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1 | Possibility of finding reliable source | Is 14:12 | DocTrinsograce | 186286 | ||
Dear Finder, If God is not a rational being, then any communication with Him is pointless. If you deny logic, then your questions are pointless and any answers to them are doubly pointless. Frankly, the Scripture is relatively impoverished when it comes to the answers to "why" questions. The wisdom books, where you'd expect to find the most such answers, are uniquely barren in this respect -- for example God never does answer Job's "why" question. I suspect that there are three reasons for this: (1) Perhaps it is not our business (Deuteronomy 29:29); (2) perhaps we lack the ability to understand (Isaiah 55:8-9); or -- and this is most likely -- (3) perhaps we really don't want an answer (Isaiah 29:16; 45:9-10), we're simply complaining against and criticizing God. I'm afraid that no one is going or is able to bring all the answers to you, all neat and tidy on a silver platter -- particularly answers with which you will be satisfied. If the answers were easy, you wouldn't find the volume of discussion on the topic for as long as men existed. Furthermore, if you really, truly want answers -- and so far you've resisted any effort to help you obtain them -- you are going to have to do like the rest of us have done: sweat for them. There ARE answers... but you're like a man who expects to be taught how to do brain surgery, but resists starting with High School biology. There are no shortcuts in neurosurgery -- why would we think there might be in Biblical theology? So what is the most kind and encouraging thing I can do for you? Nothing but urge you to go and be about the business of finding. Only then will you find... becoming a "finder," indeed! In Him, Doc "The Sovereignty of God is the stumbling block on which thousands fall and perish; and if we go contending with God about His sovereignty it will be our eternal ruin. It is absolutely necessary that we should submit to God as an absolute sovereign, and the sovereign of our souls; as One who may have mercy on whom He will have mercy and harden whom He will." --Jonathan Edwards |
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2 | Possibility of finding reliable source | Is 14:12 | Finder | 186290 | ||
Dear Doc, I may have not expressed the concern related to logic in a clear way. By no means I would minimize the relevance and necessity of taking logic in consideration. But what I meant is that that particular doctor I referred to, used some isolated points as he concluded his thoughts on Theodicy, and said that he was basing his conclusion on "logic", without providing a legitimate context where the laws of logic could be applied. Anyway, it was just an observation that I made, with the purpose of trying to get the indication of some name that would treat the matter with more "balance" and sensitivity, (for lack of better words). Thank you for your help, observations and encouragement. Finder |
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3 | Possibility of finding reliable source | Is 14:12 | DocTrinsograce | 186292 | ||
Dear Finder, Perhaps you are beginning to see the need for your study of basics. Here are three articles you can read regarding the fundamentals of logic in understanding the God of Scripture. Again, nothing is a substitute for diligent study (Proverbs 12:27). http://www.frame-poythress.org/frame_articles/2005Logic.htm http://www.lgmarshall.org/Apologetics/clark_godlogic.html http://www.apologeticsinfo.org/papers/logicpostmodern.html "Logic is fixed, universal, necessary, and irreplaceable. Irrationality contradicts the Biblical teaching from beginning to end. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is not insane. God is a rational being, the architecture of whose mind is logic." --Gordon H. Clark In Him, Doc |
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