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The way I see it Christianity provides the best answers to the four basic questions of existence.
1.Who am I?
Am I an accident? A mistake? A glorified ape at best? That’s it. No rhyme. No reason. No ultimate purpose.
OR
Am I the crowning glory of the creation of God? The Bible says He knit me together in my mother’s womb. I am no accident. So whether I am tall and beautiful or small and not so handsome, whether my body functions perfectly or is deformed severely, I am the crowning glory of the creation of God, and as a result I have inherent dignity, worth, and value. The biblical view cannot comprehend ideas like racism, classism, or eugenics.
2.Why am I here?
You’re here to consume and enjoy. Get all you can. Can all you get. Sit on the can. That’s why you’re here. That’s the only thing that matters.
When you put consumption and pleasure together, you get terrible results. If I have no rhyme or reason for my existence—if I am no more than the result of random evolutionary processes and I exist only to consume and enjoy, the only things that matter are whether I’m more powerful than you are and whether you have something I want for my enjoyment. If so, then it is okay for me to take from you whatever I desire for my own satisfaction.
OR
On the other hand I am not just here to consume and enjoy, but to bring glory and honor to the God that created me.
3.What is wrong with the world?
People are either insufficiently educated or insufficiently governed. People either don’t know enough, or they aren’t being watched enough.
OR
The problem isn’t “out there” somewhere; the problem with the world is me. The problem is that I start with myself as the measure of all things. What is wrong with the world? Me. I don’t do what I was meant to do.
4.How can what is wrong be made right?
More education. More government. That’s the only answer our culture can propose. How do we combat AIDS? AIDS Awareness. How do we combat racism? Anti-hate classes. What about the man who beats his wife? Anger management classes. Just give people more information, and everything will be fine.
But if you take a sinful, murderous human being and educate that individual, he merely becomes more sophisticated in his ability to destroy. The world is far more educated today than it was during World War I. So how are we doing? Are we seeing fewer wars? No. Just more sophisticated killing techniques.
OR
The spotless, sinless, Lamb of God is crushed, rejected, and killed to pay a debt that He did not owe on behalf of sinners who could never pay Him back. Thus there is always hope.
1.Who am I?
Am I an accident? A mistake? A glorified ape at best? That’s it. No rhyme. No reason. No ultimate purpose.
OR
Am I the crowning glory of the creation of God? The Bible says He knit me together in my mother’s womb. I am no accident. So whether I am tall and beautiful or small and not so handsome, whether my body functions perfectly or is deformed severely, I am the crowning glory of the creation of God, and as a result I have inherent dignity, worth, and value. The biblical view cannot comprehend ideas like racism, classism, or eugenics.
2.Why am I here?
You’re here to consume and enjoy. Get all you can. Can all you get. Sit on the can. That’s why you’re here. That’s the only thing that matters.
When you put consumption and pleasure together, you get terrible results. If I have no rhyme or reason for my existence—if I am no more than the result of random evolutionary processes and I exist only to consume and enjoy, the only things that matter are whether I’m more powerful than you are and whether you have something I want for my enjoyment. If so, then it is okay for me to take from you whatever I desire for my own satisfaction.
OR
On the other hand I am not just here to consume and enjoy, but to bring glory and honor to the God that created me.
3.What is wrong with the world?
People are either insufficiently educated or insufficiently governed. People either don’t know enough, or they aren’t being watched enough.
OR
The problem isn’t “out there” somewhere; the problem with the world is me. The problem is that I start with myself as the measure of all things. What is wrong with the world? Me. I don’t do what I was meant to do.
4.How can what is wrong be made right?
More education. More government. That’s the only answer our culture can propose. How do we combat AIDS? AIDS Awareness. How do we combat racism? Anti-hate classes. What about the man who beats his wife? Anger management classes. Just give people more information, and everything will be fine.
But if you take a sinful, murderous human being and educate that individual, he merely becomes more sophisticated in his ability to destroy. The world is far more educated today than it was during World War I. So how are we doing? Are we seeing fewer wars? No. Just more sophisticated killing techniques.
OR
The spotless, sinless, Lamb of God is crushed, rejected, and killed to pay a debt that He did not owe on behalf of sinners who could never pay Him back. Thus there is always hope.