JESUS CHRIST: GOD-MAN - Vital Christianity

There is a vicious battle going on for our minds! This should not surprise us since the
Bible states that "What a man thinks, so is he" (Pr 23:7). This battle for the mind, and
thus the heart of man, is coming from all directions.
British philosopher Os Guinness has correctly observed:
"When God is dead, man doesn't believe in nothing. He believes in anything."1
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Today we are reaping the fruits from cultivating secular humanism based upon the
presupposition that there is no God. Man has replaced God. Augustine affirmed 1500 years ago:
"Cursed is everyone who places his hope in man."
The vicious battle for our minds is obvious everywhere:
● Secular humanism with its agnostic mindset and emphasis on man and his
achievements (i.e. science and technology) has left a spiritual vacuum in our society.
● Religious liberalism (modern theology) which has undermined the authority of the
Bible as the Word of God and thus left people with nothing more than the shifting sand of human
opinion in which one's authority for truth is the latest "discovery" (theory) of truth.
● Deconstructionism which holds that since there is no objective truth, past events or
writings have no intrinsic meaning. What matters is not what authors intended in literature but
what we think of what they wrote. Thus the past is freely revised to fit current politically and
religiously correct values.
● Religious pluralism with its assumption that all religions are works of human
interpretation and that no one religion has "the truth" has undermined the claim of Jesus who
categorically stated, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to [God] the Father
except through Me" (Jn 14:6).
● The great god Entertainment which has captivated the hearts of a people who are, as
sociologist Neil Postman entitled his book, Amusing Ourselves to Death.2
● Two thousand cults with millions of adherents many of which are zealously and
fervently evangelizing their narrow, authoritarian dogma.
● The New Age movement, which is old Hinduism in new clothes and which reeks of
the occult, is outpacing all other cults in their horrific rate of growth as it is increasingly
dominating the "spiritual consciousness" of our society.
● The occult has ensnared millions in its satanic bondage.