By this provision good and evil in christianism becomes analogous to the true and false of empiricism, thus making the rightness of an action amenable to the experimental method. It is each individual's personal responsibility to test for himself the trustworthiness of special revelation through experimental knowledge. Further, the correct understanding of revelation can only be approached through the experimental application of the revealed principles to real-life situations. These two applications of the experimental method lead to growth in faith and action respectively. In christianism the source of knowledge is a triumvirate of reason, sense perception and special revelation.
Final authority resides with infallible revelation.
Sanctified reason and sense perception are the tools for correctly applying revealed principles. Empirical science finds its proper position only within the context of christianism. Here it functions in the capacity of general revelation. The use of the scientific method in the context of the philosophical system of christianism has advantages over its use in empiricism. The unity of truth makes the position of the scientific method within a system which encompasses all truth the more reasonable and reliable alternative.