Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Sunday, November 28, 2010 7:56:39 PM
The men of this world have made for themselves many idols and the greatest of these is materialism. If we reduce all things to the realm of the material, then no more will our sin provoke a guilty conscience. If there is no fear of God before our eyes, then we can deny the righteous judgments of God. We can suppress the fossil testimony of the mass destruction of the antediluvian world and turn it into an imaginary record of macro-evolution. We can even date the sedimentary rock layers according to evolution theory and then use the fossils to prove the theory. Circular non-reason is fine as long as we know by presupposition that our theory is truth.
The material man needs no designer for he is fashioned by natural selection; he needs no creator for he owes his existence to the great, unseen principle of abiogenesis; that is, ‘life will find a way’. According to material man, the personal man has come from impersonal matter and energy plus lots of time. And he is sure of it because what he calls science says so.
The genetic information coded in the DNA and decoded in the workings of the living cell does not testify to the attributes of the living God who is infinite, all knowing and all powerful, but tells us that atheistic materialism has finally removed the necessity for God. It can explain all things, even the immaterial things like the conscious mind, logic, antithesis and love as defined in I Corinthians 13 apart from the personal God and Creator. The material man has no need of the supernatural God revealed in the Bible because he has made materialism into a supernatural idol that can cause the immaterial to emerge from the material.
Re: http://townhall.com/columnists/KenConnor/2010/11/28/the_good_life_is_found_in_jesus_christ
No more do we sing Joy to World! the Lord is come. Let earth receive her King. Why will it be more tolerable in the Day of Judgment for Sodom and Gomorrah than for the material man of 21
st century America? What does the apostle mean in 1 Corinthians 10:11
'upon whom the ends of the ages have come'?