I was riding home on my bike tonight in the rain. My mind wandered for a while and then I started thinking about the relation between sensory and perceptual interactions with the world. I realized that the perceptual is how we interpret our sensory interaction with the actual. Basically, we collect data (sensory) about the actual and then we process (perceive) that data about the actual. This inherently leads to subjectivity; the root of subjectivity is our very perception of our sensory interaction with the actual world. Legality, therefore, is the (in human words) the hope of objectivity. We hope to provide a baseline for objectivity by which we can function and survive. If our laws provide proper objectivity, our lives are enhanced. (echoing the sentiment that a properly governed people are the happiest and most successful) The first sign of a creator is here. We cannot, however hard we try, build objectivity! No matter how hard we try, we are forced to be subjective (definitively). Therefore, the introduction of something higher that provides objectivity is from something higher than us. (Before the fall, I believe we lived in objectivity and the choice we choose was for subjectivity). There are some things that may be pointed to as being bad and objective but this is just relabeling subjectivity. For democratically elected subjective thoughts that become a majority, “objective” law is nothing more than a tyranny in hiding. We cannot create a quorum based objective system. If we could then the mere changing of opinion would overthrow an “objective” law. How can objectivity be subjective? It cannot and that is why I say that only a good deity, completely objective and above approach and reproach can provide objectivity, whether that is a moral, legal, or religious structure. (I say “good” because that which is objectively bad, if we can indeed determine such things through any natural or otherwise law, leads only to death and that would escalate and swallow up everything in an exponential decay) The world would not survive without objectivity. Subjectivity leads to indeterminate thoughts and ideas, which lead to relativism, which leads to chaos, and ultimately leads to the utter destruction of all life capable of higher though. The roots of subjectivity point to a creator; the fruit of subjectivity without objectivity is utter destruction. The only deity that supports a framework of being able to provide an objective structure is the God of the Holy Bible. The revelation, suffrage, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Saviour, reveal the long hidden mystery of this God and his ultimate plan for the objective reunion of those who are not lost to their folly and vain subjectivity. It is the very nature of God, being incomprehensible, that tells me that he is the true God. While he is incomprehensible, he has provided a bridge for us to know Him. (Jesus alone knows the Father, and he will reveal to those whom he chooses, the Father). Therefore, it is not a system based on any human workings but on the infinite love and mercy of God. Unlike other religious structures where the deity exhibits arbitrary behavior, the God of the Bible offers a system to all and will judge in fairness and equity. The objective constructs handed down from God on high point back to him. Bound by our subjective futility, we only have hope in something higher than us. If there is no God, there is no objectivity. Search the world religions and find that the only system that holds true to all that we can see and experience, regardless of our inept subjectivity, is Christianity (on extension of Judaism of antiquity before Christ). Therefore, we are once again indebted to the objectivity of the natural law, which sometimes becomes the law of a ruling authority, handed down by God. For by his handiwork do we see any likeness of him, that which cannot be comprehended as he exists in his own. (The necessity of faith should begin to immerge from this discourse). You should, by no means, take my word on its own. Search and probe. You will likely find faults and errors in that which is my own understanding. However, that which is verifiable in the Scripture will remain true. Please test, probe your own understanding, and assume nothing I say as true. Test my words with the Holy Bible and the natural world. I am confident that the God of the Bible and Jesus Christ will immerge be seen as truth. That there is one and only one God, a beautiful triune divinity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Jun 09