There Is A Right Way To Go And Wrong Way To Avoid

Proverbs 14:12: "There is a way that appears to be right to a man, but in the end, it leads to death."

Why have morality and freedoms crumbled in our society? There is little serious debate that morals have not crumbled either. The answer is multi-facility and I will attempt to broach the most compelling one for a Christian.

1 Peter 3:15 But in your hearts revere Christ as LORD. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,

In the Greek "defend" or "give an answer" is a command by Peter to every Christian who must be ready to give an instant answer for the hope each has in what the Lord Jesus Christ has done in their life.

The more you tell others about your faith the easier it will be to defend your faith. Learn from your mistakes, we all make them. Please read the following with an attitude of learning more about the problem you face and use it to help you defend your faith.

Paul told Timothy, "I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.” 2 Timothy 1.12

There are fundamentally only two worldviews from which all other views originate. When we say worldview we are saying "a fundamental overall way people think and view the world and life as a whole."

We each are guilty of myopic vision and "preconceived notions" where we observe things in bits and pieces instead of their totality. This can be a mixture of what we were taught by parents and educators, and what we have been exposed to in our own life.

It should be easy for the body of Jesus Christ to see the extreme sins of permissiveness, pornography - printed and on the internet, the decline of results in public schools, the breakdown of families, and abortion that fills our land.

Many Christians stand by idly and may even participate in the ills of the world. It should never be. We Christians are not of this world but are in the world for a purpose. We are to be the light of the world.

If we took it seriously even on a local level we would be banding together to fight the results of Satan's work right before our eyes. I believe we see our world in part instead of seeing events as a much larger and more critical problem because of shortsightedness.

Dr. Chuck Missler states, "Jesus, not His enemies set the time of His execution. This was a destiny established before the foundation of the world." The problem we each face stems from a failure to understand the facts in our society as a whole. There has been a shift in the average individuals' worldview.

Recall, I am using the term worldview "as a fundamental change in the overall way people think and view the world and life as a whole." Paul, the Apostle, said "Where is the philosopher? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of the age? Has not God make the world's wisdom foolish?" (1 Corinthians 1.20)

There has been a change away from a worldview that was ambiguously Christian where many viewed the world around them in a somewhat Biblical view, even if they were not individually Christian as of yet.

The transition to a worldview away from a Godly one was slow and subtle to a worldview based on the idea that the ultimate reality is an impersonal matter or energy formed by mere chance.

Christians must realize these two worldviews are in total antithesis (exact opposite) to each other in both substance and natural results. This shift away from a Godly worldview involves in part:

1. Social Trending
2. Governmental,
3. Educational,
4. The Entertainment conglomerate,
5. Down the street,
6. and the Courts adjudicating the very laws of the land.

There are only two World Views

1) Everything is the result of some cosmic accident, OR,

2) We are the result of deliberate design by a most generous Designer

Paul continues by says, "God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength." (1st Corinthians 1.25)

Morality and Christian freedoms have crumbled in our society. The moral decay pervades the land with corruption existing everywhere. From homes down the street, the local school, to the highest levels of government people fail to exhibit even the most elementary ethical conduct.

The entertainment industry openly flaunts everything evil that is both contrary to morality and our Judeo-Christian heritage and values which God has established for our personal welfare.

Let me state upfront that I realize that since time began there has been an unseen war going on between God, Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit, and a fallen angel named Lucifer. However, this article attempts to trace how this unseen war played out in people who shaped the world we live within and the lines of battle in our day.

Please read the entire article and take the time to give me your comments based on the sheer material. Thank you and God's blessings.

Judges openly ignore the law and engage in social engineering, called legislation by adjudication, freedom never intended for the Judicial branch of government. The President and lawmakers spend more money than produced through taxes recklessly year after year throwing the country further into financial oblivion.

Leftist and atheist educators have taught godlessness without regard to the consequences. There must begin a massive movement in government, law, education and all other aspects of life re-establishing the Judeo-Christian foundation intended by the U.S. Constitution.

The United States will again be permitted by God to gain prominence in the world that abhors us. What I am proposing is a call for every Christian to change the course of history by a return to the truth of the Word of God lived out in love whatever you do.

It must start with each of us allowing Jesus Christ to be both Lord and Savior in our lives. His Lordship should be resonant with anyone who calls themselves Christian. Our God is bigger than the problems occurring in our lives.

It was Peter and John standing before the Sanhedrin, the oppressive and authoritarian civil and church power of their day, who made a statement we each must be willing to make ourselves.

Peter said, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to obey you rather than God.” (NKJV Acts 4.19) Are you willing to do the same? It comes down to who is in control, is it the illusion we live within or is it God who is in control? Just because it is legal by human law does not make it legal with God.

Recently and regrettably, the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage on the 26th day of June 2015. The United States had stepped over the line long ago, and this decision abridges not only the U.S. Constitution but also and more importantly the Word of God. It is time for Christians to stand together and scream the name of God, His Son and our King, Jesus Christ. We are not going to take it anymore. Lethargy is not what a Christian should be experiencing.

Notwithstanding the importance of the ever-evolving underpinnings of secular Humanist beliefs, you will find the atheistic worldview in and of itself has had a frightening effect on the moral and ethical values of our culture, leaving America awash in cultural and ethical relativism. (see Beckwith and Koukl, Relativism, Feet Firmly Planted)

Instead of right or wrong, everything and situation is relative. That is the world the Christian of submission to Jesus Christ finds themselves within.

The Humanist Religion

Their view of the world stated above in this article is clearly defined. Carl Sagan said the same previously when he opened the long-running show Cosmos, “The cosmos is all that is or ever will be.”

In any battle the, front lines are the place to fight, and this is surely the same in our culture. This fight is for what is the "truth". For example, who created the earth and all that is in it. They say it all happened by mere chance while we say it was all created by God.

All three versions of the Humanist Manifesto as defined by the U.S. Supreme Court as a religion contain atheistic dogma. Those that participate under the Manifesto are not humanists. Jesus Christ was a real humanist who really cared about His fellow mankind He created.

Torcaso vs. Watkins in 1961 marks a dividing line that now includes theistic religions, and other nontheistic religions. Purely materialistic humanism is a religion equally equated to any other.

In 1965 in the United States versus Seeger, the US Supreme Court upheld the test of faith belief is “a sincere and meaningful belief that occupies in the life of its possessor a place parallel to that filled by God of those admittedly qualifying for the exemption.”

We live in a republic born out of the Judeo-Christian ethic. However, our children are forced to feed humanism, or a godless society, by schools and universities all over the United States.

Christians are going to have to use their constitutionally guaranteed rights to protest this as long as we still have the right. Our culture, society in general, the government, and the law are in the condition they are because of an organized effort by those that practice godlessness devoid of Christian principles.

We are in the shape we are in because the Church has forsaken its God-given duty and privilege as the salt of the earth. Public television and radio have in the past on taxpayer monies promoted a godless and atheistic point of view while staunchly refusing to air the opposite view against humanism, the loss of school prayer, and legalization of abortion as a form of birth control, etc.

Commercial television is highly creative in painting religion in a negative light while promoting the humanist religion without God in a most positive light. Charles Peters once said, “The media, instead of exposing the “make-believe” of the federal government, are “part of the show."

The late and respected Walter Cronkite once quipped, “The solution is to limit somehow television’s power to use its bias in the “the editorial” reporting of events, and most specifically to keep it from shaping the political process.” (Schaeffer p. 239)

Christians must be especially careful and use the discretion of what one reads, and what you view on television. Christians must learn to draw a definitive line between the two antithetical worldviews and avoid the godless Humanistic worldview entirely.

This separation is the only way to reestablish the Judeo-Christian ethic in the United States. Whether you are an evangelical Christian or mainline the Lordship of Jesus Christ across the spectrum of life is a must not an option.

The worst thing that can happen is silence, which amounts to nothing.

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You find the dandiest quotes in the strangest books. Such is the case of Russian novelist Alexandar Solzhenitsyn who points to the danger and weakness of the humanistic plan for humanity. He states:

"There is a danger which has already been underway for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness. If Humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to die, his task on earth evidently must be more spiritual." (Solzhenitsyn p. 310)

Despite the wisdom of Solzhenitsyn, Humanism proceeds unabated. It is in the education systems, government and their laws, and even the church. We must understand that what they offer is essentially their religious alternative to the Christian faith.

Its central core belief being the Humanist worldview ignores and hates the reality of God. As born-again Christian, we can ill-afford to stand by and do nothing. Atheist religious beliefs have infected institutional strongholds in America and are firmly entrenched.

The government, Socialism, Religion, and Education are all strongholds of Humanism and public conscience. Make no doubt about it. Jesus Christ stood right in the face of the religious Humanism of His time and did not adhere to their rules.

Just as insidious as the Humanist are, equally, a dominant worldview is Islam. Serge Trifkovic says, "Islam is not only a religious doctrine; it is also a self-contained world outlook and a way of life that claims the primary allegiance of all those calling themselves Muslim."

He continues, "A Muslim is first and foremost the citizen of Islam, and belongs morally, spiritually, and in principle totally to the world of belief of which Mohammad is the Prophet, and Mecca is the capital." (Trifovic, p. 7)

I believe that Islam may be the religion of the Anti-Christ. In another post, I will contrast the Islamic worldview against Christianity. I think you will find the differences provocative, Until then, God's blessings, and I hope you learn from these articles. I write these to provoke thought and encourage your research on the topics.

There comes a time to do something about the way things are or just shut up and let the liberals and atheist take over the media, schools, universities, the government, and the church. The American Revelution is an example. Please read the article and consider what your part in the process will be. God's people have been silent far too long.