Results of Agnosticism (2 of 2 notes)

Part Three
Theology Proper: 17 ANTITHEISTIC SYSTEMS
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

And he goes on to say:

Agnosticism is not a state in which the mind of an intelligent being can permanently rest. It is essentially a condition of suspense-a confession of ignorance--and abdication of thought on the highest subjects. It is not, in the nature of things, possible for the mind to remain persistently in this neutral, passive attitude. It will press on perforce to one or other of the views which present themselves as alternatives--either to Theism, or to Materialism and dogmatic Atheism. I do not speak, of course, of the individual mind, but the general historical development.⁵

5            James Orr, The Christian View of God and the World (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897), p. 51.

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