The law given to Israel had different categories. There were the commandments: fundamental instructions to do concerning God and morality. There were the judgments: civil law governing social behavior to their fellow man. There were the statutes: religious law of how to worship and serve the Lord correctly. Also there were the testimonies: the Lord […]
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Guest-post from R.P. Amos: "A Mystery Revealed in the Ark"
The law given to Israel had different categories. There were the commandments: fundamental instructions to do concerning God and morality. There were the judgments: civil law governing social behavior to their fellow man. There were the statutes: religious law of how to worship and serve the Lord correctly. Also there were the testimonies: the Lord […]
Secular Idolatry
Try as they might, modern naturalists are unable to escape the concept of God. A quote from Stony Brook University’s late evolutionary theorist Dr. George C. Williams demonstrates this tendency:
Though a major expositor of evolutionary theory, Dr. Williams was always aware that his explanations were a work in progress and that they might in principle be superseded by better ones. Evolutionary theory, as stated by its great 20th-century masters Ronald Fisher, J. B. S. Haldane and Sewall Wright, ‘may not, in any absolute sense, represent the truth,’ Dr. Williams wrote at the conclusion of his book on adaptation, ‘but I am convinced that it is the light and the way.’
In suppressing the truth of God, who is the true Creator, he ascribed divine attributes to unthinking, impersonal natural forces. The Lord Jesus Christ – “the way, the truth, and the life” – is supplanted by created things (Jn. 14:6); elsewhere He is called “the light of the world” (Jn. 8:12.) In essence, this is secular idolatry: assigning divine qualities to natural phenomena. For men to do this is nothing new, for Romans 1:25 details mankind’s past departure from the knowledge of their Maker: “[they]…exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.”
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