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God created a perfect world by creating a space of order in the midst of the waters of chaos. Adam and Eve then placed a siphon in the waters and began to suck. Thinking they were drawing a divine bath they ended up drowning the planet in a devastating flood.
God told Adam and Eve that He would allow a…..
God is love, yet our postmodern culture has taken linguistic license and redefined divine love as tolerance. Tolerance, properly understood, is a good thing when implemented frugally but becomes a big problem when it becomes a blank check. I think that perhaps the most helpful definition of tolerance is the one used in the sciences: the allowable deviation from a standard, especially: the…..
I was recently made aware of a phenomenon called the Seattle Freeze that is increasingly becoming the norm in major cities throughout the country. The urban dictionary describes it this way, “A social phenomenon commonly found in the Seattle area. It concludes the majority of Seattle residents (are) snobby, cold, unfriendly people with a fake-polite exterior. Many people…..
At one time we were very optimistic about the future. We entertained ideas of a utopian society built on the back of rapid advances in science and technology. We knew that we could learn from past mistakes and innovatively avoid them in the future. We were like Chicago Cubs fans tenaciously clinging to the hope that this would be the year the Cubbies would win the World Series. Sadly, just like our pennant-challenged friends, we’ve had to accept the fact…..
Tolerance is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It looks like a little lamb gently chewing its cultural cud, but in reality is a voracious beast intent on devouring every rule it finds oppressive, even when those rules are the only safeguards for a peaceful pasture. Its hunger will not be sated until every “freedom limiting” pillar of society is butchered…..
Christians are engaged in a cultural worldview battle. Our two most prominent adversaries are the philosophical forces of modernism and postmodernism. Modernism, assembles its atheistic forces and engages the Bible and its adherents in conventional warfare. These skirmishes are often conducted in college auditoriums where the generals of each side spar in a war of words. Postmodernism, on the…..
Our culture finds the word “sin” mean-spirited. It is viewed as a politically incorrect term used by Christians to condemn those who choose to live differently. In order to rectify the situation, our culture, in true postmodern fashion, deconstructs language by changing the usage of previously well-established words creating a cloud of confusion that looks like a fluffy lamb…..
Postmodernism arose as a response to the modernist claims that truth is determined scientifically and that life is nothing but chemicals. It didn’t like the idea of universal truth whether it was scientific, religious, or philosophical. It bristled at the thought of science as the new sheriff in town, especially since they thought they had already demoted the previous religious and government law…..
