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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Again--my suspicion is 'the Enlightenment". Ironic, if so.

SIL, Anglican (UK) priest went through our house top to bottom maybe 18 years ago to cleanse it.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

I am not familiar with "the Enlightenment" period of history - is this akin to when the Reformation burgeoned?

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

Roughly, the second half of 18th Century--so many 'big' thinkers--Voltaire, Rousseau, Jefferson, Franklin--who if I am not mistaken, moved to deism

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

Ah yes...thank you for refreshing my brain on this important period of human history. I doubt any of these "great thinkers" stuck to their spiritual "bent" while on their death beds. It is a fearful thing to encounter the LIVING GOD....and refusing His "love gift", the Lord Jesus Christ is a ticket to the fiery pit!! That's my belief and it is fully documented in Scripture.

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

In full agreement. Besides (had to read Rousseau in freshman college French)--Rousseau the great philosopher begat a number of children on woman/women(?) and chucked them into orphanages. That's how much he cared about people

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

"Great" minds to me connotes they think way too highly of themselves. I am of the ilk that I'd rather be the publican beating my chest and begging forgiveness from our Holy Creator God!!

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ViaVeritasVita's avatar

That's why I said I think they (Jefferson certainly) went deist.

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Sharon Beautiful Evening's avatar

A "deist" merely acknowledges there is a

God - a "higher power", but does not embrace that this God is a personal God who has an interest in YOUR welfare and that of the world in which we live.

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