God’s Science, Understood By Men
Posted by TulipGirl | Under Christianity and the Church, Heart, Mind and Soul, Theology for Girls Tuesday Aug 22, 2006“As far as the principle of interpretation is concerned, the natural man makes himself the final point of reference. So far, then, as he carries through his principle, he interprets all things without God. In principle he is hostile to God. But he cannot carry through his principle completely. He is restrained by God from doing so. Being restrained by God from doing so, he is enabled to make contributions to the edifice of human knowledge, the forces of creative power implanted in him are to some extent released by God’s common grace. He therefore makes positive contributions to science in spite of his principles and because both he and the universe are the exact opposite of what he, by his principles, thinks they are.”
Cornelius Van Til , A Christian Theory of Knowledge, pp 21, 22