Rationalism and Its Fruit (3)

Modern philosophy begins as we have seen with man, man's reason, and man's experience. As such, in its very starting point, it has no place for divine revelation or the need of the Scriptures. The claim of the Word of God therefore to be divine revelation is one which philosophy opposes and against which it strives. Throughout the eighteenth century and the era which preceded it, the drive of worldly philosophy was to set man's wisdom and experience upon the throne as the sole standard of...