Theological Rationalism, Part 1
Todays title is just a complicated sounding term for saying there is a certain train of human thought that puts itself as the highest authority in the universe.
This type of thinking is very humanistic [man is the highest measure].
God has given man his mind "as a tool", to be able to reason out truth in the world around him.
But God has not given man his reason so that now man's reason is the highest court of appeal.
God reveals Himself to us through the created order [general revelation] and also through His Word [special revelation].
God reveals to us that He is infinite [without boundaries], in His person, knowledge, power, presense, etc. And that man is finite [with boundaries].
God tells us that His ways and His thoughts are higher than ours. As high as the heaven is above the earth so are His ways and thoughts above ours.
As we will see in days to come, when men reject this revelation and instead choose to interpret the world with their own eye-glasses on [eye-glasses that have man's reason as the highest pinnacle] they will find it impossible to believe what God says [to varying degrees].
We will also see that the thinking that puts man at the highest point is very arbitrary, inconsistent and in the end cannot explain the world and how it works.
posted by Dale Callahan at 5:49 AM
4 Comments:
God seems to love to 'jump out' of the boxes we try to put Him in.
Isn't that true...just when we think we have everything in a nice little package...whammo...God shows us that our package is of our doing and not His revealing.
Do you have a blog Scott?
Hey, Dale - I do. Click on my name and you will see a link to my blog. It's techy. :)
Hey Dale, Good stuff, great thing to contemplate.
I am going to read the whole series and then comment, but good topic.
BTW, what does the term POST MODERNISM mean? I have heard that used a ton but don't know what it means, thought you might know?
Shep
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