Conflict between final Authorities
Conflict between final Authorities
The Christian and non-Christian come to debate with two different views of the world. We both come with presuppositions, which influence how we interpret the world we live in. The Christian will use the ability of "reason" as a tool to find facts or revelation in the world to defend his position and the non-believer will use his ability to "reason" not as a tool to find revelation but as a final standard to reasoning upon his own reasoning. This is the unbeliever final standard of truth as he does not believe that God has revealed himself.
As I have said before in great detail, either you believe that there is an absolute eternal mind behind the universe, which gives an objective interpretation to all objects of reality according to a rational plan making this world meaningful and rational, or you believe in an impersonal universe without God.
But if you believe that there is know God then you become the final standard for truth, your intuition is the standard. Because if there is know God then there are no facts to be found out in the universe as a criteria for truth. As an impersonal universe has know mind or interpretation behind its objects.
A "fact" is an interpretation of an object. A mind has to be behind it. God is the ultimate interpreter of what he has created as it follows from the eternal source of knowledge( His mind and will). Without God the world is irrational. To try and find revelation or facts in an impersonal universe is irrational, either finite man has all knowledge some where in his head or he is doomed in finding correct knowledge. Once we come into a saving relationship with Christ we put on the mind of Christ and see God’s interpretation of reality. We see that there is a mind behind the world, and his word reveals how we are understand this world. As Christian we are to interpret God ultimate interpretation.
So we see that there is a conflict of ultimate authorities either God’s interpretation or man’s finite intuition (interpretation of reality). Yes the unbeliever seems to have the same knowledge as we do because the truth is he lives in God’s world.
There are two choices to take,
God is the eternal foundation for rationality, giving the world meaning and revealing his interpretation of reality or the universe is impersonal and has evolved and made our minds which look out to a random irrational world imposing our theories and human concepts on it. If the impersonal created our thinking, then it is irrational, and if the world outside our minds has know interpretation behind it then it is irrational and will lead us to know truth. In the end we are stuck with our abstract irrational concepts that correspond to nothing as the world is meaningless anyway. They are random inventions…
When it comes to defending our faith we must push these truths, because the unbeliever will use, reason, will believe in meaning, good, and evil, and value, design, purpose, laws of nature. But will have no ultimate rational source for them. They will have to accept that the impersonal irrational world which they find themselves in some how produce there rational mind, that some how we just think things are evil, why they are or who’s standard we are following they cant say. Which is more rational, Our Intelligence came from a absolute intelligence God who has made the world rational, being a mind behind all the facts of the universe so they all relate to reach other, or that unintelligence produce intelligence, meaning and purpose making unintelligence more intelligent than intelligence.
When defending the faith we must use our weapon "God’s Word, his interpretation" to press the antitheses between God and unbelief.
"For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinions raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ" (2 Cor 10;3-)
In my next post I will look at the weapons of Romans One, when it comes to pressing the antithesis on the unbeliever.
The Christian and non-Christian come to debate with two different views of the world. We both come with presuppositions, which influence how we interpret the world we live in. The Christian will use the ability of "reason" as a tool to find facts or revelation in the world to defend his position and the non-believer will use his ability to "reason" not as a tool to find revelation but as a final standard to reasoning upon his own reasoning. This is the unbeliever final standard of truth as he does not believe that God has revealed himself.
As I have said before in great detail, either you believe that there is an absolute eternal mind behind the universe, which gives an objective interpretation to all objects of reality according to a rational plan making this world meaningful and rational, or you believe in an impersonal universe without God.
But if you believe that there is know God then you become the final standard for truth, your intuition is the standard. Because if there is know God then there are no facts to be found out in the universe as a criteria for truth. As an impersonal universe has know mind or interpretation behind its objects.
A "fact" is an interpretation of an object. A mind has to be behind it. God is the ultimate interpreter of what he has created as it follows from the eternal source of knowledge( His mind and will). Without God the world is irrational. To try and find revelation or facts in an impersonal universe is irrational, either finite man has all knowledge some where in his head or he is doomed in finding correct knowledge. Once we come into a saving relationship with Christ we put on the mind of Christ and see God’s interpretation of reality. We see that there is a mind behind the world, and his word reveals how we are understand this world. As Christian we are to interpret God ultimate interpretation.
So we see that there is a conflict of ultimate authorities either God’s interpretation or man’s finite intuition (interpretation of reality). Yes the unbeliever seems to have the same knowledge as we do because the truth is he lives in God’s world.
There are two choices to take,
God is the eternal foundation for rationality, giving the world meaning and revealing his interpretation of reality or the universe is impersonal and has evolved and made our minds which look out to a random irrational world imposing our theories and human concepts on it. If the impersonal created our thinking, then it is irrational, and if the world outside our minds has know interpretation behind it then it is irrational and will lead us to know truth. In the end we are stuck with our abstract irrational concepts that correspond to nothing as the world is meaningless anyway. They are random inventions…
When it comes to defending our faith we must push these truths, because the unbeliever will use, reason, will believe in meaning, good, and evil, and value, design, purpose, laws of nature. But will have no ultimate rational source for them. They will have to accept that the impersonal irrational world which they find themselves in some how produce there rational mind, that some how we just think things are evil, why they are or who’s standard we are following they cant say. Which is more rational, Our Intelligence came from a absolute intelligence God who has made the world rational, being a mind behind all the facts of the universe so they all relate to reach other, or that unintelligence produce intelligence, meaning and purpose making unintelligence more intelligent than intelligence.
When defending the faith we must use our weapon "God’s Word, his interpretation" to press the antitheses between God and unbelief.
"For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinions raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ" (2 Cor 10;3-)
In my next post I will look at the weapons of Romans One, when it comes to pressing the antithesis on the unbeliever.
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