals learn in the same pragmatic way, but this familiarity is limited to the natural senses. It’s more of an opinion than knowledge. When we can directly observe and test, pragmatism yields working products. When we can’t directly observe and test, pragmatism yields opinions. It works for making cell phones we can test and verify. It doesn’t immediately warn us of all the possible dangers and problems those cell phones may cause in the future. It doesn’t work for knowing how the universe came into existence.
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We see the natural brute-beast mind working with divine revelation in science, and God imparts knowledge through the scientific method. The brute-beast mind reacts to sense data, and we call this reaction “scientific observation.” God gave the scientific method to humanity so He could impart knowledge through it. Ungodly thinkers can gain pragmatic familiarity through the scientific method. Pragmatism is a practical way of surviving. Pragmatic familiarity doesn’t lead to knowledge of the truth. It’s practical, but it’s tentative.
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God still reveals natural reality to the human natural mind. Without God’s revelation, we would all die quickly. The natural mind can accept this natural revelation, but it doesn’t necessarily notice God or give Him thanks.

“The God having made the world and all things that are in it, He being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in hand-made temples, nor is He served by hands of men as needing anything, Himself giving to all life and breath and everything. And He made from one man every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined the appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, to seek God, if perhaps indeed they might palpate for Him, and might find Him. And indeed, He is not far from each one of us.” (Acts 17:24-28 Berean Literal Bible)

We “know” by experience that we can infer from our observations but that our ability has limits. If we see tire tracks in the mud, we can infer that some sort of vehicle made the tracks. If we have information about various tread patterns, we may be able to infer information about the specific tires that made the tracks. By the depth of the tracks, we can infer the water content of the mud or the weight of the vehicle. All of this pseudo-knowledge is pragmatic. It isn’t knowledge of truth. These inferences aren’t absolute but are based on circumstantial evidence.

We can also project trends and make decisions based on incomplete information and observations that aren’t absolutely reliable. For instance, we can guide our cars into parking spaces without hitting other cars. We can catch a ball or guess what the stock market is going to do next. The further we extrapolate from the observations or experiences the less reliable our conclusions become.

We can look at a fossil of a creature that lived in the past and “know” that it was a live creature at one time. We can sometimes get additional information that may tell us what kind of creature it was. Again, the further we get from the observation of the fossil, the less reliable our inferences are.

We notice that all of these examples are pragmatic. And none of them deal with the deep questions of life. None of them can tell us about the spiritual realm unless our experiences and observations are in the spiritual realm. None of them can tell us what the meaning of life is. Some people try to draw conclusions that go beyond the material realm in the present, but they’re inferring from observations of the material realm in the present. That’s irrational.
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In Scripture, God foreshadowed this day in the plagues of the Egyptians. One of the plagues was a darkness that could be felt among the Egyptians. At the same time, there was light in the homes of the Israelites. The prophet Joel also spoke of a day that would be darkness but also a day of dawning.

“a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong people appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.” (Joel 2:2 Berean Study Bible)

The wheat and the tares are growing together. The tares often seem to have more wisdom and skill than the wheat. They definitely know more tricks and know how to get their way. They certainly control every means of communication. They seem to have tremendous control over governments and the legal systems of the world. However, the fruit will show, and God will never forsake His own even if, for a time, we seem to be defeated.

The Day of the Lord will require a full commitment to Christ. Many today seek the middle ground between hot and cold. They choose to be lukewarm.

That doesn’t mean that they don’t fight for their ideas. They may be zealous in the extreme. Many are very religious. They think up all kinds of ways to “serve the Lord” without knowing Him in any real way. They recruit converts to their organization or doctrinal position. They argue about theology and can become alarmingly angry about it, even demonizing those who are entering into the goodness of God. Many of them protect and defend their lukewarm condition and attack anyone who believes what God says about righteousness and holiness or how we can enter into the blessings of God. They twist Scripture to keep their followers from entering into everything that God has for His people. They want to make a provision for the flesh.

In the Day of the Lord, that won’t work. They’ll need to make a decision one way or the other, and many will turn from Christ and follow the beast wholeheartedly. They’ll still have a form of religion, but they’ll deny the power of following Christ for righteousness, holiness, the gifts of the Spirit, and the fruit of the Spirit. They’ll teach that being born again is all there is or that growing in Christ means something other than having Christ fully formed within and dying to the fleshly nature.
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Currently, two things are happening.

First, many Christians aren’t following Christ and shining with His brightness. They don’t listen to His voice or yield to His Spirit. They follow ungodly councilors instead. They either disregard the Bible entirely or they try to shoehorn rationalized ideas into the Bible. They have a religion, but it’s about self-righteousness, popularity, prestige, entertainment, money, and political power. It doesn’t effectively touch the power of God for righteousness and holiness. They have ceased to be effective as salt and light.

Second, many Christians are following Christ and beginning to walk in the righteousness of Christ. They’re beginning to shine with the Light of Christ. Then, those who hate the Light turn away from the Light. They throw themselves into greater darkness. God is letting them go and isn’t restraining them.

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