and
How the Answer Leads to Good Friday
“What causes quarrels, and what causes fights among you?”
–James 4:1a
Yet despite the fact that secularists today claim their
“reasoning” to be superior to biblical revelation, such perspectives entail
serious self-contradictions.[1] Firstly, if everyone is the product of
nothing more than blind processes, then leaders who teach this cannot exempt
themselves. If we are mindless machines,
then they are too! If then, on the basis
of Darwinism, what we call “thoughts” are nothing more than the
electro-chemical interactions, it must also be true that the arguments
secularists advance cannot have any grounding in actual reality. Also, since Darwinism teaches that there is
no such thing as freedom from the unbroken line of material cause and effect
even within our brain, then Darwinist proponents are likewise also mere
impersonal machines who possess no freedom either! As a Darwinist at the time, Dr. Dean Kenyon sought
to undergird this Darwinian position in his book titled, Biochemical
Predestination. Secondly, since
Darwinism denies that humans have the capacity for personal choice, then it is
self-contradictory for Darwinists to either argue for the superiority of their position,
or expect us to change our minds.
In
light of such a sea of contradiction, should it be surprising that secularists
are failing to resolve the problem of violence?
Now they could attempt to counter that Christianity appears no more
successful in addressing this problem.
Yet we may reply to them that the reason the problem is ongoing is that human
beings habitually resist the Lordship of Christ. The bottom line is that the most plausible diagnosis
of the cause of the brokenness of our world is the biblical concept of sin
(James 4:2) described above.
Sin is
no trivial matter. Far from the concept
of sin being outdated, it is so highly relevant as to qualify as our most
urgent need in the transformation of rational (1 John 1:7) thinking. Not only will we all stand before the
judgement of a holy God at the close of this world, but present reality
confronts us with the truth that a life which ignores or disobeys God’s
purposes issues in brokenness at a number of levels. No one at all is exempt from the judgment
that, whether we open our lives to Scripture or ignore God’s revealed Word
altogether, we all are guilty of disobeying what we at bottom know to be true.
When
God sent His Son into the world to die on the cross, He was not delving into
trivialities, but addressing our most profound need of all, namely that we both
have our sins forgiven, and our lives restored back to the One for whom we were
made, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. However,
understanding the problem He came to address is a vital step to being receptive
to the gift He came to bring.
[1]
John West. Darwin Day in America: how our Politics and Culture are Being
Dehumanized in the Name of Science. (ISI Books, 2007). I hasten to
highlight West’s ultimate point that Darwinism is not real science.
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