Mar 29, 2021
THE PRE-RENAISSANCE DISTORTIONS:
"Humanist elements had entered, For example, the authority of the church took precedence over the teaching of the Bible; [merit based salvation], a mixture of Christian and ancient non-Christian thought. This opened the way for people to think of themselves as autonomous and the center of all things. The unfortunate side of the Renaissance was the reaffirmation of the distortions."
~Dr. Francis Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live?