Age of Enlightenment

To be enlightened means to be "a light onto oneself". It is shine the light of reason out into the unknown.

It is sleight of hand -- reason does not shine from us, but from God.

Worshipping Reason

Rationalism as a supreme authority.

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age of enlightenment

For starters, rationality cannot measure or contain created reality, at any level (let alone the transcendent source of all that is, including rationality itself). Even a circle requires an irrational constant. A diagonal in a square is irrational. Even the simplest geometric fractals have "impossible and irrational" properties such as finite area inside an infinite diameter. And if basic math isn't real enough, formation of clouds, trees, every cell in a human body, etc, all are measurable fractals that cannot be rationalized and they all measurably transcend their own geometries of space and time (this is the basis of chaos theory).

Perhaps all of the above is a deceitful illusion and a circle is secretly rational, and God's being fits within human rationality, and His will must conform to our rationality (even though God is a spirit and the author of space and time and logic itself, and who rejoices over a single sinner who is redeemed) -or- maybe Calvin was wrong.

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