Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Saturday, August 29, 2009 2:53:30 PM
Where did all the ladies go? The same place the men went. It’s not that they went anywhere, because we all come from the same place. It’s that fewer are leaving where they came from; I refer to our innate depravity and enmity toward the living God.
The alternative reality gives no reason for righteousness, self denial and the pursuit of virtue, no matter what your politics.
Re: http://townhall.com/columnists/EvaLorraineMolina/2009/08/28/where_have_all_the_ladies_gone
Constitutionalism was born from the view of reality that the self-revealed God has spoken and given finite man a reference to the infinite and absolute; in the Bible man has truth in the areas of morals and law and truth about his origin and condition.
Conservatism is that which seeks to conserve constitutionalism.
Rather than a personal God making man in His image, the alternative view of reality holds to the irrational belief that the personal nature of man originates from the impersonal, whether it be matter or energy, apart from purposeful design.
This view has no basis for truth in the areas of morality or law except what autonomous man thinks is right. It believes that the progress of man is hindered by the constraints put on him by the Bible.
The article uses language to describe the behavior of a conservative that is the same language found in the NT that describes the behavior of a Christian. This behavior requires a change of heart ‘for out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man…’ [Proverbs 4:22, Matthew 15:19].
Conservatism has no power to change who we are. That depends on Biblical Christianity. The power of the Gospel is the only thing that can reform the heart. Not all conservatives are Christians, but Biblical Christianity is the theological base for constitutionalism. That’s why it’s under attack. The new reality has no interest in the rule of law that constrains the depravity of men.