Friday, December 8, 2006

This book you MUST read

As you may have noticed or even heard me say, I am currently reading Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity. This is a book you absolutely must read and should have readily accessible on your home book shelf. Albert Mohler says the same thing.

For those who were at the bible study Wednesday night you will remember me making a point on history, evangelism and our worldview beginning in Genesis 1:1. Well just this morning I was reading from "Total Truth" and Pearcey hit the nail on the head with this paragraph, "The Christian message does not begin with "accept Christ as your Savior"; it begins with "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." The Bible teaches that God is the sole source of the entire created order. No other gods compete with Him; no natural forces exist on their own; nothing receives its nature or existence from antoher source. Thus His word, or laws, or creation ordinances give the world its order and structure. God's creative word is the source of the laws of physical nature, which we study in the natural sciences. It is also the source of the laws of human nature - the principles of morality (ethics), of justice (politics), of creative enterprises (economics), of aesthetics (the arts), and even of clear thinking (logic). That's why Psalm 119:01 says, "all things are your servants." There is no philosophically or spiritually neutral subject matter (Pearcey, Total Truth, 45).

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