Skip to main content

Secular Humanism - Obstacles

Secular Humanism's Utopia - Things that STAND IN THE WAY:

MAN'S SINFUL NATURE (& Ways)
  • Man's natural orientation and propensity toward evil and sin
  • Man's continuing and insatiable desire for power, possessions, pleasure, prestige
  • Man's insatiable desire for more
  • Man's inability to ultimately avoid all consequences to his actions
  • Man's failure to value the life and good of others compared to his own
  • Man's continuing advancement in methods of killing
  • Man's fear concerning his desire for survival
  • Man's fear concerning the unknown
  • Man's lack of patience, perseverance and compatibility to endure until utopia (even if it was possible)
  • Man's competing philosophies
  • Man's pollution
  • Man's poverty in wisdom, knowledge, resources, and control
  • Man's limitations to live up to his own standards
  • Man's guilt

GOD'S CURSE THROUGH (/AND UPON) NATURE
  • Nature (/Creation) no longer provides man (apart from God) the return, satisfaction, and enduring fulfillment he desires
  • Nature continues to present man with advancing enemies both from without and from within
  • Nature's dominion is not through knowledge alone

(Feel free to add your own...)


CONCLUSION

How foolish for man to put hope in such a system as secular humanism,

How much wiser to put one's hope in the Lord!

How much more foolish for a man living today to put his personal hope in secular humanism,

How much wiser to put his hope in the one who can save!


THOUGHTS TO CONSIDER
  • "For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." (Jn 3:17)
  • "For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God." (Rom 8:20-21)
  • "Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah, with his garments stained crimson? Who is this, robed in splendor, striding forward in the greatness of his strength? It is I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save." (Isa 63:1)
  • "For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it." (Mt 16:25)
  • "The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing." (Zeph 3:17)

Comments

Post a Comment

Older Posts

Show more

Popular posts from this blog

Eckhart Tolle - Christian Response

Unbelievable! ...The extent man not founded upon Christ will go and follow in their quest and pursuit of self and attempts to explain away reality and sin. Here's Oprah's spiritual sage... Response: 1. He resurrects errors of the past which deny reality by seeking to replace it with forms. 2. By reducing the past to forms (or photo albums) he not only denies the reality of the past but the extent of it's connectedness and relationship to the present. This error he also translates in regard to the future. 3. He establishes a false premise that one can separate the reality of the present ("now") from reality itself, which he vests in onesself (though he inconsistently goes on to suggest that life is found in abandoning oneself) 4. He has no grounds or basis for assuming reality is found in self (and apart from everything else, or only what one want's to allow) 5. By denying the truth of God, he falsely asserts that the future is no longer problematic...
73 comments
Read more

Eckhart Tolle Christianity (Understanding Eckhart Tolle - Comparison / Difference with Christianity)

I believe it important that both believers and unbelievers understand the difference between the teaching of Eckhart Tolle and Christianity. Here's a brief post to introduce you to a few of the significant differences. (Note, I've just been exposed to Tolle, but it doesn't seem to take long to discern the differences) Context (the problem)Taken from here .: Despite Oprah and Eckhart's reduction of Christianity to but one "way" amongst many other equally legitimate ways to God, and their calling Christ a "revolutionary" who has been misunderstood by the Church, and who simply came to manifest "Christ-consciousness", a quick search through the internet reveals that many Christians are following Oprah in attempting to fuse together the teachings of Eckhart, and the doctrines of the historical Christian church. Great website to gain quick summary of Eckhart's beliefs/teachings: Ripples on the Surface of Being Key Responses by Eckhart To...
71 comments
Read more

Parallel Processing: Reconciling Creation and Time

The Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars in 2012, is equipped with two primary computers: the Rover Compute Element (RCE) and the Vision Compute Element (VCE). What's particularly interesting is how these two systems operate at different speeds within the same overall system. The RCE, which handles the rover's main functions, runs on a radiation-hardened RAD750 processor clocking at a modest 200 MHz. This might seem slow by Earth standards, but it's robust enough to withstand the harsh Martian environment. In contrast, the VCE, which processes image data for navigation, uses a significantly faster processor that can run at speeds up to 400 MHz. This allows for quicker processing of visual data, crucial for the rover's autonomous navigation. Here's where it gets fascinating: these two processors, running at different speeds, work together to control the rover's operations. From the perspective of the slower RCE, the VCE might process several complex image analys...
2 comments
Read more