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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." *

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.

Some time back, I met a creation scientist who told me to just have an open mind but not to accept flimflam because there is no proof for evolution. Since then, I tried this with my friend on the UW faculty who claimed to have absolute proof of evolution, but after I listened to every argument he had, he finally admitted that he didn’t have any proof for evolution. Another friend presented argument after argument for evolution. We evaluated every argument together. He finally admitted that his opinion was all based on supposition and what he preferred to be true. After many such conversations, the only proof I have seen has been supposition, presupposition, speculation, axioms (that are really just assumptions), blind pseudo-faith in those who are in control, and circular reasoning. Real faith is solid and not like the blind, baseless, pseudo-faith of the ungodly.

In 1999, the ultra-liberal People for the American Way, whose anti-creation views are well known, commissioned a poll showing that 5% of Americans believe naturalistic evolutionism to be fully accurate. God doesn’t care about public opinion, of course. God has His own opinion, plus He has all the intelligence, knowledge and wisdom, so polls don't really matter. The fact is that polls tend to put the beliefs of Americans at about five to ten percent of the population believing in naturalistic evolution as taught in the tax-funded schools. Some information about these polls, is at http://www.seekfind.net/Why_Do_Only_Five_Percent_Of_Americans_Believe_In_Naturalistic_Evolutionism.html.

If you ever heard anyone state falsely that Christopher Columbus had to take a stand against those Bible believers who thought the earth was flat, read this. "It was the Lord who put into my mind (I could feel his hand upon me) the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures." (Columbus's Book of Prophecies) Here’s proof that (as with the multi-denominational church of today) some followed Jesus while others did not in Columbus’s day. And here is what seems to be the dividing point (then and now) in another quote from Christopher Columbus: "I am a most unworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvelous presence." That experience is available today to anyone who will receive it, but God never forces Himself on anyone. 1Co 14:38 But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. See also Rom 1.

God could have allowed the Bible to have errors, but the Bible has never been shown to have an error. Rationalized speculations about the Bible or poorly translated words in the Bible have been shown to be in conflict with empirical science. Rationalized suppositions and speculations about science (like evolutionism) have been shown to be in conflict with the Bible. Never has empirical science been in conflict with the Bible. Therefore, Christians everywhere can put God’s Word over rationalized supposition in everything. And Christians have a right to ask tax-funded schools to teach reading, writing, real science, and math rather than flimflam.

Some parents are willing to spend money for private schools to avoid having their children brainwashed with evolutionism and political correctness, the counterfeit ten commandments. Private school students tend to have better math, reading, and writing skills (for about half the cost per student). Christians have a right to speak up so tax money is more efficiently and effectively used.

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