Schaeffer makes it clear that modern man longs for answers. “Once the historic Christian answer is put away, all we can do is to leap upstairs and say that against all reason God is good” ( Escape From Reason, 262).įinally, when one accepts this unbiblical dichotomy he loses the opportunity to evangelize people at their real point of despair. Christianity’s answer rests in the historic, space-time, real and complete Fall of man who rebelled and made a choice against God. The third consequence is that this scheme throws away the answer to the problem of evil. But when rationality and faith are pitted against one another, all hope of maintaining any semblance of law is obliterated. “The whole Reformation system of law was built on the fact that God had revealed something real down into the common things of life” ( Escape From Reason, 261). Second, when rationality and faith are dichotomized, there is no adequate basis for law. It is simply impossible to have an “upstairs morality” that is unrelated to matters of everyday living. Schaeffer sees this as an enormous problem and details four consequences in his book, Escape From Reason.įirst, when rationality contends against faith, one is not able to establish a system of morality. The decisive result of falling below the line of despair is a pitting of rationality against faith.
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