Sunday, July 06, 2008

The Problem with Turning to Philosophers for Answers

I know I haven't posted in a while, like six months, but here is something that I wrote, during one of my classes, in response to a lecture on epistemology.

"The problem with turning to philosophers for answers on why and how we know what we know is that they tend to take God out of the equation (not all, but many do).  They tend to make faith in the Almighty and His infallible and perfect Word, the Bible, secondary.  God is not secondary and He is absolute.  We have all we need to know in His Word, everything else we learn from the myriads of human thinkers must be filtered through God's Word.  When we start playing around with what we as man can do on our own and not trusting and obeying Scripture, then we always head straight to error and chaos.  God is not opinion and simply choice, but a fact and the reality, and all knowledge that we think we know and have mastered can only be truly understood if God's Word is the benchmark, the map, and the compass (I would add now, thinking about it later, the Way).  We can only think because God made us to think, now give God that glory."

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