On the lower story of reality, man is locked into a machinelike universe of cause and effect. We are just matter in motion. If there is to be meaning and significance, it must come from somewhere other than the real world. It must be invented in our imagination and believed against the facts through an irrational leap of faith. Schaeffer calls this the second-story leap.
Man invents significance, value and morality by making a blind leap of faith into the upper story.
An excellent example of this kind of reasoning was given by a writer published in the Los Angeles Times . One need have no proof or justification for one's spiritual beliefs because no one has the right to presume to judge the validity of those beliefs. This writer makes it clear that to him religious belief is in a separate category from fact. It is an invention of your own mind having nothing to do with the real world. There's no objective foundation from which to make judgments.