And what do we do? I pick up three magazines this afternoon to read then, Newsweek, Time magazine…one of them had some kind of a missing link on the cover. The other one promised on the pages on the inside to show the difference in the brain makeup of a criminal from a normal person, and it had some kind of photographs of some medical analysis of brain patterns. Then the discussion is all about the processes of evolution that lead to or away from that kind of behavior.
Listen, the queen of sciences in our world today, the queen of science, I mean, in the sense of knowledge is naturalistic science. They’re supposed to have all the answers for everything and the fact is they don’t. The governing discipline in the matter of life in the universe at every single point is not science. The governing discipline is theology. The only way you will ever understand the universe, the only way you will ever understand the history of man, the only way you will ever understand behavior and why people do what they do, the only way you will ever understand the flow of life and where we came from and where we’re going is when you understand a true theology…the only way you’ll ever understand it. We cannot then allow our theology to vacate its throne at the beginning of the Bible and take a footstool while science ascends the throne. Science and every other discipline, every other realm or arena or sphere or paradigm of human thought bows to the king of all disciplines and the king of all disciplines is a true theology and a true theology is a theology that comes from the Word of God.
Theologians aren’t respected today. That’s tragic. And in some measure they’re not respected because they’ve jettisoned their position. Theologians aren’t respected who hold their ground because they’re the enemy…there’s a concerted effort to paint them as non-intellectuals, people who are bound up in superstition and fantasy. But every one of you as a Christian, and I am going to elevate you, you don’t even have to take any classes, I’m going to do this to you just…you are all theologians. And I want you to understand what I mean by that. You understand theology. You may not understand every nuance of theology. You may not be able to tell the difference between sublapsarianism, infralapsarianism and a Labrador retriever. You may…I just threw that in. You may not be able to explain the doctrine of the emuzio(??) or every aspect of kenosis. You may not know all the terminology, you may not know all of the ins and outs of every theological concept. But let me tell you something, folks, you are all theologians because you know the true and living God and you know the means by which He is known. And furthermore, you know the Word of the living God which is the substance of all truth in theology.
Give evolution the throne and you make the Bible the servant of man and you court disaster. But the queen of sciences today is natural…naturalism. Everything goes back to it, and naturalism is defined in evolutionary terms. So what rules our whole society is evolution. It’s even gotten into theology to the point now, I am reading a number of different resources lately where the writer is saying, “God Himself is also evolving.” Oh yeah…this is God in process of becoming what He would like to become. So even God has been swept up and God is just another little piece of the evolutionary process. Give evolution the throne and it takes over everything. Give it the throne in the first few verses of the first book of the first page of the Bible and you’ve abdicated at the very outset.
And in a world that evolves, it’s very hard to have any fixed points. That’s why educators today are relativists. They’re basically relativists on everything. You know, you hear all this about we’ve got problems in the schools, and you’ve heard it lately, well what are we going to do?…what are we going to do?…we can’t have kids going shooting up the schools, what are we going to do about this? We’ve got to teach them some standards. We’ve got to teach them some standards.
So, I have a great solution. Just take into every single school the very finest Bible teachers in a given community and let them have the kids every day for a week and just let them teach the Word of God to them. That’s the standard. That’s the absolute standard.
Fat chance. That isn’t going to happen. And until it happens, things are going to get worse cause there are no answers.
What they’re talking about…and when the educators get into this and they say we need help, we’ve got to do something, they use this phrase, “Values clarification.” Values again…what is values clarification mean? Well they…it basically, you know, they’ve got it down to you work hard and you don’t hurt people. Moral reasoning which means I have all the freedoms to do whatever I want but my freedom stops where your nose begins. If I want to go out and beat my head against the wall, and if I want to go out and behave in a certain fashion, that’s fine. But I cannot take a weapon and shoot you because now I’ve invaded your space. So I have to learn to reason morally and know that my freedoms have some moral limitation and the limitation is where by society’s standards I’ve stepped over some line that effects you. By the way, it gets very, very fuzzy and the society is so fuzzy on it they don’t know what to do about it, they’re letting people produce video games, television programs, music, movies that cross the line by miles in creating evil influences in the lives of young people that are as deadly as if somebody put a gun to their head and fired it.
“This article originally appeared here at Bible Bulletin Board.”
