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Please take a moment to read the entire article at the link posted above, before posting to this thread. Thank you!
Hmmmm, Freemasons?
“The university exists because the Church was committed to knowing and believing truth.”
BIG Bingo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Unfortunately, those who are taught today’s revised history have NO knowledge of this.)
“When I accept Theology I may find difficulties, at this point or that, in harmonising it with some particular truths which are imbedded in the mythical cosmology derived from science. But I can get in, or allow for, science as a whole… If, on the other hand, I swallow the scientific cosmology as a whole, then not only can I not fit in Christianity, but I cannot even fit in science. …And this is to me the final test. This is how I distinguish dreaming and waking. When I am awake I can, in some degree, account for and study my dream. . . But while in the nightmare I could not have fitted in my waking experience. The waking world is judged more real because it can thus contain the dreaming world: the dreaming world is judged less real because it cannot contain the waking one. For the same reason I am certain that in passing from the scientific point of view to the theological, I have passed from dream to waking. Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religions. The scientific point of view cannot fit in any of these things, not even science itself. I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else.”
Also self-sufficiency is at the root of unbelief.
If you’re self-sufficient, you don’t need God.
What else was anyone expecting when we kicked God out of the schools and put everything else ahead of Him in our list of personal priorities?
“How many of you would still believe Christianity if you found out tomorrow that Christianity was not true. That is: God never became a man; Jesus did not die for our sin; or, that he did not rise from the dead?”
I assume that by "if you found out ..." means "if it were proved beyond reasonable doubt ...". However, anyone with the slightest knowledge of history, or even a bit of common sense, would realize that's not possible, and therefore would put the questioner to the test, rather than dignifying the absurd premise.
Try to prove that "God never became a man" in any scientific or legal sense of proof. Fail. Historical evidence is pretty strong that the man Christianity identifies as Jesus lived and died, but try to "prove" that He either died for our sins, or did not. Epic fail.
The article makes some good points, but he might have mentioned that one of the problems of American Christianity and of American Christians is their propensity to be polite and tolerant toward those perpetrating blithering nonsense. If only Anoreth or Tom had been in one of the classes the author addressed ...
There are many liberals who would have you believe that Christianity prevents them from being happy on their sin.
Christianity is losing not just America, but the entire West. The most immediate cause is successful subversion by the movement currently known as cultural marxism. These breaches were codified for mainstream Protestants at the Anglican Lambeth Conference of 1930 and for Catholics at the Vatican II Council. Subtle surrenders at these councils gradually sapped the will of the faithful to uphold their respective traditions. The newer Evangelical movement has filled some of the Christian vacuum by combining reclaimed portions of mainstream Protestantism with modern secular Zionism.
The first question is ridicules. It’s called faith for a reason. Although the more faith you have, or allow yourself to have, God reveals himself in a very real way.
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The phenomenon this author describes was written about extensively by Francis Schaeffer over 40 years ago. I highly recommend Schaeffer’s “Trilogy” for any reader. His work “How than shall we live” is probably most accessible to a general audience. Since Schaeffer deals with Christian philosophy there should be nothing objectionable to Cathohlics in most of his writings. Just as Catholic writer Peter Kreeft appeals to many Protestant readers because his works on Christian philosophy avoid doctrinal issues for the most part.