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December 17, 2021 - August 7, 2022
Christ does not call on people to make thoughtless decisions about this life or about the next one. Instead, he insisted that we must love God with our mind as well as our heart (Matt. 22:37).
For truth is what corresponds to reality. Hence, to know a statement is really true, there must be some real object about which the true statement is being made.
Zen Buddhists, for example, will say that we cannot know the Tao (ultimate reality). But when they do so, they too are making a statement about the Tao which claims that we cannot make any statements about the Tao.
Total skepticism and agnosticism are wrong. The total skeptic claims he doubts everything. But he does not doubt his doubt. He is not skeptical about his skepticism.
They could all be right on this, even though they cannot all be right on whether there is only one person in God (Islam) or three persons in God (Christianity). Clearly, someone is right and the other is wrong on this matter. Likewise, they cannot all be right on whether Jesus is God in human flesh (Christianity) or He is not (Judaism and Islam).
When contemplating the nature of the physical laws of the universe alone, the great Albert Einstein said, “The harmony of natural law . . . reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all
the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.”
Even atheist Nobel Laureate, Francis Crick, admitted, “An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have to have been satisfied to get it going.”
Jesus directly confirmed the inspiration and divine authority of the Old Testament, and He promised and indirectly claimed the same for the New Testament. Therefore, if Christ is the Son of God, then both the Old Testament and the New Testament are the written Word of God.
