Reason Submits to Truth, Truth does not Submit to reason.
My post from yesterday ruffled a feather or two..
To be clear, I don’t have a problem with “The Case for Christ”, apologetics, or reason.
The problem I see is this:
In America we have a real problem with submission to authority. (Especially those of us out west) The younger generations have a real problem with accepting truth at all. They do not want to be oppressed by truth, they want truth to be submissive to the individual will. “Oh it’s so nice that you have discovered YOUR truth”
When we try to explain how God fits nicely under somebody’s idol (In this case reason and individualism) We mis-portray God. Even if we describe his characteristics perfectly accurately, and nothing we say is false, we are omitting something that is so critical to the nature of God that what we are describing winds up not really being God.
Reason submits to Truth, Truth does not submit to reason. And God is Truth.
If you speak Truth, reason will come around. If you start from reason, and attempt to construct Truth from reason, you will only get the postmodern truth, not the real truth, and those can be very different things..
A scientist who holds his hypothesis more dearly than his data, is not a scientist at all. If we give the person holding the postmodern hypothesis only data that appeases them, we are not leading them to the Truth, we are only leading them to believe a less-wrong lie. In order for them to get to the Truth the wrong hypothesis must die.
A seeker who is not willing to have their hypothesis defeated isn’t really a seeker yet. It is actually condescending and disrespectful to spin your truth in a way that it is unoffensive to the person who really needs to be offended. If they continue on the road of their hypothesis, it is invariably going to go where that road leads. I have always thought that it is best to tell them where that road leads, so that when they arrive, they will say “Gee, he was right. Perhaps I ought to go back and look at the rest of what he had to say a bit more carefully”
Like I said yesterday, God overcomes all of this bad methodology and changes hearts in spite of our inadequate methods.
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