When we choose not to deal with a God, then our minds have to go to work. We need to find ways to convince ourselves that God doesn’t exist or God doesn’t matter.
We have worked on this in our country with some interesting mental gymnastics. In the public square, we attempt to follow a strict Darwinian evolution model, desperately holding on to natural selection and random mutation as the sole mechanisms for the development of life. This position is becoming more and more difficult to defend. Origins of life research (“abiogenesis”) provides an impossible scenario for Darwinian evolution to begin. You see, in order for natural selection and random mutation to work in the first place, you need something to select from; something to mutate. The apparaent necessity of an outside agent of some kind getting the ball rolling is conveniently dismissed as something beyond the scope of discussion.
Those who believe in God may also attempt to delude themselves into following other paths to try to keep themselves at the center of their own universe. They focus on what they want, not what God wants.
One of the interesting attempts to cloud our thinking about God is to deny the validity of God’s Word. Bible scholars will go out of their way to try to show the Bible doesn’t mean what it says it means in order to justify personal desires.
The two most common issues today where contemporary Bible scholars attempt to undo a clear overall message from Scripture is first, supporting sexual fulfillment outside of a male/ female marriage, and second, supporting different paths, other than trust in Jesus, for salvation. In these scenarios you take what position you want to hold and then you try to get the Bible to support your position.
If that isn’t possible, then you simply declare the Bible irrelevant to the matter in question. Bible writers couldn’t comprehend issues we face today like homosexual sexual fulfillment or universal salvation. Yet, this position places one outside of the scope of traditional Christianity anyway, as God is the source of the Bible in the first place, and God is certainly capable of knowing about the situations we face in life today.
Once our choices turn us away from God, then our thinking goes to work. Deceiving ourselves in order to get what we want is not a difficult task. We are experts at it. Self-worship and deception are a great match.
What are some other issues upheld by traditional Christian morality that are being challenged today?
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