Secularists often attack Christians who believe what God is saying about Creation as He speaks through Scripture. The flimflam is that Secularists imply that the issue is the Bible versus observation and reason. This is a total lie. The difference has to do with how reason is used to interpret observation. We all have the same observations. We interpret observations differently because we reason differently. Secularists must, by definition, reason without Divine revelation. That leaves only two foundations for their thoughts: (1) bare assertions, and (2) smokescreens to hide bare assertions. Everyone who is following Christ is being led and taught by the Holy Spirit moment by moment–though we don’t always follow as we ought. In any case, those who are following allow the Holy Spirit to interpret observation (also Scripture, events, and everything else) and receive this as Divine revelation from God. The real issue is Divine revelation versus made-up stuff.

That doesn’t mean that we don’t each have a natural mind that is every bit as irrational as the mind of the Secularist. It means that we sometimes have the option of getting it right, but only when we’re submissive to the Holy Spirit. It also means that as we draw near to God, He draws near to us, and we begin to have a better ability to discern between the mind of Christ and our own minds.

Strangely, I sometimes get push-back from Christians on this issue. When Christians have many theologies that depend on this same type of Secularist thinking, those Christians will not want to acknowledge the Holy Spirit and His leading. To do so would put the Christian’s worldview in jeopardy. However, we would all do far better to lay all our theologies and perceptions at the foot of the Cross. We can then let God continually correct us and allow the Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth. If we claim to already know all truth, we become very resistant to the Holy Spirit when He tries to teach us.