Now, consider the linked image. It potentially demonstrates the cause of the Enlightenment.You see, before the Reformation, the Holy Roman Empire controlled truth, and Western Civilization began to take shape. Unfortunately, absolute authoritarianism corrupts. Martin Luther thus led a successful rebellion against it (circa 1600),...
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On X (Twitter), an atheist complained that the Bible told people what to think. Atheist: https://twitter.com/warpox/status/1833170320137842795 Me ...
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An X (Twitter) user declared - If Jesus isn't the focus of worship in your church, it isn't a Christian church.I say that's unfortunate. Consider this:The cortex (see image) is directly connected to the senses. You cannot use the cortex without activating elements of the...
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Curiosity's Contribution Of all the words used in everyday Christian life, I find "Grace" the most compelling. I believe its true meaning to be abstract—possibly as abstract as an ethereal and immaterial God. As a result, this hurts the just cause of Grace. I think it...
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The story of Job is the Biblical warning for truth idolatry. Satan, standing before God, claimed that the faithful and pious are this way because it benefits them. God and Satan thus make a bet that Job, an apparently good and pious person, would forfeit...
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That is a qualified no. Emotionally immature people, unable to reason, are tribal. This is the source of the divisiveness humanity sometimes encounters within civilization. Religion does not make emotionally immature people. Instead, they are born that way. Religion, in fact, exists to move people to...
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ME: Instead, I think where Bible-centered individuals go wrong is that they conclude they can know these rules of reality absolutely. This is Bible-centered irrationality (IMAGE Quadrant 2). Under the right circumstances, Biblical thinking is fine. However, the Bible will only be the objective truth...
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This is going to sound gratuitously derogatory towards atheists. I do not mean it to be. Nevertheless, please recognize that I see atheism as THE most serious problem for civilization (truly Matthew 10: 33). TO WIT, I shame on purpose, but I never intentionally shame the...
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The pursuit of truth is science. Christians call this Grace. Science and Grace are thus equivalent. Both represent a process. Instead, you might fairly compare Genesis with Google Gemini. Both purport to represent established truths to the faithful. That is, they involve no process (The Bible...
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ATHEIST: "The logic is the onus of proof is on the person making the claim," i.e., that the "no God" premise is false. See NOTE 1. Yet, for the human capacity to reason, they do not. The image above represents an objectively true process for finding truth....
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