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The Myth Of Neutrality
The plea for Christians to surrender to neutrality in their thinking is not an uncommon one.
—Greg Bahnsen, Always Ready (1996)
Man neither is nor can be “objective” and “impartial.”
All his thinking is from some fundamental starting point or presupposition. . . .
—Rousas J. Rushdoony, By What Standard (1958)
God in the Dock
“You shall not surely die.” For the first time Satan openly contradicted the word of God. Eve listened attentively, and her husband apparently watched. Satan went on: “God knows that the day you eat of this fruit, you will be as God, knowing good and evil.”
In this interchange, Satan didn’t claim to be God; he merely claimed to be right. He claimed he had a better explanation of the facts at hand than the one God had given Adam and Eve. He invited Eve to put these rival claims to the test. In other words, Satan was telling Eve that she needed to step out onto the neutral ground of her own autonomy and there judge the matter for herself. Eve complied.
The issue here was one of epistemology, which is the study of … How do we know? And how do we know that we know?
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