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Christian philosophers have described God as the “Ground of All Reality.” By this, they mean that from God emanates everything constituting the material universe - and the immaterial, supernatural realm, as well.
Acts 17:28 (NASB)
28 for in Him we live and move and exist...
Colossians 1:16-17 (NASB)
16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.
17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
John 1:1-3 (NASB)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
Many of these same philosophers have held to some form of the Correspondence View of Truth. The idea in this view of Truth is that it corresponds to Reality, that Truth describes Reality (and vice versa). The better one’s view describes (and accounts for) Reality, the more reflective of the Truth it is. This is, I believe, an entirely biblical perspective to take on Truth that, in the Christian conception of reality, properly locates Truth ultimately in God, the “Ground of All Reality.”
2 Samuel 7:28 (NASB)
28 "Now, O Lord GOD, You are God, and Your words are truth, and You have promised this good thing to Your servant.
Psalm 86:15 (NASB)
15 But You, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.
Psalm 111:6-8 (NASB)
6 He has made known to His people the power of His works, In giving them the heritage of the nations.
7 The works of His hands are truth and justice; All His precepts are sure.
8 They are upheld forever and ever; They are performed in truth and uprightness.
John 14:6 (NASB)
6 Jesus *said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
John 16:13 (NASB)
13 "But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
It stands to reason, then, that the farther from God one moves, the farther from reality and Truth one must also move. To abandon God is to abandon these things, for He is these things. And so, in the Christian view of Reality, one departs from God, from Truth, always by means of falsehood, unavoidably going deeper into falsehood as one moves farther from the “Ground of All Reality (and Truth).”
This is exactly what is happening now in North American culture. As God has been rejected, falsehood, and the unavoidable delusions that result, are crowding into the public consciousness. There is no other direction in which an individual or society can go when they have denied Reality and Truth who is God, there is no third circumstance one may occupy between Reality and Fantasy, Truth and Lies. And so, women can now be men (and vice versa); chemically-castrating and surgically-mutilating children is called “gender affirmation”; hideous transvestites dressed up in clownish mimicry of women may freely sexually groom children, normalizing their perversion by dancing for them in overtly-sexualized garb, and reading warped children’s stories to them in public libraries while dressed in garish wig, make-up and feminine clothing; racism is evil – except toward all straight, white men who are born hateful and oppressive and ought to be exterminated; women are identical to men, equal to them in every respect - though they are generally smaller and weaker than men, they have breasts and a uterus while men do not, they do not have the same brain configuration and size as men, nor the same hormonal state-of-affairs as men do, and so on; arithmetic is just a means of patriarchal power-mongering; women march in the street in lewd protest of “rape culture” while celebrating vile, hyper-explicit, pop songs about a woman’s unrestrained and grotesque sexual lust, and so on.
Centuries ago in His word, God described this “descent into madness”:
Romans 1:18-32 (NASB)
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.
20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.
25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural,
27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,
29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,
30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful;
32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
Here, the Truth of God corresponds very precisely to reality. As North American society has “suppressed the truth in unrighteousness,” abandoning higher, spiritual Truth, all that remains are lower, baser, fleshly impulses, “degrading passions,” over to which God has given those who have spurned Him. Those so given over, God has said in His word, commit with ever-deepening fervor and acute contortion “indecent acts” of the sort the apostle Paul described in his letter to the Christians at Rome. And so it is, in modern-day, God-hating society.
Acts 17:28 (NASB)
28 for in Him we live and move and exist...
Colossians 1:16-17 (NASB)
16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.
17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
John 1:1-3 (NASB)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
Many of these same philosophers have held to some form of the Correspondence View of Truth. The idea in this view of Truth is that it corresponds to Reality, that Truth describes Reality (and vice versa). The better one’s view describes (and accounts for) Reality, the more reflective of the Truth it is. This is, I believe, an entirely biblical perspective to take on Truth that, in the Christian conception of reality, properly locates Truth ultimately in God, the “Ground of All Reality.”
2 Samuel 7:28 (NASB)
28 "Now, O Lord GOD, You are God, and Your words are truth, and You have promised this good thing to Your servant.
Psalm 86:15 (NASB)
15 But You, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.
Psalm 111:6-8 (NASB)
6 He has made known to His people the power of His works, In giving them the heritage of the nations.
7 The works of His hands are truth and justice; All His precepts are sure.
8 They are upheld forever and ever; They are performed in truth and uprightness.
John 14:6 (NASB)
6 Jesus *said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
John 16:13 (NASB)
13 "But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
It stands to reason, then, that the farther from God one moves, the farther from reality and Truth one must also move. To abandon God is to abandon these things, for He is these things. And so, in the Christian view of Reality, one departs from God, from Truth, always by means of falsehood, unavoidably going deeper into falsehood as one moves farther from the “Ground of All Reality (and Truth).”
This is exactly what is happening now in North American culture. As God has been rejected, falsehood, and the unavoidable delusions that result, are crowding into the public consciousness. There is no other direction in which an individual or society can go when they have denied Reality and Truth who is God, there is no third circumstance one may occupy between Reality and Fantasy, Truth and Lies. And so, women can now be men (and vice versa); chemically-castrating and surgically-mutilating children is called “gender affirmation”; hideous transvestites dressed up in clownish mimicry of women may freely sexually groom children, normalizing their perversion by dancing for them in overtly-sexualized garb, and reading warped children’s stories to them in public libraries while dressed in garish wig, make-up and feminine clothing; racism is evil – except toward all straight, white men who are born hateful and oppressive and ought to be exterminated; women are identical to men, equal to them in every respect - though they are generally smaller and weaker than men, they have breasts and a uterus while men do not, they do not have the same brain configuration and size as men, nor the same hormonal state-of-affairs as men do, and so on; arithmetic is just a means of patriarchal power-mongering; women march in the street in lewd protest of “rape culture” while celebrating vile, hyper-explicit, pop songs about a woman’s unrestrained and grotesque sexual lust, and so on.
Centuries ago in His word, God described this “descent into madness”:
Romans 1:18-32 (NASB)
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.
20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.
25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural,
27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,
29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,
30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful;
32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
Here, the Truth of God corresponds very precisely to reality. As North American society has “suppressed the truth in unrighteousness,” abandoning higher, spiritual Truth, all that remains are lower, baser, fleshly impulses, “degrading passions,” over to which God has given those who have spurned Him. Those so given over, God has said in His word, commit with ever-deepening fervor and acute contortion “indecent acts” of the sort the apostle Paul described in his letter to the Christians at Rome. And so it is, in modern-day, God-hating society.
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