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Religion is Law
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Philosophy as a tool for reasoning has been a good, in that science and the other offshoots like medicine, mathematics and psychology have advanced the learning and technology of humankind.
The Greeks began the study of their world by observation. The record states that it began in the 6th century BC with Thales in Miletus on the Asia Minor. Bryan Magee, The Story of Philosophy (DK Publishers, Inc., 20010, p. 13. Magee states, "they were trying to understand the world by the use of their reason, without appealing to religion, or revelation, or authority, or tradition." Id., p. 12. "Rational thinking," he called it. Id. Philosophers by trade use their powers of reasoning to attempt to deduce or induce a matter in order to unlock its secrets.
Religion, by its very nature, relies upon more than the powers of reasoning, and that is why Paul the Apostle said thus:
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Philosophy as a tool for reasoning has been a good, in that science and the other offshoots like medicine, mathematics and psychology have advanced the learning and technology of humankind.
The Greeks began the study of their world by observation. The record states that it began in the 6th century BC with Thales in Miletus on the Asia Minor. Bryan Magee, The Story of Philosophy (DK Publishers, Inc., 20010, p. 13. Magee states, "they were trying to understand the world by the use of their reason, without appealing to religion, or revelation, or authority, or tradition." Id., p. 12. "Rational thinking," he called it. Id. Philosophers by trade use their powers of reasoning to attempt to deduce or induce a matter in order to unlock its secrets.
Religion, by its very nature, relies upon more than the powers of reasoning, and that is why Paul the Apostle said thus:
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