You Could Be Wrong!

People are fully committed to what they believe, especially their political camp, and would not accept the argument that they could be wrong. But God is not partisan! You cannot know the absolute truth in a partisan manner!  This goes for anything secular in arguing:  the opponent could be wrong and that is a valid point.  They don't want to admit they are dogmatic in their faith.  Do you know that logically all religions cannot be right; however, they could all be wrong!  We have faith in God, However, and this is the beginning of knowledge. We know the answers to the ultimate questions!  Because our knowledge originates with God who He knows all.  You have to know all to know anything; we know A because of B, B because of C, ad infinitum.  But infinite regress is impossible--you cannot cross infinity!  Point in fact:  all knowledge is based and founded on faith.


There is an omniscient all-knowing God as a starting point.  And so, we must reason from God and with God, not against Him, nor to Him.  The Bible says that the fear of the LORD is the beginning of all knowledge (cf. Prov. 1:7)--what is divinely revealed to us and has been reasoned from there. The Bible is the final authority and arbiter of truth for us and is self-attesting, appealing to no higher authority or source.  This is reasonable because if it did appeal to something/someone higher it couldn't be the final arbiter of truth, i.e., Sola Scriptura, Scripture alone as the sole authority--the Reformers' rallying cry. And so, we begin with God and explain the universe, we don't dismiss Him from the get-go and reason against Him, begging the question.


Where you start determines where you'll end up!  Athanasius said that the only system of thought Christ will fit into is the one where He is the starting point.   The problem with people is that they do know God and suppress this knowledge according to Romans 1:18 (and you must know God to suppress Him) and when they knew Him they were ungrateful and didn't worship Him becoming fools claiming to be wise. They denied the God they did know.  But we cannot answer the big questions without God in the equation--secularism cannot give the know-whys.


We aren't putting God on trial by attempting to "prove" Him, but the evidence is there for the willing if one is willing to follow the facts wherever they lead. Evidence strengthens existent faith.  Even given sufficient evidence sinners will not worship God without God's intervention to regenerate them and quicken faith in their blinded souls.  But there is never enough for the skeptic who doesn't want to believe. Infidels don't want to examine or believe in evidence because it's stacked against them and they don't have the answers--they just object to Christianity. We don't need all the evidence or answers to believe!  There is adequate evidence for the willing though. The trouble is that some infidels wouldn't repent if all their questions were adequately answered and shown the way the evidence is leading, because they feel comfortable in their lifestyle--they love their sin!   


People feign intellectual problems when they really have moral ones and just don't want to live the abundant life in Christ.  The heart of the matter, then, is a matter of the heart.  They are really making truth claims by denying the Source of truth and the Personification of it--Jesus.  The issue boils down to what Pilate asked Jesus:  "What is truth?"  It corresponds with reality and is the self-revelation of God, agreeing with God who delimits and defines it.  We can appeal to no higher authority.  It's self-defeating to say there's no truth because that would be a truth claim per se!   How do they know that or what if they're wrong? 


The truth is that we base all our knowledge on two principles of logic:  the law of noncontradiction and the law of cause and effect or causality. Logic is a valid way to find truth if the premise is true, but we only know something is true if God revealed it. You cannot prove anything that's not logical!  The fool who claims to know nothing is admitting he does know something!  This ends up with the reasoning of Socrates that to find truth you must admit your ignorance or that you could be wrong!


The problem is that we all interpret the evidence according to what we already believe and fit our theories or prejudices. Don't twist facts to fit the theories!   God has to make a believer out of us by converting us and bringing us to a saving knowledge of Christ.  We must never give leverage to the infidel by giving him ammunition to believe he cannot know anything about God!


Therefore, Christians have a personal encounter with God to validate their leap of faith and to reinforce it with the experience that God is good.  The infidel cannot defend his foolish faith! Thankfully, the Christian faith is the only religion that's fact, evidence, and historically sound and based.  NB:  Faith not based on evidence is blind faith!  The conclusion of the matter is that only Christians can know with certainty anything concerning God as the starting point, while the infidel doesn't have a leg to stand on and lives a lie and self-contradiction not knowing anything for sure.   Soli Deo Gloria!