“The revelation that comes to us in Christ through Scripture in fact takes that position toward us. It does not put itself on a level below us to ask for our approving or disapproving judgment on it but takes a position high above us and insists that we shall believe and obey. Scripture even expressly states that the unspiritual cannot understand the things of the Spirit, that they are folly to them, that they reject and deny them in a spirit of hostility [1 Cor. 2:14]. The revelation of God in Christ does not ask for the support or approval of human beings. It posits and maintains itself in sublime majesty. Its authority is normative as well as causative. It fights for its own victory. It itself conquers human hearts and makes itself irresistible.”
Herman Bavinck, John Bolt, and John Vriend, Reformed Dogmatics: Prolegomena, vol. 1 (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2003), 505.
So it makes up spiritual make believe rules to make sure it can never be scrutinized or questioned. If someone asks pesky questions, pretend they don’t understand but you do and dismiss them.
No, it is just saying that if Christianity is true, it is true. Christian theism does not rest upon an irrational epistemology, as does atheism.
If unicorns are true, they’re true.
It’s irrational to block out inquiry by saying people who disagree can be dismissed.
May I ask you, what it would require for you to accept the whole of Christian theism as true? By this, I mean Creation, Law, Sin, Incarnation, Redemption, final closure to history (very brief heading here).
What would it require, as proof, evidence, miracle, argument, whatever?
May I ask you, what it would require for you to accept the whole of Christian theism as true? By this, I mean Creation, Law, Sin, Incarnation, Redemption, final closure to history (very brief heading here).
What would it require, as proof, evidence, miracle, argument, whatever?