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Truth is simple, but lies are complex. In other words, we would find it easy to understand the truth if lies didn’t hide the truth as a thick curtain blocks out light.
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When God exposes our self-deceptions, it may make us uncomfortable. However, unpleasant as it is, He helps us better understand why we confuse our thinking when we’re trying hard to be reasonable.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. ~ Mark Twain
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Scripture-deniers often shut down the discussion by insisting, without proof, that Scripture lacks authority. They might say, “This conversation is over if you insist that the Bible is authoritative.” They may bring up many objections against the Bible without basing any of those objections on a true premise without any assumptions or presuppositions. Alternately, they may say, “You can’t quote Scripture since I don’t believe in the Bible.” Or they may say, “I don’t need to have a reason for rejecting Scripture since you have the burden of proof.” Such conversation-stoppers use many fallacious excuses against Scripture while accepting other sources as authoritative without rational reasons for the double standard. Christians need to know why the Bible is authoritative. Everyone is responsible to reason from true premises without using any fallacies.
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“Fundamentalist” is a word coined initially by Christians who, by listing the fundamental doctrines that all Christians believe, were trying to unify Christianity. However, ungodly thinkers hijacked this word and gave it a negative meaning. They changed it to mean “a violent or opinionated person who’s irrational,” but Christians didn’t originally define it like that.
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We want to think for ourselves, keeping an open mind to sound reasoning, not yielding to society’s groupthink and not allowing the world to squeeze us into its mold.
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If we have to start our reasoning with assumptions or presuppositions, we can never go beyond opinions. Our reasoning will never be stronger than our assumptions. Since assumptions are unknowns, where does that leave us?
However, the real faith takes us beyond assumptions and presuppositions to substance, truth, and absolute proof. The real faith is able to do this because it comes from the utterance of God. This is the same utterance by which God brought the universe into existence. The wonder is that we can have this assurance and certainty right now. With that knowledge, we can reason rationally. We can have sound reasoning. We can know the truth and the truth will set us free.
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Real reason is also absolute. Real reason also goes beyond inductive reasoning that can only speak of probabilities. It goes beyond the pragmatism of science that never deals with truth but only with what works in the natural realm. Real reason goes beyond opinion to absolute knowledge of the truth. However, the intellectuals have told us that no one can know anything absolutely. We’ve been discouraged from seeking absolute truth.
Sound reason requires true premises because we can’t use unproven claims to prove other claims. And yet, the secularists say that sound reason doesn’t require true premises. They say that we can begin reasoning by establishing assumptions on which we all agree. What are assumptions? They’re unknown beliefs that we accept as if we knew that they were true. They aren’t known, but we pretend that we know them. In a sense, we deceive ourselves when we assume.
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