How do you know and how do you know that you know?

We live in an age of tremendous uncertainty. People are not sure of anything and they are not sure that you can know anything with any degree of certitude. In fact, many are quite sure that they know you cannot really “know” anything, but they don’t “know” how they “know” that.

How do you know and how do you know that you know? And what is meaningful in life and what is the meaning of meaning? Who are you? Why are you here, how did you get here, and what are you going to do while you’re here–and why? And then where are you going–and why? How are you going to get there? Why are there so many different things and places in the world? Where is unity within the diversity of life? How did the world and the universe get here? Who put it here and for what purposes? Where did you get the ability to think and reason? But is your reasoning reasonable or valid or logical or true? What is truth? Who or what is the standard for truth? Can people communicate with one another so that they understand? Were you programmed to do all the things you do or do you make meaningful decisions that affect the external form of the universe or that affect human history?

You’ll recognize these questions as some of the basic philosophical/theological questions of life, particularly of epistemology (which means “how we know and how we know that we know.”) How can you find answers to those questions? It may not be as difficult as you think because the Bible claims to have the answers to ALL those questions! Does it? Well, yes it does, but are they the correct or true answers? How do you know? One way to get at this problem is simply to take the Bible at its word and accept the “self-authenticating claims” of the Bible and accept the Bible’s answers to all the above questions.

When you stop to think about it, you really only have two choices: you either accept what the Bible for what it claims to be, the very Word of the Living God, or you reject it and say it is NOT the Word of God; it is only man-made, contradictory fragments–like every other book that has ever been written.

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