Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:16:37 PM
The elephant in the room…evolution and hyper-antinomianism
Thanks to Mr. Rohrbough for standing up and confronting the culture. He speaks the truth that everybody knows, but will not say. Suppressing the knowledge of God in favor of irrational naturalism leads inevitably to foolishness and hyper-antinomianism or lawlessness.
Look at the words of Brian Rohrbough aired on the free speech segment of ABC news …
“I'm saddened and shaken by the shooting at an Amish school today, and last week’s school murders.
When my son Dan was murdered on the sidewalk at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, I hoped that would be the last school shooting. Since that day, I’ve tried to answer the question, "Why did this happen?"
This country is in a moral free-fall. For over two generations, the public school system has taught in a moral vacuum, expelling God from the school and from the government, replacing him with evolution, where the strong kill the weak, without moral consequences and life has no inherent value.
We teach there are no absolutes, no right or wrong. And I assure you the murder of innocent children is always wrong, including by abortion. Abortion has diminished the value of children.
Suicide has become an acceptable action and has further emboldened these criminals. And we are seeing an epidemic increase in murder-suicide attacks on our children.
Sadly, our schools are not safe. In fact, we now witness that within our schools. Our children have become a target of terrorists from within the United States.”
Secularism has no foundation and will not stand because it has a fatally flawed view of man. The founders understood that the fallen nature of man must be restrained in order for a free society to exist. The necessary restraint came from the gospel. In Biblical Christianity the greatest principles for subduing our innate depravity are revealed in saving grace and common grace. All Americans were not Christians. Common grace worked out as a consensus that the words of Christ were trustworthy, and that the freedoms we share are built on the foundation of His words.
In our day the problem of our nature is aggravated by making accuses for man’s cruelty. We blame everything else except our fallen nature. However, the elephant in the room is the vain philosophy of evolution. Those who advocate this belief admit that evolution makes no moral judgments. Its ethic is that there are no ethics. Depravity is freed of all restraint.
Those who use the freedoms derived from the Biblical world view to tear down the foundations of freedom are of all men most foolish. The Scriptures speak clearly that all men can see the Creator in the created cosmos. When men suppress this knowledge they are without excuse. They are blinded by their folly and given up to lawlessness. They pretend that there is no God. The Scriptures have revealed them in graphic detail, but seeing they will not see and hearing they will not hear for these things are of faith…
“The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man…” [Romans 1:18-23]