I am a studious soul. (except for studying things i am actually tested on i.e microbial physiology) Anyway-- I love to read biography's, religious documents, government policies. I even watch the news. And if any of you ever watch the news you will know about the madness that is going on right now--the rise of Islam--the divide in political parties--the terror in the middle east--the slaughtering of the innocent, worldwide-- i could go on for a while...
If you care just a little for your family-- scratch that-- a little for life in general-- all of this should make you start to question things.
What is Humanism?
{hu.man.ism}
||a system of values and beliefs that is based on the idea that people are basically good
and that problems can be solved using reason|
Modern humanism can actually be traced all the way back to the Renaissance. Incredibly intelligent men such as Leonardo DaVinci and Isaac Newton believed man could use knowledge and technology to enhance human life. Which is accurate. God gave mankind brains-- He wants us to be smart.
However, Isaac Newton and Leonardo DaVinci believed in God--
Which is where modern humanism and secular humanism split off drastically.
Humanism is now masked by 'moral relativism'-- taking a nonjudgmental approach to things such as what people believe--policies--morality--habits-- because 'everything is relative'. The basic foundation to all of this is the ideology that the belief in a god is illogical, there is no such thing as the supernatural-- therefore man is his own god.
{which is strange being that most secular humanists believe in evolution... which is a belief and not a factual occurrence because there is no way to visually prove it}
So what does this have to do with the news? With you? With anything?
There is a significant amount of people who refuse to connect the recent terrorism and war in the middle east with radical Islam. There is a large majority who deny abortion as the destruction of life. There is a rampant up-rise in my generation of atheism. People are threatened to get fired from their jobs if they say anything negative towards homosexuality. {see here that i said homsexuality and NOT homosexuals}
There are Christians succumbing to the idea that silence is love.
We are blinded to the fact that mankind is setting itself up to become their own gods. We are raising children to believe that man can be naturally good and moral. That technology can save us.
That it is no one's right to challenge someones "rights".
2 Peter 3:3-5
Knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts and saying "Where is the promise of His coming?" For since the fathers
fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of Creation. For this they willingly forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old and the earth
standing out of water and in the water.
2 Thessalonians 2:3
Let no one deceive you by any means; for that day will not come unless the falling away comes first and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself
above all that is called God or that is worshiped so that he sits as god in the temple of God, showing himself that he is god.
CS LEWIS "Mere Christianity"
"Niceness-- wholesome integrated personality-- is an awesome thing...
But we must not suppose that even if we succeeded in making everyone nice we should have saved their souls...
For mere improvement is not redemption...
God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce 'better men' of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man."
I started thinking about the world and where we are headed and the end times and my generation and my future family and the things we are going to endure together for the cause of Christ. But what I really thought about was my own filth. My own desperate need for the Savior. How it is so easy to think i am my own god and to allow sin to rule over me.
Do not be fooled-- we are awful beings incapable of being righteous without the blood of Jesus.
But this is a hopeful message because we do have a Savior and His children are considered holy and righteous in His sight because of His sacrifice.
The humanistic movement is trying to produce a heaven on earth-- damnation masked as world peace and tolerance. The truth is, and I encourage you to evaluate this in your own lives just as I have had to do lately:
there is only one Heaven and only one pathway there. There is only one God.
We are not gods. We can not achieve a utopia. Tolerance is not gold. Silence is not love.
"If the fate of the ungodly is our continual meditation, concern for their salvation will be our continual motivation."
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