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::“''You weren’t there when the cloud happened, so you don’t know how it happened''.” | ::“''You weren’t there when the cloud happened, so you don’t know how it happened''.” | ||
Since we can’t go back in time and “be there” there is no possible way to prove it didn’t happen as William Branham said, though the evidence in this particular case is so strong, you could actually argue not only for an overwhelming inductive case, but also for an empirical, deductive refutation of his claim, because of the law of non-contradiction. | Since we can’t go back in time and “be there”, there is no possible way to prove it didn’t happen as William Branham said, though the evidence in this particular case is so strong, you could actually argue not only for an overwhelming inductive case, but also for an empirical, deductive refutation of his claim, because of the law of non-contradiction. | ||
::The law of non-contradiction means that two opposite statements cannot both be true at the same time and in the same sense. Nothing that is true can be self-contradictory or inconsistent with any other truth. All logic depends on this simple principle. Scripture very clearly affirms the law of non-contradiction. | ::The law of non-contradiction means that two opposite statements cannot both be true at the same time and in the same sense. Nothing that is true can be self-contradictory or inconsistent with any other truth. All logic depends on this simple principle. Scripture very clearly affirms the law of non-contradiction. | ||
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::Therefore even God's Word must be in harmony with the law of non-contradiction. | ::Therefore even God's Word must be in harmony with the law of non-contradiction. | ||
While there can be truth in a lie, there can be no lie in the truth. | While there can be truth in a lie, there can be no lie in the truth. | ||
=The Red Herring= | =The Red Herring= | ||