Thursday, October 15, 2015

Taken in the net of the Greeks


Who of God is made unto us wisdom.
1 Corinthians 1:30

"1) Man's intellect seeks after rest,
2) and by nature seeks it apart from
the Lord Jesus Christ.

Men of education are apt,
even when converted,
to look upon the simplicities of the cross of Christ with an eye too little
 reverent and loving.
They are snared in the old net
 in which the Grecians were taken,
and have a hankering
 to mix philosophy with revelation. 

 This led the early Christian churches into Gnosticism,
and bewitched them with all sorts of heresies.
This is the root of Neology,
and the other fine things which in days gone by were so fashionable in Germany, and are now so ensnaring to certain classes of divines.

Whoever you are, good reader, and whatever your education may be, if you be the Lord's, be assured you will find no rest in philosophizing divinity.

All that reason, when best guided, can find out is but the A B C of truth, and even that lacks certainty, while in Christ Jesus there is treasured up all the fullness of wisdom and knowledge. All attempts on the part of Christians to be content with systems such as Unitarian and Broad-church thinkers would approve of, must fail; true heirs of heaven must come back to the grandly simple reality which makes the ploughboy's eye flash with joy,..."
Charles Spurgeon

* "Neology is the name given to the rationalist theology of Germany or the rationalisation of the Christian religion. It was preceded by slightly less radical Wolffism.
In epistemology, rationalism is the view that "regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge" wikipedia