The rational VS the Irrational !
If man finds himself with a rational mind that he did not create, which seems to be a property in the universe, What source can we seek to explain this property.
It is either a rational source or a irrational force. Rationality exists in minds, so the source of our rational faculties was either produce by the personal or the impersonal.
Either a rational mind is behind the universe or the universe is impersonal, evolving by mindless blind random chance.
One must ask; did intelligence produce our rational minds or did non-intelligence produce intelligence by the process of evolution. If non-intelligence produced intelligence then there can be no distinction between intelligence and non-intelligence.
Why should we trust our thinking minds if it is only the accidental result of irrational happenings. If there is no absolute mind behind the universe why should we think that we can find knowledge in an impersonal world. To look for facts in the universe there must be an interpretation behind the objects.
But if the world is rational and personal then the world was made according to a rational plan that can be understood by rational minds. For the universe to be meaningful there must be an absolute personality behind it, that being God.
John Frame makes the great quote,
In a factory, human workers produce a tractor (designed and planned by people); a farmer uses that tractor to plow his field. But we have never seen a plowed field produce a farmer, or tractor produce a workforce.
It is clear that the personal comes before the impersonal. Without God the world is irrational and so is all thinking about the question.
In the next post I will deal will why we must have a personal absolute behind the universe and why this must be a Trinity to produce meaning.
It is either a rational source or a irrational force. Rationality exists in minds, so the source of our rational faculties was either produce by the personal or the impersonal.
Either a rational mind is behind the universe or the universe is impersonal, evolving by mindless blind random chance.
One must ask; did intelligence produce our rational minds or did non-intelligence produce intelligence by the process of evolution. If non-intelligence produced intelligence then there can be no distinction between intelligence and non-intelligence.
Why should we trust our thinking minds if it is only the accidental result of irrational happenings. If there is no absolute mind behind the universe why should we think that we can find knowledge in an impersonal world. To look for facts in the universe there must be an interpretation behind the objects.
But if the world is rational and personal then the world was made according to a rational plan that can be understood by rational minds. For the universe to be meaningful there must be an absolute personality behind it, that being God.
John Frame makes the great quote,
In a factory, human workers produce a tractor (designed and planned by people); a farmer uses that tractor to plow his field. But we have never seen a plowed field produce a farmer, or tractor produce a workforce.
It is clear that the personal comes before the impersonal. Without God the world is irrational and so is all thinking about the question.
In the next post I will deal will why we must have a personal absolute behind the universe and why this must be a Trinity to produce meaning.
posted by Rich7 at 2:56 AM
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