So certainty comes ultimately through God’s word and
Spirit. The Lord calls us to build our life and thought on the certainties of
his word, that we ‘will not walk in darkness, but have the light of life’ (John
8:12). The process of building, furthermore, is not only academic, but ethical
and spiritual. It is those who are willing to do God’s will that know the truth
of Jesus’ words (John 7:17), and those that love their neighbors who are able
to know as they ought to know (1 Cor. 8:1-3).
Secular philosophy rejects absolute certainty, then,
because absolute certainty is essentially supernatural, and because the
secularist is unwilling to accept a supernatural foundation for knowledge. But
the Christian regards God’s word as the ultimate criterion of truth and
falsity, right and wrong, and therefore as the standard of certainty. Insofar
as we consistently hold the Bible as our standard of certainty, we may and must
regard it as itself absolutely certain. So in God’s revelation, the Christian
has a wonderful treasure, one that saves the soul from sin and the mind from
skepticism.
--John Frame, "Certainty," New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics, IVP, 2006
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