Apologia, pt. 4

Concluding...

Finally, here is the Biblical perspective on these presuppositions.

The Triune God Who reveals Himself in the Bible has created the universe and rules and sustains it by His eternal decree. He has exhaustive knowledge and control over it at every level. Things exist as He determines, and not in and of themselves. All things are from Him, for Him, and to Him.

This means that immaterial laws are the universal decrees by which the Lord governs the created order. They have real existence, as they have been in place since He created everything. As they exist within the plan of God, they have real meaning because He has determined their meaning. They apply across the board because He governs the entire Creation by them.

Predictability is assured because God has declared that the universe will remain constant by His Word. Seedtime and harvest, night and day, heat and cold will behave tomorrow exactly as they do today, because the God Who sovereignly controls the future has declared that they will.

Universals and particulars find equal ultimacy in the Triune God. God is at the same time both One in Essence and Three in Person. Therefore neither universals nor particulars trump one another. Facts have real meaning and at the same time may be connected in equally meaningful categories.

God has given us a foundation by which we may use our reasoning in such a way that we can have true knowledge of the world around us and of each other. That foundation is Himself. It is only by taking Him for granted that our reasoning can have meaning. Any other foundation reduces us to absurdity. Even as some of us argue against Him we do so in a way that presupposes (and gives evidence of) Him, for the unbeliever lives in His world, too, and is governed by His laws. It is of His grace alone that the skeptic can be skeptical. And by his very argumentation, the skeptic refutes himself.