Carl Lotus BeckerReason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.
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Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life. Often people assume that since reason can answer all questions about the natural world, it can also answer the questions of the spiritual realm. However, this assumption is false. This quote helps us understand why reason cannot answer any questions about God. Reason cannot come up with an answer to the question “why” for any phenomenon in our world.
We can try to use reason to explain why something is happening but we will always fall short. The Bible provides answers to these types of questions.
Source: The Heavenly City Of The Eighteenth Century Philosophers
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