TEST ALL THINGS - BELIEVE THE TRUTH

You may be saying, “OK, so humanists have an agenda to convince me that God doesn’t exist.  And the evolutionists are sure that the earth is a bunch of millions of years old.  So what?  Sounds like they’re right because that’s all I read everywhere.” 

Sadly enough, yes, their publishing and advertizing are pretty much all over the place.  But, let me challenge you with a serious question:  Does that necessarily make them right?  Remember, teachers and scientists are people just like you and me.  In the course of their lives they are taught and come to develop a “belief system” that generally affects their total outlook on life.  Those beliefs are naturally going to be taught in their professions.  If they sincerely believe that God doesn’t exist, then they are going to attempt to convince you of that in their teaching and publications.  They are going to repeat their beliefs so often and so loudly that they take on a semblance of pure fact.  Again, Does that necessarily make them right?

Very unapologetically, I want to proclaim to you that NO, they are NOT right

Let me ask you:  do you believe everything you read and hear?  I would hope not.  You probably even laugh at some of the overstatements, insinuations, and direct lies from many different sources that want to sell you something or convince you to trust and follow their advice.  However, you tend to take more seriously what people like teachers and scientists say.  And for the most part, rightly so.  After all, they are trained professionals and you are supposedly not qualified to question what they say.  You may not have the same level of education, but you sure do have the right, or I might even say, the obligation to analyze what you are told so that you may come to your own educated conclusions of whether it is right or wrong.

So, how do you learn to discern the truth from error?  That is what we want to begin talking about now.  First, let me urge you to start asking honest and searching questions.  Don’t receive everything you hear or read without critically analyzing it.  Let the question words, When?, Where?, Who?, How?, What? and Why? (among others) be in the back of your mind as you input information.  I’m not saying you should be a “doubting Thomas” and question every piece of information that comes your way.  We are specifically talking about humanism and evolution in this blog so let’s concentrate on them. 

Let’s test the system.   Suppose you’re in a classroom:

Teacher:  Well, class as you all know man evolved from monkeys and then from lower forms of life in a process called evolution

You:  That’s interesting teacher.  How do you know man evolved from monkeys?

Teacher:  It’s right here in the World History book.  You can read it.

You:  Yes, I have read it.  How did the author know that man came from monkeys?

Teacher:  Well, it wouldn’t be in the book if it wasn’t true.

You:  Begging your pardon teacher, but I read stuff all the time that isn’t true.

Teacher:  This book was approved by the State Board of Education as a valid text for our class.

You:  Are they sure its true, teacher?  How do they know?

Teacher:  Because knowledgeable scientists who have proven these things gave them the information.

You:  How do we know the scientists have proven these things, teacher?  Who are they?  I’d like to check out their sources before I believe that I evolved from a monkey.

From there the process continues.  Do you get the idea?  You have questioned.  Now you have to take your questioning further to investigating, then analyzing the information you receive, and finally arriving at your own conclusions.  I know this process isn’t always easy or comfortable but it’s amazing how you can get at the truth this way, and at the same time learn a lot and have more confidence in yourself.