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The proof for Jesus Christ is coming to know Jesus Christ, and we’ve experienced Him. But if we direct dogmatic ungodly thinkers to Christ, they refuse to look at Him. That means they refuse to look at the evidence. Of course, they don’t want to come to Him. They don’t want to know Him and His righteousness. Some of these ungodly thinkers who refuse to know Christ are atheists or agnostics. However, some are Christians who don’t know Jesus Christ but follow a religion rather than following Christ. In either case, when ungodly thinkers refuse to look at the evidence, they stop rational discussion. We can’t convince a person who refuses to look at the evidence. For instance, if a person were to refuse to look at evidence of the sun, we couldn’t even prove the existence of the sun to this person.

Rocky Rockbuilder: Of course, the sun exists. Just look at the sky.

Sandy Sandbuilder: No. I’m not going to look in the sky at the nonexistent sun.

Rocky: You can feel the heat coming from the sun.

Sandy: I’m not going to base conclusions on feelings.

Now consider the person who refuses to look at evidence of God.

Rocky Rockbuilder: Of course, God exists. Just sincerely seek Him, and you’ll find Him.

Sandy Sandbuilder: No. I’m not going to seek a nonexistent god.

Rocky: If you ask Him to reveal Himself to you. He’ll show you. If you listen, you’ll hear His voice.

Sandy: I’m not going to base conclusions on the voice of an imaginary god.

If Sandy were to look at the sky, he would see the sun. In the same way, if Sandy were to seek Christ, he would come to know Christ. If he came to know Christ, Christ would plant His faith into Sandy. Then, Sandy would become a brand new man. From that point, Sandy would walk from glory to glory by the Spirit of the Lord, continually walking in greater discernment between truth and made-up stuff. He would begin building on this Rock.
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Even though ungodly thinkers base reason on bare claims and use bare claims freely, they still demand absolute proof from anyone who disagrees with them. They have no proof for their belief system, but they say they won’t believe anything without proof. However, disbelievers demand proof insincerely since they don’t want proof.

They have proof. God speaks to them. He speaks to them through His creation. He shows them nothing creates itself. Everything goes the other way. No energy creates itself. No matter creates itself. No life creates itself. No information creates itself. And God intervenes repeatedly in the course of nature and human events. They ignore God’s hand and refuse to see it. God speaks to ungodly thinkers through those who speak by the Spirit of God. God speaks to them through intuition. They know. However, they ignore God. They know better, but they refuse to acknowledge Christ. They suppress the truth in their deceitful trickery. They play mind games with the Holy Spirit. If they wanted proof, they would examine proof when God provides it. Therefore, they’re guilty of axiomatic-thinking fallacies, special-pleading fallacies, and refusing to look at the evidence.

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The Foundational Error

A single foundational error is at the root of ungodly thinking. And since there’s only one true Foundation, Jesus Christ, building on any other foundation is a foundational error. While the worldview of naturalism forces this error, people also find other ways to make the same error. They find ways to refuse to acknowledge the reality of God. For example, materialism, agnosticism, and atheism are common ways of making this foundational error in thinking. Secularism is another word for the same sort of godless thinking. Another word is rationalism. There’s nothing rational about rationalism. And we, as Christians, make this error whenever we fail to acknowledge Christ in all our ways.

Reasoning without God is the foundational error in thinking because, without God, we have no way to generate precise and correct knowledge of truth about anything. We know unanointed human reasoning has no power to think rationally since, without God, we interpret observations using axiomatic-thinking fallacies. That means we interpret observations by making up stuff and making believe the made-up stuff was true. That’s the ungodly-thinking fallacy, and we can’t get around the ungodly-thinking fallacy without revelation. Ungodly thinking always depends on pretending and faking it, but those of us who love truth and aren’t afraid of reality need the one Way to know truth. Thankfully, this Way is available in the One Who is Truth. He is the Way, and He’s the only Way. Everyone who loves truth finds Jesus.

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Since ungodly thinkers need the assumptions of naturalism, materialism, uniformitarianism, and evolutionism, they base their thoughts on these assumptions. While they draw these assumptions out of their worldviews, they also cycle them back into their worldviews as confirmation bias. As a result, these worldviews act as truth-suppressors in the minds of the ungodly, so they feel justified in suppressing the truth in their unrighteousness [deceitful trickery].

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness [literally deceitful trickery].” ~ Romans 1:18 New King James Version

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Bandwagon fallacies have no impact on truth. As we examine naturalism, we realize truth isn’t a goal of naturalism. Indeed, no one could know any truth if naturalism were real. Post-modern philosophy grows out of naturalism. It denies truth or error exist. Post-modernism claims only winners and losers exist, and teachers advise students to be winners. Without truth, there’s only manipulation. That’s why it’s not uncommon for ungodly thinkers to resort to manipulation.

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The illusion that masses of people support bias toward naturalism creates a bandwagon fallacy. It’s a kind of bullying or peer pressure. Every person may feel that pressure toward naturalism, but few think that the government should enforce it. And, even if everyone believed every precept of naturalism, such a popular belief wouldn’t prove naturalism.

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Sometimes, people use consensus to convince us. However, the consensus is often a false consensus. A popular idea is often false. False ideas can become “common knowledge” when they’re promoted or when other ideas are “cancelled” by message control and coercion.

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False Consensus

Here’s an illusion. It’s a false consensus. Some people think the majority wants message control. They think most people favor punishing viewpoints that aren’t politically correct. We can see the cancel culture at work. We hear the rhetoric from every form of media and “education.” The fallen human mind creates that illusion, but most people don’t think that way. The illusion conflicts with reality.

A 2016 survey sheds some light on actual public opinion:

84% believe that “attempts to censor or punish scientists for holding dissenting views on issues such as evolution or climate change are not appropriate in a free society.”

94% believe that “it’s important for policymakers and the public to hear from scientists with differing views.”

87% think that “people can disagree about what science says on a particular topic without being ‘anti-science.’”

86% think that “disagreeing with the current majority view in science can be an important step in the development of new insights and discoveries in science.”

93% of American adults agree that “teachers and students should have the academic freedom to objectively discuss both the scientific strengths and weaknesses of the Theory of Evolution.”

88% agree that “scientists who raise scientific criticisms of evolution should have the freedom to make their arguments without being subjected to censorship or discrimination.”

95% of Republicans believe that teachers and students should have the freedom to discuss the scientific strengths and weaknesses of evolution—but so do 93% of Democrats and 94% of Independents; so do 96% of theists, 92% of agnostics, and 86% of atheists.

87% of Republicans oppose attempts to punish or censor scientists who hold dissenting views on issues like evolution and climate change—but so do 84% of Independents and 82% of Democrats, as well as 86% of theists, 83% of agnostics, 76% of atheists, 82% of women, and 86% of men.

95% of Republicans think it’s important for policymakers and the public to hear from scientists with differing views—but so do 94% of Democrats, 93% of Independents, 95% of theists, 92% of agnostics, 90% of atheists, 95% of women, and 93% of men.

In the public arena, we hear a growing chorus arguing for the government to punish or criminalize dissenting scientific views . . . But for the public, free speech in science is not a partisan issue. It’s supported by the overwhelming majority of people across party lines, gender, religion, and age. ~ Dr. John G. West (the political scientist who directed the survey) EvolutionNews.org

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Ungodly thinkers pressure others toward ungodliness, and many in the scientific community enforce methodological naturalism. Ungodly universities exercise viewpoint discrimination on this issue and many others. Students find they had better conform or give up the idea of getting a degree. Many conform. Of course, most of them are comfortable conforming to ungodliness since years of ungodly, irrational education from pre-school through high school have already beaten them down. They allowed the worldly systems to squeeze and form them in their mold. They’ve subjected themselves to the hypnosis of the same message repeatedly through TV dramas, cartoons, games, and every form of media. The brainwashing is complete.

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As we’ve seen, methodological naturalism asserts godlessness. Those who dogmatically believe the made-up stuff called “methodological naturalism” try to reason based on this unsupported assertion. The philosophy refuses to acknowledge God and glorify God when He reveals truth. Instead of glorifying God, the philosophy glorifies the human mind and the made-up stuff that comes out of the human mind. Since there’s no neutral position between revelation and made-up stuff, claiming neutrality is a choice against following God, and trying to follow two minds at once is also a choice against following God. (James 1:6-8)

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Continuing the Analysis of Methodological Naturalism

We’re evaluating the following statement from an atheist website:

“Methodological naturalism is the label for the required assumption of philosophical naturalism when working with the scientific method. Methodological naturalists limit their scientific research to the study of natural causes because any attempts to define causal relationships with the supernatural are never fruitful and result in the creation of scientific “dead ends” and God of the gaps-type hypotheses.” ~ rationalwiki.org

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Notice the way the author embedded the lie into the rationalwiki.org statement:

“. . . because any attempts to define causal relationships with the supernatural are never fruitful and result in the creation of scientific dead ends and God of the gaps-type hypotheses.”

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Scientific Dead Ends and Gaps Hypotheses

What about scientific dead ends and gaps hypotheses? Acknowledging God doesn’t cause these. Naturalism creates scientific dead ends. Naturalism leads to naturalism-of-the-gaps hypotheses. The rationalwiki.org statement is projecting the problems of methodological naturalists onto followers of Christ, but followers of Christ don’t share those problems. Although we must concede that some Christians do use ungodly thinking, and they resort to God-of-the-gaps fallacies. However, they wouldn’t have to if they would acknowledge Christ, listen to His voice, and avoid going beyond what Christ reveals. Naturalists, on the other hand, can’t escape naturalism-of-the-gaps hypotheses.

Summing it up, naturalism creates scientific dead ends. Naturalism leads to naturalism-of-the-gaps hypotheses. It always does. Divine revelation never creates God-of-the-gaps fallacies.

A humorous upshot of fallacies like the one committed in the rationalwiki.org quote above is ungodly thinkers learn these ideas and repeat them even though the ideas don’t make sense. So a follower of Christ will tell an ungodly thinker about the opportunity to know Christ in a real sense. Then, the ungodly thinker just mechanically repeats this memorized script from an ungodly website, saying, “You committed a God-of-the-gaps fallacy.” But it’s not a God-of-the-gaps fallacy.

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