Isaiah
29:16
16 Surely your turning of things upside down [hophek] shall be esteemed [chashab]
as the potter's [yatsar] clay [chomer]: for shall the work [ma`aseh] say ['amar] of him that made [`asah] it, He made [`asah] me not?
or shall the thing framed [yetser] say ['amar] of him that framed [yatsar]
it, He had no understanding [biyn]? KJV-Interlinear
16 You turn things upside down! Shall
the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its
maker, “He did not make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He
has no understanding”? ESV
Anyone who ignores their obligations in the spiritual life,
run the huge risk of perverting and distorting their own thinking into the
depths of the absurd.
Can the clay pot tell anyone anything?
Can the clay tell the potter that he did not make the
pot, or even that the potter has no wisdom or ability?
And the answer is of course, no.
First the clay has nothing unless it is given to it,
and second the clay cannot, and is unable to, design itself, define itself, or
make itself.
As it were, the clay has nothing and will never have
anything unless and until, a designer fashions character into it.
This of course destroys all aspects of evolution. Creation is the clay, and man is the clay, and
all of life is the clay.
It did not bring itself into existence.
It did not define its own existence.
It did not design its own existence.
It did not even stumble into its own existence.
And you, as an individual, have nothing unless it
comes to you, from a higher power, namely God.
You cannot rationalize anything, unless you have
access and understanding of reality as well as orientation to reality. Without doctrine, and Bible doctrine leads
you to many forms of truth, but without it, you will have no connection to
life.
And that lack of orientation leads inevitably to false
logic, false reasoning, false conclusions and ultimately to the absurd.
