This Monday will be the International Symposium for the The Master’s Academy International (TMAI) which is involved with training Pastors and Bible teachers overseas. Every year they have the International Symposium the Monday before the week of Shepherd’s Conference and there’s believers from several dozen countries present.
One of the tables will feature works and ministry of Brother Walter.
We are hosting the Word Document to his E-Books on our blog. There’s three titles: Christian Epistemology, Humanism, and Doctrine of Grace. I have also included in this post the table of contents so people could have a better idea of what’s in these E-books.
If you are dropping by from the International Symposium drop us a comment!
Christian Epistemology
It is important for Christians to have a biblical view of knowledge and how we know what we know. Christian epistemology has great implications for apologetics, theological method, theology and how Christians live. Brother Walter wrote this work with Scripture as his starting point.
To download this work click here: christian-epistemology-draft-v03.
Here’s the table of contents:
1 Christian Epistemology. 3
1.1 Revelatory Epistemology. 3
1.1.1 General Revelation. 3
1.1.2 Special revelation. 4
1.2 Scripture does not stand on human authority. 5
2 Scriptural warnings against philosophy. 6
2.1 Our faith should not rest on the wisdom of men. 6
2.2 Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. 7
2.2.1 Key points in 1 Cor. 1-3. 9
3 The Bible’s teaching about God relationship with creation. 9
3.1 The God of the Bible is the creator of all things – Sovereign over what does and does not exist 9
3.2 God, the sovereign judge and ultimate law giver (including the laws of logic) 11
3.3 God designed laws that govern the behavior of things. 11
3.4 God is sovereign over the nature of things. 13
4 God the omniscient source of knowledge. 14
4.1 God’s knowledge and immutability. 14
4.2 God is omniscient: Positive Proof from the Scripture. 15
4.2.1 The largest discussion of the topic (Psalms 139) 15
4.2.2 Verses that speak of God knowing man and his heart. 15
4.2.3 God’s knowledge is incomprehensible to men. 16
4.3 The Bible calls those who deny God’s omniscience wicked. 16
4.4 Texts used by some to claim God is not omniscient. 17
4.5 Scriptures that speak of the immutability of God. 19
4.6 God the immutable, omniscient source of concepts knowledge and logic. 20
5 The Biblical view of man. 20
5.1 The nature of man. 20
5.1.1 God designed people with natures. 20
5.1.2 God is sovereign over the natures of men. 21
5.1.3 Man having a nature does not imply autonomy from God. 27
5.1.4 Biblical view of man and his sense perception. 27
5.2 The thoughts of man. 28
5.2.1 The negative impact of the fall upon our mind. 28
5.2.2 Correct understanding of God comes as a result of revelation of God. 30
5.2.3 Man’s has a nature which is mutable and capable of learning. 30
5.2.4 God uses various means to help us learn. 31
5.3 The Biblical framework for evaluating ourselves and our thoughts, feelings and experiences: 34
6 What is Operational Science. 48
6.1 Definition of Operational Science. 48
6.2 Presuppositions Necessary for the Practice of Operational Science. 49
6.3 Biblical Framework that enables operational science. 50
6.4 Operational Science cannot provide a basis for it’s own practice. 51
6.5 Operational science and worldviews. 51
6.5.1 Operational science is not compatible with all worldviews. 51
6.6 The Limits of Operational science. 53
6.6.1 The Accuracy of Operational Science. 53
6.6.2 When operational science work well and fails. 53
6.6.3 Assumptions under which operational science can produce good approximations of the truth 54
6.7 Operational Science and Purpose. 56
6.8 Operational Science and History. 56
6.9 Importance of Operational Science. 58
7 The Practice of Operational Science. 61
7.1 The Collection of Data. 61
7.2 An Example of Modeling in Operational Science. 64
7.3 Choosing a Model 66
7.4 Models as Approximations. 67
7.4.1 Example: 67
7.5 The utility of approximate models. 70
7.5.1 Example a refrigerator. 70
7.5.2 Example 2: control a satellite does not require perfect knowledge of its dynamics to point 70
7.6 5 points concerning the “Noise Term”. 71
7.7 Quantum Mechanics, Randomness, and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. 71
7.8 Scientific “Laws”. 72
7.9 The Success of Operational Science. 73
8 Efforts to Reconstruct History. 73
8.1 Attempted Reconstructions of History vs Operational Science. 73
8.1.1 Multiple religions practice historical reconstructions. 74
8.1.2 Christian & Humanist presuppositions differ. 74
8.1.3 What constitutes good or bad data. 74
8.2 Dating by the Index Fossils. 75
8.3 Radiometric Dating. 75
8.4 Creationist and Humanist use of Dating Methods. 76
9 Dealing with a non-Christian World. 76
9.1 Paul’s method of interacting with philosophers. 76
9.2 A warning against seeking the approval of the world and pleasing men. 77
9.3 The So Called “Problem” of False Revelatory Epistemologies. 78
9.3.1 Testing False Teachers. 80
9.4 The Elect Recognize Jesus’ Voice. 81
Humanism
This is a response to Secular humanism.
To download this work click here: humanism-book-reviewed-v04-done.
Here’s the table of contents:
1 Introduction to Humanism.. 5
1.1 What is humanism?. 5
1.2 Humanism as an approach to finding knowledge, and a set of beliefs the powerful humanists hold. 5
1.3 Eve the 1st Humanist 6
1.4 Early views on human autonomy. 7
1.5 Protagoras and humanism hostility toward God. 8
1.6 The Epistemological Conflict between Humanism and Christianity. 11
2 Atheistic Humanism’s views of initial conditions and causes cannot provide a basis for believing order, knowledge, logic or a thinking man. 11
2.1 Humanism’s Universe, History and Humanistic Man. 11
2.1.1 An important clarification. 11
2.1.2 Caused, but the measure of all things? Is humanism self-consistent?. 12
2.1.3 Problem with induction. 12
2.2 Huxley’s Analogy –Atheisms failed attempt to provide a basis for order. 13
2.2.1 Huxley. 13
2.2.2 Huxley’s Analogy. 13
2.2.3 Understanding Huxley’s Analogy. 14
2.2.4 Problems with the Analogy. 14
2.2.5 Huxley put to the test 15
2.2.6 Postulating an infinite number of universes does not help. 16
2.3 Knowledge and the Humanist 16
2.3.1 On what basis does a humanist think knowledge is possible. 16
2.3.2 Is man discovering or deciding truth, justice meaning and morals?. 17
2.4 Important facts about knowledge. 17
2.4.1 Don’t be tricked. 17
2.4.2 Concepts are not equal to the symbols the represent them.. 17
2.4.3 Machines do not think. 17
2.4.4 Concept information is different from information in the Shannon sense. 18
2.4.5 Unpredictability is not the hallmark of thought or consciousness. 18
2.4.6 Thinking does not imply learning. 18
2.4.7 Neural Networks do not think. 19
2.5 Hawking’s Failed Attempt to explain man’s ability to think. 19
2.5.1 Hawking’s statement of the problem.. 19
2.5.2 Hawking’s attempt to give an explanation. 20
2.5.3 Analysis of Hawking’s Explanation. 20
2.5.4 Additional Unwarranted Assumptions of Dr. Hawking. 21
2.6 The Anthropic Principle: An expression of a humanist longing that his beliefs about history would someday be able to account for the development of a sentient man. 22
2.7 No common ground for the Christian and Humanist 23
2.8 List of questions that may help the Humanists recognize their problems. 26
3 Humanisms Four Attempts at an Epistemological Method. 27
3.1.1 How Humanistic epistemology tries to start with man. 27
3.2 Mysticism.. 27
3.2.1 Problems with Mysticism.. 28
3.3 Fideism.. 28
3.3.1 Issues with Fideism.. 28
3.4 Rationalism.. 29
3.4.1 What is Rationalism.. 29
3.4.2 Problems with Rationalism.. 31
3.5 Summary of Empiricism.. 32
3.5.1 Empiricism needs an enabling philosophical structure behind it 33
3.6 Humanism’s Epistemological Quagmire. 33
3.6.1 Problems with Humanism and Its Epistemological Methods. 33
4 Humanism’s incompatibility with Operational Science. 33
4.1 Introduction to Operational Science. 33
4.1.1 Definition of operational science. 33
4.1.2 When operational science work well and fails. 34
4.1.3 Operational Science is not self-contained. 34
4.1.4 A List of Presuppositions Necessary for the Practice of Operational Science. 34
4.2 Operational science is not compatible with all worldviews. 35
4.3 Humanisms commitment to atheism, and man as part of nature. 36
4.4 Operational science and the humanistic scam.. 38
5 Humanism and the myth of neutrality. 39
5.1 The humanist approach. 39
5.2 Myth of Neutrality and Religion. 39
5.2.1 There are no “neutral” sets of axioms. 40
5.2.2 Only God has the correct viewpoint 40
5.3 An elite group of Humanist men. 42
5.3.1 Humanism does not begin with man but with a select group of men. 42
5.3.2 Who are the modern humanists?. 43
5.3.3 Who are the signers of the manifestos?. 44
5.4 The Separation of Church and State Scam.. 44
5.4.1 Humanists claim they are neutral at first but are totalitarian when they gain control 44
5.4.2 Humanist use the separation of church and state to preclude religious people from government 46
5.4.3 Refuting the “freedom from religion” activists. 46
5.4.1 Humanist Accreditations, Regulations and Persecutions. 47
5.5 Christians are called to subdue the earth and occupy until Christ comes back. 48
5.5.1 Verses about law and government 48
5.6 Christians who have taken the Humanists bait 50
6 Humanism, History and Evolution. 51
6.1 How Humanists try to sell their ideas under the name of “science”. 51
6.1.1 Humanists reject evidence that does not agree with their ideology as unscientific evidence 52
6.1.2 Humanists want their ideas associated with operational science. 52
6.2 Charles Darwin, rationalism and evolution. 54
6.2.1 Darwin the rationalist. 54
6.2.2 Darwin’s “reason” gave no real proof, and no details as to how it happened. 55
6.3 The humanistic axiom of evolution. 56
6.3.1 Manifesto Statement 56
6.3.2 The mechanism is being questioned. 56
6.4 Operational science and humanistic historical constructions. 57
6.4.1 There are many different historical constructions. 57
6.4.2 Operational Science and History. 58
6.4.3 Can operational science reject certain histories?. 60
7 Track Record of Humanistic Science. 61
7.1 Falsifiable things in historical science. 61
7.2 Humanistic histories proven wrong: The “Living Fossils”. 61
7.3 Critics of evolution point to a lack of missing links and evolutionists respond with frauds. 63
7.3.1 List of humanistic science’s frauds and crimes. 64
7.3.1 Logical flaws in the missing link arguments. 64
7.3.2 The Persuasive Argument of the Scopes Trial 64
7.3.3 The continued use of known frauds by evolutionary historical scientists. 65
7.4 Racism and Early Evolutionists. 65
7.5 The Sad Story of Ota Benga. 66
7.6 The Angel of Black Death. 67
7.7 Implications of Humanism.. 68
8 Conclusion. 69
9 Appendix A: Humanist Ruling Countries. 70
9.1 Example of Rationalism in the EU’s documents and the humanists desire to regulate all religions and ideologies while claiming to be neutral. 70
9.2 Excerpts from the CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION.. 75
9.2.1 Article 14 Right to education. 75
9.2.2 Analysis of the above points of article 14. 75
9.2.3 Article 24 The rights of the child. 75
9.2.4 Analysis of the EU’s “Rights of the Child”. 76
10 Appendix B: The Limits of Operational science. 76
10.1 Operational Science cannot provide a basis for it’s own practice. 76
10.2 The Accuracy of Operational Science. 77
10.3 Operational Science and the mutability of man and things. 77
10.4 Operational Science and Purpose. 78
10.5 Assumptions under which operational science can produce good approximations of the truth 78
11 Appendix C: The Practice of Operational Science. 80
11.1 The Collection of Data. 80
11.2 An Example of Modeling in Operational Science. 84
11.3 Choosing a Model 86
11.4 Scientific Models as Approximations. 87
11.4.1 Example: 87
11.5 The utility of approximate models. 90
11.5.1 Example a refrigerator. 90
11.5.2 Example 2: control a satellite does not require perfect knowledge of its dynamics to point 90
11.6 5 points concerning the “Noise Term”. 91
11.7 Quantum Mechanics, Randomness, and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. 91
11.8 Scientific “Laws”. 92
11.9 The Success of Operational Science. 93
12 Appendix D: Overview of decay rates and dating. 93
12.1 Dating by the Index Fossils. 93
12.2 Radiometric Dating. 94
12.3 Creationist and Humanist use of Dating Methods. 94
Doctrine of Grace
This is the description from Brother Walter: “Doctrines of Grace but really is much broader, it deals with the following things: 1) What is the source of doctrine for the Christian, 2) How do interpret the Bible. 3) Examples of Bible difficulties resolved through correct hermeneutics 4) The attributes of God 5) Examination of Molinism 6) Answering objections to the doctrines of grace.”
To download this work click here: doctrines-of-grace-v02
Be blessed!
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Thank you for the reblog. How was your past week brother Vincent?
You’re very welcome Pastor Jim. Excellent, how about yours
Thanks for asking, It was good, a little more busy but it was good!
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