I am thinking today about how the core of the gospel has been the same for so many centuries. What we believe today is essentially what has been taught for the last 2000 years, and we can sing so many of the same songs, read the same messages and sermons as our forefathers. And, also on the flip side, the heresies are pretty much the same, too. Gnosticism, a threat of the early church, is here with today, almost exactly as it was then.
Just before the outbreak of World War II, Oxford professor and don, C. S. Lewis, wrote, "Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason because bad philosophy needs to be answered."
Later, in Weight of Glory, he wrote, "to be ignorant and simple now...would be to throw down our weapons and to betray our uneducated brethren who have no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen."
Attacks against us have always taken an intellectual approach, and they should be answered that way.
Chuck Colson's comments....
Bad philosophy--like relativism, naturalism, and secular humanism--runs rampant in our legislatures, schools, movie theaters, and even our churches....we need to learn how to defend the Truth when so many others are throwing down their weapons.
We need to be able to understand and express our own worldview...
C.S. Lewis was right. Our culture needs more men and women who will wield good philosophy to counter the bad philosophy of the postmodern era--men and women who can winsomely present the Christian worldview in their own spheres of influence!
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