Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 2:15:48 PM
There is no lack of preachers of unrighteousness, and they would build their kingdom based on autonomous wisdom and the arm of flesh. We commend Mavin Olasky for standing with Noah as a preacher of righteousness.
Re: http://townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2009/08/19/is_social_justice_just_ice
We thank him for addressing the issue of ‘social justice’ from the perspective of what is written in the Hebrew prophets and by the first fruits of the New Covenant Jews, those that Christ called unto Himself to leave His Church the apostolic testimony.
“Why did Jesus Christ not succeed thus far in moving the world to do what He has said?...I come with a practical plan to perform His purposes.” [Woodrow Wilson, 1918; at the beginning of his second term as President]
President Wilson states the liberal view of the kingdom. Jesus Christ is a failure and His promises cannot be trusted. The state is here to implement a ‘practical’ plan to bring in the kingdom of God on earth. Obamaism and the ‘social justice’ gospel is nothing new, just the next step down the wrong path…
With the prevalence of Marxist thinking, it no surprise that there are attempts at a synthesis of Marxism and Christianity. The resulting perversion of the Gospel is called ‘liberation theology’. Obama was schooled in this for 20 years under the likes of Jeremiah Wright. Much of this stuff is built on the concept of Man being basically good, linked with the idea that his great need is to be released from economic chains. This is utopian, because Man is not basically good, bound only by social, economic and political chains. Man is fallen.
The perfectibility of Man was the basis of much of the Enlightenment and of the French Revolution. It was a basis of the Marxist Revolution in Russia. Where this view of Man has been acted on it has led to tragedy, to political chains and to the loss of humanness. Every attempt to put this utopian concept into practice has led to failure because it is based on a false view of Man. He is not intrinsically unselfish, corrupted only by outward circumstances. Man is fallen; he is not what he was created to be. [Schaeffer’s Christian Manifesto]
The perfectibility of Man by human effort is the great lie of autonomous wisdom. It is a denial of the Gospel message; the essential need of Man is to be delivered from his depravity caused by his deadness in sin. God has shown us the way of wisdom, but we have forsaken the eternal wisdom and sought out our own way that leads to destruction, where many have gone before us.