1. Intellectual Pride "This knowledge puffs up, but love builds up" 1 Cor. 8:1
  2. Doubt
  3. Spiritual Dryness

How do you fight these things?
1.Understand the primacy of love over knowledge
2.Realize the feebleness of your intellect "the beginning of study is humility
3. Use reason as ministerial, not magesterial over the gospel, "Faith Seeking understanding"
4. The direction of the Holy Spirit
5. Remember the fraility of your limitied intellect
6. Be Spirit Filled
7. Be involved in meaningful worship
8. Be involved in ministry.

Benefits of Studying Philosophy
1. Important aid to spiritual formation
2. Helps train for Christian ministry
3. Transforms the culture for Jesus Christ


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