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Originally posted by SemperFideles
All you did was confirm exactly what I just said: A Clarkian cannot accept that God might be witholding information to give us the ability to resolve the issue.
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Rich,
It is not so much the lack of God giving the
ability to people (after all, we know that God is the one who enlightens the eyes to see), but I cannot accept that God would reveal himself in paradoxes that in and of themselves, cannot be resolved. This is problematic, and has serious implicaitions regarding the clarity of scripture.
1Co 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion
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Originally posted by SemperFideles
Who decides when the premises have been witheld and when the premises need to keep being tweaked until they don't contradict?
That's right: MAN.
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Sure, it is a careful science to engage in systematic theology, but then again, that is why it is called the Queen of the Sceinces. But the other side must also be exposed.
Who is responsible for revealing himself in terms that are contradictory to man? God.
God reveals himself, and he does it perfectly. In my understanding, this would include leaving out paradoxes that cannot be resolved using human logic.
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Originally posted by SemperFideles
Also, it's one thing to say that Scripture is going to provide us with proper inferences and that the conclusions are going to follow ruthlessly but it is quite another, with our darkened human hearts and the fact that we are prone to "read into things", to ensure that our inferences really are always Scriptural. It's a delicate balancing act between inference and deduction, biblical theology and systematics. It's not quite as cut and dry as just saying it.
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But you see this is exactly where I see it the opposite. Instead of blaming our fallen use of reasoning (with regards to paradoxes), it seems that Van Tillians blame the revelation or the logic itself (i.e. human logic vs. God's logic)! How can we be said to have the "mind of Christ" when he sees scripture logically, and we do not? Surely this cannot be attributed to a creator/creature distinction when we are said to be made in the image of God, and part of that image is reason!