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PHILOSOPHY VS. REVELATION. I t follows of necessity that philosophy and divine revela tion are utterly irreconcilable. The very existence of philos ophy as an occupation for the human mind depends upon the rigid exclusion of every explanation of the universe which is not reached by a speculative process. If a philosophy admits the existence of a God (as the philosophies just now in favor do), it is a god who either is dumb, or else is not permitted to tell anything about himself, or how he made and sustains the universe. Should the philosopher’s god break through these restrictions, there would be straightway an end of his philosophy. For it is not the pursuit of truth that makes one a philosopher. The pursuit of truth, in order to be philosoph ical, must be conducted in directions in which truth cannot pos sibly be found. For the discovery of what philosophers pre tend to be seeking would bring their philosophies to an end, and such a calamity must, of course, be avoided. Therefore, the moment one receives an explanation of the universe as coming from God who made it, he can have no further use for philosophy. One who has obtained the truth is no longer a seeker. The value of philosophy, therefore, lies not in its results, for there are none, but solely in the employment which its unverifiable speculations afford to those whose tastes and intellectual endowments qualify them to engage in i t PHILOSOPHY VS. CHRIST. Again, philosophy is “not according to Christ” for the sim ple and sufficient reason that the testimony of Christ puts an end, for all who accept it, to all philosophical speculations con cerning the relations of humanity to God and to the universe. Christ set His seal to the truth and divine authority of the Old Testament Scriptures. He, moreover, revealed the Father; and finally He promised further revelations of truth through His apostles under the immediate teaching of the Holy Spirit These revelations are not only directly opposed to philosoph-
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