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The Logical Fallacy of Amazing FamiliarityWhenever a logical fallacy is committed, the fallacy has its roots in Agrippa's trilemma. All human thought (without Divine revelation) is based on one of three unhappy possibilities. These three possibilities are infinite regression, circular reasoning, or axiomatic thinking. This problem is known as Agrippa's trilemma. Some have claimed that only logic and math can be known without Divine revelation; however, that is not true. Without Divine revelation, neither logic nor math can be known. Science is also limited to the pragmatic because of the weakness on human reasoning, which is known as Agrippa's trilemma. Amazing familiarity is one of the many smokescreens that are used to cover the fact that the reasoning is based on one of the three fallacies of Agrippa's trilemma. The Logical Fallacy of Amazing Familiarity occurs when premises are presented that would be impossible to know except by Divine revelation. Often, such claims are made while denying the existence of God, eliminating the option of Divine revelation. Examples of the Logical Fallacy of Amazing FamiliaritySandy: "Your claim that Jesus Christ leads you is merely an assumption." Rocky: "What is the method, either natural or supernatural, by which you think that you know that Christ's moment-by-moment leading is mere assumption?" Sandy: "Simple! God doesn't exist, so He can't lead you." Rocky: "And what is the method by which you think that you know that God doesn't exist? You seem to think that you know things that cannot be known." Sandy seems to know a lot about the spiritual realm. One wonders how he could know all this. Atheism claims to know that there is no God. This is a universal negative and is a fallacy because it rests on the amazing familiarity fallacy. The only way to know that something is universally non-existent is by Divine revelation. For example, God says that there is not a just human being on Earth who does what is right and doesn't step off of the Way that leads to the genuine and absolute fullness of life of the coming Age. Agnosticism claims to know that there is no way to know God. This is also a universal negative and is a fallacy because it rests on the amazing familiarity fallacy. How can someone know the inner spiritual experience of every person who ever lived?
The desire of those who promote the Big-Bang-Billions-of-Years-No-Flood-Molecules-to-Man story seek to censor any teaching of the Creation-Flood account and the scientific evidence that supports the Creation-Flood account. They justify this by claiming that the Creation-Flood account cannot be true. Yet, every reason that they give for the Creation-Flood account not being true turns out to be dependent on assumptions.
This is amazing familiarity about the past. There are assertions that are made about the past that could not be rationally made by a person who was not several billions of years old.
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