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Philosophy has given us insights into the reflections of thinkers on such subjects as God, mankind, the world, and the possibility of knowing ultimate reality. The processes of reasoning and the conclusions of logic are often intensely fascinating. Dr. Geisler reminds us, however, that the premises and the arguments of philosophy are often faulty, leading to a wholly inadequate view of knowledge...

CHAPTER SUMMARY This chapter traces the early modern roots of biblical errancy to the philosophies of Bacon, Hobbes, and Spinoza. Once the inductive scientific method was assumed to be the means of obtaining all truth, it was a natural step to assume that Scripture dealt only with religious truth. Such was the separation of science and Scripture set up in the wake of Bacon’s inductivism. The materialism of Hobbes led to some of the earliest naturalistic and negative higher criticism of the Bible.
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