The system in which we live is one giant lie and conspiracy, but is broken down as many lies and many conspiracies, because one mind -a Spirit being -is behind it all.

As stated previously on here, when observed outwardly, the conspiracy appears to be an impossibility because so many are involved in it or are a part of it’s operation, therefore how can all these men who are instruments of it’s operating in the visible world be cooperating to such an extent for the conspiracy to be successful?  It’s got to be impossible, right?

As God Himself is the originator of the One and the Many truth/phenomenon/principle or law, why should it be thought impossible to observe it’s operations in the sphere of time and space that we live in?

One conspiracy in the Spiritual sphere/realm translates into many conspiracies in the seen/visible sphere dimension in which we live.   One ”spiritual” lie; ie satanic lie, operated by one spiritual being, translates into many lies in this dimension, operated in and through many human demonically influenced instruments in this dimension.

The many lies, viewed as a collective -which can only be viewed as such by a Spiritual person who sees the big picture so-to-speak-operate as a system of pressure similar to gravity, designed to push those who are destined to contain the image of God into becoming in this realm what they already are in the unseen realm. 

Yes, God said in the beginning, “let us make man in our image;after our likeness”, but “the making” is a process which takes time in this dimension, while occurring instantaneously in the Spiritual sphere/dimension.  Adam is being made in this world as we speak.

The religiocracy’s  teaching that all men have or are “in the image of God” is false.  The White man is being pressured to become in the image of God in time/space by THE lie, manifested as many lies in this dimension.   The lie then, being evil, actually has a good purpose or end result, even though those operating the lie don’t know it.

We “fight against” the lie by standing still and knowing/recognizing the lie for what it is and most importantly informing others of what the lies are, thereby leading many others to righteousness/into the image of God…

.Daniel 12:3,10 “…and they who make (others)wise (the instructors), shall shine like the shining of the expanse, and they who bring many to righteousness, like the stars to age abiding and beyond.  Many will purify themselves and be made white and be refined, but the lawless will (continue to)act lawlessly, and none of the lawless shall understand -but they who make wise (the instructors) shall understand….”

The wise instructors are forerunners or those who make up what I have described in several other earlier posts as a head group; born before/earlier than the multitudinous/cannot be numbered group; analogous to a literal physical birth wherein the “head” is born first with the “body” following after.  The head group prepares the way for the body group and brings many of those of the body group into understanding and True knowledge..

Standing still, and acknowledging/knowing is a condition of the soul wherein one ceases to worry about what is coming on the earth, for instance the genocide of whites presently ongoing in previously white dominated countries.  It’s an inner condition of non emotional reaction to the present pervasive Lie.

Making life and circumstance plans based on what dingbat so-called science says about “global warming/climate change/peak oil”, etc, is a fools errand.  The lie always is preaching gloom and doom.  If we don’t hurry up and do something, we’ll all perish because of what a consensus of edumacated, high minded, framed-piece – of -paper – on-the-wall science spokesidiots say.  The lie is designed to get people to do something as a reaction to the lie, which, when they do, is proof that they have believed the lie.  The proof also shows in their repeating the lie to others.  Such have the “mark of the beast” on their foreheads and hands – metaphorical/symbolic of minds and works.

The lie says the earth is running out of this and that, therefore the government must institute policies/rules/regulations to limit more ”freedom”, thereby creating false shortages/scarcities, higher prices, etc.  The scare tactic of running out of oil, known as “peak oil” is part and parcel of this line of bs.

The teaching that oil comes from long dead prehistoric fossils is horse hockey.  It is self generated deep within the earth because God made the earth that way.  If God made the earth so that it would eventually “run out of gas” so-to-speak, then there is no God as many atheists say.

They close down refineries and oil wells and refuse to dig or disallow digging in many areas at the behest of oil companies themselves in collusion with envirowhackos and government officials.  Which then keeps the country in hock to the middle easterners.

As the drive to power and money is behind all the lies, manipulating and conditioning the populace into receiving and believing in shortages and scarcities as things “that can’t be helped” and “we all just have to get used to if we want to survive”, ”and besides, we have way too many people living on the planet, so it is necessary that many die, so that others may live”, etc.

The present on going ammo shortage is another aspect of the false shortage/scarcity lie.  In this case the government departments collude with ammo manufacturers by ordering   millions of rounds of different ammo sizes and stockpiling them in their various warehouses and blame the average Joe’s run on gun and ammo buying following threats to the 2nd amendment after the recent Sandy Hook shootings.  They blame the shortage on the gun buying public when it’s actually the government in collusion with business that causes it.  So the public has to put up with a rationing system set up by individual retail outlets, while the government has millions of rounds that the public should have been able to purchase.  This is of couse a satanic end run around the 2nd amendment.  They can’t get the congress and senate to do what they want, so they do it with fiat laws/rules and implementing actions to create the false shortages and blaming it on others, all the while accusing others who disbelieve their bs as conspiracy theorists, government haters, red necks, etc.

Eventually, circumstances will be altered in such a way in parts of the country where, as I’ve also said previously, certain states or regions/localities will have become more independent minded and separated from satan’s seat on the Potomac mentally, that they will take control of their own destiny as far as oil and drilling for it is concerned and will build their own drilling/refinery concerns or work in conjunction with privately owned businesses, contracting the work out to them.  This will be due mainly to the gradual weakening of the seat on the Potomac as it reaps what it has sown in this land and throughout the world as it goes into it’s contraction stage as opposed to it’s former expansion phase.   Oil businesses will begin to stay home and prosper as will the areas where they set up operations.  Think North Dakota as a present example.

The more they give themselves over to darkness inwardly, via the lie and believing in it, which is reflected outwardly in the world by the worship of all things negro and female, the weaker they become, because those two are not civilization builders when left to themselves, but are rather civilization destroyers.  They can only build when under a strong White masculine hand as his helper, under his control.  The more negrified and femaleized the country becomes, the weaker it is.  The country was given over to the African immediately after the War of Northern Aggression and then turned over to the woman in 1920 and she became the negro’s partner- in- crime and it’s been down an iced hill in a barrel ever since.  Through the negro came the idea of minority worship; through the female came sodomite worship.

I’m a conspiracy factist….

Some links.  A few years old.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives/peak_oil/index.htm

http://www.newswithviews.com/Monteith/stanley.htm

http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr64.html

http://www.prouty.org/oil.html

http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=63&contentid=2170&page=2

http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=63&contentid=2819&page=2

In mid-April I will be presenting SoulCollage® for the St. James the Greater Women’s Weekend Retreat. The theme is “The Song of the Soul” after that lovely, inspiring song by 

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This is a SINGLE relation, one may note, just as INVITES and TO_THE_LEFT_OF are. But while the relations INVITES and TO_THE_LEFT_OF are fairly easy to get one’s mind around, IS is a more difficult case. What is the relation between a property and the thing of which it is the property? Should we say that the property “inheres” in the thing? (Whatever “inheres” means.) Should we follow Plato and think of the relation between thing and property as analogous to the relation between reflection in the mirror and the thing or person reflected? So that the thing is a wholly relational entity wholly dependent upon something more real that exists independently, i.e., the property existing as a Platonic Form? Should we be more Aristotlean and think that, while yes, a given property (e.g. RED, e.g. PRIME) is one thing, not many, it is always already “contracted” (the ‘contracted’ business always makes me think of the old freeze-dried instance coffee commercials … the property gets “sucked” into the thing accompanied by the corresponding sound) ala John Duns Scotus into (but where does the ‘into’ come from? Does this mean ‘inhere’?) the thing so that it never exists independently of the thing? So that it has a “unity less than numerical?” (Source of the ‘unity less than numerical’ thing comes from some writing of Duns Scotus which I do not remember.) Should we think, along with William of Ockham, that it is nonsense to think of a single thing, e.g., the property RED, as existing in several places at the same time, so that we have to think of the red of the car and the red of the rose petal as in fact two different properties, even if they exactly match the same color sample held by the Interior Decorator? (So that ‘Red’ in the Relation above would always have to be marked by a number serving as an index?)

Or maybe the Relation IS is not a real Relation at all, but an artifact of a Word. Given the Word ‘is’, we think there is a corresponding Predicate generating Propositions which, when true, form a Relation. But in reality there is no such Relation. Perhaps?

Today, I actually purchased two more domain names and pulled my Naked On a Strange Planet blog off of WordPress.com in order to host it myself so that I could “redirect” some of my posts to my new domains.  I spent a good part of my day copying, pasting, and redirecting; as well as selecting new themes, plugins, etc. for my many blogs. When 5:00 pm rolled around and I realized that I had spent my entire day on this insane task, I said, “STOP! What are you doing and why?”

• Do I really care how large my readership is? No, it’s the quality of the interactions that I have with people on my blog, and not the number of readers that I have that brings joy to my life.
• Do I really think that I’m ever going to make tons of money from affiliate advertisements on my blog(s)? No, not really. Besides, we all know that’s not what it’s about, right? It’s about being able to express yourself and share your thoughts, interests, etc., with the wider world out there.  I know for a fact that I will make more money actually working than I will ever earn by spending hours tending to MANY blogs instead of ONE.
• Do I really suppose that if one of my readers has no interest in a particular blog post that they will unsubscribe from my blog? I would hope not. Just delete the email and don’t read the post – knowing that the next one will be right up your alley. Or…try something new and different on for size, you might be pleasantly surprised!

Finally, I decided that I had simply succumbed to a case of temporary insanity brought on by the ever-present, evil desire for MORE, MORE, MORE. More domains. More blogs. More readers. More search engine hits. More obligations. More time spent. More money spent. More aggravation, headaches, and…. You get the picture.

So, it is after much wasted time and effort, that I have finally decided to have it both ways:  I will continue to have ONE blog with MANY topics.

See what I mean…?

The Museum Boijmans and the Port of Rotterdam have started a partnership under the terms of which (just love that grammatical construct) the Boijmans will use the former submarine wharf for art installations every summer until 2014. The project launched last summer with a show called Infernopolis by the Rotterdam-based Atelier Van Lieshout. I didn’t actually see that show because, well, I saw the photos and didn’t feel that mutilated bodies and other images of a Dantesque hell were what I was looking for at the time.

This year, the Norwegian-Danish artist partnership, Elmgreen & Dragset, have brought their ideas to the huge space where submarines were once built. The result is The One and the Many, which could well be read as another kind of hell, but one that is a little closer to the contemporary experience. Click here for an interesting 7-minute video of the artists explaining what inspires them and the thinking behind this show.

To enter the installation, you go through a tunnel made from a huge metal tube. The photo below shows the exterior of the tunnel.

The interior walls of the tunnel are defaced with graffiti and at one point, you come across a very realistic, dimly lit ATM and on the floor below it, a baby left in a cot. Initially startled, I was very relieved to realize it was a doll. You continue and soon emerge from the tunnel into a huge, dimly lit space. In front of you, there is an apartment building, several floors high, equipped with an intercom, elevator and internal stairways. A very realistic replica of one of those completely anonymous blocks built in the 60s or 70s to house as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, and preferably out of sight.

Or is it a replica? The lights are on in the windows and you can hear music and voices. I had no idea what was going on so I cautiously approached the windows and peered into rooms that looked as if the occupant had just stepped out and would be back any minute to pick up the activity they had left off. Mostly watching TV, actually. Rounding the corner of the building, you emerge into a large square where people are sitting, standing, walking around. Some of them I recognize as other visitors, some might be museum staff, but what about that young couple with a pram, seated together on a concrete bench? There is a stripped-down limousine jacked up on rests, an old-fashioned Ferris wheel straight out of an amusement ground, rubbish, a public toilet you would go far to avoid. What is going on here?

In this interview, the Director of Boijmans explains a little bit about the collaboration with the Port of Rotterdam as well as his own experience of the installation.

Elmgreen & Dragset are also behind another art event in Rotterdam. This one was launched on May 28 and will continue for a year. It’s called It’s never too late to say sorry. I haven’t actually seen it yet as I couldn’t find it the day I was looking for it, but having watched this little video clip of the event, I now know where and, crucially, when to look for it.

Elmgreen & Dragset have also won the 2012 commission for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London. If you’re there next year, keep an eye out for Powerless Structures. It is a statue of a boy on a rocking horse, which seems a humorous and subversive decoding of the historical heroes and warlike horses on the other plinths in the square.

Rev. Msgr. Paul McPartlan, “Introduction” to John D. Zizioulas, The One And The Many (Sebastian Press, 2010) xv-xvi.

It should be pretty obvious by now that I’ve been neglecting this blog, and, while it is tempting to apologize and promise to try and amend my ways, that may not be terribly realistic, at least not for the next couple of months. I do hope to finish the posts on Earthen Vessels and I do hope to continue the blog in the future, although I’m not sure how that will develop, but for the time being posting may well be somewhat sporadic.

However, I have been meaning to say something about this book by Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon which arrived a few weeks ago courtesy of Sebastian Press of the Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church. It is a collection of essays edited by Father Gregory Edwards and is subtitled “Studies on God, Man, the Church, and the World Today.” I have only dipped into it and, as I know from previous experience, to really benefit from Metropolitan John’s works one has to do considerably more than just dipping into them, to say nothing of the fact that I still have to get my head around some of the critical issues that people have with his work. Given that at present the word “books” unfortunately conjures up more the thought of binding than that of reading, it will probably take a while before I really get into this. On the other hand, the advantage of a collection of essays is that they can be read separately and so I hope to say more on at least some of them before too long.

The collection of essays is organised around three themes. The first is entitled “Studies in Triadology” and deals with questions of Trinitarian theology and anthropology. The second is entitled “Studies in Ecclesiology” and addresses  questions relate to the Eucharist, Pneumatology, Liturgy, eschatology and authority. The third is entitled “Studies on the Ecumenical Movement” and addresses the Orthodox understanding of participation in the Ecumenical Movement and specific related issues such as theological education and proselytism.

More again, hopefully!

No problem guy! I currently play for a band called Judith, I joined the group in April 2006. In the past I played for a hard rock band called Windowsil. At the moment we have been gigging in and around Johannesburg, South Africa and promoting our debut album which we released in June last year. At the same time we are back in studio working on pre-production for our next album.

How exactly did your drumming career begin?

I was spoon-fed rock music from a young age. My Dad actually got me into Drums by introducing me to Mr Ginger Baker from Cream. We would sit and listen to his old records (and i mean vinyl when i say records) which included everything from Grand Funk Railroad and Dire Straights to The Eagles and Foreigner. My dad would always comment on the drummers and say “Hey Mikey… listen to those Drums!!!” and I was like “Holy Monkey that is cool!” Since then I just wanted to play. Later on, I got a job as a waiter and saved up for my first kit and as soon as I had enough saved, I bought my first kit from a guy who looked like Jackie Chan (random). I then quit my December holiday job and promptly went home to rock my face off. Ginger Baker is still one of my heroes. Thanks Dad.

Did you have any sort of lessons or tuition, and if so please elaborate on who you went too and for how long etc. Also, what do you feel is the most important thing you learnt during your tuition?

I’m self taught. I mainly listened to cd’s and played along by ear when I started out. At the time, I had never seen or noticed guys playing, I just listened. So I’d hear a beat and piece it together until I got it right. But when I got a chance to speak to a more experienced drummer, I’d ask for advice. I did have one lesson to help me focus on my weak points, and to pay for the lesson I swopped a spare hi-hat stand and cup of milo – Fair trade! I am Studying drums this year, part time.There are huge advantages to going and taking lessons like for instance reading Drum notation… it’s a must! Before I would see a lesson at the back of a magazine and say to myself “Ahhh drum hieroglyphics…..hmmm wish I could read that….oooh look at the pictures!” Since I’ve taken lessons, I can actually sit down read a lesson and the “Drum Hieroglyphics”make perfect sense. I would love to study full time but like most of us, I have a day job. I’ve got bills and a hungry, hungry hamster to feed…She is needy…

Who or what are your influences?

As I said, Ginger Baker was a big one, oh and Dave Grohl, but no matter what I hear, I learn something – even dance/house music: I learnt to switch my mind off when listening to that stuff and that is a skill that takes time… Moo wha ha ha!!! (evil laugh). Don’t get me wrong I’m open minded to all genres but it just bores me to an emo state ha ha!! I listen to almost anything – Kwaito, Maskandi, Hip Hop, Latin, Hardcore, Alternative and finally Classical hip-hop surfer speed metal (this should be a genre….I’m convinced that it’s gonna be the next big thing). There are just certain bands or groups that just catch your attention. All types of music influences me, not just drummers. The guys in Judith have broadened my influences and I have learnt so much from them. I’m influenced by every band I’ve ever seen and performed with in some way or another. I watch every ones individual role in a band and acknowledge them for what they do and what they contribute towards their music and then the eyes wonder to the drummer because as a drummer I cant help watching and checking out what equipment they have. I love gadgets for drummers, I love pearl for making the cymbal clamp – No more turning wing nuts!!! But, I also ask a lot of drummers what hardware and skins they prefer. Its a nice way to find out what equipment other drummers are using – I am on a mission to find my perfect set up !

Tell us about how you got involved with ‘Judith”?

The Guys from Judith approached me after my last show with my previous band Windowsil and asked me if I would come over to one of their practices and jam. I had seen them previously at a show we played together and really liked their construction and style they brought to the stage. Soon after that first jam with the guys, I pitched up for every practice and here we are. I’ve known Brad And Woz our Guitarist and Bassist for years – we go way back, we used to go bowling.

What is the writing process within Judith like, and how free are you as a drummer to add your creative input?

Normally what happens is one of us comes up with a riff, or beat or melody and run with that. Me? FREE to add my creative input- what’s that ??? Well…it was tough in the beginning, they don’t chain me up or keep me in a cage anymore and let me out when I need to play….. Thing’s are better now HA HA Just kidding!! We all contribute towards the writing process and, as a drummer, I have a say in everything (even guitars and vocals!!!) and if any of us have an idea or a different approach to writing a song we all try it out. There isn’t a set method to our writing and behind the kit, I focus on blending with the music and the band, keeping it solid and driving.

Who are your influences and why?

Matt Cameron from Soundgarden/Pearl Jam – I like the way this guy can make technical sound “easy”, Adrian Robison form Strata – his ideas are cool and he as an “Out the box” approach. Carter Beauford from Dave Matthew’s Band- this guy blows my mind -Dynamically Powerful and I can relate a lot because I also play open handed,  Marc Heron from Oceansize always keeps me guessing what he’s gonna play next. He’s unpredictable but fluid around the kit! Morgan Rose from Sevendust – all out Power, Morgan is equally quick with hands and feet. And then do yourself a favor and “YouTube” Bernard Perdie…..LOL this guy is awesome, ever wondered what a Pimp daddy would look like behind a kit? Bernard Perdie is the most fun guy to watch – he has “Joygasms”behind the kit he really enjoys what he does, a great teacher and the world’s most recorded musician! There are so much more…. As for the guys in my scene here is S.A, well there isn’t any difference or level. There are some guys and girls here who would equally match the big names overseas, we should never underestimate ourselves in the least. Ex Marlowe drummer, Rory Mayne, is freakkin awesome!!! Dale Schenttier from Prime Circle is also a great solid drummer. David Klaasen is world class.

How would you describe your drumming style in just three words?

Hmmm  OK – Tight-Solid-Groove …..YEAH! It’s the T.S.G, if I may abbreviate? And that’s how I roll! BoooYah!!

We’re thinking of adding an Up and Coming section to the site, what advice would you offer up and coming drummers/musicians on practicing? Also, do you personally have any sort of structured practice routine, and if so, please share it with us?

I only found out what “Rudiments” were 2 years ago, want some really good advice – Get a metronome, get on top of your rudiments and when you go to shows, speak to the drummers afterwards get some advice on what ever you are struggling with in your practice. My practice routine goes a little something like this : Mondays are my “Rudi-Mental” days (I say Mental cause some rudiments mess with your head), I choose a rudiment for example Flamacue or Paradiddles. I work on that rudiment for an hour or so at different tempos with my metronome starting at 60 bpm and move the tempo up every 10 mins by 5 to 10 bpm. 60 bmp might seem slow but to really understand any rudiment or beat you are trying to figure out should start out with ESP – (Extra Slow Playing). After that, I mix up all my rudiments I have down already. Tuesdays through to Fridays are more a revision of Monday. On Fridays I play along to songs and try incorporate what I have learnt during the week. And if you are unfortunate and have to work during the day at a desk job like me, well then while in traffic have a Dash board Jam on the way home. My weekend, I either gig or I chill on the couch with sticks in hand practicing while watching Ninja Warrior or American dad. Most importantly though: Just have fun! Keep It Loud – Keep It Humble and “Stick” with it – Pun intended

Any last thoughts or words?

It’s chapters like this that make me cry…

The argument so far: Cornelius van Til was a lecturer in Apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary. After receiving much criticism for his perspectives on “presuppositional apologetics” within the “Reformed Tradition”, he writes “In Defense of the Faith” to settle the issue once for all. Part I of this series looked at the premise of the argument, but highlighted the nature that we are Reformed Christians. Part II argued that for us to do apologetics, we must begin with what we believe: i.e. Doctrine. But not just theism, nor even Christian theism, but Reformed Christian theism is what we believe and what we are defending.

In Part III, we look at philosophy. Apologetics is about evangelism. We want to express our faith to those who don’t believe. Chances are, they won’t understand the “theological” jargon that we use (go figure), so we must speak their language. Now for van Til, this was the educated man (and woman if we must be PC about it), and their language was philosophy. And so we must express our faith using philosophical words, phrases and concepts. Yet, for the most part, philosophers are not Christian, and in using their language and concepts, we are threatened with the possibility of importing non-Christian problems and worldviews into our own worldview. So the challenge for van Til (and us to a point) is to use the language of philosophy, but redefine it for our use.

**DISCLAIMER: Hate philosophy? Do big words and insane concepts send shivers down your spine, make you throw up, cry, want to hang yourself with your small intestine and other involuntary reflexes? Do you find Vogon poetry more palatable? Scroll down to NON-PHILOSOPHY SECTION**

Problem #1: The One and the Many (or the Thing amongst other things)

What’s more important to you: details or the big idea? This problem in philosophy is understanding how we can understand the immense amount of data around us. In philosophical terms, what is the relationship between the universal(the big idea – the Thing) and the particular (the detail – things). The problem for philosophers is that if there is no relationship between the universal and the particular. If there are only particulars, then all we are left with is independent things. We could never understand them, because each thing is unique and there would be no way of describing it or  conveying information about it. You could never talk about a “car” because each individual “car” is unique and independent and has no relation to any other “car”. We are left with an “abstract particular”.
The use of the word “car” illustrates a universal. If there are only “universals” or big ideas, then again, we would never be able to understand the world around us. Try, for example, describing to someone what you did today using only the word “thing” in place of every noun (or if you are feeling adventurous, replace every adjective with “thingish” and every verb with variations on “thinged”):

Hey thing, thing thinged at the thing, thing was thingy thing, but thing thingingly thinged against the thing, and thing thinged.
(yes… I know, “was” can technically be a verb, but pfft…)

This is the problem of the universal. By abstracting everything further out, til all we are left with is “being” (a rose is a flower is a plant is a living organism is a being): we have the abstract universal.

To stop the world from collapsing into oblivion (or meaninglessness… or an Arts degree if you think about it…) philosophers created the concrete universal. No-one is exactly sure what this entails, but it just stops the world from ending.

Enter van Til and Christian philosophy: First, we begin with the eternal one-and-the-many, and the temporal one-and-the-many. We enter the one-and-the-many debate with God, who is central to the Christian worldview. In God, the one and the many are equally ultimate. The universal conception of God and the particular conception of God are equally important. In English, this means that when we talk about God, we cannot talk about the Trinity as being more or less real than God’s unity or oneness. In other words:

In his being, God exists as God and also as three persons, and neither is more real than the other. His attributes are co-extensive with his being — that is, if you could understand any one attribute fully, you would understand God fully. He isn’t chopped up into love bits and justice bits and wisdom bits — they’re all intertwined.
(Thanks Pat!)

van Til points out that many of the heresies in Church history have come about from misunderstanding this point, emphasising one over the other, or “subordinating” one to the other. In philosophical terms, God is a real concrete universal. In God, there are no particular details about God that have no relation to the overall picture of God, and likewise, there is nothing universal about God that is not expressed in the particular details of God.

The temporal one and the many is the created universe. It was created by God, created out of nothing and created into nothing. In other words, “before” the creation of everything, there was not God and “not-God”, but only God (kinda bends the mind…). Anyhow, the created things were placed in order and in relation to the created Thing. The Thing”, the universals, are the generalisations about the order that God has used to arrange the things, the particulars. The “laws of nature”, “the laws of science” blah blah blah are merely the generalisations of how God has ordered creation. Hence, should God choose to place certain things in a different order, he could: and *bang* we have miracles. In the presence of God, the things and the Thing are equal, the one and the many are equally real. Yet, there is a subordination of the things to the Thing, as created by God. van Til argues that there is a subordination of certain “laws”:
mechanical (the way things work or cause/effect) >>> teleological (why things work or purpose). So miracles are explained by God rearranging facts and placing them in the order that conforms to the teleological, rather than the mechanical (or something like that…).

van Til then points out that this conception of reality is placed within God’s plan to deal with the problem of sin. Sin has affected the ordering of the temporal one-and-the-many, and so God’s plan for salvation centred on the redemptive work of Christ is in fact the re-ordering of the world: its the re-establishment of the order of the temporal one-and-the-many, it is regeneration, the renewal of all things.

NON-PHILOSOPHICAL SECTION

For van Til, apologetics was to the educated, more specifically, the philosophically educated (poor, sad people that they are: myself included now I guess). But the principle must remain the same, when we evangelise, when we do apologetics, we must be grounded in the Reformed Theology, but we also must speak their language. And so apologetics is the discipline of translation. We must be able to use their language, be on guard against importing non-Biblical, non-Reformed ideas into our language, and thus distorting the message that we proclaim.

*my brain hurts…*

EBHG