Tuesday, March 27, 2018
The message
of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very
power of God. As the Scriptures say, “I
will destroy the wisdom of the wise and discard the intelligence of the
intelligent.” So where does this leave
the philosophers, the scholars, and the world’s brilliant debaters? God has made the wisdom of this world look
foolish. Since God in his wisdom saw to
it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our
foolish preaching to save those who believe.
It is foolish to the Jews, who ask for signs from heaven. And it is foolish to the Greeks, who seek
human wisdom. So when we preach that
Christ was crucified, the Jews are offended and the Gentiles say it’s all nonsense. 1 Corinthians 1:18-23(NLT)
Have you heard of
Peter Singer? According to the ranking
of the Top
50 Atheists, Singer is the world’s #1. Here is how The Best Schools describes
Singer:
Singer
is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the
University of Melbourne, Australia. Born in Melbourne, he is one of the world’s
most controversial philosophers. A Utilitarian in ethics, he believes that only
sentience, not species membership, confers moral value. This leads him to
ascribe greater moral value to healthy adult nonhuman mammals than to unborn,
newborn, mentally defective, and comatose humans. Singer has written: “The
notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.”
If you were to
take the time (and only if you have a strong stomach) to read through the list
of the top-50 on that page, it reads like the Who’s Who of
worldwide education. With a platform
that extends worldwide, Singer is an activist who tells us nonhuman mamals hold
greater
moral value than the unborn, newborn, mentally defective and
comatose humans.
If I get that
correctly (poor, humbly-minded Christian thinker that I am), Singer says that
if it came to a choice between a newborn – say a three-day-old child – and a
healthy duck-billed platypus…well, pull the plug on the human created in the
image of God!
Trust me – I get
it that people have different ideas on what constitutes the pecking-order of
life here on planet earth; what I never used to get is how those, like Singer, who
apparently despise humanity, find themselves at the head of the revered institutions
of higher learning around the world. It
would almost lead one to conclude the existence of a supernatural conspiracy
against the very possibility that humans as a species will continue much longer.
The Apostle Paul
understood this when he wrote to the church at Corininth. Those who are wise in the eyes of the world,
and those who are entrenched in their religious straight-jackets, holding the
form of religion, but denying the power of God seen in the cross, are perishing…headed
for destruction. And they are taking
multitudes with them right into the pit of hell.
The ancestors of
our modern day thinkers, along with the ancestors of the ungodly-but-very-religious
“big-wigs” were delighted to put Jesus on a cross. It was a great relief to not have him going
around the countryside healing the sick, lame and blind while telling people to
love each other.
Yeah – that’s
profund; hang the healer and release the killer.
For You Today
Before you take
too many breaths on any given day it is a smart thing to determine whether your
faith will fall on the side of worldly wisdom or Godly wisdom; that’s always a
choice you cannot, and should not ignore.
You chew on
that as you hit the Rocky Road; have a blessed day. 
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