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Originally Posted by Civbert  It doesn't square. Rather, it would show that Christianity is irrational too. I think Van Til's "apparent contradictions" is a point where VT's system is flawed. He never should have used the phrase "apparent contradictions". Rather, he should have said there are simply parts of the Bible we may not rightly understand. When he went so far as to say we must "embrace" these apparent contradictions, rather then trying to determine which of the two contradictory propositions is false, he pushed the Christian worldview into being irrational. | Thanks for your input, Anthony. Did Van Til have any criteria to gauge which concepts were "apparently contradictory" other than his or others' inability to reconcile them? There are plenty of places in scripture which seem at the outset to contradict another place but can be reconciled. So who gets to decide when one is totally irreconcilable and must be embraced as an apparent contradiction?
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