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Matthew Timothy Short
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Date Joined Apr 2002
Total Posts : 635
| Posted 5/13/2003 5:11 PM (GMT -6) |   | If ‘REASON’ were simply the faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes truth from falsehood, and good from evil, and which enabled the possessor to deduce inferences from facts or from propositions…
Then ‘REVELATION’ would be the act of disclosing or discovering to others what was before unknown to them; appropriately, the disclosure or communication of truth to men by God himself, or by his authorized agents, the prophets and apostles.
From harmony, from heavenly harmony, this universal frame began, comprising all the particulars…
The purpose of logic is to direct the intellect into the investigation of truth, and in communication with others, to reason well in our inquiries after truth, justly. Correct reasoning implies correct thinking and legitimate inferences, which are principles, assumed or admitted to be just. Scripture produces one conception only in the mind, and is a simple thing respecting all.
As for the nature of sin, and of that, which relates to every individual in which it is found, the revelation of reason comprehends universal ruin, universal good, and universal benevolence.
God delights in the happiness of intelligent beings.
1Jo 2:16…the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father… | | Back to Top | | |
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