Either/Or
EITHER / OR
Sadly, we are often forced to listen to those who do not know in order to discern whether or not they speak truth.
An example of how the Logical law of non-contradiction works. Basically said, two contradicting views cannot both be right. They may both be wrong, but both cannot be right.
Example: John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
This statement by Christ has to make him one of three things. Either a liar, crazy or who he said he was; the Son of the Living God. Christ claimed that he was the only way. If there is another way, then this would make Christ a liar and or crazy. You see if he were crazy then nothing he said has any validity. If he were a liar then he could not have been a good man or even a prophet as some belief systems state. A good man could not be a good man, or even called such and be a liar. This only leaves Christ being who he said he was. If not, any other assertion by any religious system describing him as, like unto, many other prophets are words which have no validity in their premises.
I have listened as some say this means he was like a highway that we travel on a quest to the Father. These discount the deity of Christ. I have listened to some say that Christ was only a prophet and never actually died on the cross or was raised from the dead; which, according to Paul, if that were so then we all are the most miserable of men and have no gospel to preach. I have listened to some tell me that the bible we study is not the original and that there is no original and as such cannot be trusted to be accurate. To this statement one can answer, how can one make such an assertion of a thing not being accurate without the original to compare it to. If you do not have the original to debunk with, then saying what I have is not accurate are just words of “one who does not know”. Fact is, one making such an extraordinary statement is making it out of bias, prejudice and even bigotry, but not out of knowledge. If it is being made out of knowledge, Prove it!
You see these statements, in and of themselves, are contradictory.
Now some will tell you that when one sees such contradiction that one should just consider them the way these think and overlook it as dialectic reasoning. Dialectic reasoning is reasoning which is not “either/or” but a “both hand” system of thought. The problem which always emerges with this train of thought is this; these will tell you that the dialectic system is the way to understanding and non-conflict, also telling you that this is the only way to approach such topics, in which both parties can be correct depending on how they approach the subject. In such a statement One must consider; if it is always the “both hand’ system of dialectic reasoning that one must adhere, then one must adhere with, either studying it the dialectic way or no way at all. In this we see the “either/or” of non-contradiction emerging and the validity of the “both hand”, once again and as always, self-destructing. One is actually using the “either/or” to prove the “both hand”.
Here is the entirety of it in a short conclusion.
Two conflicting viewpoints cannot both be correct. There are no paradoxes with God but there are paradoxes with the god of chaos. All paradox and confusion are reconciled through the great redeemer and reconciler Jesus Christ. One cannot be on the path to God by any other means other than Christ. If one believes that Christ existed not as a liar or lunatic, then Christ could have only existed as the Son of The Living God. And by his own words the only means by which men are saved and come unto the Father. As such you “either” believe it that way, “or’ you do not believe it at all. Now you may say that you believe it but with this exception and with that exception and with this modification and that modification but the bottom line is simple.
A contradictory statement is not and cannot be true. You cannot have it your way and God’s way. If you think you can then you are dialectically dying lost in compromise.
Matthew 7:21 Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
Seems the “Both hand” does not work then either.
John 8:31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Seems the truth by definition is, in fact, exclusive after all! It is immutable just as God is immutable. No matter your Passion for it to be more, the truth is exclusive, period. Truth can not be added to or taken away from and it still be truth.
David
