Chapter 6: “Summary and Application: God’s Self-Attesting Authority” or God doesn’t need anyone to agree with Him in order to be Right.

• All knowledge is through Christ.  Therefore our knowledge of the truth depends on God having known it first.  The only way we can know it is by beginning with the fear of the Lord and submission to Him
• Any Philosophy that does not presuppose God and the truth of His word is vain, empty, useless deception.  By suppressing the truth and instead choosing to rely upon created man’s reasoning, the mind is darkened and can only reach futile conclusions.  God will make such wisdom to be foolishness.
• Trying to be neutral between assuming God to be true and not assuming him to be true is the same as trying to serve two masters and is sin.
• Neutrality would fill the Grand Canyon to God’s truth that separates a Christian from a non-christian.  Anyone believing this actually is believing something that is hostile to his faith.
• The Christian is a “new man”, therefore his thinking is also renewed.  His thought is therefore to be maintained in subjection to his Lord Jesus and what He said, rather than the thinking of the world.  The Christian rejects the myth of self-sufficiency and seeks to love God with all his mind and to bring Him glory.
• Two choices, either to ground your thought in Christ’s word and receive the treasures of wisdom that are promised, or to follow the thoughts of men and be deluded and robbed of those treasures.
• Therefore God, through His word has absolute authority and is the final criterion of truth.
• When Jesus taught, he taught with self-attesting authority, meaning he did not need to appeal to any higher authority to validate what He said (Matt 7:29)
• The Word of God must be the standard to which all other ideas are compared
• False ideas are a test to know whether we truly love God (Deut 13:1-4)

• “To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this Word, surely it is because there is no light for them.” (Is 8:20)
• We must hold fast to our faith (Heb 10:23)
• “I the LORD speak the truth; I declare what is right.” (Is. 45:19)
• “Let God be true though everyone else were a liar” (Rom 3:4)
• God’s word is the foundation of our life (Mt 7:24-25)
• We are not in a position to question God’s truth (Rom 9:20)