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For centuries, humanistic philosophers have produced endless books and treatises which attempt to explain reality without God or the mediatory work of his Son, Jesus Christ. Modern philosophy has sought to explain man and his thought process without acknowledging God, his revelation, or man’s sin. God holds all such efforts in derision and subjects their authors and adherents to futility....

Down the road from this lies existentialism, and the hippie emphasis on “doing your own thing” as the truth for man. The principle of Kant is that only in experience is there truth. In 1748, Julien Offray De La Mettrie published his Cartesian study, Man A Machine. Descartes had taught that animals are mere machines, an aspect of the dead material universe. La Mettrie reduced man to the same machine.11 Now a new opinion had been introduced, or a variation of the Cartesian premise: man is an experiencing
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