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The naturalistic evolutionist hates God and loves sin.
Evolution is really an atheistic alternative, and a godless alternative. And evolution demands irrational faith in impotent chance. Evolution can't happen. It is impossible. It has been proven by science that it can't happen, as we saw, because of DNA, genetic codes information systems. Creation is rational faith in Almighty God. Evolution is irrational faith in impotent chance.
Evolution is...is really naturalism. Any sort of evolution is a form of naturalism. Naturalism believes that God exists only in the mind of non-intellectuals, only in the mind of low-level religious people. Naturalism says nature is all there is, that's really all there is. And that is virtually the assumption that underlies all natural science. It underlies all naturalistic, humanistic philosophy. It underlies all intellectual work. It underlies all morality, or better, immorality. In other words, the underpinning of our entire culture is this idea of nature is all there is. If naturalism is true, then man created God, God didn't create man. And belief in God is nothing more than a groundless superstition, and more importantly, since it is a superstition, we don't have to listen to anything in the foolish Bible, certainly not the Ten Commandments, the moral laws, and so forth.
So, we aren't interested in what religious people think. They're a threat. They're non-intellectuals. They're more than a bother. They intrude on our moral freedoms. In fact, we don't even talk about morality anymore, we just talk about rights and values, don't we? Rights and values...and rights and values are to be decided on by every individual.People don't do wrong because of sin. They do wrong because somehow they overextended their rights. Somehow they had warped values. They are psychologized rather than theologized. There is no creator, there is no moral law, there is no moral judge, there is no purpose for life, there is no reason for life except to get through it as happy as you can. There is no destiny. And there is no true theology.
Folks, I want to take you there cause that's the most important thing. There is in a naturalist's world, the humanist's world, the evolutionary world no true theology. So a theologian is really a useless interruption. In fact, they would probably hope that theologians are so low on the evolutionary chain as to be unable to survive. There's no such thing as a true theology because there's no such thing as a true God. The issue for evolutionists is not that Genesis is not believable, it's just a simple, straightforward account. It's not that they want to argue about whether Genesis is true or not, I mean...that, they've already won that battle. And that's why I'm going back there. Listen, they've already convinced most of the Christian world that Genesis isn't true. They have successfully attacked with their relentless theories and scientific illusions and sleight of hand and misrepresentation, they have successfully attacked Genesis and got most of the evangelical Christian world to believe that Genesis is not a true account.
But that's not really, they're just not trying to debunk Genesis. I mean, that in itself doesn't gain them much ground. The real issue with evolutionists is that if God created man and cares so greatly about what he does as to identify eternal consequences for his behavior, that is a serious threat to their sinful pleasures. The naturalistic evolutionist hates God and loves sin. Sometime you should read Paul Johnson's book, the historian's book on The Intellectuals. Read the biographies, it's absolutely riveting reading. The biographies of the people who shaped western society, they were perverse to put it mildly in their own personal lives. The naturalist hates God and loves sin. The theistic evolutionist who wants to bring evolution and impose it on Genesis and kind of marry it up with God, he will say he loves God and he will say he hates sin, but he actually loves God a little and his academic reputation a lot.
The governing discipline in the world, the governing discipline in the matter of life on this planet, the most important realm of thought, the most important arena of understanding is not science. Did you hear that? Now you would think it was. You would think it was. That's what our whole society goes back to all the time.
Listen, the queen of sciences in our world today, in the sense of knowledge is naturalistic science. They're supposed to have all the answers for everything and the fact is they don't. The governing discipline in the matter of life in the universe at every single point is not science. The governing discipline is theology. The only way you will ever understand the universe, the only way you will ever understand the history of man, the only way you will ever understand behavior and why people do what they do, the only way you will ever understand the flow of life and where we came from and where we're going is when you understand a true theology...the only way you'll ever understand it. We cannot then allow our theology to vacate its throne at the beginning of the Bible and take a footstool while science ascends the throne. Science and every other discipline, every other realm or arena or sphere or paradigm of human thought bows to the king of all disciplines and the king of all disciplines is a true theology and a true theology is a theology that comes from the Word of God.
Theologians aren't respected today. That's tragic. And in some measure they're not respected because they've jettisoned their position. Theologians aren't respected who hold their ground because they're the enemy...there's a concerted effort to paint them as non-intellectuals, people who are bound up in superstition and fantasy. But every one of you as a Christian, and I am going to elevate you, you don't even have to take any classes, I'm going to do this to you just...you are all theologians. And I want you to understand what I mean by that. You understand theology. You may not understand every nuance of theology. You may not be able to tell the difference between sublapsarianism, infralapsarianism and a Labrador retriever. You may...I just threw that in. You may not be able to explain the doctrine of the emuzio(??) or every aspect of kenosis. You may not know all the terminology, you may not know all of the ins and outs of every theological concept. But let me tell you something, folks, you are all theologians because you know the true and living God and you know the means by which He is known. And furthermore, you know the Word of the living God which is the substance of all truth in theology.
Give evolution the throne and you make the Bible the servant of man and you court disaster. But the queen of sciences today is natural...naturalism. Everything goes back to it, and naturalism is defined in evolutionary terms. So what rules our whole society is evolution. It's even gotten into theology to the point now, I am reading a number of different resources lately where the writer is saying, "God Himself is also evolving." Oh yeah...this is God in process of becoming what He would like to become. So even God has been swept up and God is just another little piece of the evolutionary process. Give evolution the throne and it takes over everything. Give it the throne in the first few verses of the first book of the first page of the Bible and you've abdicated at the very outset.
And in a world that evolves, it's very hard to have any fixed points. That's why educators today are relativists.
What they're talking about...and when the educators get into this and they say we need help, we've got to do something, they use this phrase, "Values clarification." Values again...what is values clarification mean? Well they...it basically, you know, they've got it down to you work hard and you don't hurt people. Moral reasoning which means I have all the freedoms to do whatever I want but my freedom stops where your nose begins. If I want to go out and beat my head against the wall, and if I want to go out and behave in a certain fashion, that's fine. But I cannot take a weapon and shoot you because now I've invaded your space. So I have to learn to reason morally and know that my freedoms have some moral limitation and the limitation is where by society's standards I've stepped over some line that effects you. By the way, it gets very, very fuzzy and the society is so fuzzy on it they don't know what to do about it, they're letting people produce video games, television programs, music, movies that cross the line by miles in creating evil influences in the lives of young people that are as deadly as if somebody put a gun to their head and fired it.
There is no hope for a society where naturalistic evolution is the queen of the sciences, where everything has to answer to that. Students are supposed to be given values clarification by teachers who don't have any moral standards. They're supposed to be taught moral reasoning by people who don't have any absolutes. And then they're told they need to forge their life style...no authority, no sin, no fixed divine law, no shame, no guilt, no set consequences.
But there's one thing in our society that they're not relativistic about, do you know what it is? Evolution. That is the one dominating absolute in our society. If you say you don't believe in evolution, you literally are viewed as a moron, somebody who doesn't have all his marbles, somebody who is bereft of normal reasoning ability. There's a sweeping relativity until it comes to the one fixed absolute that makes the relative system work and that is evolution. You see, if you come and say..."Well, you know, I don't believe in evolution, I believe in divine creation by God," the whole relativistic house of cards collapses cause you have to have randomness, free choice, free expression, you can't have fixed absolutes, you can't have the law giver and a law and a judge and all of that. So the one absolute that perseveres in the midst of this relativity is the absolute of evolution. That is they are absolutely convinced beyond any argument that everything that exists today is a result of chance and random processes. As one writer said, and I'll never forget the statement, the universe as we know it is just one of those things that happens from time to time.
But contrary to all of that, theology is the queen of science. Theology is what is the most important realm of thought. Theology is the controlling element in all of human understanding. And an unwavering faith in the accuracy and truthfulness of the Bible is at the heart of all sound theology. And it starts with believing the Genesis account. That is critical to a Christian world view.
I know that this is just another grain of sand on the beach, but I thought it would shine some light on prehaps the way things are today, again it`s just another grain on an never ending shore.
Amen
Troy
The naturalistic evolutionist hates God and loves sin.
Evolution is really an atheistic alternative, and a godless alternative. And evolution demands irrational faith in impotent chance. Evolution can't happen. It is impossible. It has been proven by science that it can't happen, as we saw, because of DNA, genetic codes information systems. Creation is rational faith in Almighty God. Evolution is irrational faith in impotent chance.
Evolution is...is really naturalism. Any sort of evolution is a form of naturalism. Naturalism believes that God exists only in the mind of non-intellectuals, only in the mind of low-level religious people. Naturalism says nature is all there is, that's really all there is. And that is virtually the assumption that underlies all natural science. It underlies all naturalistic, humanistic philosophy. It underlies all intellectual work. It underlies all morality, or better, immorality. In other words, the underpinning of our entire culture is this idea of nature is all there is. If naturalism is true, then man created God, God didn't create man. And belief in God is nothing more than a groundless superstition, and more importantly, since it is a superstition, we don't have to listen to anything in the foolish Bible, certainly not the Ten Commandments, the moral laws, and so forth.
So, we aren't interested in what religious people think. They're a threat. They're non-intellectuals. They're more than a bother. They intrude on our moral freedoms. In fact, we don't even talk about morality anymore, we just talk about rights and values, don't we? Rights and values...and rights and values are to be decided on by every individual.People don't do wrong because of sin. They do wrong because somehow they overextended their rights. Somehow they had warped values. They are psychologized rather than theologized. There is no creator, there is no moral law, there is no moral judge, there is no purpose for life, there is no reason for life except to get through it as happy as you can. There is no destiny. And there is no true theology.
Folks, I want to take you there cause that's the most important thing. There is in a naturalist's world, the humanist's world, the evolutionary world no true theology. So a theologian is really a useless interruption. In fact, they would probably hope that theologians are so low on the evolutionary chain as to be unable to survive. There's no such thing as a true theology because there's no such thing as a true God. The issue for evolutionists is not that Genesis is not believable, it's just a simple, straightforward account. It's not that they want to argue about whether Genesis is true or not, I mean...that, they've already won that battle. And that's why I'm going back there. Listen, they've already convinced most of the Christian world that Genesis isn't true. They have successfully attacked with their relentless theories and scientific illusions and sleight of hand and misrepresentation, they have successfully attacked Genesis and got most of the evangelical Christian world to believe that Genesis is not a true account.
But that's not really, they're just not trying to debunk Genesis. I mean, that in itself doesn't gain them much ground. The real issue with evolutionists is that if God created man and cares so greatly about what he does as to identify eternal consequences for his behavior, that is a serious threat to their sinful pleasures. The naturalistic evolutionist hates God and loves sin. Sometime you should read Paul Johnson's book, the historian's book on The Intellectuals. Read the biographies, it's absolutely riveting reading. The biographies of the people who shaped western society, they were perverse to put it mildly in their own personal lives. The naturalist hates God and loves sin. The theistic evolutionist who wants to bring evolution and impose it on Genesis and kind of marry it up with God, he will say he loves God and he will say he hates sin, but he actually loves God a little and his academic reputation a lot.
The governing discipline in the world, the governing discipline in the matter of life on this planet, the most important realm of thought, the most important arena of understanding is not science. Did you hear that? Now you would think it was. You would think it was. That's what our whole society goes back to all the time.
Listen, the queen of sciences in our world today, in the sense of knowledge is naturalistic science. They're supposed to have all the answers for everything and the fact is they don't. The governing discipline in the matter of life in the universe at every single point is not science. The governing discipline is theology. The only way you will ever understand the universe, the only way you will ever understand the history of man, the only way you will ever understand behavior and why people do what they do, the only way you will ever understand the flow of life and where we came from and where we're going is when you understand a true theology...the only way you'll ever understand it. We cannot then allow our theology to vacate its throne at the beginning of the Bible and take a footstool while science ascends the throne. Science and every other discipline, every other realm or arena or sphere or paradigm of human thought bows to the king of all disciplines and the king of all disciplines is a true theology and a true theology is a theology that comes from the Word of God.
Theologians aren't respected today. That's tragic. And in some measure they're not respected because they've jettisoned their position. Theologians aren't respected who hold their ground because they're the enemy...there's a concerted effort to paint them as non-intellectuals, people who are bound up in superstition and fantasy. But every one of you as a Christian, and I am going to elevate you, you don't even have to take any classes, I'm going to do this to you just...you are all theologians. And I want you to understand what I mean by that. You understand theology. You may not understand every nuance of theology. You may not be able to tell the difference between sublapsarianism, infralapsarianism and a Labrador retriever. You may...I just threw that in. You may not be able to explain the doctrine of the emuzio(??) or every aspect of kenosis. You may not know all the terminology, you may not know all of the ins and outs of every theological concept. But let me tell you something, folks, you are all theologians because you know the true and living God and you know the means by which He is known. And furthermore, you know the Word of the living God which is the substance of all truth in theology.
Give evolution the throne and you make the Bible the servant of man and you court disaster. But the queen of sciences today is natural...naturalism. Everything goes back to it, and naturalism is defined in evolutionary terms. So what rules our whole society is evolution. It's even gotten into theology to the point now, I am reading a number of different resources lately where the writer is saying, "God Himself is also evolving." Oh yeah...this is God in process of becoming what He would like to become. So even God has been swept up and God is just another little piece of the evolutionary process. Give evolution the throne and it takes over everything. Give it the throne in the first few verses of the first book of the first page of the Bible and you've abdicated at the very outset.
And in a world that evolves, it's very hard to have any fixed points. That's why educators today are relativists.
What they're talking about...and when the educators get into this and they say we need help, we've got to do something, they use this phrase, "Values clarification." Values again...what is values clarification mean? Well they...it basically, you know, they've got it down to you work hard and you don't hurt people. Moral reasoning which means I have all the freedoms to do whatever I want but my freedom stops where your nose begins. If I want to go out and beat my head against the wall, and if I want to go out and behave in a certain fashion, that's fine. But I cannot take a weapon and shoot you because now I've invaded your space. So I have to learn to reason morally and know that my freedoms have some moral limitation and the limitation is where by society's standards I've stepped over some line that effects you. By the way, it gets very, very fuzzy and the society is so fuzzy on it they don't know what to do about it, they're letting people produce video games, television programs, music, movies that cross the line by miles in creating evil influences in the lives of young people that are as deadly as if somebody put a gun to their head and fired it.
There is no hope for a society where naturalistic evolution is the queen of the sciences, where everything has to answer to that. Students are supposed to be given values clarification by teachers who don't have any moral standards. They're supposed to be taught moral reasoning by people who don't have any absolutes. And then they're told they need to forge their life style...no authority, no sin, no fixed divine law, no shame, no guilt, no set consequences.
But there's one thing in our society that they're not relativistic about, do you know what it is? Evolution. That is the one dominating absolute in our society. If you say you don't believe in evolution, you literally are viewed as a moron, somebody who doesn't have all his marbles, somebody who is bereft of normal reasoning ability. There's a sweeping relativity until it comes to the one fixed absolute that makes the relative system work and that is evolution. You see, if you come and say..."Well, you know, I don't believe in evolution, I believe in divine creation by God," the whole relativistic house of cards collapses cause you have to have randomness, free choice, free expression, you can't have fixed absolutes, you can't have the law giver and a law and a judge and all of that. So the one absolute that perseveres in the midst of this relativity is the absolute of evolution. That is they are absolutely convinced beyond any argument that everything that exists today is a result of chance and random processes. As one writer said, and I'll never forget the statement, the universe as we know it is just one of those things that happens from time to time.
But contrary to all of that, theology is the queen of science. Theology is what is the most important realm of thought. Theology is the controlling element in all of human understanding. And an unwavering faith in the accuracy and truthfulness of the Bible is at the heart of all sound theology. And it starts with believing the Genesis account. That is critical to a Christian world view.
I know that this is just another grain of sand on the beach, but I thought it would shine some light on prehaps the way things are today, again it`s just another grain on an never ending shore.
Amen
Troy
