Vytautas
Puritan Board Freshman
Originally posted by caleb_woodrow
Originally posted by Magma2
Did you not learn the truth claims of the bible by induction?
No I didn´t and if you´re a Christian neither did you.
How could I learn special revelation without reading it or hearing of it (that is by induction. Well we can deduce from the bible its truth but initially we learn the conclusions through induction, do we not)? Of course it is by the working of the Holy Spirit but we need to use our sense experience using induction to *read* or *hear* the special revelation. In as much we are not using deduction in itself in learning the initial truth claims. At least I don't see how. I could be wrong.
I think learning by deduction or induction is a category error. We do not learn by arguing because arguing is a type of output, so we learn by input.