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Hebrews 13:8 says that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Since the first century, there have been many schools of thought concerning the existence of God and faith in his true nature. We find that from the time before Christ came to earth as God incarnate, up to the 1200s, science and physics were not major players during this age known as the "pre-modern" era. The "pre-modern" era encompassed the viewpoint that every object has a reality, called the absolute. People and all things made were considered particulars in which was seen as a shadow of the absolute, and that reason plus logic is what was required to reach the absolute good.
The Renaissance centuries, highlighted in the 1700s during the period of the Enlightenment period, brought about a paradigm shift towards the physical world. Allen asserts that a major project of the Enlightenment period was to base traditional morality and society on reason, the natural revelation given to man, and not on......

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