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North Stonington Bible Church
Labor Day ConferenceSeptember 2016
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“That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hope and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruin—all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy that rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built.” Bertrand Russell, “A Free Man’s Religion” (1903) essay in Mysticism and Logic (1917) pg. 45-46
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Molds of Culture Since 1600—Part 1
Reformation: faith alone in Christ alone [1600s]
Enlightenment: reason alone in Man alone [1700s]
Romanticism: personal experience and feelings alone in Man alone [1800s]
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Molds of Culture Since 1600—Part 2
Romanticism: personal experience and feelings alone in Man alone [1800s]
Existentialism (modern): self alone [1900s]
Existentialism (post-modern): social group alone [post 1960s]
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Today’s University Students
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“Our culture has replaced self-discovery with self-construction. Everybody is expected to create and manage his or her own identity. Personal achievement thus becomes the main means of justifying one’s existence. The pressure that this mindset creates is devastating. . . . Most students . . . are desperate to find a purpose beyond their own meager hopes and wishes.”RZIM Team Member, University of Massachusetts, 2016
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Today’s Successful Christian Students
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1. “Know what they believe, and they know why they believe. Their worldview is big enough for the world. . . .
2. They choose their community based on others who have a biblical worldview. They surround themselves with people who have a common coherent vision for life in the world. . . .”
Steven Garber, The Fabric Faithfulness
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1. Unfamiliarity with the flow of biblical revelation in history
2. Piecemeal use of Bible doctrine
3. Bifurcation of reason and historical experience
From Whence the Framework Approach?
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“This essay explores the choice many traditionalist Christian parents (both fundamentalist and evangelical) make to leave public schools in order to teach their children at home, thus in most instances escaping meaningful oversight. . . . Society need not and should not tolerate the inculcation of absolutist views that undermine toleration of difference. . . . If a parent subscribes to an absolutist belief system premised on the notion that it was handed down by a creator, that it (like the Ten Commandments) is etched in stone and that all other systems are wrong, the essential lessons of a civic education. . . . often seem deeply challenging and suspect. . . . Such ‘private truths’ have no place in the public arena, including the public schools.”Catherine Ross, “Fundamentalist Challenges to Core Democratic Values: Exit and Homeschooling”, William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal 18 (May 2010) (She is professor at George Washington Law School)
Secular Legal Hostility to Biblical Faith
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[There must be legal and constitutional limits on the ability of homeschooling parents “to teach their children idiosyncratic and illiberal beliefs and values”. . . [Government control must be exercised against] “parents [who] want to teach against the enlightenment. . . .Parental control over children’s basic education flows from the state (rather than visa versa). States delegate power over children’s basic education to parents. . . .”Kimberly A. Yurako, “Education Off the Grid …”, California Law Review 96 (February 2008) (She is a professor at the Northwestern University School of Law)
Secular Legal Hostility to Biblical Faith
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John Dewey on Christianity & Democracy
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“I cannot understand how any realization of the democratic ideal as a vital moral and spiritual ideal in human affairs is possible without the surrender of the conception of the basic division to which supernatural Christianity is committed.” [A Common Faith, pg. 84)
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Shall I Bow to My Creator?• YES!
– ancient monotheism
– ancient Israel– Bible– fundamentalism
• CREATOR/creature– God || man |
nature– everlasting
distinctions• PERSONAL
SOVEREIGN– ultimate
responsibility
• NO!– ancient myths– eastern religions– western philosophy– modern theology
• Continuity of Being– nature > gods >
man– transmutation /
evolution • IMPERSONAL
FATE & CHANCE– ultimate
victimization
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Deductions
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Limits of Empirical Knowledge
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BUT the scientific method requires special
additions (worldview-dependent conjectures)
in order to penetrate unobservable past &
future domains
Man created to have dominion over nature starting with the correspondence God created
between many of man’s empirically-based conceptions
and nature’s design
Direct Observation
Historical Testimony
Instruments
Reconstructed from Julio Garrido, “The Theory of Evolution and the Limitation of Human Knowledge,” CRSQ, March 1970, Vol 6, pp. 185-187
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A Candle “Clock”
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Lo – [L/t] * T = Lm
Starting length (in)
Burn rate (in/hr)
Burn duration (hr)
Measured length now (in)
[Lo – Lm] [L/t]
= T
Solving for burn duration. . .
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The New Physics
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Since, when we look out into the cosmos, we are looking back in time, due to the finite speed of light, we are then looking at the events of Day 4 as they are actually happening. . . . We are seeing the after-effects of [the expansion of the universe]. . . . The very rapid acceleration of the cosmos during Day 4 of Creation Week caused Earth clocks to run very slowly compared to cosmic clocks. This, then, provides the massive time dilation needed to allow light to travel the vast distances of the universe, even billions of light-years in a matter of days—as measured by Earth clocks.
John Hartnett, Starlight, Time and the New Physics (Creation Ministries International, 2007)
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Molds of Culture Since 1600—Part 2
Romanticism: personal experience and feelings alone in Man alone [1800s]
Existentialism (modern): self alone [1900s]
Existentialism (post-modern): social group alone [post 1960s]
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Worshipping Nature in NYC
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Why Greens Hate Christianity – Part 1
“Many modern greens loathe the Judeo-Christian worldview and the western cultural superstructure built on its foundations. . . . [They] believe the biblical command to subdue and fill the earth is the primary reason why the present day planet lies in ecological ruin. . . .”
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Why Greens Hate Christianity – Part 2
“Christianity, in absolute contrast to ancient paganism and Asia’s religions, not only established a dualism of man and nature but also insisted that it is God’s will that man exploit nature for his proper ends.”
Lynn White, Science, March 10, 1967, 1205
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More CO2 for a Greener Planet!
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Otto Edenhofer, UN IPCC
“One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. . . . One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.”
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Molds of Culture Since 1600—Part 1
Reformation: faith alone in Christ alone [1600s]
Enlightenment: reason alone in Man alone [1700s]
Romanticism: personal experience and feelings alone in Man alone [1800s]
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Molds of Culture Since 1600—Part 2
Romanticism: personal experience and feelings alone in Man alone [1800s]
Existentialism (modern): self alone [1900s]
Existentialism (post-modern): social group alone [post 1960s]
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The “Mold’s” Suppression of Worship of God
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Personal Creator
Nature is all there is
Eternality Deep timeOmnipresence Impersonal universeOmnipotence All-powerful NatureSovereignty Fatalism & hyper-regulatory
stateLove Sentimental deity & total
dependency upon other people’s love
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Shall I Bow to My Creator?• YES!
– ancient monotheism
– ancient Israel– Bible– fundamentalism
• CREATOR/creature– God || man |
nature– everlasting
distinctions• PERSONAL
SOVEREIGN– ultimate
responsibility
• NO!– ancient myths– eastern religions– western philosophy– modern theology
• Continuity of Being– nature > gods >
man– transmutation /
evolution • IMPERSONAL
FATE & CHANCE– ultimate
victimization
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Environmentalists’ Hatred for Man as Special Creation
Ingrid Newkirk, President of PETA: “A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.”
Peter Singer, Ethics Professor at Princeton: “The Judeo-Christian religious tradition is our foe.”
Prince Phillip of England, President Emeritus of the World Wide Fund for Nature: “In the event I’m reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.”
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Environmentalists’ Hatred for the Whole of Judeo-Christianity
“To the modern environmentalist, the Judeo-Christian worldview is an anti-natural religion. It’s emphasis upon transcendentalism over holism, freedom of private property over collective ownership, shepherding and farm life over wilderness romanticism, domesticated animals over wild animals, and sacrificial lambs over animal rights, is all directly counter to modern environmentalism’s romantic ideals.”
Mark Musser, Nazi Oaks, p 94.
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Molds of Culture Since 1600—Part 2
Romanticism: personal experience and feelings alone in Man alone [1800s]
Existentialism (modern): self alone [1900s]
Existentialism (post-modern): social group alone [post 1960s]
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Today’s University Students
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“Our culture has replaced self-discovery with self-construction. Everybody is expected to create and manage his or her own identity. Personal achievement thus becomes the main means of justifying one’s existence. The pressure that this mindset creates is devastating. . . . Most students . . . are desperate to find a purpose beyond their own meager hopes and wishes.”RZIM Team Member, University of Massachusetts, 2016
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Sigmund Freud 1856–1939
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The concept of sexual orientation was first used by Freud, and its effect, if not intent, was to radically resituate sexuality from its biblical/creational context to something completely new: the foundational drive that determines and defines human identity. . . .By defining humanity according to sexual
desires and segregating it according to its gendered object, Freud was—intentionally or not—suppressing the biblical category of being made in God’s image, male and female, and replacing it with the psychoanalytic category of sexual identity. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, Openness Unhindered, p 94f
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The Conflict Over Creation Revelation
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Authoritative Doctrine of God, Man, Nature
God’s essence
The Natural environment
Man’s rightful relation to the environment under God
The elitist “mold” of this era
deep time
low-power processes
impersonal cosmos
adaptation enlarged
Man – a product & servant of Nature
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The Conflict Over Fall & Flood Revelation
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Authoritative Doctrine of Sin & Judgment upon Man & Nature
Sin consequences for man & nature under him
Both man & nature now abnormal
The elitist “mold” of this era
‘good’ & ‘evil’ are normal
Bible is bad for nature
Identity correctly inferred from feelings
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The “Mold’s” Suppression of Worship of God
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Personal Creator
Nature is all there is
Eternality Deep timeOmnipresence Impersonal universeOmnipotence All-powerful NatureSovereignty Fatalism & hyper-regulatory
stateLove Loveless Nature so total
dependency upon other people’s love
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The “Mold’s” Additional Suppression of Worship of God
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Personal Creator
Nature is all there is
Righteousness Humans are not “fallen” & can have ethical opinions
Justice The notion of “justice” springs from human feelings of anger over what is sensed as real wrongs (!)
Omniscience Sexual and other feelings tell us our identity
Immutability Chaotic transformations
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Human Mitchondrial DNA Sequence Nodes
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mtDNA origins trace back to 3 nodes
# D mtDNA pre-node 1660 yrs# D mtDNA post-node 4500 yrs
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1563 Painting of the Tower of Babel
(by Peter Broughel)
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1999 EU Parliament (Louise Weiss) Building
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EU Statue of Goddess Europa (Schuman Square, Brussels)
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The Only Source of a Justifiable Plan of Historical Progression:
The Bible!CREATOR & REDEEMER
Contract #1
“Only the Hebrews, so far as we know, made covenants with their gods or God.” W.F. Albright, Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan.
Consistent contract stipulations throughout time
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Israel’s Unique Long Line of Prophets
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“What makes the history of Israelite prophecy sui generis is the succession of apostles of God that come to the people through the ages. Such a line of apostle-prophets is unknown in paganism. . . . [The pagan prophet] incorporated a unique, self-contained divine power; there his ‘mission’ ended with him.”Yehezkel Kaufmann, The Religion of Israel, p. 212
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Progressive “Borrowing” of the Millennial Hope
“We need a restoration of the millennial hope which the Catholic Church dropped out of eschatology. It was crude in its form but wholly right in its substance. . . . We hope for such an order for humanity as we hope for heaven for ourselves.”
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The Kingdom of Man Vision Today
“We are in the midst of the worldwide rise of a non-religious chiliastic movement, announcing global human renewal and predicting planetary catastrophe as it woeful alternative. . . . [This myth says] that it is possible now, amid present corruption and degradation to build a glorious New Rome.”
Ernest Sternberg, “Purifying the World: What the New Radical Ideology Stands For,” Orbis (Winter 2010)
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The “Mold’s” Suppression of Worship of God
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Personal Creator
Nature is all there is(creation)
Eternality Deep timeOmnipresence Impersonal iniverseOmnipotence All-powerful NatureSovereignty Fatalism & hyper-regulatory
stateLove Loveless Nature so total
dependency upon other people’s love
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The “Mold’s” Additional Suppression of Worship of God
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Personal Creator
Nature is all there is(fall & flood)
Righteousness Humans are not “fallen” & can have ethical opinions
Justice The notion of “justice” springs from human feelings of anger over what is sensed as real wrongs (!)
Omniscience Sexual and other feelings tell us our identity
Immutability Chaotic transformations
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The “Mold’s” Substitution of Man’s Works for God’s
Prophetic Plan
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God’s plan for social redemption
Man’s plan for social redemption
Goal of the Millennial Kingdom
Man will finish what Babel started
Goal of the Eternal State
No hope for a resurrected, eternal separation of good and evil
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Man as His Ultimate Authority
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God’s Verbal & Non-Verbal Revelation
His invisible attributes are clearly seen so theyare without excuse!
Although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God ... But became futile in their thoughts ... Professing to be wise, they became fools!
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Framework Scheme – Gen. 1–11
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CREATION FALL FLOOD COVENANT
God, Man, Nature
Evil, Sin
JudgmentSalvation
Social & EnvironmentalPreservation
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Framework Scheme – Gen. 12 to Ex. 20
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CALL of ABRAHAM EXODUS MT. SINAI
Clash of God’s counter-culture with the paganized Noahic culture
Election, Justification
JudgmentSalvation
Ethics, Justice
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1. Unfamiliarity with the flow of biblical revelation in history
2. Piecemeal use of Bible doctrine
3. Bifurcation of reason and historical experience
From Whence the Framework Approach?
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The Pagan State
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“[Pharaoh] was the fountainhead of all authority, all power, and all wealth. The famous saying of Louis XIV, l'etat c'est moi, was levity and presumption when it was uttered, but could have been offered by Pharaoh as a statement of fact in which his subjects concurred. It would have summed up adequately [Egyptian] political philosophy.”Henri Frankfort, Ancient Egyptian Religion (Harper & Roe Publishers, 1948) 31
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“Wherever a society has a naturalistic religion, grounded on the concept of continuity, man faces the total power of the state. . . . Where there is no transcendental law and power in a separate and omnipotent being, then power has a wholly immanent and immediate source in a state, group, or person, and it is beyond appeal. The state becomes the saving power and the source of law. . . . [It] becomes god walking on earth. . . .” Rousas Rushdoony, The One and the Many (Craig Press, 1971) 60-61
The Pagan State
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Lady FAITH holds a Bible in her left hand and points to heaven with her right hand
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Man LAW pointing to a tablet held in his left hand as the source of law
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Lady EDUCATION pointing to a Bible held in her left hand
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Chiastic Structure ( C )
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5:6–10 God alone is worthy of worship and service5:11 Accuracy in language about God
5:12–15 Management of labor and property 5:16 Society depends upon functional
marriage & family5:17 Life is to be respected &
preserved5:18 Marriage is to be protected
5:19 Property is to be protected5:20 Accuracy in language of judicial proceedings
5:21 Self is not worthy of worship and service
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God’s Design of SocietyLIFE (protected) LIFE (jeopardized)
MARRIAGE & FAMILY (strong & functioning)
MARRIAGE & FAMILY (weak & dysfunctional)
LABOR & PROPERTY (respected & productive)
LABOR & PROPERTY (demeaned & wasted)
INTEGRITY of COMMUNICATION (consistently states truth )
INTEGRITY of COMMUNICATION
(deceitfully professes truth for agendas)
HEART ALLEGIANCE (to God)
HEART ALLEGIANCE (to self)
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Molds of Culture Dince 1600—Part 2
Romanticism: personal experience and feelings alone in Man alone [1800s]
Existentialism (modern): Self alone [1900s]
Existentialism (post-modern): social group alone [post 1960s]
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1. All knowledge is derived from empirically-sensed reality.
2. Religious ideas concern extra-sensory reality (God’s existence).
3. Therefore all religious ideas are mere private speculations.
4. Therefore no religious idea can claim to be true knowledge.
5. Therefore no religious idea can claim superiority over all other religious ideas.
The Anti-Exclusivity “Argument”
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“This essay explores the choice many traditionalist Christian parents (both fundamentalist and evangelical) make to leave public schools in order to teach their children at home, thus in most instances escaping meaningful oversight. . . . Society need not and should not tolerate the inculcation of absolutist views that undermine toleration of difference. . . . If a parent subscribes to an absolutist belief system premised on the notion that it was handed down by a creator, that it (like the Ten Commandments) is etched in stone and that all other systems are wrong, the essential lessons of a civic education. . . . often seem deeply challenging and suspect. . . . Such ‘private truths’ have no place in the public arena, including the public schools.”Catherine Ross, “Fundamentalist Challenges to Core Democratic Values: Exit and Homeschooling”, William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal 18 (May 2010) (She is professor at George Washington Law School)
Secular Legal Hostility to Biblical Faith
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Non-Biblical Answers to:“Who Are You to Tell Me How to
Live?”1. Subjectivism (moral relativism): “Ethical judgments merely express an individual’s emotions or attitudes toward an action.”
Arguments for:Circumstances & generation differ from person to personIntolerant to impose one’s values on othersTwo persons’ conflicting judgments can both be true because
they both accurately reflect the individual attitudes
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1. Subjectivism (moral relativism): “Ethical judgments merely express an individual’s emotions or attitudes toward an action.”
Problems with:Says nothing about actions themselves, only
autobiographical expressions lacking basis for moral outrage over evil actions
Self-refuting since every person inevitably judges others’ actions (especially toward himself or herself)
Resulting anarchy leads to totalitarian imposition of the judgments of the stronger against the weaker to avoid social chaos
Non-Biblical Answers to:“Who Are You to Tell Me How to
Live?”
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The Nuremberg Dilemma – 1946
“As an International Military Tribunal, it rises above the provincial and transient and seeks guidance not only from international law but also from the basic principles of jurisprudence which are assumptions of civilization and which long have found embodiment in the codes of all nations.”
Summation for Prosecution, Robert Jackson, July 26, 1946
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Man as His Ultimate Authority
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God’s Verbal & Non-Verbal Revelation
His invisible attributes are clearly seen so theyare without excuse!
Although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God ... But became futile in their thoughts ... Professing to be wise, they became fools!
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The “Mold’s” Suppression of Worship of God
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Personal Creator
Nature is all there is(creation)
Eternality Deep timeOmnipresence Impersonal universeOmnipotence All-powerful NatureSovereignty Fatalism & hyper-regulatory
stateLove Loveless Nature so total
dependency upon other people’s love
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The “Mold’s” Additional Suppression of Worship of God
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Personal Creator
Nature is all there is(fall & flood)
Righteousness Humans are not “fallen” & can have ethical opinions
Justice The notion of “justice” springs from human feelings of anger over what is sensed as real wrongs (!)
Omniscience Sexual and other feelings tell us our identity
Immutability Chaotic transformations
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Personal Judge
Man is his own standard(Mt. Sinai)
Righteousness Humans are not “fallen,” can have ethical opinions, & can corporately order society with them
Justice The notion of “justice” springs from human feelings of anger over what is sensed as real wrongs & can make laws to secure justice
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The “Mold’s” Substitution of Man’s Works for God’s
Prophetic Plan
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God’s plan for social redemption
Man’s plan for social redemption
Goal of the Millennial Kingdom
Man will finish what Babel started
Goal of the Eternal State
No hope for a resurrected, eternal separation of good and evil
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Our Moment-by-Moment Choice!
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As Soon As Possible
Or
Always Stop And Pray??
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“That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hope and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruin—all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy that rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built.” Bertrand Russell, “A Free Man’s Religion” (1903) essay in Mysticism and Logic (1917) pg. 45-46
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Today’s University Students
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“Our culture has replaced self-discovery with self-construction. Everybody is expected to create and manage his or her own identity. Personal achievement thus becomes the main means of justifying one’s existence. The pressure that this mindset creates is devastating. . . . Most students. . . . are desperate to find a purpose beyond their own meager hopes and wishes.”RZIM Team Member, University of Massachusetts, 2016
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Personal Creator
Nature is all there is(creation)
Eternality Deep timeOmnipresence Impersonal universeOmnipotence All-powerful NatureSovereignty Fatalism & hyper-regulatory
stateLove Loveless Nature so total
dependency upon other people’s love
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Personal Creator
Nature is all there is(fall & flood)
Righteousness Humans are not “fallen” & can have ethical opinions
Justice The notion of “justice” springs from human feelings of anger over what is sensed as real wrongs (!)
Omniscience Sexual and other feelings tell us our identity
Immutability Chaotic transformations
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Personal Judge
Man is his own standard(Mt. Sinai)
Righteousness Humans are not “fallen,” can have ethical opinions, & can corporately order society with them
Justice The notion of “justice” springs from human feelings of anger over what is sensed as real wrongs & can make laws to secure justice
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The “Mold’s” Substitution of Man’s Works for God’s
Prophetic Plan
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God’s plan for social redemption
Man’s plan for social redemption
Goal of the Millennial Kingdom
Man will finish what Babel started
Goal of the Eternal State
No hope for a resurrected, eternal separation of good and evil
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Call of Abraham: revealed contractSinai: revealed contract Prophets’ contract follow-
upHistory of Jews from 2000 BC to 586 BC
Specific prophecies of the Ideal Leader/ Messiah
Birth of the King: Hypostatic union
Life of the King: revelation, infallibility
Interconnecting “Nodes” in the Framework
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Creation: God, man, nature geology, dating, archeology