Reason Came Riding

2 Corinthians 10:5

"We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ."

My colleague, Sri Ram, who is a former Catholic, (and now pandering into the new atheism of Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens, etc.), says, ironically, in Buddhism, when you think at "a very high level like Buddha", there's no such thing as good or bad, nor, right or wrong. Worse, he claims he cannot judge, or even morally evaluate, that the Nazis have done wrong. The problem in all of this is that my colleague thinks he (and Gautama Buddha) is right. He's just used reasoning to reject reasoning. Skeptical philosopher Dr. Louise Antony says, "Any argument for moral skepticism will be based upon premises which are less obvious than the existence of objective moral values themselves." Logic escapes us in many ways and we may go out of our way to deny the truth of God. Let's not forget that Jesus claimed to be, and is, the Truth (John 1:1, John 14:6); and that God is, by His very nature, the standard of rationality (Gen 1:27, Titus 1:2, Ps 31:5, Is 55:8, Is 65:16, Heb 6:18). I was in prayer as I was in discussion with Sri. Self-contradictions such as this, I believe, are curtailments by a spirit of deception that veils true reason (2 Cor 4:3). Kindly say a short prayer for my officemate, Sri Ram, that he may seek, know, like, and trust Jesus Christ – the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

"All of a sudden Reason came riding in on a White Horse and scooped me up and as He turned to ride me out and free me from that prison…" —CS Lewis, Pilgrim's Regress

~06.11.2015