God gives every person truth so they can seek Him and find Him.

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God gives every person truth to give them a chance to seek Him and find Him. God wants fellowship with every person. God is love. As love, God must give every person every opportunity. He loves us all.

When ungodly thinkers don’t acknowledge God and thank Him for the amazing gift of truth, the ungodly thinkers lose the blessing of this truth. They don’t acknowledge God as the Source of the truth, so they file away the truth and put it in with all the nonsense that flows from their deceitful and desperately wicked human minds. Lies and foolishness come out of their wicked and deceitful minds. Wisdom and truth come from God. They mix truth and wisdom with lies and foolishness and make no difference between them. They attribute God’s wisdom to their own minds and erase all differences between truth and error. As a result, they can’t tell the difference between reality and their imaginations. Sometimes, they act based on righteousness and wisdom. At other times, they act based on wickedness and foolishness. They see no difference. They had the truth, but it did them no good.

Worse yet, if they persist, God turns them over to their own minds completely. At that point, they become like brute beasts.

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God blesses the righteous and the unrighteous.

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How Do They Survive?

If those who don’t have truth are doomed to a life without rational thought, how do they survive? Why are so many ungodly people rich or successful? Some get there dishonestly or thought Satanic means, but some are honestly working to be successful. How does that happen? Let’s look into that.

The Logos is the Light

The true Light who gives light to every man was coming into the world. ~ John 1:9

The true Light is the Logos. He is the utterance of God. And He gives light to every person. You might wonder if God would shed His Light on those who are evil. You might think God only blesses the just.

He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. ~ Matthew 5:45b

However, God blesses both evil and good people. He blesses the righteous and the unrighteous. If God didn’t do this, they wouldn’t last a minute.

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands. Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. ~ Acts 17:24-25

God gives them life, breath, and EVERYTHING ELSE. What is “everything else?” It includes material needs and non-material needs. It includes truth.

Wait! I said ungodly thinkers don’t have truth. So, did I lie to you? NO.

God does give them truth. They even know the difference between good and evil by God’s revelation. And they know God exists by God’s revelation. God says He reveals everything to them. He shows them everything humans can know about God and the Godhead.  God gives them what they need to survive. Why would God bother? Let’s go back to Acts 17 for the answer.

God intended that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us. ~ Acts 17:27

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Here’s what happens if you stand on the solid rock of Christ.

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An old hymn goes like this:

On Christ the solid rock I stand.

All other ground is sinking sand.

All is a big word. ALL other ground is sinking sand. You might like to stand on something else other than Christ. Could you stand on your objective observations? If you tried, you would commit the ontic fallacy. The ontic fallacy is believing you can observe and experience objectively. You can’t. You can’t get outside of yourself to observe objectively. Maybe you could stand on science, but even real science is based on assumptions, observations, and preconceived ideas. Scientists aren’t perfectly pure. Science often becomes the victim of politics and the religion of godlessness. That kind of science is storytelling. Storytelling isn’t a reliable path to the truth. Then, how about my ability to reason? Can I stand on that? The trouble is the human mind can’t reason to the truth.

On Christ the solid Rock I stand. All other ground is sinking sand.  ALL other ground is sinking sand. You need to know how to come to the place where you stand on Christ alone so you don’t depend on everything else that lets you down just when you need it the most. That’s God’s Endgame.

God leads. He speaks through Scripture and every means of divine revelation mentioned in Scripture. Seek Him and His knowledge and wisdom. Ask Him for it. Don’t be double-minded half looking to Christ and half looking to human opinions and the ramblings of your own mind. If there is any wisdom or knowledge of truth, it comes from Him. Thank Him and give Him the glory. Then yield to His Spirit to the point that He says His words and does His acts through you. Each time you obey His voice, Christ is built up in you. Each time you obey the devil, the culture, or your own desires, you re-crucify Christ in you. As Christ is more fully built in you, His wisdom and knowledge dwell in you more completely. Your ability to hear Him and discern His voice from all others improves.

You know this. It’s possible to know all this and miss the mark. You must keep yourself in step with the Holy Spirit.

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Do you suffer with doubt?

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NO MORE DOUBT OR FEAR

I spent years in doubt before I knew about the foundation for reason. I had a gnawing fear that one day someone would give me some information that would make God impossible. Maybe some scientific discovery would prove Jesus Christ never lived or that He isn’t God. I thought that, perhaps, it might be possible for some really intelligent person to disprove the existence of God. I had no clue. I was ignorant and in a precarious position.

I studied apologetics. When I say, “I studied,” I don’t mean I studied for a week or a year. I mean I kept studying for decades. I studied science, particularly origins science and the philosophy of science. I studied the logical arguments. I studied the answers to the questions of the skeptics. None of that gave me rock-solid confidence. The best I could say was the evidence for God was very strong given what I knew. However, I wasn’t concerned about what I knew. I worried about what I might NOT have known. What if someone showed me new information that proved the non-existence of God? Every time I thought I was home free, another skeptic or atheist would come along with a new claim or loaded question.

All my fear went away when God showed me that Jesus Christ proves His existence by revealing Himself. I had already known Jesus reveals Himself. I had experienced His leading all my life. I just never thought it through. God had to show me.

The Son reveals the Father, and the Father reveals the Son to you. The Father and Son send the Holy Spirit to lead, teach, and correct you moment by moment. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost testify to the truth of the Scripture. God tells you the Scripture says what it says and doesn’t say what it doesn’t say. Even now, God keeps showing me where my own mind added to or filtered out Scripture. He’ll do the same for you. God keeps bringing Scripture to life. Jesus Christ is absolute and real. You can know Him. He reveals truth. That’s how you know. Divine revelation!

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Have you ever doubted God’s existence?

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Have you ever feared your belief in God might be wrong?

Most people have firmly-held opinions. They hold their opinions so firmly they treat their opinions as facts. They treat their opinions as if it were reality itself. They consider their opinions to be firm foundations for thinking. They almost always have nothing to back up those opinions except for manipulative tactics. Oh, they have all kinds of opinions, but they can’t back up any of those opinions with rock-solid truth. They have clever sayings. They have emotional statements and stories. They think everyone agrees with them or ought to agree with them. They imply everyone agrees with them, at least all the intelligent, honest, or good people. These people say, “Look around you. Everyone believes this just as I do.” Even if a statement like that were true, it’s not a reason to believe. It’s an appeal-to-popularity fallacy. It’s just a form of manipulation.

I feared my own belief in God might be wrong. Perhaps I might be holding a false belief. What if one day an atheist could show me absolute proof on the non-existence of God?

All my fear went away when God showed me that Jesus Christ proves His existence by revealing Himself. I already knew Jesus reveals Himself. He’s real. I know Him. I had experienced His leading all my life. I just never thought it through. God had to show me.

Every year, millions of young Christians are indoctrinated into Atheism. The arguments are irrational, but they sound good. Young Christians are easy targets if they aren’t fully aware of their relationship with God. If they are depending on a rationalized faith rather than a faith that comes as they listen to the voice of God, they don’t have a firm foundation. They only have memorized doctrines, and those are easily destroyed by a clever Atheist.

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The ONLY Source of wisdom and knowledge of the Truth is Christ.

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Jesus is the ONLY Source of wisdom and knowledge of the Truth. Truth is absolute by definition. Without Truth, no Truth can be known. Lies can be memorized, but Truth cannot be known.

The scholars ran off to discuss proper form and fallacies without any foundation for their thinking. They lectured about syllogisms and logic. They had students memorize logical forms and fallacies. What they taught was good to learn. However, it was meaningless and deceptive without truth. The world isn’t crazy because people failed to memorize fallacies. The world isn’t crazy because people haven’t memorized all the valid logical forms. At the root of every fallacy is an absence of truth. At the root of every untruth is missing revelation from Christ. The world lacks hearing the voice of Christ. Christ is the Source of all wisdom. He is your Wisdom. The further a society moves away from the Source of all wisdom, the less wisdom the people will have.

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My faith was fragile. Then I realized this.

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Why It’s Important

A few decades ago, God showed me that my thinking had no foundation. I was building my thoughts on a foundation of hot air. That’s when I began to realize reason needs a solid foundation.

When I was bouncing along with no foundation for my thinking, my faith was fragile. I would be going along fine with confidence in God and the Bible. Then, someone would make a claim against God or the Bible. They would challenge my belief. At that point, I would rush around in a panic until I found an answer. You’ve probably heard many of the same attacks and challenges I ran into, so I won’t give any examples here. Fortunately, there are people with websites that give answers to the many questions and challenges. It would be a shame if faith had to be so fragile that it’s only solid until the next question or challenge comes alone?

The only solid foundation for reason is a revelation from God, but I didn’t know that back then. And, even after I learned that divine revelation was the only firm foundation for thinking, I didn’t realize the full impact of that reality for many years. God started to unfold the way reason works. He brought me face to face with one part of the puzzle at a time. Sometimes, I would be in a class related to my work when God showed me a truth. Sometimes it was a still small inner voice of the Holy Spirit teaching. Sometimes, God would show me another part through a simple meme on social media that came as a testimony from another Christian. At times, God spoke to me through His creation. And I had more trouble accepting some truths God showed me while I had less trouble with other truths.

I found out logic is pretty simple. The books and scholars have a way of making logic complex, and most of them have the same problem I had. They have the problem God had been showing me. They don’t have a foundation for their thinking just like I didn’t have a foundation for my thinking. Without a foundation, reason is a puff of smoke. Logic evaporates. Poof!

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Abductive reasoning is the source of truth

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Extreme Limits

We have a hard time grasping just how weak the human mind is. It’s difficult for us to fathom the fact the human mind is incapable of rational thought without divine revelation. That’s why you need this chapter to explain the depth of the problem of the true premise. You’ll look into the deceitfulness and weakness of the human heart.

The Three Types of Reasoning

So you have deductive, inductive, and abductive reasoning that often work together. They provide a way to survive and a way to truth. Abductive reasoning is the source of truth if you seek Jesus Christ. Abductive reasoning in the form of divine revelation is the only way to truth. It’s the only way to have true premises. You need true premises for both inductive and deductive reasoning. Without true premises, no reasoning is sound. Even with true premises, inductive reasoning can be unreliable. Inductive reasoning can often make you feel certain when you should realize you’re adding to God’s words or subtracting from God’s words. And yet, science is said to use inductive reasoning. Science really uses abductive, inductive, and deductive reasoning. Deductive reasoning that flows from direct revelation leads to truth and certainty. If deductive reasoning is sound, it begins with true premises and doesn’t add to or take away from those premises. You can only get true premises by divine revelation. You need to know Jesus Christ personally. You must listen to the Holy Spirit and honor Him. God wants you to acknowledge Him in all your ways. No matter what form of reasoning you use, God will guide your thinking. You only need to ask and trust Him.

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Truth is always a spiritual matter. Jesus is the Truth.

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God gives you many warnings in Scripture. False prophets, false teachers, and false pastors will come. False prophets, false teachers, and false pastors will tell you what you want to hear, which makes them far more convincing.

Here are some examples of warnings from Scripture:

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. ~ Matthew 7:15

For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. ~ Matthew 24:24

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. ~ 2 Peter 2:1

Different kinds of false teachers try to deceive you. Some of them ignore the Bible. Others directly deny the Bible. Some of them accept much of the Bible but claim certain parts of Scripture are out of date or don’t apply for some other reason. And then, some quote the Bible liberally but interpret the Bible by the power of their fallen, deceitful, and desperately wicked human minds. The false teachers who twist the Scripture are the most deceptive. They use abductive, inductive, and deductive logic. However, they don’t have true premises. These false teachers usually believe their own lies. Many of them have great credentials and excellent speaking skills. They may even claim to have prayed and sought the face of the Lord. They may say the Lord showed them the destructive heresies they teach. God will expose them to you and show you the way if you sincerely seek the mind of the Lord.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world. ~ 1 John 4:1

How do you test the spirits?

The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. ~ 1 Corinthians 2:14

Do you see the futility of trying to discern truth by the natural, fleshly human mind? No credential will give anyone authority to discern spiritual matters. Truth is always a spiritual matter. Jesus is the Truth. Deceptions are spiritual matters but a different spirit. It’s necessary to discern the spirit of everything you hear. God requires it. You must discern by the Spirit of God. You must listen to His voice. If you’re double-minded, you’ll fall. If you try on your own, you’ll fall. If you’re sincere and single-minded toward God, He’ll make sure you become mature and have discernment.

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Our Desires or God’s Desires?

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We can’t over-emphasize the danger of following our desires. When you allow your desires to fill your mind and your life, you won’t be able to discern the voice of God. God doesn’t cater to your fleshly nature. The fleshly nature must die.

Satan works through his servants. Satan’s servants constantly try to stir your fleshly nature. Satan knows how addictive sexual sin is. He knows the lure of the occult. Satan knows alcohol and drugs destroy. He also knows how to make sin appear spiritual and good. He knows if he can get you to mix his ways with God’s ways, you’ll lose the ability to tell the difference. Once he blurs your vision, he knows you aren’t going forward with God. Once he gets his chains on you, he knows you’ll have trouble getting free. Sin takes you farther than you wanted to go. It makes you stay longer than you wanted to stay. It’s progressive and habit-forming.

Jesus saves. He saves you from sin. He saves you to righteousness.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers ~ 2 Timothy 4:3

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