{"id":3574,"date":"2013-12-24T14:33:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T18:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2013-12-24T14:33:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T18:33:58","slug":"the-doctrine-of-scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=3574","title":{"rendered":"The Doctrine of Scripture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/van-til-my-man.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3575\" alt=\"van til my man\" src=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/van-til-my-man.jpg\" width=\"239\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Currently I am reading Van Til&#8217;s <em>The Doctrine of Scripture<\/em>. It&#8217;s been ages since I&#8217;ve read Van Til. I read his <em>A Survey of Christian Epistemology<\/em> in 1999 and have appreciated a number of his books ever since. His Dutch background makes him hard to digest, but at least he&#8217;s no Dooyeweerd (who is almost entirely unintelligible). Van Til is someone I need to read slow and carefully. This book is certainly no exception to that rule.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one can be a scientist in any intelligible way without at the same time having a philosophy of reality as a whole.&#8221; (51)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The non-Christian scientist may and does believe in the presence of order, but he has no warrant for doing so. His assumed philosophy of chance points to the opposite.&#8221; (52)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently I am reading Van Til&#8217;s The Doctrine of Scripture. It&#8217;s been ages since I&#8217;ve read Van Til. I read his A Survey of Christian Epistemology in 1999 and have appreciated a number of his books ever since. His Dutch &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=3574\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}