Everyone Loses Touch with Reality Sometimes

Everyone loses touch sometimes. We think something is true, and then we find out that it’s false, or we think something is false, and then we find out that it’s true. Insanity happens two ways. We might think that something real is a concept or made-up stuff, which is the fallacy of anti-concreteness. We might think that made-up stuff or a concept is real, which is the fallacy of hypostatization. Anti-concreteness treats substance as made-up stuff. What we objectively observe is substance. Our interpretation of what we observe is made-up stuff. Divine revelation is substance, but our interpretation of revelation is made-up stuff. Faith is substance. God is substance. Jesus Christ is substance. The Creation event and the Genesis Flood are substance. On the other hand, theologies about God, Jesus Christ, Faith, the Creation event, or the Genesis Flood are all concepts.

Concept isn’t reality, but substance is reality.

Theologies, political philosophies, the stories of evolution, old-earth calculations, and stories about a big bang aren’t reality. Rather, these are concepts. Molecules to humanity, naturalism, materialism, abiogenesis, and uniformitarianism are concepts. Concepts are human-generated fabrications. They’re usually about reality, but they aren’t reality. Concepts float over reality. They add to reality or eliminate parts of reality. Just as children’s make-believe is usually about reality but not reality itself, concepts are about reality, but they aren’t reality itself. If we think concepts are real, we commit hypostatization. The material world is substance, not concept. Revelation and faith aren’t concepts because they’re imparted by God when He speaks. And we know that Jesus Christ is part of reality because we know Him and He reveals Himself to us. As another example, God reveals the Creation event and the Genesis Flood when He speaks to us through Scripture, so the Creation event and the Genesis Flood are parts of reality even though they’re separated from us by time

On the other hand, theories, philosophies, and theologies are mental constructs. They grow out of assumptions, stories, conceptual frameworks, ideas, or other forms of made-up stuff. Assuming and storytelling are ways of making up stuff.

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