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@ freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg
2025-04-28 12:02:09
> Men cannot look at any fact whether within or about them but they must see in it the presence of God. Even when men have fallen into sin they cannot eradicate their sense of the presence of God. Sin is what it is precisely because _it is a negative ethical reaction to God’s inescapable presence_.
Van Til, _Christian Theory of Knowledge_ (p. 247).
One such 'fact' is human reason. We can have our synthetic a priori axioms and deduce from them but back behind them is the revelatory fact of reason itself.