The Cartesian Heresy

Cartesianism makes the human mind the source of truth and reality (“I think, therefore I am”), replacing God’s revealed world with subjective ideas and symbols. In theology, this turns Biblical history into “myth” or “meaning” while denying real events like the incarnation or resurrection. At root, it repeats Genesis 3:5—man deciding reality for himself. Scripture teaches that man’s problem is sin, not ignorance, and that truth comes from the triune God, not autonomous human thought.