Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Wednesday, July 09, 2008 12:20:42 AM
At the time of the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution there was essential agreement with the philosophers the Founders referenced and the theologians; reason and revelation were in agreement. What has happened since is that reason has departed from revelation and led the philosophers to the point of despair in their failure to arrive at truth.
Autonomous reason leads to naturalism and the absurd notion that everything that exists is here by natural process, even though natural law says that matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed by natural process. The conservation of energy and the increase of entropy testify of a supernatural beginning as in Genesis 1 and 2. ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done...’
Our hope is that God will raise up a new generation of men who reject this nonsense and return to the Scriptures wherein are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge revealed in Jesus Christ. [Colossians 2]