Why trust our hardened ideas? Why not trust Jesus? Why not know Him? That’s what life is really about.

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Since assumptions come from worldviews, and those worldviews seem more real than reality itself, our assumptions aren’t directly based on experiences. Instead, we’ve discovered we create our assumptions from our worldviews. And we create our worldviews from experiences interpreted and filtered through the following:

• irrational thinking of the past
  • arbitrary assumptions
  • made-up stories
  • assertions contrary to fact
  • presuppositions
  • assumptions accepted as if they were facts and used as the basis for reasoning
• past fake-realities
• confirmation bias of the past
• rational thinking of the past based on divine revelation
• irrational thinking of the present
• influences of demonic entities and peer pressure

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Now, let’s look at the foundation of the Creation-Flood account.

1. The Foundation is the person of Jesus Christ. [We build on Christ, not the concept of Christ. We can’t lay any other foundation than Jesus Christ.]
2. Christ leads, teaches, and corrects everyone who follows Him. He’s with us every moment in every part of our lives. Jesus says, “My sheep hear My voice,” and “Whoever is on the side of truth listens to Me.” The Holy Spirit is calling us to listen to Him.
3. Faith comes by hearing. “In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths.” Faith gives access to God’s grace, and God’s grace does His righteousness through us.
4. Righteousness demolishes the carnal mind and forms Christ in us, which is holiness. Through righteousness, God progressively sets us free from sinful human nature, and this freedom is redemption. As we yield the members of our bodies to God’s righteousness, we gain more discernment. We can tell true revelation from make-believe because the Holy Spirit renews our minds. “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” It’s not the works that transform us, but it’s the Holy Spirit Who transfigures us as we see God’s glory and yield our spirits, minds, and bodies to the Holy Spirit.
5. Therefore, we have an ever-more-clear revelation. By revelation, we see the Bible is God’s word. We see the history in the Bible is accurate. We see God’s creation confirming the Bible and glorifying God. We don’t go beyond what’s written or beyond what we’ve observed. We don’t add any assumptions. We only know what God has revealed, and we stick to this revelation.
6. From this Foundation, we seek God, so we know how to interpret what we observe in all the sciences. We don’t go beyond the observations or what God reveals about the Creation and Flood events.

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Foundation of Thought

Since we interpret experiences and observations by thought, thought must have a firm foundation to be trustworthy. However, assumptions are a terrible foundation because assumptions prove nothing. Let’s look at the foundation of the big-bang-billions-of-years-no-Flood-molecules-to-humankind story.

It begins with experiences filtered by assumptions, stories, fallacies, and the existing paradigm.

Based on this vapor, the evolutionist creates a convincing worldview.

Based on the fake reality of this worldview, the evolutionist makes assumptions.

The evolutionist makes a story seem as if it were science. It’s not science, but it creates the illusion of reality.

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The Weakest Link

As we discovered previously, we can’t know assumptions. That means we can’t know anything we derive from assumptions. An assumption is the weakest link in a chain of thought since an assumption has zero strength. That means the entire chain of thought is an illusion. It’s a vapor.

Ungodly thinkers claim to have “a high level of certainty” at times. Then they flip-flop and use words like “assumption” or “axiom” at other times. Their ways are moveable, so you can’t pin them down. As stated earlier, it’s not that ungodly thinkers don’t know anything. God reveals both natural and spiritual reality to ungodly thinkers, but they don’t acknowledge Him or thank Him. That’s why they can’t tell the difference between truth and imagination. So they have both reality and make-believe, but they can’t tell the difference. By contrast, those who acknowledge Christ are learning to discern good from evil, truth from error, and reality from make-believe. They’re learning discernment on the pathway from glory to glory as the Holy Spirit transfigures them into the image of Christ. (Romans 8 and 2 Corinthians 3) While they have incomplete discernment, they have true knowledge. However, they only have true knowledge of what God has revealed, so they have partial but true knowledge.

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Godly thinking involves God rather than assumptions, and God reveals reality. Godly thinking acknowledges God’s leading, teaching, and correcting. Equally important, Godly thinking yields to God’s Spirit and allows Him to lead, so He says His words and does His works through us. And yet we have a part in it. Our part is to yield ourselves to His righteousness and His love.

If we yield in this way, do we eliminate the possibility of being wrong? Of course not. We’re fighting a war with Satan, the culture, and our sinful fleshly natures, so everyone makes many mistakes just as the original apostles confessed they also made many mistakes.

However, since we focus on Christ, He gives the discernment, and we don’t depend on ourselves for this discernment. Maturity increases discernment. We become mature as we yield to the Holy Spirit. We don’t have a way to know how far we are down this path of maturity since God hasn’t given us a foolproof way to judge our maturity. However, we know we must keep walking in the Spirit because we haven’t arrived at the fullness. The fourth chapter of Ephesians lets us know God has a plan and a method for making us complete and mature in Christ.

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Going back to the worldview, which is a fake reality, we’ve already seen that whatever conflicts with a thinker’s fake reality seems false and insane. Whatever matches a thinker’s fake reality seems obviously true. The idea that it’s sane to rely on assumptions matches an ungodly thinker’s worldview, so it seems obviously true. This idea fits into the ungodly thinker’s fake reality, and anything outside this fake reality seems insane. Therefore, the ungodly thinker assumes assumptions are a good basis for reason. For those who follow Christ, God is teaching us to be godly thinkers. God is teaching us to listen to Him and yield to Him even though we often slip back into ungodly thinking. We often go back to our old habit of leaning on our own understanding.

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Since assumptions go beyond knowledge, we assume what we can’t know. We can make those assumptions anything we want them to be, so they’re a good basis for wishful thinking but not for finding truth. Consequently, if we allow even a single assumption in our thinking, we can “prove” anything to ourselves. So if we want to pretend to know what we don’t know, assumptions supply what we need. Often, our pride directs us to seek our own minds rather than God’s mind. Human pride insists the human mind is trustworthy. However, insisting the human mind is trustworthy denies what God says about the human mind. Perhaps everyone is guilty of putting too much confidence in human ideas and too little confidence in God at times. We must remember what God says. God says the desperately wicked human mind deceives, and we shouldn’t trust it.

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But as we’ve already discovered, no one needs assumptions since assumptions imagine beyond what we know. So it becomes clear that if we build reason on assumption, we build on sand. And the house built on sand will fall when the storms come. Rather than assumptions, we can get to know Jesus Christ. We can depend on divine revelation for all the reasoning the intellectuals tell us about. Then we don’t presuppose or assume. We can stop adding to God’s words. We can stop diminishing God’s words. We can stop making up stories to our own liking. Then we can be rational.

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Some people truly believe making up stuff is the only way to know truth. How do they prove it to themselves? They use made-up stuff to prove it to themselves. Since they believe making up stuff is proof, they see nothing wrong with using made-up stuff as proof that made-up stuff can be proof. In other words, they tell a story. In their story, they say we must base all knowledge on made-up stuff. Then, they use their story to prove their story is true, which is a circular-reasoning fallacy.

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