THREE VALUES??

Three Godless Values That Confront Us Daily

 

 

 

1. ”Reason is superior to faith.”

The world thinks like this, “facts and faith inhabit two separate realms and must not be mixed. In this age of reason, most folks view God as irrelevant (not relevant). Redundant. (Something un-necessary and not normal) Therefore, Christianity is “severely questioned, contemptuously repudiated, or studiously ignored.”

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;  Romans 1:28

2. ”Every day life  practices are amoral. Value-free.“

Their reasoning says:, “pragmatic realism dictates the modus operandi (Pattern or method of operation). Just get the job done. Religious idealism has no place in the hard-nosed  world of Machiavellian (Cunning, duplicity, and bad) reality.”

3. ”We are emancipated, self-sufficient individuals who are free to do as we so choose.”

Some try to reason things this way, “democracy means I am owed individual freedoms as I understand them. Personal responsibility for my actions does not enter into the picture.”

In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.  Judges 17:6

CONCLUSION: A cursory review of the 20th Century (Auschwitz, Hiroshima, etc.) makes it self-evident that this philosophy has led to a profound sense of isolation, “fear, [and] disenchantment… A feeling of abandonment, doubt, a sense of danger, alienation, and anxiety.”

The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.  Prov 28:1

CHALLENGE: That as Jesus’ disciple we take counsel of the Scriptural injunction,

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.  Col 2:8