I’m sorry you can’t see that a theory can be self-defeating. There are actually quite a number of ways this can happen. Being self-referentially incoherent is only one of them. Tell me: can you see anything wrong with the theory that says no statements are true? Wouldn’t that have to apply to itself? Wouldn’t it then be self-defeating?
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You get caught up in words. Im sorry. This kind of thinking gets you nowhere
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The following words are very helpful for coping with this life and having God work in my life. As I keep them in my mind they direct me and give me peace.
These words of Jesus and the Spirit of God through the apostle John, encourage me and bring me hope (a confident expectation) for the future.
Mark 8:34 “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. 36 What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? 37 Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? 38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
This is such a STRONG exhortation not to love my life here. I am free to stop caring about myself and to fully set my affections on following Jesus by living a life in obedience to the Spirit’s leading. It’s a command not to hold on to this short, temporary life but to live for an everlasting life that is just around the corner.
1 John 2:15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For everything in the world — the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does — comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.
This command also brings hope and peace. God orders me to be free from loving this world (present time), the character of this present time. His command frees me from the power of sin, lust of the eyes, boasting of what I have and do, and all the cravings of sinful mankind. He is commanding me to be free.
Thank you Father for such a gift of freedom. Now I am free to love God and my neighbor as myself. And when I die tonight or tomorrow I have an everlasting life to live with my Father.
The closer I get to natural death and physically leaving this world, the closer I get to being with Jesus and the Father.
Don’t you just love it?
“No statements are true.” ← Is this a statement?
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