Confessor
Puritan Board Senior
Sorry brothers, another question...
What is allowed to be classified as a presupposition? Consider this dialogue and see if you can help.
Believer - Nothing can be known at all unless Scripture's truthfulness is presupposed.
Unbeliever - Well, I presuppose that reality can be known.
B - Such an assumption is arbitrary when not given rational warrant.
U - Well, what is your rational warrant for Scripture's truthfulness as a starting point?
B - It is self-attesting. If I proved it with something else it would no longer be authoritative.
U - Okay, then my belief in a knowable reality is self-attesting.
B - You can't do that!
U - Why not? I believe it has such authority.
While belief in a knowable reality doesn't seem like it really can be an authority (that just doesn't make sense), why can't, say, autonomous reason be a self-attesting authority? Why can't the unbeliever list a bunch of self-attesting authorities?
Where does the madness end?!
What is allowed to be classified as a presupposition? Consider this dialogue and see if you can help.
Believer - Nothing can be known at all unless Scripture's truthfulness is presupposed.
Unbeliever - Well, I presuppose that reality can be known.
B - Such an assumption is arbitrary when not given rational warrant.
U - Well, what is your rational warrant for Scripture's truthfulness as a starting point?
B - It is self-attesting. If I proved it with something else it would no longer be authoritative.
U - Okay, then my belief in a knowable reality is self-attesting.
B - You can't do that!
U - Why not? I believe it has such authority.
While belief in a knowable reality doesn't seem like it really can be an authority (that just doesn't make sense), why can't, say, autonomous reason be a self-attesting authority? Why can't the unbeliever list a bunch of self-attesting authorities?
Where does the madness end?!