WORLDVIEW: WHAT IS IT?

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WORLDVIEW WHAT IS IT?

• Dr. Jobe Martin
• www.biblicaldiscipleship.org
• www.evolutionofacreationist.com

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PROVERBS 1412

• There is a way which seemeth right unto a man,
  but the end thereof are the ways of death.
• (DECEPTION)

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• The worldviews of Satans World System are all
  based on deception!

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1 CHRONICLES 1232

• ... the children of Issachar, which were men
  that had understanding of the times, to know what
  Israel ought to do the heads of them were 200
  and all their brethren were at their
  commandment.
• KJV

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COLOSSIANS 28

• BEWARE LEST ANY MAN SPOIL YOU THROUGH PHILOSOPHY
  AND VAIN DECEIT, AFTER THE TRADITION OF MEN,
  AFTER THE RUDIMENTS OF THE WORLD, AND NOT AFTER
  CHRIST.
• KJV

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• There is Biblical Christianity and then there are
  various worldviews.
• The study of worldviews ends up a comparison and
  contrast of true, Biblical Christianity against
  all of the deceptive choices of worldviews that
  Satans world system has to offer.
• What do I believe about life and all of its basic
  building blocks?
• Where can I find the Truth?

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• Who determines what is true
• Man
• Or
• God?

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JOHN 8 32

• And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall
  make you free.

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JOHN 1717-19

• Jesus said
• 17 Sanctify them through thy truth thy word
  is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world,
  even so have I also sent them into the world. 19
  And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they
  also might be sanctified through the truth.

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PSALM 11911

• Thy Word have I hid in mine heart, that I might
  not sin against Thee.

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EPHESIANS 613-18

• 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of
  God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil
  day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand
  therefore, having your loins girt about with
  truth, and having on the breastplate of
  righteousness 15 And your feet shod with the
  preparation of the gospel of peace 16 Above all,
  taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be
  able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
  17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the
  sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God 18
  Praying always with all prayer and supplication
  in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all
  perseverance and supplication for all saints

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SWORD OF SPIRIT WORD OF GOD

• The word sword of Ephesians 617b is the word
  for the offensive and defensive weapon of the
  powerful Roman soldier.
• The word for word (of God) is not logos it is
  Rhema which literally means the sayings.
• Gods spoken Word is our offensive and defensive
  weapon in the midst of the supernatural battle
  surrounding us. We are to speak Gods Word into
  the fabric of lifethat means we must hide it in
  our hearts first.

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CREATION EVOLUTION
DATA FOSSILS, LIVING THINGS SAME FOR BOTH
THEISM God of the Bible Creator,
Inventor, Designer, Sustainer, Redeemer
ATHEISM No God Accidental, Non-directed, Random,
Chance, Mindless processes
WORLDVIEW GLASSES DETERMINE CONCLUSIONS
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Even if all the data point to an intelligent
designer, such an hypothesis is excluded from
science because it is not naturalistic.

• Scott C. Todd, (Kansas State University
  Immunologist) Nature, September 30, 2000,
  Letters to the editor.

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THE BATTLE OF CREATION VS EVOLUTION IS REALLY THE
BATTLE FOR THE GOSPEL.

• G. Richard Bozarth writes (The Meaning of
  Evolution, American Atheist, Sept. 20, 1979, p.
  30)
• Christianity has fought, still fights, and will
  fight science to the desperate end over evolution
  because evolution destroys utterly and finally
  the very reason Jesus earthly life was
  supposedly made necessary. Destroy Adam and Eve
  and the original sin, and in the rubble you will
  find the sorry remains of the Son of God.

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• If Jesus was not the Redeemer that died for
  our sins, and this is what evolution means, then
  Christianity is nothing.
• G. Richard Bozarth
• Atheist Bozarth understands this issue much
  better than the average Christian!

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See The Defenders Bible, Dr. Henry Morris
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Everyone believes by FAITH in something
eternal!!!!!

• ETERNAL
• GOD

• ETERNAL
• MATTER
• (energy)

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BY FAITH BECAUSE NO ONE WAS THERE!
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SO WHAT ARE THE BIG ISSUES?

• Where do matter and energy come from?
• How did reproducing life appear?
• Do mutations generate new life forms?
• What does the fossil record prove?
• Evolution Does fossil man exist?
• Is there evidence for a global flood?
• Are transitional forms still missing?

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SO WHAT ARE THE BIG ISSUES?

• Is radiometric dating based on facts or
  assumptions?
• Do animals display morals?
• Do animals possess the ability to talk, write,
  create, invent, sin, possess virtues, worship,
  pray, serve God?
• Where do music and harmony come from?
• Have you gone to the zoo and seen three
  chimpanzees singing in harmony?

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Is It the Bible or Evolution?

• BIBLE
• God created all - inorganic organic
• All created in 6 days
• Creation is completed
• Oceans before land
• 1st life on land

• EVOLUTION
• Godless chance processes did it all
• Millions of years
• Unending Evolution
• Land before oceans
• 1st life in ocean

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Do you believe the Bible or unproven evolutionary
theory?

• BIBLE
• Earth before sun and stars
• Fruit trees before fish
• Birds and fish created on the 5th day
• Birds before insects

• EVOLUTION
• Sun and stars before earth
• Fish before fruit trees
• Fish evolved millions of years before birds
• Insects before birds

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Deep inside do you believe God or evolutionary
theory?

• BIBLE
• Birds before reptiles
• Man before rain
• Man before woman
• Light before sun
• Plants before sun
• Man from dust

• EVOLUTION
• Reptiles before birds
• Rain before man
• Woman before man
• Sun before light
• Sun before plants
• Man from primate

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Do you trust Gods Word or mans evolutionary
theories?

• BIBLE
• Man originally a vegetarian Gen 129
  
• Fixed, distinct kinds of plants and animals
  
• Adams sin the cause of death
• Romans 512

• EVOLUTION
• Man originally a meat eater
• Plants and animals are constantly evolving
• Death existed long before man ever evolved

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• The way of evolution seems so right to so many
  people, but it begins and ends by, with and in
  death.
• We Christians must submit so-called science to
  the Bible and not submit the Bible to so-called
  science.
• Our ideas do have consequences.
• Our assumptions really do determine our
  conclusions.
• Both Creation and Evolution are faith-based
  religious systems.

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ATHEISTIC EVOLUTION ASSERTS BY FAITH THAT

• There is no Creator/Designer God,
• And, therefore, that purposeless,
• Non-directed,
• Accidental,
• Mindless, Chance, Random processes over millions
  of years produced the universe and everything
  animate and inanimate in it.
• The Big Bang created space and time?

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What shall we name this one?
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• What is the most accurate way to believe within
  the realm
• of the visible and the invisible, the temporal
  and the eternal, the seen and the unseen?
• Which worldview deals with reality with the most
  accuracy?

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WHAT IS A WORLDVIEW?

• Your worldview is your basic belief system.
• Your worldview is the position you take regarding
  the answers to the major questions in life such
  as
• Does God exist and is He Good?
• What can be known for sure?
• Who am I why am I here where am I going?
• What do I value what is important to me?
• Is there purpose and direction to life?

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For as he thinketh in his heart, so is
he. Proverbs 237
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www. Summit.org Secular Humanism Marxism/ Leninism Cosmic Humanism Biblical Christianity
Sources Humanist Manifestos I, II Writings of Marx and Lenin New Age writers Ferguson, Bailey Bible
Theology Atheism Atheism Pantheism Theism
Philosophy Naturalism Dialectical Materialism Non-Naturalism Supernaturalism
Ethics Relativism Proletariat Morality Relativism Absolutes
Biology Evolution Evolution Evolution CREATION
Psychology Self-actualization Behaviorism Collective Consciousness Mind-Body Dualism
Sociology Non-Traditional Family Abolition of Home Church and State Non-Tradition Home Church and State Traditional Home Church State
Law Positive Law Positive Law Self-Law Biblical Law
Politics World Gov. (Globalism) New World Order (Globalism) New Age Order (Globalism) Justice, Freedom Order
Economics Socialism Socialism Enlightened Production Stewardship Private Prop.
History Historical Evolution Historical Materialism Evolutionary Godhood Historical Resurrection
Postmod
Islam
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EVERYBODY HAS A WORLDVIEW

• Your worldview is your basic set of beliefs.
• Your worldview is the position you hold in the
  foundational issues of life.
• What are the issues that construct the basic
  building blocks of life (and your worldview)?

Theology Philosophy Ethics Biology Psychology
Sociology Law Politics Economics History
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• Theology
• Philosophy
• Ethics
• Biology
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Law
• Politics
• Economics
• History

All of these 10 areas are sacred! All are
Biblical!
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• Theology
• Philosophy
• Ethics
• Biology
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Law
• Politics
• Economics
• History

All 10 areas are perverted and twisted to
some extent in Satans world system.
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ART, MUSIC, CULTURE

• Theology
• Philosophy
• Ethics
• Biology
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Law
• Politics
• Economics
• History

ART, MUSIC, CULTURE EMERGE OUT OF THE BASIC
BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE WORLDVIEW.
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MATHEMATICS

• Theology
• Philosophy
• Ethics
• Biology
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Law
• Politics
• Economics
• History

ALL OF THE BUILDING BLOCKS ON THE LEFT HAVE THEIR
OWN SYSTEM OF MATHEMATICS.
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• Theology
• Philosophy
• Ethics
• Biology
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Law
• Politics
• Economics
• History

ART MUSIC MATHEMATICS PUT ALL OF THIS TOGETHER
AND YOU HAVE CULTURE of a WORLDVIEW.
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• Culture is the corporate display of the
  predominant worldview of a group of people. This
  can be shown at the national or state or city or
  village or school or church or family level of
  society.

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THE CULTURE OF A WORLDVIEW INCLUDES

• Art
• Music
• Foods
• Clothes
• Religion
• Entertainment
• Etc., etc,. etc., etc.

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2 CORINTHIANS 105

• CASTING DOWN IMAGINATIONS (arguments,
  speculations), AND EVERY HIGH THING THAT EXALTETH
  ITSELF AGAINST THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, AND BRINGING
  INTO CAPTIVITY EVERY THOUGHT TO THE OBEDIENCE OF
  CHRIST.
• KJV

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1 PETER 313-15

• 13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be
  followers of that which is good? 14 But and if ye
  suffer for righteousness sake, happy are ye and
  be not afraid of their terror, neither be
  troubled 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your
  hearts and be ready always to give an answer to
  every man that asketh you a reason of the hope
  that is in you with meekness and fear.

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ACCORDING TO JOSH McDOWELL, BARNA RESEARCH GROUP,
PEW RESEARCH CTR.

• We are witnessing The Last Christian
  Generation. (Josh McDowell)
• Only 1/3 of church-going teenagers say the
  church will play a role in their future lives.
• According to pollster George Barna 63 of teens
  do not believe Jesus is Gods Son.
• 60 believe all faiths teach equally valid
  truths.
• 51 do not believe Jesus rose from the dead.
• 66 do not believe Satan or the Holy Spirit exist.

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• 93 of all youth have lied to a parent.
• 75 of Christian and non-Christian youth have
  cheated on a test.
• 66 of all youth have physically hurt someone.
• 70 of churched teens believe there is no
  absolute moral truth.
• This is called Moral Relativism.
• Barna research reports 98 of professed
  born-again youth do believe in Christ, but they
  do not reflect Christ-like attitudes or actions.
• Does Satan believe in Christ?

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THE VALUES OF 18-25 YEAR OLDS

• 81 say getting rich most important goal in life
• 51 say becoming famous most important goal
• 30 say helping people in need is a goal
• 22 say goal of becoming a community leader
• Only 10 say goal is to become more spiritual
• So what is the goal of most of todays younger
  generation in USA? They want to become rich and
  famous!

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• In other words, for the Christian youth there is
  a disconnect between knowing Truth and
  practicing Truth.
• John 321
• But he that doeth truth cometh to the light,
  that his deeds may be made manifest, that they
  are wrought in God.

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WE ARE LOSING 57-88 OF CHRISTIAN YOUTH AFTER
FOUR YEARS OF COLLEGE!(published figures)

• Friends with Campus Crusade for Christ tell me,
  If we dont get the Christian kids within the
  first six weeks of their freshman year of
  college, weve lost them to the competing
  worldviews.
• How do we lose them?

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WE CANNOT DEFEND THE FAITH!

• Where did Cain get his wife?
• How did Noah get all the animals on the ark?
• Arent Christians really polytheists?
• Wasnt the Flood of Noah a local flood?
• Arent the days of Genesis long periods of time
• Hasnt science proven the universe is billions of
  years old?
• Isnt starlight millions of years old?
• Didnt dinosaurs go extinct 60 M. years ago?

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WE CANNOT DEFEND THE FAITH!

• The Council of Nicaea altered the Bible.
• Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene.
• Jesus and Mary had children.
• King Constantine removed the references to
  goddess worship from the Bible.
• The Bible has been translated so many times there
  is no way it could be the Word of God.
• Who made your God, Where did your God come from?

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THE EVOLUTION OF MAN
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WORLDVIEW THINKING IN THE HISTORY OF THE U.S.A.

• Christian Theism Personal God
• Young Universe Creation
• Traditional Deism Reduced God
• Old Universe Theistic Evolution
• Secular Humanism Dead God
• Darwinian Atheistic Evolution
• Pagan Mysticism/Metaphysical Naturalism I am
  God/All is God/There is no God
• Evolution is god, Harry Potter is God

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ARE WE SUBMITTING TO THE AUTHORITY OF GODS WORD?

• For example Harry Potter is a wizard.
• Leviticus 1931 Regard not them that have
  familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to
  be defiled by them I am the LORD your God.

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DEUTERONOMY 1810-14

• There shall not be found among you any one that
  maketh his son or his daughter to pass through
  the fire, or that useth divination, or an
  observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
  Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar
  spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all
  that do these things are an abomination unto the
  LORD and because of these abominations the LORD
  thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
  Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. For
  these nations, which thou shalt possess,
  hearkened unto observers of times, and unto
  diviners but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath
  not suffered thee so to do.

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• Are we submitting to the authority of the Bible
  in every area of our lives?
• Or are we submitting to, and incorporating into
  our lives, more and more of the folkways and
  mores of the false, anti-God and popular
  worldviews of Satans deceptive world system?

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ROMANS 121, 2

• I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
  mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a
  living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
  which is your reasonable service. And be not
  conformed to this world but be ye transformed by
  the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what
  is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will
  of God.

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HOW DID WE GET TO NOW?

• Acts 17 to 1636 read Faith and Freedom by Ben
  Hart and Understanding the Times by Dr. David
  Noebel
• 1636 John Harvard and Thomas Sheppherd founded
  Harvard University as an Evangelical Christian
  College
• 1691 John Locke, Essay on Human Understanding
  (Root of French Revolution)

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1805 Harvard goes Unitarian (Jesus is .
not God denial of the
Trinity)

• 1839 Horace Mann (a Unitarian) establishes
  government-sponsored education (Public Education)
  in Mass.
• 1848 Karl Marx publishes the Political Economy.
  Main idea is Socialism and Private Property is
  Evil.
• 1859 Charles Darwin, Origin of Species by Means
  of Natural Selection or the Preservation of
  Favored Races

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in the Struggle for Life (EVOLUTION 1859!)

• 1859 Marx and Engels, Das Capitol (Socialism
  and abolition of private property)
• 1859 Richard Wagner, Tristan and Isolde
  (Immorality and Materialism)
• 1860-1900 Nietzche, (God is Dead, Nihilism no
  meaning to life)
• IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!

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1925SCOPES TRIAL

• Atheist Clarence Darrow gets William Jennings
  Bryan to admit that he did not know where Cain
  got his wife and that he did not know how long
  the Genesis 1 days were, but they could be
  millions of years.
• Darrows question You think those were not
  literal days?
• Bryans answer I do not think they were 24 hour
  days. Bryan departed from Biblical authority
  and students now reap the penalty.

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1925SCOPES TRIAL

• 1925 opened the floodgates of popular opinion
  (evolution and millions of years) versus BIBLICAL
  AUTHORITY and the Humanists came out of the
  closet.
• By 1929 the first Humanist church was established
  and America was into the Great Depression!
• Could the God of the Bible have been judging
  Americas departure into evolutionism from
  BIBLICAL AUTHORITY?

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1929 First Humanist Church of N. Y. City
established by Charles Francis Potter

• 1930 John Dewey Atheist, Humanist, Pres. of
  The League for Industrial Demo., Public Education
  Secular Humanism
• 1933 Humanist Manifesto I
• 1934 A Common Faith, John Dewey, Pub. by Yale U.
  Press
• Humanism is a RELIGIOUS FAITH!

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THE 1960S

• Mad Magazine and Johnny Carson There is nothing
  sacred!!!!
• Frank Sinatra I did it my way.
• Debbie Boone How can it be wrong when it feels
  so right?
• Invictus I am the master of my fate, I am the
  captain of my soul.

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1961 (Torcaso vs Watkins) Humanism a
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religion protected by 1st
amendment (AHA is a 501c 3 religious tax
exempt non-profit)

• 1962 (Engel vs Vitale) Prayer banned
• 1963 (Abington vs Schempp) Bible reading
  forbidden in schools
• 1968 (Epperson vs Arkansas) Laws against
  teaching Evolution now unconstitutional
• 1973 Humanist Manifesto 2 Roe v Wade
  (ABORTION IS IN!)
• 1980 (Stone vs Graham) Ten Commandments out of
  schools

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1982 (McLean vs Arkansas) Law mandating
creation and evolution banned

• 1987 (Aguillard vs Edwards)
• God Himself is out of the U.S.A.!
• 2003 Supreme court throws out Texas sodomy law
  and homosexuality is in.
• 2005 Court mandated murder (euthanasia) is in
  (Terri Schaivo).

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• Theology
• Philosophy
• Ethics
• Biology
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Law
• Politics
• Economics
• History

ART MUSIC MATHEMATICS PUT ALL OF THIS TOGETHER
AND YOU HAVE CULTURE
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SATANS WORLD SYSTEM SAYS

• There is no right or wrong!
• There are no absolutes!
• Everything is relative!
• Whos to say!
• Whatever!

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FOUR FORBIDDEN SENTENCES!

• THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG!
• The major assumption behind this sentence is that
  the person saying it is claiming he or she is
  right in saying that there is no right or wrong!
  We have a statement that negates itself.

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FOUR FORBIDDEN SENTENCES!

• THERE ARE NO ABSOLUTES!
• This sentence is intended to be an absolute
  statement. If there are no absolutes, then this
  sentence is not absolute and it negates itself
  and means nothing!

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FOUR FORBIDDEN SENTENCES!

• WHOS TO SAY?
• This sentence intends to silence someone who is
  taking a position. In other words, You have no
  right to say that! This negates itself, if no
  one has a right to take a position, then no one
  has a right to say Whos to say? because that
  is taking a position!

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FOUR FORBIDDEN SENTENCES!

• EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE!
• The authorial intent of this sentence is that it
  is an absolute statement. If everything is
  relative, then this sentence is part of
  everything and is itself relative. Then it
  negates itself.

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WORLDVIEWS CLASH

• The ethics of Christianity teach moral absolutes.
  Some things are always right and some things are
  always wrong.
• The ethics of the Humanist worldview is called
  Moral Relativism. Nothing is always right and
  nothing is always wrong. It all depends on the
  situation.

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EXAMPLE ETHICS OF HUMANISTS IS MORAL RELATIVISM

• Moral Relativism is the idea of the Humanists
  that there are NO ABSOLUTES
• If a professor teaches that there are no
  absolutes, a pertinent question is Are you sure
  there are no absolutes, Professor?
• Professor Yes, there is no such thing as an
  absolute, everything is relative.

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Student Are you absolutely sure,
Professor?

• Prof. Well arent you a clever student! I will
  admit that there is one absolute and that is that
  there are no absolutes.
• Student Could there be two absolutes?
• Prof. NO! Student Are you sure?
• Prof. Yes, of this I am sure!
• Student Are you absolutely sure?

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MORAL RELATIVISMSome things to as the
Professor

• Is it a moral absolute that it is wrong for a
  student to murder their professor?
• Is it a moral absolute that the mass killings of
  Hitler were wrong? 911
• Is it a moral absolute that we should not
  torture babies for fun?
• Is it a moral absolute that the murder of
  young at T. Sq., in China was wrong?

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MORAL RELATIVISM HOMOSEXUALITY IS AN ALTERNATIVE
LIFESTYLE

• WHAT DOES THE GOD OF THE BIBLE SAY? Fellow
  Christians have you become confused on this
  issue? There should be no confusion here!
• Genesis 1313, Homosexuality is sin and
  wickedness!
• Genesis 1820, Homosexuality is grievous sin!
• Genesis 197, Homosexuality is wicked!

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Leviticus 1822, Homosexuality is an
abomination.

• Deuteronomy 2317-18, Homosexuality is an
  abomination to the Lord of Hosts.
• 1 Kings 1424, Homosexuality(sodomy) is an
  abomination.
• Romans 124, Homosexuality dishonors your own
  body.
• Romans126, Lesbianism is a vile affection.

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• Romans 126b Lesbianism ...is against nature.
• Romans 127, Homosexuality is unseemly
• Romans 128, Homosexuality is the fruit of a
  reprobate mind.
• 1 Corinthians 69, Effeminate (male prostitutes
  NIV) and abusers of them- selves with mankind
  (homosexuals NAS) shall not inherit the kingdom
  of God

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WORLDVIEW IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES AND ITS
ASSUMPTIONS DETERMINE CONCLUSIONS

• You interpret what you see based on what you
  already believe (assume).

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ASSUMPTIONS DETERMINE CONCLUSIONS

• When talking with an atheist, dont tell him/her
  how stupid they are for not acknowledging the
  existence of God, but ask him/her Why do you
  believe in Atheism?
• What evidence did you find that convinced you
  that God does not exist?

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• Is there any kind of evidence about the reality
  of God that I might share with you that you might
  consider?
• You do not claim to know everything about
  everything, so could God possibly exist in the
  sphere of things that you do not know?
• This same Atheist may tell you that language has
  no inherent meaning.
• This is called POSTMODERN DECONSTRUCTIONISM.

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DECONSTRUCTIONISM

• Simple Def. Language means what it means to
  youno absolute meaning.
• Ask a Deconstructionist Well, if language has
  no inherent meaning then do your statements mean
  anything?
• Prof., if words have no inherent mean- ing, then
  why should I buy your textbook or listen to your
  lectures? Does a red stop sign have any meaning
  for you, Professor?

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DECONSTRUCTIONISM IS A PART OF POSTMODERNISM

• Postmodernism is a worldview.
• Postmodernists believe that truth is created by
  the life story of the individual.
• A Postmodernist might say, I have my truth and
  you have your truth.
• In other words in a certain sense you create
  your own reality. No absolute truth.
• Quite similar to New Age in this respect.

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• Humanists, Marxists, etc., say God is dead, or
  Man is God.
• Postmodernists agree with Humanists and Marxists
  that God is dead, but go one step farther and
  say of any piece of literature, art or music The
  author is dead!
• If the author is a product of his/her time,
  culture, language, etc., and he/she is deadthen
  it is impossible for the reader of their text to
  get into their head and understand their
  intentions.
• There is then no authoritative interpretation of
  any text. The meaning is determined by the reader
  of the text!

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Bill Honsberger, honzl_at_msn.com says

• What then replaces the authors intent,
  unknowable to us all? Well what is left is
  different versions of what is called reader
  response theory. What this means is that the
  reader of the text brings to the text their
  communitys values, language games, experiences,
  ethical concerns or lack thereof.

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Bill Honsberger, honzl_at_msn.com says

• The question then for example is not What was
  the Apostle Paul trying to say when he speaks
  about propitiation in Romans 3?, but rather
  What do I/we think Paul was saying based on our
  communitys values and concerns. So one might
  answer (and they have) that as a lesbian,
  feminist community our understanding of the Bible
  is based on our values and understanding and we
  say that Paul is a homophobic, sexist,
  patriarchal evil white man, who was seeking power
  over us with his claims to truth.

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Bill Honsberger, honzl_at_msn.com says

• I think there is a direct connection between
  Nietzsches death of God and the Pomo writers
  death of the author. In both cases there is a
  denial of any authority (no truth giver) which or
  who sits above that of the autonomous human (the
  singular man in Existentialism and the community
  of humans in PostModern circles) and therefore
  all we are left with is the much tamer opinion or
  perspective. This is easily dis-missed since all
  have perspectives and no per-spective is any
  closer to an alleged truth than any other.

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THE BIBLE IS OBJECTIVE, CERTAIN TRUE TRUTH!

• Postmodernists claim that there is no objective,
  certain, clear, authoritative truth.
• Notice that they must use words that are clearly
  understood and objective and authoritative to
  make their claim.
• Postmodernists disconnect from reality.
• The ultimate end of postmodern thought is that
  the Bible has no meaning of its own.

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POSTMODERNISM PENETRATES CHRISTIANITY VIA THE
EMERGING CHURCH.

• The Emerging Church movement (and Emergent
  Church, USA) claims to be exiting Modernism.
• Modernism is seen as a synonym for the
  Enlightenment thought of 17th -19th century
  Europe.
• Enlightenment, now called Modernism has been an
  obstacle to church growth, so says the
  evangelists of the Emerging church

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• The Emerging Church claims that Modernism
  (European Enlightenment Thought) was concerned
  with
• Truth
• Certainty
• Individualism
• Colonialism
• Objectivity
• Ethical absolutes
• And a host of other evils.
• Postmodernism rejects all of the above!

95

• The Emerging Church is rapidly moving toward the
  Mother Catholic Church.
• Communion is now called the Eucharist.
• Incense is burned to enhance worship.
• Stained glass is projected for mood.
• Lights are dimmed.
• Candles are lit.
• The Bible is de-emphasized.
• Techniques of Pagan mysticism are promoted.

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HEBREWS 138-9

• 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day,
  and for ever. 9 Be not carried about with divers
  and strange doctrines.

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GALATIANS 67-8

• 7 Be not deceived God is not mocked for
  whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
  8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the
  flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the
  Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

98

• The cure for the problems in The Church (of
  historical Christianity), according to prominent
  Emerging Church writers, is to adapt to and
  accept the worldview and values of the
  predominant postmodern culture.
• In other words, to minister to the postmodern
  culture we Christians must, to a great extent,
  live out the postmodern value system ourselves.
  We must become all things to all people.

99
HANG ON A MINUTE.

• 1 Corinthians 922
• To the weak became I as weak, that I might
  gain the weak I am made all things to all men,
  that I might by all means save some.
• Is the Apostle Paul saying in this verse that
  he would live out the Postmodern lifestyle to win
  postmodernists to the Gospel?

100
I am made all things to all men,

• Is Paul saying, I will become an alcoholic to
  minister to alcoholics?
• I will become a drug addict to minister to drug
  addicts.
• I will become a fornicator to minister to
  fornicators.
• I will become a heretic to minister to
  heretics.
• I will deny the absolute Truth of the Bible to
  minister to Postmodernists.

101

• It is unfortunate that the phrase all things to
  all men (1 Cor. 922) has been used and abused
  by the world and made to mean what Paul did not
  intend for it to mean. Paul was not a chameleon
  who changed his message and methods with each new
  situation. Nor was Paul a compromiser who
  adjusted his message to please his audience. He
  was an ambassador, not a politician! Wiersbe, W.
  W. 1996, c1989. The Bible Exposition Commentary.
  "An exposition of the New Testament comprising
  the entire 'BE' series"--Jkt. Victor Books
  Wheaton, Ill.

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1 Corinthians 88-13

• But meat commendeth us not to God for neither,
  if we eat, are we the better neither, if we eat
  not, are we the worse. 9 But take heed lest by
  any means this liberty of yours become a
  stumblingblock to them that are weak. 10 For if
  any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat
  in the idols temple, shall not the conscience of
  him which is weak be emboldened to eat those
  things which are offered to idols 11 And through
  thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for
  whom Christ died? 12 But when ye sin so against
  the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye
  sin against Christ. 13 Wherefore, if meat make my
  brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the
  world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

103

• The primary purpose of Pauls not taking full
  advantage of his Christian liberty was that he
  might win the more. He deeply believed that he
  who is wise wins souls (Prov. 1130) and was
  willing to do anything and to sacrifice anything
  to win people to Jesus Christ. As far as his
  rights were concerned he was free from all men,
  but because of his love for all men he would
  gladly limit those rights for their sakes. He
  had, figuratively, become a slave to all. He
  would modify his habits, his preferences, his
  entire lifestyle if any of those things caused
  someone to stumble, to be offended, or to be
  hindered from faith in the Lord. MacArthur, J.
  1996, c1984. 1 Corinthians. Includes indexes.
  Moody Press Chicago

104
I am made all things to all men,

• What Paul means by this statement is that he will
  voluntarily restrain himself from certain
  freedoms he has in Christ so as to not offend a
  weaker brother!
• He is not saying that he would become a
  Postmodernist in order to witness to a
  Postmodernist!
• Paul would not support the Emerging Church.

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POSTMODERNISTS CLAIM

• There are no truths which apply to all of us.
• There are no absolute moral standards.
• There are no absolute ethical concerns.
• There is no God.
• There are personal opinions.
• There are personal perspectives.
• See the writings of Nietzsche, Derrida, Lyotard,
  Ricouer, Foucault, Rorty, Baudrillard, etc.
• Most Postmodernist thinkers are/were
  disillusioned Marxists.

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POSTMODERNIST RICHARD RORTY

• I might have written an account of how even
  atheists like myself are impressed, improved and
  morally instructed by reading Pilgrims Progress.

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BABOOPENQUAT?
108

• Disillusioned Marxists became PostModernists and
  now gain strength through Multiculturalism and
  its stepchild, Political Correctness, which is
  rightly labeled, Cultural Marxism.
• Marx and Lenin taught that, given the chance,
  European workers would overthrow capitalist
  governments and replace them with communism.
• But after the Russian revolution of 1917 the
  Western European workers did not support the
  Communist revolution or ideas.
• Why not?

109

• Christianity and its moral and ethical absolutes
  was the roadblock to the expansion of Marxism.
• This roadblock was noticed by two Marxist
  theorists in 1919 Italian, Antonio Gramsci and
  Hungarian, Georg Lukacs.
• These two men decided that the spread of
  Communism could only be accomplished if Western
  Christian culture was destroyed.
• Rev. Jesse Jackson Hay, hay, ho, ho Western Civ.
  has gotta to go!
• So Lukacs introduced sex education into the
  public schools of Hungary,1919, believing that if
  children knew more about those things their
  lust for it would overpower their Christian
  morals!

110

• So Gramsci and Lukacs laid the groundwork to
  change communism from economic terms (ownership
  of private property is evil) into cultural terms.
  (tolerance, sex ed, drug ed, etc.)
• Then in 1923 at Frankfurt University in Germany
  the Institute for Social Research was
  establishedThe Frankfurt School.
• The Frankfurt School moved to New York City in
  1933 when Hitler came to power.
• Theorists like Wilhelm Reich, Eric Fromm, Max
  Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, etc.

111

• The Frankfurt School invented Critical Theory
  which had the goal of demonizing all traditional
  institutions such as family, fatherhood,
  patriotism, Bible-believing churches, etc.
• The Frankfurt School published Studies in
  Prejudice which taught that anyone who believes
  in traditional Western Christian culture is
  prejudiced, a racist or sexist or fascist
  or is mentally unstable.
• Mixing Freud with Marx, they perfected the
  technique of psychological conditioningthus, for
  example, TV shows Homosexualsnormal.
• TVChristians are crazy, intolerant fools

112

• For example see The Humanist magazine, Nov/Dec
  1987
• Featured cover article Christianity and Mental
  Health A Psychotherapist looks at how
  Christianity may harm mental health, by Dr.
  Wendell Watters.
• The picture on the cover is of a church with a
  person on the psychiatrists couch and an
  all-wise-looking psychiatrist doing the
  counselling.

113

• Herbert Marcuse, working with Hollywood friends,
  became a leading evangelist of Cultural Marxism
  (Political Correctness) especially on the
  university campuses of USA.
• In his book Eros and Civilization, he argued
  that by freeing sex from any restraints, we could
  elevate the pleasure principle over the reality
  principle and create a society with no work, only
  play (Marcuse coined the phrase, Make love, not
  war). Marcuse also argued for what he called
  liberating tolerance, which he defined as
  tolerance for all ideas coming from the Left and
  intolerance for any ideas coming from the

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• Right. In the late 1960s Marcuse became the
  chief guru of the New Left, and he injected the
  cultural Marxism of the Frankfurt School into the
  baby boom generation, to the point where it is
  now Americas state ideology.
• The next conservatism should unmask multicul-
  turalism and Political Correctness and tell the
  American people what they really are cultural
  Marxism. Its goal remains that Lukacs and Gramsci
  set in 1919 destroying Western culture and the
  Christian religion. see Wm. Lind, Cultural
  Marxism The Schwarz Report, vol. 46, No. 4, p 4.
  www.schwarzreport.org

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PSALM 197-9

• The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the
  soul the testimony of the Lord is sure, making
  wise the simple.
• The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the
  heart the commandment of the Lord is pure
  enlightening the eyes.
• The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever
  the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous
  altogether.

116
PROVERBS 1412

• There is a way which seemeth right unto a man,
  but the end thereof are the ways of death.
• (DECEPTION)

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ACCORDING TO BARNA

• Teenagers are only mirroring adult attitudes,
  96 of whom do not reflect the attitudes or
  actions of Jesus. We are not living the faith we
  profess.
• So what do we all need to do?

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2 CORINTHIANS 135

• KJV
• 5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith
  prove your own selves. Know ye not your own
  selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except
  ye be reprobates?
• NAS
• Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith
  examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this
  about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in
  youunless indeed you fail the test?

119

• So what do we all need to do?
• We need to examine ourselves to see if we are
  truly in the Faith (saved by faith in the shed
  blood and death of Lord Jesus and His bodily
  resurrection from the dead, Romans 109).
• Examine ourselves to decide what is the
  predominate influence in our lives. Is it the way
  of the world or the way of the Word of God?
• What worldview do we actually live out in our
  normal, daily lives and routines?

120
WORLDVIEW GLASSES DETERMINE CONCLUSIONS

• The worldview ideas of Creation or Evolution have
  certain inherent consequences.
• The assumptions behind the Creation/ Evolution
  controversy determine the conclusions you come to
  regarding the origin, purpose and destiny of life
  in general and your life in particular.

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• According to the Bible in the Beginning
  everything was very good.
• Adam was given dominion over the earth.
• Then came sin and the curse.
• Dominion over the earth was taken from Adam and
  given to Satan (Matt. 48-10)

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John 1231 1430 1611

• 31 Now is the judgment of this world now shall
  the prince of this world be cast out.
• 30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you for
  the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing
  in me.
• 11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world
  is judged.

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2 Corinthians 43, 4

• 3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them
  that are lost 4 In whom the god of this world
  hath blinded the minds of them which believe not,
  lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ,
  who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

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1 John 519

• KJV
• 19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole
  world lieth in wickedness.
• NAS
• 19 We know that we are of God, and that the whole
  world lies in the power of the evil one.

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Ephesians 21, 2

• 1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in
  trespasses and sins 2 Wherein in time past ye
  walked according to the course of this world,
  according to the prince of the power of the air,
  the spirit that now worketh in the children of
  disobedience 3 Among whom also we all had our
  conversation in times past in the lusts of our
  flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of
  the mind and were by nature the children of
  wrath, even as others.

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SCOPES MONKEY TRIAL

• Darwins theory of evolution (On the Origin of
  Species by Means of Natural Selection or the
  Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for
  Life) 1859
• Scopes Trial 1925 William Jennings Bryan Could
  not defend Faithliteral days of Genesis 1.
  Backlash of his unwillingness to submit to the
  authority of Scripture God and Creation
  ultimately out of the classrooms of the world!

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QUOTES FROM THE SCOPES TRIAL

• Darrow QuestionMr. Bryan, do you believe that
  Eve was the first woman?
• AYes.
• QDo you believe she was literally made out of
  Adams rib?
• AI Do.
• QDid you ever discover where Cain got his wife?
• ANo sir, I leave the agnostics to hunt for her.

133

• QYou have never found out?
• AI have never tried to find.
• QYou have never tried to find?
• ANo.
• QThe Bible says he got one, doesnt it? Were
  there other people on the earth at that time?
• AI cannot say.
• QYou cannot say. Did that ever enter your
  consideration?
• ANever bothered me.

134

• QThere were no others recorded, but Cain got a
  wife?
• AThat is what the Bible says. Gen. 54

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QUOTES FROM THE SCOPES TRIAL

• Darrow continuesWhere she came from you do not
  know. All right. Does the statement, The morning
  and the evening were the first day, and The
  morning and the evening were the second day,
  mean anything to you?
• BryanI do not think it necessarily means a
  twenty-four-hour day.
• QYou do not?
• ANo. Ultimately God and Creation out in USA
  schools!

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HOW DID WE GET TO NOW?

• Acts 17 to 1636 read Faith and Freedom by Ben
  Hart and Understanding the Times by Dr. David
  Noebel
• 1636 John Harvard and Thomas Sheppherd founded
  Harvard University as an Evangelical Christian
  College
• 1691 John Locke, Essay on Human Understanding
  (Root of French Revolution)

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1805 Harvard goes Unitarian (Jesus is .
not God denial of the
Trinity)

• 1839 Horace Mann (a Unitarian) establishes
  government-sponsored education (Public Education)
  in Mass.
• 1848 Karl Marx publishes the Political Economy.
  Main idea is Socialism and Private Property is
  Evil.
• 1859 Charles Darwin, Origin of Species by Means
  of Natural Selection or the Preservation of
  Favored Races

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in the Struggle for Life (EVOLUTION 1859!)

• 1859 Marx and Engels, Das Capitol (Socialism
  and abolition of private property)
• 1859 Richard Wagner, Tristan and Isolde
  (Immorality and Materialism)
• 1860-1900 Nietzche, (God is Dead, Nihilism no
  meaning to life)
• IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!

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1925SCOPES TRIAL

• Atheist Clarence Darrow gets William Jennings
  Bryan to admit that he did not know where Cain
  got his wife and that he did not know how long
  the Genesis 1 days were, but they could be
  millions of years.
• Darrows question You think those were not
  literal days?
• Bryans answer I do not think they were 24 hour
  days. Bryan departed from Biblical authority
  and students now reap the penalty.

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1925SCOPES TRIAL

• 1925 opened the floodgates of popular opinion
  (evolution and millions of years) versus BIBLICAL
  AUTHORITY and the Humanists came out of the
  closet.
• By 1929 the first Humanist church was established
  and America was into the Great Depression!
• Could the God of the Bible have been judging
  Americas departure into evolutionism from
  BIBLICAL AUTHORITY?

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WORLDVIEWS CLASH

• The ethics of Christianity teach moral absolutes.
  Some things are always right and some things are
  always wrong.
• The ethics of the Humanist worldview is called
  Moral Relativism. Nothing is always right and
  nothing is always wrong. It all depends on the
  situation.

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1929 First Humanist Church of N. Y. City
established by Charles Francis Potter

• 1930 John Dewey Atheist, Humanist, Pres. of
  The League for Industrial Demo., Public Education
  Secular Humanism
• 1933 Humanist Manifesto I
• 1934 A Common Faith, John Dewey, Pub. by Yale U.
  Press
• Humanism is a RELIGIOUS FAITH!

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THE 1960S

• Mad Magazine and Johnny Carson There is nothing
  sacred!!!!
• Frank Sinatra I did it my way.
• Debbie Boone How can it be wrong when it feels
  so right?
• Invictus I am the master of my fate, I am the
  captain of my soul.

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1961 (Torcaso vs Watkins) Humanism a
. .
religion protected by 1st
amendment (AHA is a 501c 3 religious tax
exempt non-profit)

• 1962 (Engel vs Vitale) Prayer banned
• 1963 (Abington vs Schempp) Bible reading
  forbidden in schools
• 1968 (Epperson vs Arkansas) Laws against
  teaching Evolution now unconstitutional
• 1973 Humanist Manifesto 2 Roe v Wade
  (ABORTION IS IN!)
• 1980 (Stone vs Graham) Ten Commandments out of
  schools

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1982 (McLean vs Arkansas) Law mandating
creation and evolution banned

• 1987 (Aguillard vs Edwards)
• God Himself is out of the U.S.A.!
• 2003 Supreme court throws out Texas sodomy law
  and homosexuality is in.
• 2005 Court mandated murder (euthanasia) is in
  (Terri Schaivo).

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Even if all the data point to an intelligent
designer, such an hypothesis is excluded from
science because it is not naturalistic.

• Scott C. Todd, (Kansas State University
  Immunologist) Nature, September 30, 2000,
  Letters to the editor.

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THE GOD OF THE BIBLE IS OUT!

• It is not that the methods and institutions of
  science somehow compel us to accept a material
  explanation of the phenomenal world, but on the
  contrary, that we are forced by an a priori up
  front adherence to material causes to create an
  apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts
  that produce material explanations no matter how
  counter-intuitive, no matter how mys-

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• tifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that
  materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a
  divine foot in the door.
• Dr. Richard Lewontin, Billions and Billions
  of Demons, The New York Review, Jan. 9, 1997, p.
  31
• Total intolerance for even the idea
• of God the Creator.
• The issue is GOD!

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ROMANS 128-32

• And even as they did not like to retain God in
  their knowledge, God gave them over to a
  reprobate mind, to do those things which are not
  convenient not proper Being filled with all
  unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness,
  covetousness, maliciousness full of envy,
  murder, debate, deceit, malignity whisperers,
  backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud
  boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient
  to parents, Without understanding,
  covenantbreakers, without natural affection,
  implacable, unmerciful Who knowing the judgment
  of God, that they which commit such things are
  worthy of death, not only do the same, but have
  pleasure in them that do them.

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• When we as a nation, a people, depart from the
  authority of Gods Holy Word, the Bible, starting
  with the book of Genesis, and we accept
  evolutionary thought and theory (matter is all
  there is, we are evolving animals, the earth is
  billions of years old), all manner of mischief
  and evil creep into our country and into our
  culture!
• IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

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AMERICA

• We must return to our loving Heavenly Father and
  submit to the truth and authority of the Word of
  God The Bible!

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JOHN 319-21

• And this is the condemnation, that light is come
  into the world, and men loved darkness rather
  than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For
  every one that doeth evil hateth the light,
  neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds
  should be reproved discovered, exposed. 21 But
  he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his
  deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought
  in God.

155
GENESIS 11

• In the beginning God created the heaven and the
  earth.

156
REVELATION 411

• Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and
  honour and power for thou hast created all
  things, and for thy pleasure they are and were
  created.

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SATANS DECEPTION

• Replace Biblical Creation with millions of years
  and evolution, and, next, it is easy to get God
  out. (Evolution we can be here via evolution
  with no need for God.)
• When evolution is in and God is out, the world,
  the flesh and the devil rule and Satans
  deception is complete, in all its rebellion.
• The rebellion begins in the home Pride and
  selfishness rule (example husbands dont lead,
  children know better than parents how to run
  their lives, etc.).

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SATANS DECEPTION

• If evolution is true then Jesus is not the
  Creator.
• If Jesus is not the Creator then He does not have
  the authority and right to be the Savior.
• If Jesus is not the Savior, then the Bible is not
  true.
• If the Bible is not true, then let us eat, drink
  and be merry for tomorrow we die.
• If tomorrow we die, then all we have is the lust
  of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride
  of lifewhich is of the world. 1 John 216

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WHEN GOD IS OUT, ATHEISTIC HUMANISM IS IN!

• Education is the most powerful ally of Humanism,
  and every American school is a school of
  Humanism. What can the theistic Sunday Schools,
  meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching
  only a fraction of the children, do to stem the
  tide of a five-day program of humanistic
  teaching? Charles Francis Potter
• Humanism A New Religion, (New York Simon
  and Schuster), 1930

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A RELIGION FOR A NEW AGE

• The battle for humankinds future must be waged
  and won in the public school classroom by
  teachers who correctly perceive their role as the
  proselytizers of a new faith a religion of
  humanity that recognizes and respects the spark
  of what theologians call divinity in every human
  being. These teachers must embody the same
  selfless dedication as the most rabid
  fundamentalist preachers, for they will be
  ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom

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• instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values
  in whatever subject they teach, regardless of the
  educational levelpreschool day care or large
  state university. The classroom must and will
  become an arena of conflict between the old and
  the newthe rotting corpse of Christianity,
  together with all its adjacent evils and misery,
  and the new faith of humanism, resplendent in its
  promise of a world in which the never real- ized
  Christian ideal of love thy neighbor will
  finally be achieved.humanism will emerge
  triumphant. It must if the family of humankind is
  to survive. John Dunphy, The
  Humanist, (Jan. 1983, pp. 23-26)

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RELIGIOUS HUMANISTS TEACH EVOLUTION IN OUR
SCHOOLS!

• The American Humanist Association is a religious,
  tax-exempt organization.
• At last notice the AHA was REGISTERED WITH THE
  IRS as a 501(c)3 just like our churches!
• Evolution is the faith-based religious foundation
  of Humanism.
• For more see Clergy in the Classroom The
  Religion of Secular Humanism, David Noebel

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• If we call ourselves Christians we must submit
  to the authority of Gods Word, the Bible, and it
  is absolutely true when it says

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• My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven
  and earth. Psalm 1212
• Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made
  heaven and earth. Psalm 1248
• The Lord that made heaven and earth bless thee
  out of Zion. Psalm
  1343
• Ah Lord God! Behold. Thou hast made the heaven
  and the earth by Thy great power and stretched
  out arm, and there is nothing too hard for Thee.
  Jeremiah 3217

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The heavens declare the glory of God and the
firmament showeth his handiwork.
Psalm 191

• Through faith we understand that the worlds were
  framed by the word of God, so that things which
  are seen were not made of things which do
  appear. Hebrews 113
• By the word of the Lord were the heavens made
  and all the host of them by the breath of his
  mouth.For he spake and it was done.
  Psalm 336,9a

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WHY WOULD A TRUE CHRISTIAN BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION?

• How can ye believe, which receive honour one of
  another, and seek not the honour that cometh from
  God only? John 544
• For they loved the praise of men more than the
  praise of God. John 1243
• PRIDE?

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PROVERBS 1618

• Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty
  spirit before a fall.

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REMEMBER REVELATION 411

• Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and
  honour and power for thou hast created all
  things, and for thy pleasure they are and were
  created.

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GOD WONT SHARE HIS GLORY!

• And I will not give my glory unto another.
• Isaiah 4811c
• Evolution robs God of His glory!
• Evolution steals Gods praise!
• Christian Are you believing the words of men
  (evolution) or the Word of God?
• If you accept evolution, is it because of pride?

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1 PETER 55-7

• Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the
  elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another,
  and be clothed with humility for God resisteth
  the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. 6
  Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand
  of God, that he may exalt you in due time 7
  Casting all your care upon him for he careth for
  you.

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• The God of all creation cares about us!
• The Creator-Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, loves
  us and wants a relationship with us.
• Christianity is not a religion, it is a
  relationship with our loving Lord.
• For by grace are ye saved through faith and
  that not of yourselves it is the gift of God
  Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we
  are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto
  good works, which God hath before ordained that
  we should walk in them. Ephesians 28-10

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ISAIAH 4028

• Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that
  the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the
  ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is
  weary? there is no searching of his