"Ayn Rand's Objectivism and the God Who Is"

Submitted by Lactantius Jr. (United Kingdom), May 7, 2008 at 17:04

To trans-parere

My argument is valid, grounded as it is in Jesus Christ the Son of God, He is my plausibility structure, my paradigm, with the gospel He proclaimed by His teaching, His life, His death and His glorious Resurrection from the dead, being a statement of facts of what God has done; the original meaning of the Latin factum being "something which has been done or accomplished."

I leave the philosophical arguments for God's existence to philosophers, saying that God has in fact "gone public," as the kid born in a shed at the back of a pub in Bethlehem, around 2,000 years ago, and Jesus Christ the Son of God, resurrected to eternal life following His crucifixion, is alive and will come to those who invite Him into their lives, dealing with their past, working in their present, and guaranteeing their future. That's a God at work in His world, a God who contradicts and denies your title. The cross is God's placard to His world, proving He has an answer to all our criticisms about His existence, His trustworthiness, His goodness or His justice, with Christianity absolutely staking its claim to validity on the resurrection of Jesus Christ to eternal life, following His death by crucifixion., the mighty missionary evangelist Paul saying "And if Christ was not raised from the dead, my preaching is useless, and so is your faith" 1 Corinthians 15:14 with there being good evidence for both Crucifixion and resurrection, Jesus being "Declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead." Romans 1:4

Every plausibility structure rests upon faith commitments, and the plausibility structure you articulate, resting as it does on the whole immense shift of thought that took place at the Enlightenment, with all its positive elements, rests upon a faith commitment to Enlightenment values as your "authority."

So what is faith? expressed succintly, it's ‘confident trust,' and here's what the Bible says about Christian faith, "faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ." Romans 10:17

"so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power."

1 Corinthians 2:5

"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." Hebrews11:1

My faith is grounded on Jesus Christ Who was, and is, the embodiment of "the Christian God." being "the visible image of the invisible God" Colossians 1:15 in whom "all the fullness of God lives in a human body." Colossians 2:9 whom the Bible refers to as "Our Great God and Saviour Jesus Christ" Titus 2:13

Not being Mr Spock of the Starship Enterprise, but an ordinary human evangelist, with all my "personal emotions, feelings, instincts and culturally specific moral codes and norms" fully intact, a key Bible verse for me is 1 Peter 3:15, which says, "Be always ready to give a reason to anybody who asks the reason for the hope you have, but do so with gentleness and respect." and in all things I seek to line up with that.

Your admonishment prompts me to ask, with their deaths separated by ~12 centuries, how did Copernicus admonish Lactantius?

With kind regards and best wishes

Lactantius Jr.

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