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    The freedom to philosophize is not prejudicial to piety — Carmelics
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    The freedom to philosophize is not prejudicial to piety

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    • 1.Scripture is not a source of natural truth but the bearer of a simple moral message ('Love your neighbor')
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    • 2.The Bible teaches only obedience to God, not knowledge
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    • 3.Philosophy and religion inhabit two distinct and exclusive spheres
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    • 1.Philosophical reasoning about God's nature has historically produced conclusions (e.g., divine impassibility, necessity) that directly contradict core scriptural doctrines.
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    • 2.When philosophy and revealed religion make incompatible claims about the same subject, one domain must subordinate the other—genuine independence is unstable.
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    • 3.Spinoza's own Ethics demonstrates that unconstrained philosophical inquiry leads to a God identical with Nature, which most traditions define as heresy, not piety.
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    • 1.Al-Ghazali's 'Incoherence of the Philosophers' shows that philosophical method applied to theology systematically erodes belief in providence, miracles, and bodily resurrection.
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    • 2.If free philosophizing reliably produces conclusions incompatible with piety's practical demands, it is prejudicial to piety regardless of any claimed domain separation.
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    The solution to this state of affairs, Spinoza believes, is to examine the Bible anew and find the doctrines of the “true religion”. Only then will we be able to delimit exactly what we need to do to show proper respect for God and obtain blessedness. This will reduce the sway that religious authorities have over our emotional, intellectual and physical lives, and reinstate a proper and healthy relationship between the state and religion. A close analysis of the Bible is particularly important f
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    The Bible teaches only obedience to God, not knowledge
    When philosophy and revealed religion make incompatible claims about the same su...
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