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.
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
"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!!
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.
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.
I am not familiar with "the Enlightenment" period of history - is this akin to when the Reformation burgeoned?
Roughly, the second half of 18th Century--so many 'big' thinkers--Voltaire, Rousseau, Jefferson, Franklin--who if I am not mistaken, moved to deism
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.
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
"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!!
That's why I said I think they (Jefferson certainly) went deist.
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.