Saturday, July 11, 2020

Our Perversely Pervasive Neglect of Persuasion, part 3


We cast down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against God and bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.”      (2 Corinthians 10:5)



It is not within the scope of this essay to bolster my ideas with specific facts here, though I have composed numerous other articles which address that purpose.  My first proposal then is for secularist assumptions to be confronted whenever they commit logical fallacies.  For example, notice how they commit the double-standard fallacy in terms of 1) morality, by denying it as a binding standard for themselves, while imposing imperatives onto others, 2) tolerance, by their demanding it of others while at the same time they refuse to tolerate the latter’s views, and 3) science, by touting their own commit-ment to science, even though they refuse to yield to the genetic and the blood-type indicators which prove that the fetus who is in the womb is a person independent of the mother, and secondly, they ignore the genetic code (DNA) and the anatomical structure of transgender persons and the bearing of those facts on gender identity, specifically with respect to accessing appropriate shower facilities.
Second, elevate the critical connection between both the largely successful free society that we enjoy, and the brilliant vision by our founding fathers that is laid out in our Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  Even further, I urge elevating that these documents alone have the capacity to enhance liberty for all in the face of the biblical truism that ALL people are sinners.  In addition, highlight the intellectual incongruity of any notion that the liberties we ALL enjoy will be advanced in any way by the anarchist challenge that is now confronting us.   
Third, illuminate the sharp contrast in visions between the two political parties by highlighting in no uncertain terms the failure of the Democrat party to defend either the citizens of our country or the Constitution itself.  We are in a life-or-death battle with respect to the immediate future, similar to what Moses stated at the end of his life:
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse.  Therefore choose life that you and your offspring may live, loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him.   (Deuteronomy 30:19-20)
Given the present intellectual deterioration of our culture in the present, it is foolish to imagine that the cultural indicators which ushered Donald Trump into the first term of his Presidency will issue in a similar outcome this coming Fall.  It is similarly naïve to believe that Christian revival will ever come about in the neglect of evidential truth.  In either case, the Holy Spirit who leads people into truth (John 16:13), employs truth in all its facets precisely in order to bring His positive transformation about.  

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