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The alternative to sound reasoning is unsound reasoning. Unsound reasoning confuses and deceives us. It’s surprising how little we can know to be true using logic and science alone.

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It’s surprising how little we can know to be true using logic and science alone, but it’s scary how dogmatic we can become concerning issues about which we know little or nothing at all.

While the fleshly mind automatically wants to depend on itself or something else other than God, it can’t function rationally at that level. It will always, always, always fail. God created us to be connected to Him in an intimate relationship. Nothing else will give us peace, hope, love, and sanity.

In Christ, we find the truth. In Christ, we have the very basis for sound reasoning. Without Christ, the human mind has no path to truth and thus no path to sound reasoning. We’re seeing the results of ungodly thinking in society today. And as a large portion of society turns from the Light of Christ, we’re seeing a level of darkness that we’ve never seen before.

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We must prove that the proof is true before using the proof to prove that the conclusion is true. We don’t add unproven claims on the way to the conclusion, and the premise must prove that the conclusion is true. We don’t play mind games between the proof and the conclusion. We don’t try to give the appearance that we proved the conclusion when we didn’t prove that the conclusion is true.

Then how do we prove any premise? We can’t use another unproven premise. Other than divine revelation, is there a way?

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It’s called the fallacy of infinite regression. Every conclusion must be based on a premise. The premise is supposed to show that the conclusion is true. However, the premise must first be shown to be true before we can rationally use it to show that the conclusion is true. In fact, the premise should be the conclusion of a previous logical process. However, that logical process also consists of a premise and a conclusion. We need to prove that premise first. And then, we are in the exact same position as where we started. We have yet another premise to prove. When we try, we’re continuing the infinite regression. There’s no end to it. How the intellectuals have contorted themselves to hide this problem or to make people stop thinking about it!

There is a solution. The solution is to hear the truth from the Person Who knows all things and Who cannot lie. We need to hear from God. God speaks through the Bible and every means of divine revelation mentioned in the Bible. How do we know that God speaks through the Bible and every means of divine revelation mentioned in the Bible? God reveals that fact to us. He speaks it into our hearts. When we hear Him, and when we don’t doubt His ability to do this, His faith comes. “Faith  comes by hearing and hearing by the utterance/rhema of God.” This is one of the major themes of all Scripture. Read the Bible and ask God to show you the truth. Yield yourself to His Spirit. He sent the Holy Spirit to lead you into all truth. The truth will set you free.

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If we reason from a premise that we can’t prove, we’re thinking irrationally. We can’t say, “I make up X; therefore, Y is true.” We can’t say, “I make up X; therefore, X is true.” Well, we do it all the time, but we can’t do it rationally.
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Of course, the problem is that the fallen human mind has no path to truth. The fallen human mind can creatively make up stuff, but made-up stuff is different from the truth. There’s a word we use for made-up stuff that’s substituted for truth. We call made-up stuff lies. We call pretending that made-up stuff is true lying. We call confusing made-up stuff with truth insanity.

Only in Christ can we find the truth. Christ is real and knowable. Everyone who seeks Him finds Him. He leads, teaches, and corrects everyone who follows Him. He provides the discernment, and that discernment becomes more clear as we walk in obedience to Him.

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Sandy Sandbuilder: It’s preposterous for you to claim that I need divine revelation if I’m going to reason to a conclusion.

Rocky Rockbuilder: I didn’t say divine revelation is necessary to reason to a conclusion. Every atheist and demon-worshiper reasons and concludes. A true premise is more difficult than merely concluding, thinking, or reasoning. The atheist observes and concludes that God doesn’t exist but not rationally. The atheist bases this reasoning on assumption. On the other hand, when a follower of Christ observes the creation, the Holy Spirit testifies of the Creator through the creation. That’s not an assumption. That’s revelation. Big difference!

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Logic is simple. The premise is how we know that the conclusion is true. It’s the proof for the conclusion. It’s why we believe the conclusion. The premise must be true. We must prove the premise before we can prove the conclusion. We can’t add anything on the way to the conclusion. Here’s the problem. Without divine revelation, how can we prove any premise? We certainly can’t use another premise that we can’t prove.

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The premise is the proof. We would say that the premise is true; therefore, the conclusion is true. Of course, if the premise isn’t true, if we don’t know that it’s true, we can’t prove anything with it.

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We say we know something, but what do we mean?

We have proof.

The proof gives us precise, accurate, absolute, and certain knowledge of the truth.

We aren’t defining proof and evidence as something less conclusive.

We’re defining “knowledge” to exclude everything tentative. If we know it, it’s not tentative. If we say we know something that isn’t true, we don’t have knowledge. We have insanity. If we say we know something we can’t prove, we just have an opinion based on irrational thinking. We say we know something. It may be true, but we can’t know it’s true unless we can prove it.

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Beyond misusing words, we can find other ways to give the illusion that made-up stuff is real. For instance, people talk about being logical without knowing what logic is. You may have experienced your friend speculating out loud and then saying:

“That’s logical, isn’t it?”

But it’s not logical. Sound deductive logic has absolute proof, called the premise, which proves the conclusion. Many people don’t understand the words “proof” and “evidence,” and we’ll look into the confusion when we explore science as a way of knowing in another of this series of books. On this journey, we’ll define both “proof” and “evidence” as what produces precise and accurate knowledge of truth with absolute certainty.

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When people tell us that a particular theory is a scientific fact, the term “scientific fact” doesn’t make us think of made-up stuff, does it? As another illustration, if they say, “I have evidence,” we don’t think they mean, “I have made-up stuff.” If they say, “I have scientific knowledge” or “I have proof,” we don’t think of made-up stuff either. And yet the way they use words, their words mean “made-up stuff.” When people put labels like these on their made-up stuff, it’s harder to tell that made-up stuff is made-up stuff. Then it’s harder to discern that made-up stuff isn’t real stuff.

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Made-up Stuff Disguised as Reality

Real-sounding labels cause made-up stuff to seem real, but it’s no less made-up when it has a new name. Besides using euphemistic words like “axiom” for made-up stuff, we sometimes use words that mean reality. We use these real-sounding words as labels for made-up stuff. Here are examples of false labels that persuaders apply to made-up stuff to make it seem like it’s real:

• proof
• facts
• evidence
• scientific knowledge
• scientific fact

These words imply truth, yet persuaders apply them to made-up stuff. Using any of these words to refer to made-up stuff blurs the distinction between reality and make-believe. As we consider this problem, we remember that blurring the difference between reality and make-believe is insanity. This is also true of blurring the difference between truth and error or the difference between good and evil. The most basic point to understand is that all fallacies blur the distinction between reality and made-up stuff. While fallacies begin as thoughts, they expose themselves as words and deeds. And even a single fallacy destroys the entire chain of reason. A chain of thought is only as strong as its weakest link, but fallacies have no strength. They just deceive.

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