Foolosophy!
Colossians 2:8 “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world, rather than on Christ.”
Romans 1:22 “Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools!”
The history of philosophy is the history of fools! All the sets of philosophers that have lived have been more successful in contradicting those who came before them, than in anything else.
Within a few years the present theories will be cut in pieces by some new dreamers. The reigning philosophers of the present period have in them so much of the spirit of insaneness that they will be a perpetual subject of contempt.
I venture to prophesy that before my head shall lie in the grave, there will hardly be a notable man left who will not have washed his hands of the present theory. That which is taught today for a certainty by ‘our sages’ will soon have been so disproved as to be trodden down as the mire in the streets.
The Lord’s truth lives and reigns, but man’s inventions are but for an hour!
I am no prophet, nor the son of a prophet; but as I have lived to see marvelous changes in the dogmas of philosophy, I expect to see still more. See how they have shifted already.
According to modern thinkers, what is true on Monday may be false on Tuesday. And what is certain on Wednesday may be our duty to doubt on a Thursday and so on, world without end.
Every change of the moon sees a change in the teaching of the new philosophies. A good stout hypothesis in the old times served a man for a hobbyhorse for twenty years. But nowadays their sorry theories hardly last twenty months.
The smallest promise of God is worth more than all that ever has been taught, or ever shall be taught, by skeptical philosophers! Let God be true but every man a liar. God is true and on His Word we build our confidence.
Psalm 19:7 “The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple.”
Psalm 119:138 “The statutes You have laid down are righteous; they are fully trustworthy.”
Psalm 119:160 “All Your words are true; all Your righteous laws are eternal!”
Proverbs 30:5 “Every word of God is flawless; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.”
John 17:17 “Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.”
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