How did Revelation become replaced by Reason?
It goes back to Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) who basically believed that one can't come to God by reason-but only through a leap of faith. Further, that reason (human) is superior to revelation.
It was Kant who put us on the trajectory to this "age of reason" that has devastated our culture today. Many of our societal problems over the last century began in the classrooms of "higher education".
That would include the holocaust of the 30's & 40's.
Kant claimed though, that He was a believer in God. That he believed in the "starry host above" and the "moral law within." Yet, because of the influence of the thinking of Kant-many today no longer respect either.......
P.S.-Kant led to Nietzsche to Existentialism to Post-modernism.
But where was Kant getting some of his influence? He dabbled in the occult..."Dreams of a Spirit-Seer Elucidated by Dreams of Metaphysics, which he wrote soon after publishing a short Essay on
Maladies of the Mind (1764), was occasioned by Kant's fascination with the Swedish visionary Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), who claimed to have insight into a spirit world that enabled him to make a series of apparently miraculous predictions. In this curious work Kant satirically compares Swedenborg's spirit-visions to the belief of rationalist metaphysicians in an immaterial soul that survives death, and he concludes that philosophical knowledge of either is impossible because human reason is limited to experience." StanfordEncyclopediaOfPhilosophy
It goes back to Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) who basically believed that one can't come to God by reason-but only through a leap of faith. Further, that reason (human) is superior to revelation.
It was Kant who put us on the trajectory to this "age of reason" that has devastated our culture today. Many of our societal problems over the last century began in the classrooms of "higher education".
That would include the holocaust of the 30's & 40's.
Kant claimed though, that He was a believer in God. That he believed in the "starry host above" and the "moral law within." Yet, because of the influence of the thinking of Kant-many today no longer respect either.......
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.
For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
1 Corinthians 3:19P.S.-Kant led to Nietzsche to Existentialism to Post-modernism.
But where was Kant getting some of his influence? He dabbled in the occult..."Dreams of a Spirit-Seer Elucidated by Dreams of Metaphysics, which he wrote soon after publishing a short Essay on
