The Philosophers

May 29, 2022

“As a man thinketh in his own heart so is he” (Proverbs 23:7). Every lover of truth

recognizes that if the premise is false, the conclusion cannot be anything other than

false; so, we look at the ‘great’ philosophers to discover what they had in common.

All were great thinkers which is acknowledged by today’s world and all were

Catholics in faith. Pascal, Descartes, and Voltaire questioned God, but did not deny

the existence of ‘the watch maker’. They rejected much of what the papacy had, by

tradition, imposed upon the unlearned as did the protestants like Calvin, Luther,

Wesley, and etc. For the same reason – the foundation was wrong! They did not dig

deep enough, they did not go to revelation, but only to reason and so could not

come to any righteous conclusions. Their search for truth caused them to consider

the Greek thinkers but due to the falseness in the Catholic church they never got

past that façade, or vain philosophy. Being skeptical as they are by nature, men like

Voltaire and Hume saw the corruption in Catholicism - profiteering, egotism, greed,

and vice. The ‘church’ was their mentor and they did not like themselves nor their

mentor. There was no resolution for guilt in all their presumed brain power, reason,

and rational could not bring relief. Immanuel Kant rejected any attempt to prove the

existence of God, but admitted his existence because of man’s search for morality.

Such thinking then and still does impact, on behalf of Satan, the world in which we

live and the history written. Sadly, we are inclined to believe what is convenient at

the ‘now’ instead of searching for the true Philosophy. We tend toward vanity

instead of truth, toward subjectivity over objectivity, and our reason over his

revelation. We would do well to take advice from God rather than cling to our own

vice. Our thinking can never exalt anyone but self, whereas true philosophy

recognizes that there is love, that He is love, and we do not really exist until we

build upon that truth. Revealed by God - his son is as necessary to correct thinking

and real life as the Sun is to our world. He is the way, the truth, and the life! That

objective truth revealed by his father is our foundation manifest by his fellowship.

Dr. Kenneth E. Morrison