{"id":94551,"date":"2026-03-14T21:15:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=94551"},"modified":"2026-03-14T21:15:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T02:15:44","slug":"without-god-can-you-trust-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/without-god-can-you-trust-your-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Without God, Can You Trust Your Mind?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\tby Doy Moyer<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@watchinlight\">InLight Media<\/a>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Without God... Can You Trust Your Mind?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d673H6_s-d4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Can we really trust our own thinking? Every argument &#8211; every conversation &#8211; assumes we can think, reason, and understand. But have you ever stopped to ask where that ability comes from? In this video, Doy Moyer explores a profound challenge facing the naturalistic worldview: if human thought is nothing more than the product of mindless, unguided material forces, can we actually trust our own reasoning? Even atheist philosopher Thomas Nagel wrestled with this very problem in <em>The Last Word<\/em>. We contrast this with the biblical view &#8211; that an Intelligent Designer made us in His image (Genesis 1:26-27) and gave us the capacity to think, reason, and know. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge<\/em>&#8221; (Proverbs 1:7).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Doy Moyer via InLight Media Can we really trust our own thinking? Every argument &#8211; every conversation &#8211; assumes we can think, reason, and understand. But have you ever stopped to ask where that ability comes from? In this video, Doy Moyer explores a profound challenge facing the naturalistic worldview: if human thought is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[302,80,36,97],"class_list":["post-94551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","tag-creation","tag-evolution","tag-reasoning","tag-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45868,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/faith-is-reasonable\/","url_meta":{"origin":94551,"position":0},"title":"Faith Is Reasonable","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 31, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"by Doy Moyer Faith is reasonable because trust, which is the heart of biblical faith, is reasonable. 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This has certainly become\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Video&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Video","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/video\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":67902,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/real-faith\/","url_meta":{"origin":94551,"position":4},"title":"Real Faith","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"May 3, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"by Doy Moyer Biblical faith is not mere belief. It is trust, but it is more than that. It is conviction, loyalty, faithfulness, allegiance, and commitment. To say that we ought to trust God and have faith is not to say that we sit back and do nothing. 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