Presupposition

When you become a Christian and start reading the Bible, you find out very quickly that there is much in the bible that the world will tell you is not true.  In fact right in the very first chapter of the very first book (Genesis) you will find all kinds of things that the bible is saying that contradict all of the schooling you ever got.  It goes against all those science shows you have ever watched.  You will start thinking about all of the very smart and learned people who have told you those contradictory things and perhaps the question runs across, well, which one is right?  The Bible?  Or all those smart scientists that contradict the Bible?

If you start to take the time to look into these things, you will find out that there are some scientists who do agree with the bible, and they Christians.  So, you find one of the articles written that appears to show scientific evidence that the bible is right and share it.  Well, then the world tells you that these “scientists” are not really scientists.  Or they will tell you they are outside of their field of expertise.  They may tell you that they are just bias and trying to make the facts fit the presupposition that the bible is true, and because of those things, you can’t believe them, or your bible.

Really though, when you are talking about the origins of life and the universe or the evolution creation debate, No one can really “prove” anything.  All any researcher can do is look at the evidence that we have in time now and make educated guesses about the way they came into being.  Those “educated” guesses are made based on the previous thought processes of the people investigating the thing.  They are making presuppositions about how something came to be based on what they believe is true about the evidence.

A presupposition is to suppose or assume beforehand; take for granted in advance, or, to require or imply as an antecedent condition: An effect presupposes a cause.  When one looks at a rock, and wonders how it got there, the presupposed mindset of the person looking at the rock will influence how they go about figuring out how it came to be.  Most unbelievers have a mindset that everything occurs naturally through the various laws of physics they believe to be true.  To them, this rock would have taken millions of years to form based on their presuppositions.   A Christian looks at the same rock and says, hmm, I wonder how God made this rock.  They will see the rock as being no more than 10,000 years old at most, based on their presupposition of creation.   So, who is right?  Both believe themselves to be right.  And with the scientists, both sides produce arguments and circumstantial evidence to support their conclusions.

 

Just like most other things in life, we will have to make a choice.  Are we going to choose to believe what man says?  Or are we going to choose to believe what the word of God says?  That can be a tough choice when overwhelmed with years of the worlds ideas crammed into your brain from your first TV shows all through schooling and life.  It gets even tougher when you find out the ridicule and rejection you will get from rejecting the worlds ideas.  It is not easy to stand against the world.  Especially when it is a topic you don’t know much about and so many “experts” are telling you the Bible is wrong, and so few within a closed circle showing you the Bible is right.

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

The Bible could not put it any clearer and more direct.  The natural man, those that seek after purely natural answers to the questions of life cannot and will not concede that a god even exists, much less Yahweh of the bible.  For them to think the answers of how we and everything got here is God IS foolishness to them, and they will tell you so.  Not only can’t they know, but they have no desire to know.

Job 21:14

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Just remember that he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man (I Corinthians 2:15)  We CAN know these things.  We know the bible to be true not by naturalistic evidence, but by spiritual evidence.  The Holy spirit bears witness to us that the Bible is true.  We know it to be true by applying it in our lives and seeing the results.  We know it to be true by answered prayers, and miraculous helps.   We HAVE evidence that the unsaved does not have, and cannot comprehend. We don’t have to presuppose God, we know Yahweh.