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Van Til writes in the Preface, “It is obvious that such philosophies as materialism and pragmatism are foes of Christianity. It is less obvious but no less true that Idealism and Christianity are mutually exclusive. Christianity teaches man to worship and serve God the Creator. Idealism, no less than materialism or pragmatism, teaches man to serve and worship the creature. Idealism has a language...

facts are now in for God so that you ought to be ‘prejudiced.’ On the other hand, if it be said that the very meaning of the ‘open universe’ is that the judgment is not to be a fact, this must be established by a priori argument. To be ‘neutral’ implies the ‘open universe’; but no human being can establish the openness of the universe by a neutral method. The assumption of a metaphysical relativism and ‘neutrality’ would seem to be unreasonable except for one who is absolute, which by admission you
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