05-23-2006, 01:18 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by paul manata
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Maybe the problem is the definition of paradox. It seems that a paradox is and is not a contradiction for Van Til.
| Remember, Patrick asked for sources.
A paradox *is not* a contradiction for Van Til.
You know that phrase that Clarkians love to rail on? The one that says, "we embrace with passion the apparently contradictory?" Well, what Clarkians do not quote is the sentence before that:
"We shun like poison the idea of the really contradictory."
A paradox, for Van Til, was an *apparent* contradiction, but was never a real one.
| And how do you know when something is an "apparent" contradiction?
| Because God said/revealed it. The problems that Clarkians have is that they wish to run an external "credit check" on God. We believe what God says regardless of us being able to work out the details.
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