Brian Bosse
"The Brain"
Hello Civbert and the Puritan Board,
What is the basis for being able to claim to have any knowledge whatsoever? Just today, Civbert answered this question in the following manner…
Scriptuarlists trumpet the idea that Scripture alone is the foundation for knowledge, and point to the axiomatic system of Gordon Clark as the practical development of this. Gordon Clark says that his axiomatic system has one axiom, and that from this one axiom propositions can be derived that are rightly called knowledge. Clark’s axiom (the Axiom) is as follows…
Axiom: The Bible alone is the Word of God.
Essentially, a proposition is rightly called justified knowledge if and only if the proposition is derived via deduction from the one Axiom. (Induction invalidates any argument, and thereby disqualifies any conclusion as being justified knowledge.) Scripturalists mean to be able to draw such conclusions as ‘Jesus is Messiah’ from the one axiom alone. However, it is my contention that when pressed they are unable to draw any conclusions from the one axiom that can be rightly called justified knowledge. That is to say, given their own criteria, they cannot justify any proposition as being knowledge. At this point this is just mere assertion on my part. But before going further, I want to allow the Scripturalist to comment in case I have not been accurate in my representations.
Sincerely,
Brian
What is the basis for being able to claim to have any knowledge whatsoever? Just today, Civbert answered this question in the following manner…
A Christian need not adopt the subjectivistic presuppositions of modern epistemology. We have the objective Word of God as the foundation of knowledge.
Scriptuarlists trumpet the idea that Scripture alone is the foundation for knowledge, and point to the axiomatic system of Gordon Clark as the practical development of this. Gordon Clark says that his axiomatic system has one axiom, and that from this one axiom propositions can be derived that are rightly called knowledge. Clark’s axiom (the Axiom) is as follows…
Axiom: The Bible alone is the Word of God.
Essentially, a proposition is rightly called justified knowledge if and only if the proposition is derived via deduction from the one Axiom. (Induction invalidates any argument, and thereby disqualifies any conclusion as being justified knowledge.) Scripturalists mean to be able to draw such conclusions as ‘Jesus is Messiah’ from the one axiom alone. However, it is my contention that when pressed they are unable to draw any conclusions from the one axiom that can be rightly called justified knowledge. That is to say, given their own criteria, they cannot justify any proposition as being knowledge. At this point this is just mere assertion on my part. But before going further, I want to allow the Scripturalist to comment in case I have not been accurate in my representations.
Sincerely,
Brian