We have taken the reality of God's presence and made it an emotional experience. We think if we can get our emotions worked up we can enter the presence of God. Or we think emotional feeling is the presence of God. God is not there. He is in the man. Such is not emotion. The spirit is not emotion. It is the man himself. When the spirit gets connected with God there is very little emotion involved. It is just a reality. In our spirits we realize God and truth. We don't feel it. Feelings may emit because of the realization, but it is not a part of that realization. Neither does it give credence to that realization. There is nothing of truth value in feelings. They are simply there as a result of realizing truth, or what we think is true, and they help move us into action. Otherwise, feelings have nothing to do with truth. One may feel a certain way about something and the opposite be true. One simply cannot base truth evaluations on feelings.
Truth is only and absolutely objective. Even metaphysical truth. Metaphysical truth is that truth which cannot be evaluated by the senses. It is not tangible. It belongs to the non-physical world. To know such truth is not an emotional determination. Metaphysical truth is known in the spirit of a man. He hears truth and there is an agreement in his spirit without the necessity of physical examination. For one to say this is not credible is to debunk his own words. What he just said, then, is not credible, for his speech, the meaning of the words he just spoke, cannot be tested by the senses. As Bahnsen says, the laws of logic are true, yet they are untestable by the senses. Still, we realize and experience their worth by everyday living. One cannot live in an illogical, irrational manner and get on very well for any length of time. The laws of nature, as we may call them, those laws that are simply there and govern all we do, whether we will be successful or fail in the end, cannot be ignored and the one ignoring them get on well. He will run into invisible walls that refuse to move. The result of his running into them will be his fall. One, or a nation, cannot forge ahead in violation of reality--the laws of nature or the laws of logic and reason--without finding defeat at last. One may not admit to defeat or that any laws had anything to do with it. But his denial does not change a thing. They are still there and he cannot get by with violating them. No one ever has or will.
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