Month: June 2017
God gave us rational powers, and a duty to use them.
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought. But if God in whom they believe created them with intellectual and rational powers, that imposes upon them the duty to try to understand the creed of their religion. Not to do so is to verge on superstition.
– Mortimer J. Adler
The Problem with Non-Judgmentalism – Crisis Magazine
It took but a few decades for the law written on the human heart, engraved on stone, and honored for millennia to be largely lost on the collective conscience. Today, instead of the Ten Commandments, there is one: “Thou shalt not judge.”Oddly, in a time when the concept of “sin” has also lost its purchase, a person called out for judging will become a social outcast until his “guilt” is purged by the penances of public apology, diversity/sensitivity training, and reparation to the offended. Even among Christians, judging the behaviors and lifestyles of others is considered unseemly at best and unchristian at worst.
Read more at: The Problem with Non-Judgmentalism – Crisis Magazine
The Soft Atheism of Low Expectations
Love rejoices in Truth, and doesn’t tolerate lies!
1 Corinthians 13
6 Love finds no joy in unrighteousness
but rejoices in the truth.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
There are many who believe that as long as they have love, nothing else matters, but that is not the end of it according to God. God believes in truth. It isn’t love to let people believe lies. It breaks my heart to know that so many people who say they are Christians, are willing to let people believe a totally different Gospel, without at least showing them the truth!
Galatians 1
6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
God is not happy when people believe lies about him, or his salvation!
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