All denials of God must appeal to intellectual integrity
Without God, intellectual integrity isn’t binding
Therefore the denial of God is self-contradictory: Intellectual integrity without an account for intellectual integrity.
Under accidentalism, something necessarily entailed by the denial of a personal creator with a will, there is no universally binding intellectual integrity, because this view produces a divide between goodness and reality.
Yet, under the view that Jesus created everything from nothing, knowledge, and the varied identities of existence are thought-wills from He who is binding goodness Himself.
“And God saw that it was good.”
Further, It can’t merely be a personal God who doesn’t walk among us, interact with us actively through history, or reveal Himself. Otherwise knowledge becomes inaccessible due to a necessary entailment of a divide between Truth and Truth seekers. If revelation is necessary, the revealer necessarily actively reveals, or we’re stuck simply knowing we need revelation, but living where no revelation is found.
A personal God who walks among us in history is therefore necessary for true knowledge. Jesus and the scriptures are the only coherent accounts. The only historically verifiable accounts of of a God like this. A God who walked among us, and further, lowered His glorious self to our lowly circumstance, and radiated His self-revelation directly to us, repairing not only the finite human nature, but healing us from our mistakes, and lifting us to communion with infinity and divinity. History, then, is humanity falling down, and God offering his hand to pick us back up. A necessary revealer, who actively reveals. And this is only coherent for those who have the Eucharistic worship instituted by the same Jesus, and a belief in God’s Energies, something only found in the Orthodox Church.
This is the same faith as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Old and new testaments are only explained fully by this faith. All other options teach a novelty nowhere traced in the historical documents.
All of mans flailing in modernity is answered: It’s Orthodoxy. It’s Jesus. It’s repentance. It’s self-sacrifice. It’s the cross. It’s union with God. It’s the energies. It’s the Trinity.
“ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.” Jude 1:3
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