Dogmatic thinking bases thought on dogma rather than living in the revelation flowing from Jesus Christ, Who is the only Source of ALL knowledge and wisdom.
Dogmatic thinking bases thought on dogma rather than living in the revelation flowing from Jesus Christ, Who is the only Source of ALL knowledge and wisdom.
104 FACTS MOST PEOPLE DON’T KNOW ABOUT RATIONAL THOUGHT:
1. Why is the world crazy? The whole world honors an insane way of thinking without absolute truth.
2. Ungodly thinkers face Agrippa’s Trilemma. Ungodly thinking can never come to an absolute conclusion. This means ungodly thinkers can never be certain of any claim.
3. In John 3:19-21, Jesus stated the reason ungodly thinkers persist in their ungodly thinking.
4. Three possible sources for claims: human error, demonic entities, and God. Only God can reeal the truth.
5. No truth exists outside Christ.
6. Christ is the Light of the world.
7. When people turn from Christ, they turn toward darkness and lose the ability to tell the difference between good and evil and truth and lie.
8. Two basic fallacies exist: calling made-up stuff real and covering up the fact that we’re calling made-up stuff real.
9. The ungodly thinker claims divine revelation is made-up stuff. How ironic! The ungodly thinker made up that claim. The ungodly thinker is claiming to know the inner spiritual experience of every Christian who ever lived.
10. Dogmatic thinking bases thought on dogma rather than living in the revelation flowing from Jesus Christ, Who is the only Source of ALL knowledge and wisdom.
11. Those who follow Christ never have to be irrational since God reveals knowledge.
12. Thought requires a starting point of truth.
13. Whatever you build on the starting point of Truth (Jesus is the Truth), you must build without adding to or diminishing that Truth. 1 Co. 3:11-15
14. Without Christ, every assertion is a bare assertion.
15. In the make-believe world of the ungodly thinker, “evidence” consists of things that can’t be proved true.
16. Ungodly thinkers are stuck with bare claims and many smokescreen fallacies.
17. Rational thought must be based on truth, but ungodly thinkers have no path to truth. Ungodly thinkers can only escape this problem by turning to Christ. Pray for them.
18. Ungodly thinkers love to argue. Since they think their bare claims are valid, they have no limits.
19. Since ungodly thinkers can’t argue rationally, they argue irrationally.
20. Wherever truth is denied, Christ is denied.
21. Christ is truth and wisdom. No other source exists.
22. Christ is truth and wisdom. No other source exists, but many fakes exist.
23. God is love. No other source for love exists, but many fakes exist.
24. Ambiguity can deceive the unaware.
25. Emotion never proves anything, but ungodly thinkers are convinced based on emotion.
26. The emotional appeal fallacy is effective in fooling weak minds.
27. Interpretation of observation requires adding something (truth or not truth) to the observation.
28. Interpretation of Scripture requires adding something (truth or not truth) to the Scripture.
29. The appeal to emotion fallacy uses emotion to add fantasy to observation and calls the combination of fantasy and observation “evidence.”
30. The appeal to emotion fallacy uses emotion to add fantasy to Scripture and calls the combination of fantasy and observation “Scripture.”
31. Evolutionists tried to be rational, but that never worked because evolutionism is irrational.
32. Evolutionists are having success with appeal to ridicule fallacies since no one likes to be ridiculed.
33. Without divine revelation, it’s impossible to have a true premise. Without a true premise, it’s impossible to be rational.
34. Assumptions are unsupported claims people make-up and treat as if real.
35. Divine revelation: the only way to avoid fallacies.
36. Ungodly thinkers claim assumptions are equal to observations. Godly thinkers realize an observation is different from an assumption.
37. Speculative science and speculative theology: both are dangerous.
38. Ungodly thinkers use the argument from ignorance fallacy a lot, but it’s a sneaky way to give the illusion speculations are part of reality.
39. Assumptions come out of worldviews, and worldviews give the illusion of reality while filtering out real reality.
40. The truth-value of a statement can be true, false, or null (unknown).
41. To say a statement is true when it’s unknown is irrational. Yet, that’s how ungodly thinkers use assumptions in science, philosophy, and theology.
42. Ungodly thinkers can’t give an example of one kind of living thing ( like a cat of dog) turning into another kind of living thing. To say “countless examples exist” is not an example.
43. Ungodly thinkers claim, based on bare assertion, that God doesn’t reveal truth to those who listen to Him.
44. Don’t fall into the axiomatic thinking fallacy trap. Axiomatic thinking is calling made-up stuff “true.”
45. No one can prove the axiom of Naturalism. It’s a made-up story, and it’s false.
46. The only alternative to the axiomatic thinking fallacy is divine revelation.
47. Assumptions consist of made-up stuff and using them as the basis for reasoning is insane, and yet, academia runs on assumptions.
48. Presuppositions consist of made-up stuff and using them as the basis for reasoning is insane, and yet, academia runs on presuppositions.
49. Axioms consist of made-up stuff and using them as the basis for reasoning is insane, and yet, academia runs on axioms.
50. Ungodly thinkers assume it makes sense to base thinking on assumptions.
51. If you assume what you’re trying to prove, you prove nothing.
52. Ungodly thinkers are always forced to use fallacies since they can’t prove any premise true.
53. How can an ungodly thinker prove a premise? They can’t.
54. How could an ungodly thinker prove a premise? They would need a second premise to prove the first, but they can’t prove the second premise either.
55. Rational thought requires true premises. That’s a problem for ungodly thinkers. It’s not a problem for those who know Christ. He is the truth and the only Source of knowledge and truth.
56. But sanctify [purify] the Lord God in your hearts [innermost being], and be ready always to give an answer [apologia = rational response] to every man who asks you a reason [logos = utterance = Christ] of the hope [firm vision from God] that is in you [in your innermost being] with meekness [a gentle spirit] and fear [reverence]. 1 Peter 3:15
57. Most thinking is based on made-up stuff. For simplicity, call it lying.
58. Only one true Source for knowing exists. His name is Jesus Christ.
59. Ungodly thinkers base their thoughts on made-up stuff because of the limitations of the human mind.
60. Ungodly thinkers assume it makes sense to base reasoning on made-up stuff.
61. Ungodly thinkers make up stories to assert that Christ doesn’t reveal reality to those who follow Him.
62. God reveals Himself to ungodly thinkers. They refuse to listen to Him.
63. Don’t let naysayers direct the conversation toward you. It’s not about you. It’s about Christ.
64. Ad ignorantiam question fallacies work because most people don’t think rationally.
65. Scientists and theologians generally reason emotionally and irrationally.
66. Scientists and theologians often reason based on made-up stuff such as axioms or assumptions. That’s irrational.
67. Scientists and theologians generally reason irrationally then rationalize their conclusions to make them seem sane.
68. Since ungodly thinkers can never prove any premise, they get used to fallacy.
69. If you follow Christ, you never have to use fallacy unless you choose not to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit.
70. Evolutionism is based in storytelling and denialism. Evolutionism is a religious dogma that can’t be falsified. All conclusions of age-of-the-earth “science” depend on assumptions and storytelling.
71. Without divine revelation, the only option is fallacy.
72. Divine revelation: The only way to avoid fallacies.
73. Jesus Christ speaks through Scripture and every means of divine revelation mentioned in Scripture.
74. Scripture is saturated with the Spirit of Christ, so you can’t avoid hearing His voice if you read the Bible.
75. The Spirit of Christ saturates the Bible so no one can avoid hearing His voice when reading the Bible. Even so, ungodly thinkers avoid acknowledging Christ when He speaks to them.
76. Even though Scripture is so saturated with the Spirit of Christ that no one can avoid hearing His voice when reading the Bible, ungodly thinkers are well able to harden themselves against the Holy Spirit.
77. When ungodly thinkers refuse to listen to Christ, they’re turning toward darkness. They lose their ability to sense God. They can’t hear Him anymore. They can’t feel His presence. They can’t see the Kingdom of Heaven. They become increasingly callous.
78. Claims contrary to fact are bare claims that are also untrue.
79. God reveals truth through science. Some scientists thank Him. Others turn away from Light and Righteousness.
80. You can pray, “Lord, be the foundation of my every thought. Let me listen to Your voice every moment.”
81. Ungodly scientists use assumptions as if they were part of reality. That’s how they sell their ungodly religion.
82. Naturalism ASSUMES no God. God REVEALS no naturalism.
83. The simplicity in Christ is this:Christ is real and Christ reveals truth to any open mind. He’s alive and knowable.
84. If you want to be a friend of the world, you are an enemy of God.
85. God doesn’t rewrite the Bible because ungodly thinkers rebel against His righteousness.
86. You can’t change the Bible. God speaks through the Bible to change you.
87. Making immorality legal doesn’t make immorality moral.
88. God judges every immoral act. He judges every word that didn’t proceed from His own mouth. Whatever He doesn’t lead you to and do through you is immoral.
89. You are called to yield to the Holy Spirit to the extent that you only do His acts and only say His words.
90. God created you to work together with Him in submission to Him, yielding the members of your body to His righteousness as He says His words and does His acts through you. Anything else is sin.
91. Agrippa’s Trilemma—the Münchausen Trilemma—binds ungodly thinkers. They try to defend reasoning based on made-up stuff.
92. Ungodly thinkers try to defend reasoning based on made-up stuff and other fallacies.
93. Ungodly thinkers can’t be rational because of the Münchausen Trilemma. Only divine revelation from Jesus Christ solves this Trilemma.
94. It’s no surprise ungodly schools teach an irrational form of logic.
95. Ungodly schools don’t teach the fact that without divine revelation, no path to a true premise exists.
96. Rational thought must be based on truth.
97. Without truth, no rational thought can exist.
98. Satan established an organized system. The system consists of the culture, education, and media. The people in this system act in unison so the system acts as a single false prophet.
99. Expertise isn’t necessarily based on knowledge.
100. Expertise doesn’t necessarily equate to knowledge.
101. Expertise isn’t necessarily based on truth.
102. Expertise doesn’t necessarily equate to truth.
103. The great false prophet speaks through every outlet.
104. Credentials don’t equate to knowledge.
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