Reason (153)
  1. Despite his trust in empiricism, throughout his life, Locke never entirely let go of the inspired Scriptures—or perhaps more accurately, the Scriptures never let go of him.
  2. Caleb and Scott discuss free will, the fall into sin, and human reason.
  3. By basing our assurance on the promises of God, which we not only hope for in the future but live in now, the Christian can finally rest in the comfort that they are both saved and not responsible for their own salvation.
  4. The gospel does not proclaim the results of our practical reasoning about things we experience, but the horror of God crucified for our sins and at our hands.
  5. If you want to boil Schleiermacher down to some foundation upon which to build up his theology, think feelings.
  6. Biblically speaking, we won’t find much evidence for a preordained spouse.
  7. Perhaps best known for his “wager,” Pascal is often associated with this curious argument for the existence of God and eternal blessedness.
  8. In life, we make decisions, from the most basic to the most lasting, lacking specific knowledge about the outcome.
  9. Is a god fully understandable and explainable according to the finite logic and world we inhabit, is that a god one can trust and truly believe?
  10. We try believing in more abstract concepts: justice, happiness, and self-improvement, only to find that we can never truly grasp which standards should be accepted and which should be rejected.
  11. But another possible translation for the Greek word we translate as ‘overcome’ and one maybe more consistent with the context is ‘comprehend.’
  12. As one of the last episodes in our latest series about the great ideas of the Reformation, we talk about the relationship between faith and reason.
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