 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor (Ex 20:16, NKJV)
The entire storyline of the Bible is one of conflict between truth and lies, with the result that the ninth commandment forms a golden thread that runs the entire length of the tapestry of scripture, from the serpent of Eden to the wedding feast of the Lamb. This thread is abrasive and chafes against the will of man and devil alike. I would argue that there is no such thing as a sin that is not, at its heart, a conflict between the truth of God and the lies of the flesh. The perpetual arrogance of the flesh leads every age of man to think its time in history unique. The secular man believes himself to be the most enlightened, most highly evolved, and the most self-aware. The Christian man, afflicted with that self-same arrogance, believes his lot to be uniquely troubled by the world, the flesh, and the devil. There is yet a third category: the self-identified Christian who believes the faith once delivered to all the saints must also evolve to engage and adapt to the demands of the moment. All three categories of man face the same choice—to live by the truth as established by the Creator, or to live by the narrative, guided by voices wholly other than divine revelation. Our postmodern culture yammers on incessantly about “truth,” yet in the next breath discounts its very existence. We are told to express “our truth,” and that who we are, where we come from, how we have lived, and the color of our skin contribute to shaping this self-defined truth. Truth is reduced to fabrication by assertion by authority, social or otherwise, and/or by repetition. Truth is whatever the media talking points are today, never mind that they contradict yesterday’s points, we have all moved on. Didn’t you get the memo? Every man is Pontius Pilate, asking, “What is truth?”
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Sometimes lately I feel as if I am living through a Rip Van Winkle episode—have I just awakened from some great slumber to find the world around me suddenly mauled by the intellectual graffiti we know as Critical Theory? It seems like only yesterday schools, universities, legislatures, newsrooms, TV, movies, articles, corporations, and bureaucracies were populated chiefly by rational people capable, to varying degrees, of thinking for themselves. Yet now that world has been replaced by metastatic groupthink rooted in the toxically self-absorbed musings of intellectual B-listers from the 1960s.
The Bible teaches that the people of the Way are at war with the world, the flesh and the devil (Eph 2:2,3), so it should not be surprising that the world and its faithless culture should so enthusiastically seek new philosophies by which it might climb into its trendily decorated dumpster and set itself ablaze. What is surprising, concerning, and dare I say, truly frightening, is that Critical Theory (hereafter: Theory) should be finding fertile soil for its malignant vines in churches, Christian schools and universities, and even seminaries. |
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