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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.

How to Handle This Question  

(The parts in quotes are just examples of what you might say or ask.)  
 

It is best to ask them a few questions first and to listen to their answers. Be careful of your tone that you are not shutting down the conversation. "If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame." Proverbs 18:13  

     
  • "Have you heard something about a specific contradiction?"
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  • "I take it that someone has told you that the Bible has contradictions. Do you understand what you have been told about that?"
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  • "What is your understanding of what constitutes a contradiction as opposed to a paradox?"
Let them know you understand. "A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger." Proverbs 15:1
     
  • "I can understand how you might ask about this.  It can be very confusing."
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  • "I actually can relate to how you feel, since there are great depths to be discovered."
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  • "I'm hearing what you are saying, and I think I understand your hesitancy to become just blindly accept the fact that the Bible is the Word of God without contradiction, given your perceptions."  
Relate to them. "A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle." Proverbs 18:19 "A man who lacks judgment derides his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his tongue." Proverbs 11:12  
     
  • "When I first heard this question, it seemed to challenge what I know to be true.
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  • "I used to feel the same way.  I wondered whether or not there might be some actual contradictions."
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  • "At first glance, this gives the appearance of being a problem."  
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  • "This is a valid question, and one that I have gone to God about."  
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  • "Would you like to hear why I believe that there are paradoxes in the Bible but that there are no contradictions?"  

Tell them what God has shown to you  
     
  • "As I was seeking the will of God on this matter, He showed me that there is a difference between a contradiction and a paradox.  A contradiction is that which is making a statement with two mutually exclusive absolutes.  These are two things that cannot possibly coexist.  A paradox is something that we don't understand.  An example of a contradiction would be to claim that Jesus is God and that Jesus is not God.  Another would be to claim that God created the universe and God also did not create the universe.  Another contradiction would be to say that we have His active presence in our lives in a powerful two-way communication, and that this also is not the case.  Those are contradictions.  An example of a paradox would be that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man.  Another paradox is that God created the universe from nothing in six days.  Another would be the soveriegnty of God and the responsibility of man.  What else?  If you cannot have freedom, you cannot have love.  The Unity of the Trinity, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit."
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  • "The reason that we believe that the Bible is the Word of God and that it is without error or contradiction is based in personal revelation.  God shows us.  Everyone recognizes the limits of human reasoning and observation, yet we place way too much emphasis on these weaknesses.  For every person, God is speaking to us perpetually.  1 Peter 1:23 tells us that we have been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the utterance of God, which lives and abides to the eon.  It is this utterance on which faith is based.  Our faith is NOT based on nothing at all.  Taking Roman 10:17 as it is written in the original language, it says: So then supernatural belief comes by hearing, and hearing by the utterance of God.  Jesus told Satan that man shall not live by bread alone but by every utterance that proceeds from the mouth of the Father.  How silly if we rationalize a solution that goes contrary to what God Himself is telling us.  And if we want to do God's will, we will be able to know the difference between that which comes from God and that which comes from Satan.  There are, in the final analysis, only two ultimate sources of ideas, thoughts, and actions."
It is then good to ask an open followup question (not a "yes" or "no" question) to allow them to process what you have said.
     
  • "How do you see this as applying to your life?"
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  • "What are your thoughts?"
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  • "Where do you see this as different from your point/question?"  

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