“IS IT CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY
OR
SIMPLY ANTI KING JAMES BIBLE?”
“IS IT CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY
OR
SIMPLY ANTI KING JAMES
BIBLE?”
I mean … we have Solomon who loved wisdom as follows …
“The
proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; To know wisdom
and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;”
(Proverbs 1:1-2)
Now at the risk of slighting Altruism,
Absolutism, Critical Realism, Conceptualism, Critical Idealism,
Asceticism,
Existentialism, Atomism, Theistic Atomism, Intuitionism, Logical
Empiricism,
Logical Positivism, Hylozoism, Humanism, Monism, Neo-realism,
Nominalism,
Occasionalism, Pansychism, Phenomenalism, Pluralism, Rationalism,
Relativism,
Scientific Empiricism, Solipsism, Subjective Idealism, Transcendental
Idealism,
Utilitarianism and Voluntarism … to name a few … could we put
philosophy
into four broad categories?
1. Naturalists … materialists who believe in
evolution and go by the natural?
2. Idealists … who believe in some kind of
Deity and go by ideas?
3. Realists … who are materialists who
recognize some ideas as valid to reality?
4. Pragmatists … who believe that it is good if
it works … but it just might be anybody’s guess as to who it will work
for and
when?
Furthermore, could we also fit all of
philosophy into four basic questions that tie all the various
types of
philosophy together?
1. “What can I know?”
2. “What should I do?”
3. “What may I hope?”
4. “What is a human being?”
In addition, can we say the vast majority of
philosophers underestimate the word of God to the extent they
refuse to
acknowledge its power to drive men into hell with the force of an
atomic blast?
Continuing on, would we be correct in saying that most
philosophers regard the Bible was only “a book” … written by
some past
“philosophers” … which occupied a certain “useful” function in past
society …
but the main business of seeking truth has gone beyond Peter, James,
John, Paul
… and is carried on by … US PHILOSOPHERS?
Has any philosopher accepted the words Peter, Matthew,
Mark, Luke, David, James, John, Paul, Moses, and the Prophets … as the final,
infallible, absolute truth revealed supernaturally
by God
Almighty (Luke 24:45)?
Do we search in vain the writings of Strato, Thales,
Lucretius, Anaximenes, Parmenides, Speusippus, Plotinus, Proclus,
Ammonius
Saccas, Prodicus, Anaxagoras, Zeno, Epictetus, Heraclitus, Leucippus,
Cratylus,
Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Lange, Howison, Schopenhauer, Paine, Hebart,
James,
Bowne, Machiavelli, Descartes, Toland, Leibnitz, Pierce, Schlick,
Wittgenstein,
Ikhnaton, Hobbes, Berkeley, Xenophanes, Newman, Anslem, Abelard,
Bernard,
Aquinas, Augustine, Pascal … for any profession of faith in the
authority and power of the living word of the living God?
Can we rightly say there are no champions of
the Bible among philosophers?
Is the mantra of modern day philosophy “Don’t
put to much trust in the King James Bible … as a lot of us great men
have found
mistakes in it … so listen to our thoughts … and we will straighten you
out?”
If the first basic question of Philosophy is “WHAT CAN
I KNOW?” … has that been answered by God himself through twenty-four
authors,
on three continents, over a period of 1500 years?
Which is correct?
A Philosopher is a man who studies more and more about
less and less until he finally knows nothing about everything?
or
A Philosopher is a man who studies less and less about
more and more until he finally knows everything about nothing?
So Dear Reader, the Christian Philosopher takes the
following …
“In the forests of the Which, we move
the Why from the itch,
To capture the Isness of the Was,
To search out the Itness of the What,
In the swamps of the Then,
To corner the Selfness in its den.”
And attempts to transform it into something more
‘respectable’ as follows …
1. There is no final authority but God in
heaven.
2. As God is a Spirit, there is no final
authority that can be seen, heard, read, felt or handled.
3. Since all books are material, there is no
book on this earth that is the final and absolute authority on what is
right
and what is wrong, that is, on what constitutes truth and what
constitutes
error.
4. There was a series of writings one time,
which if they had all been put into a book as soon as they were
written
the first time, would have constituted an infallible and final
authority
by which to judge truth and error.
However this series or writings were lost, and the God
who inspired them was unable to preserve their content.
5. Since there is no absolute final authority that
anyone can read, teach, preach or handle, the whole thing is a matter
of preference.
Everyone can prefer what they prefer … I will prefer
what I will prefer … and you can prefer what you prefer.
6. Let us therefore live in peace, and if we cannot
agree on anything or everything, let us all agree on one thing … there
is no
final absolute written authority anywhere on this earth.
Harley Hitchcock
March 2025
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