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May 2024
17m 29s

Sermon: I Am That I am Therefore I Think

Paul Axton
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Acknowledgement of God and access to wisdom, reason, and understanding of the self and the world are synonymous. Where Kant and the modern age deny access to God as foundation to reason, and attempt to establish foundations within reason, the Bible and Hegel point to God as the possibility giving rise to reason.

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