Dialectic Argument Against The Facts of Scripture
Bernard Pyron

The dialectic begins when a relationship comes into conflict with an
absolute truth. It could also be an absolute morality that a
relationship comes into conflict with. The relationship is often with a man-made
theology, the church, and one's own denomination, his or her own congregation,
the minister, and friends within that congregation.

The dialectic as an argument then tries to compromise that absolute
truth in some way - in order to preserve the relationship.

The world has, during the period the falling away of II Thessalonians
2: 3-4 has gone on and the leavening of the church has been in
progress (Luke 13: 21), shifted its paradigm. The West of Northern
Europe and North America shifted from a mostly absolute truth to
shades of grey, to opinion, to how do you feel about it, what do you
think?

The church, being part of the world has also shifted its way
of viewing absolute truth, though it has to teach scripture to some
extent to preserve its standing as a religious institution.
The church doesn't support the absolute truth that Paul and Barnabas,
for example, in Acts 15: 2, contended for against the leaven of the
Pharisees. It says there was "no small dissension and disputation
with them," that is, with the Pharisees, some of whom now claimed to
be Christians, but were promoting the leaven of the Pharisees (Luke
12: 1, Mark 8: 15)

The Pharisees of Christ's time had the dialectic mind. In a number
of scriptures
the Pharisees argued with the doctrines taught by Jesus Christ, who is fully
God. Because the Pharisees had a relationship of feelings toward
their position and
the doctrines they had been taught and were teaching to others, what Christ
was teaching threatened them. So, they argued against the Truth,
standing before them.

"If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the
Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation." John 11:
48

The dialogue between Christ and the Pharisees in John 8 is just
one example of their use of the dialectic to argue against Truth. God
could not speak doctrine into their group mind because they did not
have ears to hear it.

In John 8: 31-32 Jesus says "Then said Jesus to those Jews which
believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples
indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you
free."

Jesus Christ is speaking truth, or absolute facts here. But the
Pharisees who heard him did not believe he was the Truth and what he
spoke were absolute facts. They answered " We be Abraham's seed, and
were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made
free?......Christ said: "I speak that which I have seen with my
Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. They
answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto
them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of
Abraham." John 8: 33, 38,39

In John 8: 41 Jesus said to the Pharisees "Ye do the deeds of your
father." The Pharisees answered him: " We be not born of fornication;
we have one Father, even God."

After the Risen Christ confronted Saul the Pharisee on the road to
Damascus, blinded him and shook him up so bad that he changed quickly
from Saul the Pharisee to Paul the Apostle of Christ, then God could
speak doctrine into his mind, which was no longer a dialectic mind.

The dialectic as an argument, a way of changing the absolute truth
that one's opponent holds to, historically has come out of a system of
thought which teaches that there is no God.. It comes out of Hegel
and Marx. But before Hegel and Marx it came out of the second beast of
Revelation 13: 11, who has two horns like a lamb but speaks as a
dragon, and from the dragon himself whose use of the dialectic was on
Eve in Genesis 3
to fix her obedience to the absolute authority of God over her.