{"id":1824119,"date":"2023-01-25T18:35:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T23:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1824119"},"modified":"2023-01-25T18:35:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T23:35:50","slug":"god-is-the-only-institution-of-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/god-is-the-only-institution-of-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"God Is The Only Institution Of Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgod-is-the-only-institution-of-authority%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1824119&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Questions of The Day: Did you know that 80% of information you believe comes from authority alone? What happens if that authority trust is broken Who is the one to blame? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-80-weight-loss-drug-ozempic-causes-terrifying-side-effects-madonna-mocks-jesus-christ-in-vanity-fair-shoot-the-damar-hamlin-body-double-conspiracy-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ultimate source of authority<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Lately, I\u2019ve been reading passages from C.S. Lewis\u2019 best-selling book, \u201cMere Christianity.\u201d So today, I read his thoughts about why he has faith in Christianity and God and I thought it was perfect for today\u2019s discussion:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve explained why I believe Jesus was (and still is) God. It is obvious that Jesus taught His disciples that this was the way to receive the new life. This means that I believe it is His authority. The word authority should not scare you. Believe in authority means that you believe something because it has been said to you by someone you trust. Ninety nine percent of what you believe is based on authority. New York City is one of the places I believe exists. I haven&#8217;t seen it. I couldn&#8217;t prove it by abstract reasoning. Because reliable people have confirmed it, I believe it. The ordinary man believes in the Solar System, atoms, evolution, and the circulation of the blood on authority\u2014because the scientists say so. Every historical statement is based on authority. None of us have seen the Norman Conquest, or the defeat by the Armada. They are impossible to prove with logic, as mathematical proof is not possible. They are believed simply because we have written about them by people who saw them. If a man tries to be an authority in another area as religious people are, he would need to be content with knowing nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Because it is true, this passage is powerful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we believe most things on authority. From the time we enter school, we\u2019re taught certain subjects and believe what we\u2019re learning to be true. As adults, we do this all the time. Using an example from Lewis, many readers believe that Africa or Australia are real continents even if they\u2019ve never been to them because they know people who have been there, read about them, or have seen pictures and evidence that they exist. This is something that you would never believe. \u201cI don\u2019t believe Australia or Africa exists because I have never been there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So after I read that passage today, I logged onto Twitter and found it illuminating that a doctor was saying he took the COVID jab on the basis of the FDA\u2019s authority. His body was submitted to the jab on the basis of trust in the FDA. He regrets relying upon the FDA to make his final decision. Many doctors seem to be saying the same things and even academia is questioning their decision.<\/p>\n<p>Academics are more likely to believe what they read in a book, or in peer-reviewed papers. They believe the following: \u201cexperts\u201d Even if they disagree with what is being said,<\/p>\n<p>In this sense, American public education works in the same way. Education works through trust. We\u2019re taught to trust the government from a young age, we repeat what we\u2019re told, and we believe we\u2019re getting smarter as we go from grade to grade.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s true, we are taught some basic truths in school. Yet after we graduate, the government is able to tell us really big lies \u2014 based on the trust built up throughout our lives.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like something is changing in American culture. People are becoming more skeptical of the government and even distrusting it. More than that, people are questioning the elites in every industry \u2014 media, medicine, education, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Why? That\u2019s what I was examining this morning, thanks to \u201cMere Christianity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps there\u2019s a shift because the people who are supposed to be experts have stopped giving us that \u2018little bit of truth\u2019 It all started in the beginning. They\u2019re now giving us \u2018a few lies\u2019 All designed to advance leftist goals at all costs.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just the government doing it either, but every area of society is spewing woke propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the Oxford Dictionary, something I\u2019m sure we\u2019ve all used to look up the meaning of words, has now lost its authority.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>The Oxford Dictionary has redefined the meaning of &#8220;research&#8221; \u201cwoman.\u201d Oxford Dictionary has ceased to be a reliable source of definitions because it is a big lie that you can have children or change your gender.<\/p>\n<p>This type of malignancy can be found everywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many people have experienced a profound awakening. Individuals are realizing there is no authority institution. If there were, it would be definitively authoritative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions of the Day: Have you ever considered how much the information you believe is based on authority alone? What happens when that authoritative trust is broken? And who is the ultimate source of authority? Lately, I\u2019ve been reading passages from C.S. Lewis\u2019 best-selling book, \u201cMere Christianity.\u201d So today, I read his thoughts about why &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":231,"featured_media":1824122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7425,11987,16494],"class_list":["post-1824119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-god","tag-authority","tag-institution"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1824122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}