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Belief - In Who Do I Put My Trust
I have come back to following the book chronologically. I think I had trouble with the whole "Technical Thinking" thing because it touches so close to home. It is the flaw of my time. Although many people who seem intelligent have grabbed hold of this thinking and pursue it to death, there are cracks in the philosophy and they are showing.
The flaw is not so much in the idea of technical thinking, but in the idea that such thinking holds the answer to "What is Truth?" Do you "believe in" that which man creates or in that which God reveals? And before you answer, do you understand the question?
To understand means that you answer this question from the position of standing on the foundation. That there is nothing deeper or broader or firmer than that upon which you stand. Personally I cannot wake up and look out at the world we live in and trust that mankind will make something better than this. Possible because of the obvious, mankind has only the materials provided by his environment through which to work. This does not mean that it is not a worthy pursuit to learn about this world and to create from this world much that benefits man. However, belief is a separate pursuit. Knowing about molecules and how to build a replacement body part from them is a separate thought process from the one that decides who gets the body part, or indeed who sacrifices the cells necessary for the construction of said body part. That decision is based on belief, always, in every circumstance, it is based on belief. Belief is not an "incomplete kind of knowledge" that must be converted into practical knowledge, but a separate "intellectual attitude" which cannot be traced back to practical knowledge, but which stands beside it forming the bases of our decisions.
(Therefore run from those who state that belief is faulty logic. They do not even understand their own thought process. But through denying the importance of belief they have placed their own trust in the ancient lie, the one revealed in the beginning, that knowledge, rather it be of good or evil, will make them gods. If you think I am off base or reacting in the extreme, remember that Marxism is about the manipulating of man by his own planning with the foreseeable future of being "god." We now have a Marxist president, known through his agenda which embraces these ideas. Yet he is a man of his time, and many have bought into this agenda and think it smart. Forgive me if I have gotten preachy. This is the problem I foresaw with this section. Thankfully, the next section moves back into the beauty of the beloved, of understanding God's revealed purpose for man, and expanding upon the concept of "understanding.")
