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1 | Post-Truth | 1 Tim 5:25 | DocTrinsograce | 243894 | ||
Today I read the following BBC report where they were using the word "post-truth." I do not think I have ever read anything that so clearly describes the root of the myriad problems in pop culture, especially in the strange "churches" that spread across our nation. They went on to say that "[post-truth] is defined as an adjective relating to circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than emotional appeals." We are no longer in a post-modern era. Instead, that time has been replaced in our culture by what might be described as neo-barbarism. Look around... the manifestations and their nature, as Paul stated, cannot be concealed. |
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2 | Post-Truth | 1 Tim 5:25 | EdB | 243895 | ||
After much discussion, debate, and research, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2016 is post-truth – an adjective defined as ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief’. Examples given in the political world Obama found Isis; Bush was behind 9/11. Problem who decides what are objective facts versus a personal opinion shaped by their limited perspective. |
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3 | Post-Truth | 1 Tim 5:25 | DocTrinsograce | 243896 | ||
You got that right! Truth is objective, never subjective. Thus the need of an authority... an ultimate and single authority. Adding nothing of a subjective nature -- no Scripture plus. "Although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men unexcusable; yet are they not sufficient to give that knowledge of God, and of His will, which is necessary unto salvation. Therefore it pleased the Lord, at sundry times, and in divers manners, to reveal Himself, and to declare that His will unto His Church; and afterwards for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the Church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice of Satan and of the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing;which makes the Holy Scripture to be most necessary; those former ways of God's revealing His will unto His people being now ceased." --Westminster Confession of Faith I.II |
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4 | Post-Truth | 1 Tim 5:25 | EdB | 243898 | ||
But the question remains who decides what is objective versus subjective. No addition to scripture is ideal but any interpretation of scripture is in fact an addition to that scripture. Therefore Sola Scriptura may be the goal but it is a goal that can never be absolutely obtainable. This is exactly why there are so many different theological positions in this world today. |
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5 | Post-Truth | 1 Tim 5:25 | DocTrinsograce | 243899 | ||
Yes, there is no magisterium, there aren't even individual mystical authorities. So that's a very good comment... and the old divines addressed it very well! "The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself: and therefore, when there is a question about the true and full sense of any Scripture (which is not manifold, but one), it must be searched and known by other places that speak more clearly. "The supreme judge by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture." --Westminster Confession of Faith I.IX-X Isn't that cool? They even subjected themselves to Sola Scriptura! That goal is what we all must pursue, precisely as Paul instructed in Ephesians 4. I have been so grateful to our gracious host, the Lockman Foundation, for maintaining this high view of Scripture despite so much resistance to it. |
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6 | Post-Truth | 1 Tim 5:25 | EdB | 243901 | ||
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7 | Post-Truth | 1 Tim 5:25 | DocTrinsograce | 243903 | ||
Yes, the tares will always be amidst the wheat until our Lord comes in judgment. Sad thing is, most of the tares don't know they are tares. (Matthew 7:15-27) Let us therefore build upon the Rock; not gimmicks, shows, emotions, and prestidigitation. The Word is the greatest gift given to men. Without it, you cannot have your "dedicated, sincere, faithful..." let alone Godly! Where in the world can a man find this Godliness without the Word? I know nothing of inferences... goodness, Ed... is that really necessary for such a doctrinal stance. I stand on time tested doctrine of the church. There is no surer ground. As Martin Luther put it at the Diet of Worms, "Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me." |
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8 | Post-Truth | 1 Tim 5:25 | EdB | 243905 | ||
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