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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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Shutting Down Conversations
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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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Debate
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If we recognize a legitimate authority, is that wrong? If we know something with enough certainty to end debate, is that wrong?
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By the way, Jesus Christ is the only legitimate authority, and He does set some into places of authority but only as they yield to Him and allow Him to say His words and do His acts through them.
Fundamentalist!
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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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Don’t Let Them Squeeze You
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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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Real Faith Lets Us See Real Reality
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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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True Premises and Sound Reasoning
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Without true premises, our reasoning isn’t sound. With inductive reasoning, we can only speak of probabilities. With true premises and valid deductive reasoning, we can advance to the knowledge of the truth. We can’t know everything, but we can know some things with certainty.
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 Absolute
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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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Real Revelation Never Contradicts Scripture
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Therefore, real faith is absolute by nature. It’s absolute proof. It’s substance or reality. The reason it’s absolute and powerful is that Jesus Christ originates it. Faith comes when we hear the voice of God through Scripture. God speaks to us through Scripture. Through Scripture, He tells us about other methods beyond Scripture by which He speaks to us. Faith also comes when He speaks to us through those methods. By faith, we know that the Bible is the utterance of God without error. By faith, we know that God never contradicts Himself. That means that one Scripture never contradicts another Scripture. It also means that no other form of revelation will ever conflict with any part of Scripture. For instance, God will never state one truth through Scripture and contradict that truth by revealing something contradictory in His creation. That is to say, true scientific observation will never conflict with Scripture.
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Faith is Reality and Absolute Proof
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“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1 King James Version) What Greek term was in the original text that the King James translators rendered as “substance?” The Greek term is “hupostasis.” What does “hupostasis” mean? It means essence. It means reality as opposed to concept. What about “evidence?” What word is in the original text? The Greek word is “elegchos.” Elegchos is absolute proof.
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