Which brings me to the most important of terms necessary to determining whether or not something is "truth". Namely the law of non-contradiction.
Definition: The Law of non contradiction judges as false any proposition P asserting that both proposition Q and its denial, proposition not-Q are blah blah blah blah BLAH BLAH BLAH..
This is exactly the crap that turns some people away from enjoying the study of deep and meaningful things like Soteriology and Presuppositional apologetics. Are you LOST YET. ok good. Now dont get me wrong, i personally love these types of studies , but not everybody does. So i want to make sure that i dont limit myself to scholars and seminary students. Those feilds are extremely important and i think they can be learned in an easy to understand way.
So lets do this the Mayhugh Way( i should copyright that).
Example 1. : I told my wife that on January 3rd 2010 at 8:00 pm i was at the bowling alley. Later on that night I told her that on January 3rd 2010 at 8:00 pm i was not at the bowling alley. Conclusion= both statements cannot be true. It is a logical contradiction. Yes i know it is a completely simplistic explanation that does not cover every variable. But since i believe even small children know the difference between Truth and Non-Truth in simple forms, the example will suffice for the purpose of this blog. If all of you educated people and seminary students out there are bothered by the elementary way in which i will be explaining concepts that took men of great minds centuries to formulate, than either deal with it or don't read my blogs. They aren't necessarily meant for you.
"So whats your point"??? My point is that every single time someone comes to a wrong conclusion of truth, it is because they fail to see their own contradicting views. This is especially the case in choosing a false religion since most people who belong to a religion dont make up their own positions. They accept what their religion says is truth and rarely ever question it. And to blindly accept everything you hear is neither logical or safe. The apostle Paul commended the Bereans for searching the scriptures daily to see if the things he was saying were true. So why do so many so-called "True Religions" discourage the very thing that Paul was encouraging. Analysis, investigation, proving, whatever you want to call it, it is extremely important because it is very clear that millions of people are decieved. I do find it funny that everyone thinks that everone else is decieved but "im not one of them". Well am I??? How can i know. I believe it is through confronting our beliefs to see if they are contadictory. Beware of any religion that discourages inquiry into their own validity. You wouldnt trust anyone else who had that kind of attitude towards their authority. I.E. politicians, police investigators, your spouse (hehehe).
Anyways. My Final point today. This concept of non-contradiction will be the foundational tool in analysing whatever topic i am going to write about. I do understand that apparent contradictions in beliefs, scriptures, liturgy, ect. arent always objective and concrete. We all have biases and traditions that inhibit us from seeing things clearly at some point, and sometimes a simple lack of education or understanding of a specific topic can lead you to the wrong conclusion. We are EASILY brainwashed, and most of the world has not been properly trained on how to logically think through a problem, engage in a meaningful discourse and debate, in order to find out whether or not they are being decieved.
Im gonna tell you a short story, and while im telling it i will attempt to brainwash you. After you have read the story(and only after you have read it) i will ask you some questions and educate you a little, and then you should feel yourself being un-brainwash....ready???? OK here we go.
A man left home one day jogging. He ran a little ways and turned left. He ran a little more and turned left, ran a little more and than ran back home. when he arrived home he saw two masked men waiting for him.
Question 1: Who were the masked men???
Question 2: Why did he leave home jogging???
This time i will tell the story to you, but i want you to picture in your mind a man swinging a bat at a ball and then knocking it out of the park.
A man left home one day jogging. He ran a little ways and turned left. He ran a little more and turned left, ran a little more and than ran back home. When he arrived home he saw two masked men waiting for him.
You see, i was telling you a story about baseball. But i wanted you to picture a man leaving a home in a suburban neighborhood for some exercise, only to return home and see a couple criminals waiting for him. Its easy to trick the mind. So, I hope this serves as an example of how easy it is to get a false idea in your head. It happens to all of us. I wanted to make you think something, and for most of you i was probably succesfull. If i can make you think what i want you to, how do we know others arent doing it every day. I for one want to know that what i believe is true, and will spend the rest of my life sanctifying my mind along with my heart for that purpose. It isnt easy to face the fact that we may have been lied to or decieved.But with the grace of God we can learn to see things clearly and find truth in this world.......thanks for reading
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