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.
- things that we make up, pulled from the air
- demonic lies
- 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."
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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?
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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.
The way to create a slave in a Democratic society is to give a handout that is big enough to create a dependency. Once a person becomes dependent, they are a slave. There are ungodly politicians who recognize this evil and are willing to use it to promote their own ungodly power. Racism has been used to promote this type of political power. First, the concept of race had to be promoted. Then, the fictitious idea of race is used to pit one supposed race against the other supposed race.
Their ungodly cover story goes something like this: "I love these people (the potential slaves) so much that I am going to use force to take money from these other people (a group that usually must be demonized by the ungodly) and give that money to these people whom I 'love'." Hypocrisy? Yes.
And the ungodly are dedicated. The ungodly have taken control of virtually every form of media, the libraries, the schools, and the courts. They will stop at nothing and there is no ethical breach that cannot be justified in the minds of the ungodly.
Those human beings with darker skin are just one of the many groups targeted for control by the power-wielding politicians. The impact of this enslavement is the erosion of personal ambition and many other such problems. It is not race but ungodliness that causes the problem. Race does not exist.
There is a theory called Evolution that says that some people are more evolved than others. This is a lie, but Evolution is one of the primary theological dogmas of the Secular Humanist religion, and Socialism is one of their most important "spiritual" laws. Of course, this myth has been busted, but it persists in the liberal media. The reality is that there is only one race, the human race. God knows no difference between black and white. He only knows the difference between those who are willing to receive Him as Father and those who are not willing. Sadly, even some Churches have bought into the notion of Evolutionism. The ungodly continue to treat those people with darker skin as if there were less evolved than white people. Now, the Mexican people are claiming that they are the most evolved people, which is a thought that is just as ungodly.
Some who don't believe in Secular Humanism have been so indoctrinated by the media, the educational system, and the society have become bigoted against some other randomly selected people. They have come to believe in races, which God does not believe in.
People with dark skin have been chosen by the ungodly (some people call them Liberals, Secular Humanists, or Atheists) as their slaves. The ungodly politicians have decided that these slaves will vote the ungodly politicians power if they, in turn, give dependency-creating benefits to their slaves. These politicians are constantly looking for other groups to enslave. This is the reason for programs such as National Health Care and Social Security.
The programs of the ungodly are the cause of the social problems such as the prominence of the breakdown of family, drug and alcohol abuse, laziness, and violence that we see among the blacks and whites who receive welfare-type programs. These problems are related to political actions of the ungodly. These problems are not related to race. Race is an Evolutionism-induced illusion that does not exist in reality.