Well here is a another blog site, as my last one died on me. I will be using this website to explain presuppositional Apologetics which I believe is the best method to defend the Faith. I will also be writing on other topics as people engage thoughts and questions. Life is about thinking and if all knowledge is ethical then we should push on to reflect truth.
Blessings, lets hope this blog works...
3 comments:
Bravo Richard! A mutual friend (Daniel) referred this blog to me, and I am more than pleased to see a blog reflecting thoughts and ideas that I am battling through. (Struggling with Van Tils' "The Defence of the faith")
May I tentatively offer the suggestion of going through and checking grammar and spelling or perhaps a proof reader? Difficult ideas are not made any easier by mistakes of this order! Eg. "For making logical conclusions from ones assumptions about one mental states about the world, even if valid all depend on unproven original assumptions." Do you mean-"For making logical conclusions from one's assumptions about one's mental states about the world, even if valid all depend on unproven original assumptions."? Just a little nitpick!
Of the ideas you have proposed, the paragraphs headed "What are Facts?" and "So what is a fact? A Fact is an interpretation!" are for me the most difficult to comprehend. Do you have any useful illustration or metaphors to help?
Is this what people mean when they talk about the intelligibility of the universe? People assume that it is our minds that have made the universe understandable and meaningful rather than God who has infused it into the cosmos and given humankind the capacity to think his thoughts after him.
Looking forward to the next post,
Kind regards,
Kerry
Thanks Kerry for your tips, grammar has never been my skill.
I am glad you have come across my Blog and that you have encountered some of the writtings of Van Til. I have studied Van Til for the last few years.
What are Facts? Yes you are right!
If there are facts to be found in the universe then it must have a rational interpretation to it before we come to it(God). Or else we are just labeling random matter. This is not gaining knowledge but subjectivism.
I mean if the world is irrational and impersonal then what use does our reasoning have in connecting with reality.
I have often been intrigued about beauty. We talk about beauty in the eye of the beholder but it remains true the beholder must be looking at something beautiful- even if others can’t see it. The intrigue is in the fact that not only is a thing beautiful but we are able to perceive the beauty. It seemed an intuitive thing to know the wonder in this.
Yes this is true, we recognize a thing of beauty because primarily a Creative beautiful God first made it beautiful, instilled beauty into it and correspondingly gave us an eye to perceive or recognize that beauty. This is what recognition truly means. God is cognizant of beauty; he knows- is conscious- of it and instils it in something/someone and we re-know it seeing it after him.
What I hadn’t reckoned on is the narrow view I had taken of this phenomenon. Not just beauty but all knowable facts are available for us to search out only because God has made the universe intelligible, he has firstly put an interpretation on them, and then give us certain capacities to know this after him.
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