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What are some of the assumptions and presuppositions of liberals?



Obey your flesh and descend into darkness

How can we know anything about anything


To try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald

Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible?

NO!

That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about.

Take science as an example. How can we know anything about the created material world around us?

How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences?

We all see the same things in the material world, but we don't come to the same answers.

Why is that?

How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches? Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read.

Why is that?

Same scientific facts. Different answers.

Same Bible. Different answers.

Why is that?

The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get from what we can see through science or what we can read in the Bible?

How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible?

How do we analyze what we have seen and read?

How do we interpret what we have seen and read?

We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock. That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation. There are also the false foundations of the ungodly.

An example might help.

Question: Why do you believe in evolution?

Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact.

Question: Why do you believe your science teacher?

Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read.

Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice.

If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts.

When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered. So where to the foundations come from?

There are three possibilities.

  1. things that we make up, pulled from the air
  2. demonic lies
  3. divine revelation

Question: Why do you believe in creation?

Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith so that I could believe Him.

See how quickly we got to the foundation. This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved.

In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air, are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan. So these are one and the same.

Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ. So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices? Because God has revealed this truth to us.

The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God and the lies of Satan?

The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know.

Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me"

The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem. It is a moral problem.

Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened." *

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:7-11 *

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe those things that they don't want to submit to. They have to want to obey God.

How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver

Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32)

"If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it"

Lies appear to have no price upon them. They seem cheap and they abound everywhere. But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay.

"[God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness. And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31).

"There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48)

That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus. When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject. Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own.

"When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19)

Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university. On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them, but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true.

In another case of just listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning, the unbeliever finally came to his foundations.

They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air. When asked why he believed his basic assumption, the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out, "I guess I'm making the whole thing up." It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions. However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn't want God to rule over him.

Assumptions & Presuppositions of Liberals  

 

Assumptions and presuppositions of liberals

Followers of liberalism often claim that they have no presuppositions and assumptions. It is possible that some liberals may believe this statement to be true.  I personally don't believe that the liberal elite are that naive.  It is much more likely that they find this "No presuppositions" claim to be a useful argument to deceive the ignorant.  The reality is that liberals are confident and unquestioning of their belief in their presuppositions.  They trust so completely in their vision that they can't understand how anyone would not make the same assumptions as those that they personally revere.  In that light, it seemed that it would be a good exercise to list some of the unproven and unprovable assumptions and presuppositions with which liberals have become identified:

     
  1. Materialism: The unprovable presupposition that no God, no spirits, no heaven, no hell, no life after death, no angels exist.
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  2. Naturalism: The unprovable presupposition that nothing happens because of God, or because of any spiritual cause.
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  3. Uniformitarianism: The unprovable presupposition that there was no creation and there was no flood.
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  4. Post-Modernism: The unprovable presupposition that there is no truth; no lie, no fact, no fiction, but only winners and losers.
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  5. Chaos theory: The unprovable presupposition that there is no order, that everything is random, that observation and science mean nothing.
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  6. Rationalism: The unprovable presupposition that the human mind can manufacture knowledge without the benefit of observation or revelation. This is the idea that rationalized speculation (making it up) is a source of knowledge and understanding. Of course, liberals firmly believe that their own creative stories are valid and yours are not.

Those are the main presuppositions but here are some more:

     
  1. The myth that all things are relative.  The myth each person must find his or her own "truth," as if there were many truths rather than one truth.  The myth that there are no absolutes.  The myth that everything is "both/and" and that nothing is "either/or."
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  2. The myth that it’s OK to reconstruct (lie about) history.  The myth that it’s OK to reconstruct (lie about) the U.S. Constitution.  Reconstructionism (regardless or the type) is a presupposition that is a synonym for lying.
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  3. The myth that we all descended from fish. The myth that energy designed and created itself.  The myth that living cells designed and created themselves.  The myth of spontaneous life.  The myth that hydrogen turns into people over time.  The myth that there must be a mysterious law of nature, which can be not observed anywhere; a mysterious law that somehow works just the opposite of the Second Law of Thermodynamics creating evolution. "Remember this tendency from order to disorder applies to all real processes. Real processes include, of course, biological and geological processes, as well as chemical and physical processes. The interesting question is: "How does a real biological process, which goes from order to disorder, result in evolution, which goes from disorder to order?" Perhaps the evolutionist can ultimately find an answer to this question, but he at least should not ignore it, as most evolutionists do.  Especially is such a question vital, when we are thinking of evolution as a growth process on the grand scale from atom to Adam and from particle to people. This represents an absolutely gigantic increase in order and complexity, and is clearly out of place altogether in the context of the Second Law."  http://www.icr.org/article/evolution-thermodynamics-entropy/  

    The Evolutionists will tell you a half truth about the Second Law of Thermodynamics.  The Evolutionists will tell the half truth: "The Second Law of Thermodynamics only applies to isolated systems, so it’s not relevant to evolution, because the Earth is an open system."  This is a clever lie.  Here is the part of the truth that they are withholding:  the Second Law of Thermodynamics was derived using theoretical isolated systems, but it applies to all systems, and can only be overcome locally and temporarily in open systems when stringent conditions are met. Not only that, but we are not talking about the Earth.  The Earth is just a subsystem of a much larger system called the Universe.  The Universe is an isolated system.  Evolutionists claim that Evolution took place in this isolated system, but the Second Law of Thermodynamics tells us that their story is a myth.  

     

    More information on the Second Law of Thermodynamics can be found here & here & here & here & here  

     

     

     

    There is a constant scramble, on the part of Evolutionists, to provide some method by which complexity and order could have possibly developed by naturalistic means--as if telling an uncheckable lie makes the lie true.  But they can't even come up with an uncheckable lie.  So far they have come up with wild tales like the following:  "Whence life complexity?  Give evolutionists all the carbon-based molecules they want – will they get life to form and evolve?  Will the amino acids form proteins (see online book) that can evolve into complex life?  Michael Lynch and Ariel Fernandez, scientists at the University of Chicago, reported PhysOrg began with proteins, and then speculated that "Errors in protein structure sparked evolution of biological complexity."  That’s right: complex life is the result of mistakes.  This idea was published in Nature.1 "... "This new idea is actually un-Darwinian.  In a nutshell, PhysOrg said, "random introduction of errors into proteins, rather than traditional natural selection, may have boosted the evolution of biological complexity."  How can that be?  Is there any complex system that gets better with the introduction of random errors?"... "Help your local pre-creationist friend at the university become a full-fledged one.  Give him or her the following books:  

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  4. Nonsense of a High Order: The Confused and Illusory World of the Atheist by Moshe Averick.  Chapter 3 gives a good summary of the hopelessness of evolutionary theories on the origin of life, with ample quotes from leading evolutionists and origin-of-life researchers themselves.
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  5. Signature in the Cell by Stephen C. Meyer.
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  6. Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome by Dr. John C. Sanford.  Fascinating and convincing evidence (from a geneticist) on why mutations will never, ever lead to increased fitness—in fact, the human genome is disintegrating due to mutations.
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  7. The Nature of Nature by numerous authors on both sides of the design question.
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  8. The Programming of Life by Don Johnson." (Source: CREV - read more)
     
  1. The myth that enlightenment is exclusive to public schools.
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  2. The myth that God is not active in our lives.
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  3. The myth that there are many paths to God.
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  4. The myth of inherent human goodness.
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  5. The myth that God is not in control of every circumstance.
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  6. The myth that we need not obey God.
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  7. The myth that the Bible is not the Word of God.
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  8. The myth that the Bible has errors in it.
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  9. The myth that God no longer works in miraculous ways.
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  10. The myth that human mind can interpret the Bible using reason (rationalized speculation).
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  11. The myth that God does not give revelation through His Word, the Bible.
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  12. The myth that if you do more good than evil, that will get you into heaven.
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  13. The myth that there is no hell.
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  14. The myth that socialism is compassionate.
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  15. The myth that a living child is not a person because he or she has not yet been born.
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  16. The myth that it’s OK to kill the old, the sick, or the disabled.
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  17. The myth that fornication or to have lewd thoughts are not destructive.
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  18. The myth that you can help the poor by punishing the rich.
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  19. The myth that you can help employees by punishing the employers.
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  20. The myth that high taxes don’t hurt the economy.
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  21. The myth that the government should spend billions on social programs, which have proven to be failures.
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  22. The myth that the separation of Church and State means that the State must teach and be guided by the Secular/Religious Humanist religion.
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  23. The myth that the judicial branch of the U.S. Federal Government should be the most powerful even though not elected.

 




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