Saturday, October 21, 2017

What truth is. Arguments for correspondence

All non-correspondence views the truth imply correspondence, even as they attempt to deny it. The claim: "Truth does not correspond with what is "implies that this view corresponds to reality. Then the non-correspondence view cannot express itself without using a correspondence frame of reference.
If one's factual statements need not correspond to the facts in order to be true, then any factually incorrect statement is acceptable. It becomes impossible to lie. Any statement is compatible with any given state of affairs.
In order to know something is true or false, there must be a real difference between things and statements about the things. But correspondence is the comparison of words to their reference. Hence, a correspondence view is necessary to make sense of factual statements.
Communication depends on informative statements. But correspondence to facts is what makes statements informative. All communication ultimately depends on something being literally or factually true. We cannot even use a metaphor unless we understand that there is a literal meaning over against which the figurative sense is not literal. So, it would follow that all communication depends in the final analysis on a correspondence to truth.
The intentionalist theory claims that something is true only if what is accomplished corresponds fulfills what is intended by the statement. Without correspondence of intentions and accomplished facts there is no truth.

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Thursday, October 19, 2017

Did God create poodles?

Poodles and all other current breeds of dogs are descended from a dog kind that was created on Day 6 and was present on the Ark. The varieties of dogs that we see today, from wolves to coyotes to poodles, are all descendants of the dog kind that came off Noah's Ark. As populations of wild dogs were spreading across the globe, the environment shaped  their characteristics through natural selection. As humans began to domesticate dogs, they artificially selected the traits that they desired in populations. The breeds of modern domestic dogs are a result of the diversity that was programmed into the DNA of the original dog kind. All domestic dogs belong to the same species Canis familaris and can interbreed.
Purebred dogs have many genetic problems that result from close breeding of individuals over time to concentrate desirable traits. Many breeds have hip dysplaysia, vision problems and blood disorders. We know that these dogs not have been in the Garden of Eden because God called His creation very good and He would not have included those genetic mutations in that description. We do know that all of the breeds did come from a very narrow gene pool and that is confirmed by secular scientists. In the journal, Science, November 22, 2002, researchers reported, "The origin of the domestic dog from wolves has been established....We examined the mitochondrial DNA sequence variation among 654 domestic dogs representing all major dog populations worldwide......suggesting a common origin from a single gene pool for all dog population." It is still important to remember that no new information exists in these mutant forms, only a loss of information from the population, resulting in distinct traits.

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Wednesday, October 18, 2017

News worthy

We always think of news worthy ideas. We think of a famous person doing good. I don't know about you but I am not impressed with titles. I don't put much stock in famous people but people of faith that live their faith.
People can talk but I see their actions so I love this person. Abel was a person that I look up to.
He had faith and offered a sacrifice and his life for God. Good works will not save a person but people are saved onto God works. Ephesian 2:8-10 says, "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.
 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."
Their was a blessing on Abel's life because he trusted in the Lord and believed that he was the only way and not by good works but good works showed his love for Jesus.
He had a brother named Cain that rejected the Lord and hated his brother, Abel.
Cain's life was full of sin and hatred so he killed his brother. Cain's life was in vain because he lived for himself and a warning to mankind.
Abel's life is like a beautiful flower that keeps on showing beauty because the Lord's is in the center of it. 
If you want a great life. You need to follow Jesus and love him thru your life. Your life will not be forgotten. But if you want a hard life, then follow the steps of Cain.

 

Hebrews 11:4

 By faith Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead.