In 1793 the French Revolutionaries, amidst their nation-wide ransacking and destruction of religious buildings, symbolized their newfound paradigm with the worship of a young lady, dressed as the goddess of reason. This paradigm worshipping reason was to be the dominant mode of thought sprouting from and encapsulating the Enlightenment and the entire Modern Era. Christianity would not submit to this worship of a pagan goddess, would it?

Exodus 20:4-5a - “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them…”

Every Christian knows this commandment. The common Christian definition for “idol” is “anything that you place before God”.

Romans 1:21-23, 25 - “For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen.”

To oversimplify history, since then those who worship reason have sought to prove and disprove religion. As a result, those who worship Jehovah have sought to prove their faith. The love and sacrifice at the heart of the Kingdom of God were traded in for the comfort and ease of reason. The search for truth was traded in for the search for certainty. The task of disproving Reason required the worship of reason.

The search for certainty comes at the expense of truth. The search for truth comes at the expense of certainty.