Since the creator is a personal and good God who loves us; it seems to make sense that we would be born into this world with the kind of assumptions (hence understanding) that is supportive (or, at least, compatible with) our salvation.
I regard this as a deep truth; and that the "animistic" consciousness of young childhood - the assumption of inhabiting a living universe of other Beings - is therefore a true understanding of reality.
Truth about reality is therefore something originally inside us, within us, something we do not need to look for elsewhere, or to "other people", to find.
In other words - if truth about reality is inborn, within, divinely implanted - then it is something we can know for ourselves, from our-selves - and therefore be sure about.
This means that much of Christian theology is false when it asserts that ultimate realities are impersonal and/or abstract in nature - or too complex to comprehend.
This is a lethal objection to Christian theology when it is asserted to be something that need to be derived second-hand, from other people or other places - a kind of hearsay - that we are supposed to obey: uncomprehendingly if necessary.
From this perspective it is also clear that "mainstream modern materialism" (which inculcates and permeates assumptions that ultimate reality is a dead, purposeless, meaningless - a matter of physical and chemical processes) is false.
(And, insofar as Christian theology tries to incorporate materialism, then to that extent it makes itself incoherent, self-subverting.)
What modern materialism and mainstream Christian theology both do to a person, is inculcate the assumption that he must get his understanding from outside himself - because both replace our innate childhood world-view, with some-other world view that we must find somewhere in our culture.
When people are looking around to "other people" or social systems to understand the world - then Satan holds most of the cards; and the Christian truth becomes just another option among many-more - lost among a much larger and constantly-changing mass of alternatives.
Even when people become Christian under such circumstances and with such an "external-seeking" mind-set - then it becomes very difficult to have strong faith - i.e. difficult to have sureness and confidence in the rightness of our particular world-view...
Once we leave behind the innate - and God given! - perspective that the true understanding has been built-into us; then any and every world-view that comes from outside is a threat to our present conviction.
In a world where truth is not-innate, where truth is said to be (or may be) external, abstract, impersonal, hyper-complex - then we find ourselves trying to cling to a particular and second-hand/ adopted understanding...
And constantly being offered alternative external views: constantly under attack from external world views: constantly needing to defend and justify our specific choices.
No wonder Christian faith is so feeble! - when we have built it under the assumption that our childhood knowledge is something that is merely immature, and needs to be set-aside; such that we Must derive Truth about Reality from sources outside ourselves, from among the many, Many alternative offered by people and by culture!
We can never really believe "other people" sufficiently to have a strong faith - unless, perhaps, all of those other-people are saying the same thing - which nowadays they certainly never are; not even within the strictest of churches!
All too often - Christianity succeeds in subverting our natural childhood assumptions with abstract and complex theological dogmas - and succeeds only in enfeebling the consequent faith.
As was made blazingly evident in 2020.
I conclude that (from here-and-now) the truth of Christianity "must" (if Christian faith is to be strong) therefore be such that it can simply be added-onto the innate and spontaneous assumptions about reality with which God provided us on entering incarnation; and with which we are (apparently) all born.
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