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What is your favorite heresy? What untruth or half-truth are you most inclined to believe, even though you know it to be false?

I think my favorite heresy is Rationalism–the belief that arose out of 18th and 19th century philosophy and science that says that everything can be explained by logic. Everything we know can (must be) supported by a sound, logical argument, and the things that we don’t yet understand will one day be understood as people build on the reasoning of others.

It is attractive because it puts man at the center of everything. It is up to people to say what can be believed, and we don’t have to believe anything that we don’t understand. The problem with this heresy is that not everything can be explained logically, and just understanding how something works doesn’t necessarily tell us why it works that way. Above all, Rationalism has no place for paradox, yet at the centre of Christianity is a paradox–the Son of God became a man so that we might become sons of God.

So, what’s your favorite heresy?

This entry was posted by Bryce on Saturday, August 28th, 2004 at 12:35 pm. This entry was tagged with Theology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.