Christ Rules

The Fallacy of “Logical Analysis & Critical Thinking”

People can be very upfront about their presuppositions, or what they tell themselves their presuppositions are. But a quick read or listen will tell you that rather than "Logical Analysis & Critical Thinking" being the basis of their views, they are really extreme religionists and faith practitioners. If they give unquestioning loyalty to "evolution" and billions of years of its development then they have just told you they believe in the millions of miracles all in the particular sequence with not a single fact and with zero evidence to back them up. This, of course, takes far more faith than to believe the few dozen miracles found in Scripture and the account it gives of creation.

Science. Science and Faith

The "Omnipotence of Criticism"

.Our calling in Jesus Christ is not to critical analysis, to a seat of judgment from whence to judge all others, but to serve and obey the Lord in faith. He is the Lord, the only wise judge, and it is His word that must govern us.

"... man’s fiat word has no creative power; man’s criticisms, his laws, have no omnipotence. Instead of producing or bringing forth something new and better, they inhibit, alienate or destroy. The growing curse of the modern world is the belief that criticism and fiat legislation can be creative and productive. Criticism and judgment are replacing thought and work as the supposed means of productivity. God’s word and judgments are creative and productive because He is the almighty and omnipotent one. His laws have behind them His power and government. When man stands in terms of God’s law-word, he stands within the power and government of the Almighty. When man trusts in the omnipotence of his word, he commits suicide....<p></p><p>All too many liberal, conservative, Christian, and non-Christian persons and groups today (i.e., all of us, to some degree) are victims of the same sin in us, a faith in the omnipotence and virtue of criticism....</p><p></p><p>God’s command to Adam was not to critique the Garden of Eden but to exercise dominion and to subdue the earth, to dress the Garden and to keep it, to care for it (Gen. 1:26-28; 2:15). Man fell when he turned from his calling to subject God to criticism (Gen. 3:1-6). One immediate consequence of the fall was that Adam then subjected both God and Eve to his criticism (Gen. 3:12), a sure mark of sin....

Our calling in Jesus Christ is not to critical analysis, not to a seat of judgment from whence to judge all others, but to serve and obey the Lord in faith. He is the Lord, the only wise judge, and it is His word that must govern us. It is sin in all of us, and we are all prone to it, to sit in judgment. Nothing creates more havoc on the mission field, among hard-working and able men, than this proneness to pass sentence on one another. Similarly, nothing creates more tensions in churches and other groups than this same fact. In the world of nations, it makes us prone to see lawmaking as the solution to our problems. But humanistic laws rest in a trust in the omnipotence of criticism, in man’s law-word, a judgmental, critical word, as the problem-solving word. However, in all of history since man submitted to the critical, “problem-solving” word of the tempter (Gen. 3:1-5), man’s problems have only increased. There’s no omnipotence in criticism, only impotence."

RJ Rushdoony CR #164

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For more on presuppositions see: Epistemology by R.J. Rushdoony - specifically:

Facts and Presuppositions

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