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World View
Chapters 27-28
Written by Charles Colson and Nancy Pearsey
Presented by : David M. Hasz
The Drama of Despair
• “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless” - Steven Weinberg - Nobel Prize Winner
Science and Hostile Universe
• Science reveals we live in a “overwhelmingly hostile universe”
• Where does that leave us?
What is the choice now?
• The alternative to the Christian message …. is a free fall into pessimism and despair.
• What happened to the utopian dreams of the past two centuries?
World War
• They crashed in the convulsions of two world wars and the naked evil of the 20th century.
Existentialism
• What is it? Basically the belief “you are your life, and that’s all you are.”
No Higher Purpose
• There is no higher purpose or goal or meaning to life.
• Where does this belief lead?
The 1960’s
• If naturalistic science leads to the conclusion that there is no ultimate meaning to life - then why not seek alternative sources of meaning in sensual pleasure and mind altering drug experiences?
Upheaval and the End
• This was an intellectual and cultural upheaval….end of optimism, intro to despair!
Mix Existentialism with Darwinism
• When existentialism leads to pessimism and pessimism takes on a Darwinian cast where do we go?
Driven to Compete
• All life-forms are driven to compete for the next rung on the evolutionary ladder, leaving the weakest behind.
Sociobiology
• Or evolutionary psychology.
• Sociobiologists conclude that evolution requires ruthlessly selfish behavior.
Bye Bye Love
• Love and altruism are illusions
• There is “no hint of genuine charity”• I Cor. 13:13 - the greatest is charity
What do they teach?
• Everything you do in life is programmed by your genes. Thus every action you make is selfish.
Your actions not your fault
• Your actions are all based on what your genes are doing to “survive”
• This is a religion and worldview
Worldview?
• Where did we come from?
• What went wrong with the world?
• How do we fix it?
No FIX
• Even though no fix it still debunks conventional religion and morality.
You don’t think so??
• Excerpts from page 259.
• Banish God, find no meaning in the universe, conclude therefore there must be no God.
Death Defying… why not?
• Death Defying and why not?• Hemingway the ultimate conclusion.
New Age Religion
• How many of you detected you have been involved?
• Differences between the West and the East.
• PG263
• It is everywhere.
Where have we seen it?
• 7 years in Tibet.
• Matrix
• Richard Gere, Steven Segal,
• The Secret Garden
• Schools, churches, universities
What is New Age?
• The escalator myth in spiritualized form.
• It is a religion that blends Hinduism, Buddhism, and the west. We can become gods, actually we are gods.
• We are also making God better.
It is pervasive
• Stanford
• PUMSY - I can handle it, I can make it happen, I am me and I am enough.
Self Worship, not Self Esteem
• Teaching self worship not self esteem!• Beware of the self esteem argument.
New Age is a worldview
• Pg. 268:
• Not individual dignity but rather a loss of the individual.
Perfect as you are
• New age says you are perfect exactly the way you are, when you accept that, life works
Pantheism
• Pantheism underlies all New Age thinking, it is according to CS Lewis the religion we naturally fall into. It is “the only real formidable opponent” to Christianity.
Re-imaging Conferences
• Re-imaging conferences in churches holding worship services to “Sophia”
The Danger
• More and more Christians regard religion as therapy.
• We lower our defenses against world views that appeal to our emotions.
Christianity makes demands
• Christianity makes stringent moral demands, it requires something from us.
• PG 271.