“Ontological Observation as a Way of Knowing” from “Real Faith & Reason” (End of Series)
Ontic Fallacy : Thinking we can get knowledge through raw perceptions. Ignoring the filter of the human sensory and worldview limitations. Ignoring how this filter affects perception.
Imagining we can be objective. Thinking we can avoid bias.
Purely objective perception doesn’t happen. We just can’t get outside ourselves to be objective. Bias seems like reality so we have trouble telling the difference between reality and make-believe.
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“Now, what we found is that public school textbooks present the evolutionary tree as ‘science’, but reject the Creation orchard as religion. However, observational science confirms the Creation orchard, so public school textbooks are rejecting observational science and imposing a naturalistic religion on students. The word evolution has been hijacked, using a bait and switch, to indoctrinate students to accept evolutionary belief as observational science.” ~ Ken Ham
Ken Ham pointed out the conflict between observation and the ungodly evolutionary tree. He exposed the way textbooks use the bait-and-switch fallacy to brainwash students. The ontic fallacy makes evolutionists believe they’re thinking and observing objectively. They don’t realize the shared evolutionistic worldview is a filter, and they aren’t aware they’re shoehorning observations into the evolutionary tree.
Of course, we’re just using evolution as an example. The ontic fallacy causes problems for us as humans. It limits us. It deceives us.
We see a group of diplomats accusing the President of the United States of wrong-doing, but they’re all just repeating the gossip of one man. When some elected representatives get to question this one diplomat, they ask him whether he’s actually heard these accusations from anyone or seen any evidence of these accusations. The diplomat says he has not. The elected representative tells the diplomat he has nothing. The diplomat replied, “Other than my presumption!” The elected representative says, “Which is nothing.” The diplomat looks shocked to find out his presumption isn’t the same thing as reality. That’s the ontic fallacy at work.
The same thing happens whether observing political activities, parts of nature, or the Bible. One man had the idea. He thought the Holy Spirit is not God. He thought he saw that in the Bible. When challenged about his interpretation of the Bible, he said he doesn’t interpret the Bible. He just reads it as it is. That’s the ontic fallacy.
Fortunately, we have a way we can bypass our human limitations, but only God can do it. God bypasses human limitations through divine revelation, so the Almighty God overcomes the ontic fallacy. He alone can overcome our human inability to find the truth. He overcomes our weakness when we submit to the Holy Spirit. Then He pulls back the fleshly veil so we can see. We may wish this would happen all at once, but He leads us step by step.
God also uses the body of Christ to keep us from deceiving ourselves. Humility is in order. We must be willing to accept correction from our brothers and sisters. No one has a superior pipeline into the mind of God. Many have thought God given them a revelation when God didn’t tell them anything. We have the historical examples of Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, and many others who caused damage and defamed anyone who disagreed with their “revelations.” God built wonderful safety into the order and pattern we find in Scripture. God is restoring that order and pattern, but we’re used to the unscriptural systems we’ve seen all our lives. In theological disputes, we should never be so sure of ourselves that we’re unwilling to allow the Holy Spirit to correct us. Often, the Holy Spirit will speak to us through a brother or sister.
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