7 Jun 2017 4:59 am
It is obvious you fail to understand what you are saying. Reason over faith means rejecting religion!!!Silverfox » 06 Jun 2017 6:11 pm » wrote: You don't understand the thinking of the Enlightenment era properly. There is no leaving out God. There is the leaving out of dogma and a deliberate attempt to focus on simple scripture.
It was also influential in the thinking behind both the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution - especially via Franklin, Jefferson and Paine.
Dogma is principles laid down in this case the Bible.
Example of Dogma - God the Father and Jesus is the same single God.
Proof:
John 1 New International Version (NIV)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it.
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.