Lesson 5: The Christian Mind, Awareness of Evil & Conception of Truth
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Objective: to identify how the Church has succumbed to secular notions of good vs. evil and weakened its biblical view.
REVIEW
Supernatural Orientation
INTRODUCTION
Awareness of Evil – knowing “the world”
p. 86 “acute and sensitive”
Again, the reformation doctrine of the depravity of man through the doctrine of Original Sin
GEN 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
ROM 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
Westminster Confession, Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and the Punishment thereof: “From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.”
The Problem – distance from the world
p. 87 “We lean back in our armchairs, toast ou toes by the electric fire, turn on the radio or the telly, and indulge in the righteous pleasure of learning how much evil there is in the world – elsewhere.”
-What is Blamires saying about the location of evil and the Christian? – that although we are aware of evil, we are only smugly aware of it being outside and away from our lives and thinking.
-What things (places, people, events, ideas) do we think smugly about?
In what sense is “evil elsewhere” also here?
The Temptation – conformity to the world
“p. 87-88 “The Church can never truly ally itself with our materialistic Conservatism or our materialistic Socialism.”
-Why? “For the Church is up against the Establishment.”
-The temptation to conform. P. 93 “because the world is evil, its judgements are not be relied upon.
The Solution – judgement of the world
P 89 –“The true Christian mind will bring to bear upon the human scene….”
casuistry – “Used with a negative connotation, casuistry refers to reasoning that is specious or hair-splitting and seen as intentionally misleading.” Wikipedia
The Internal Threat- worldly pride
p. 90 “the Christian Mind knows that a cunning or intelligent man may lead a life of almost diabolical pride, in which he strives in every moment to minister to the desire and vanities of his own inflated self - and yet may pass for a respectable law-abiding citizen.”
-for the Christian, to not succumb to pride and vanity in his place in society
who may succum
Examples – language of the world
Note especially his concern for the vocabulary p. 100 and 101 to seduce the Christian mind into accepting debauchery as legitimate.
Final note – overcoming the world
P 104 – 105 – if Christians think carefully and prayerfully…”
-descriptions akin to swordplay with the world.
Objective: to identify how the Church has succumbed to secular notions of good vs. evil and weakened its biblical view.
REVIEW
Supernatural Orientation
INTRODUCTION
Awareness of Evil – knowing “the world”
p. 86 “acute and sensitive”
Again, the reformation doctrine of the depravity of man through the doctrine of Original Sin
GEN 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
ROM 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
Westminster Confession, Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and the Punishment thereof: “From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.”
The Problem – distance from the world
p. 87 “We lean back in our armchairs, toast ou toes by the electric fire, turn on the radio or the telly, and indulge in the righteous pleasure of learning how much evil there is in the world – elsewhere.”
-What is Blamires saying about the location of evil and the Christian? – that although we are aware of evil, we are only smugly aware of it being outside and away from our lives and thinking.
-What things (places, people, events, ideas) do we think smugly about?
In what sense is “evil elsewhere” also here?
The Temptation – conformity to the world
“p. 87-88 “The Church can never truly ally itself with our materialistic Conservatism or our materialistic Socialism.”
-Why? “For the Church is up against the Establishment.”
-The temptation to conform. P. 93 “because the world is evil, its judgements are not be relied upon.
The Solution – judgement of the world
P 89 –“The true Christian mind will bring to bear upon the human scene….”
casuistry – “Used with a negative connotation, casuistry refers to reasoning that is specious or hair-splitting and seen as intentionally misleading.” Wikipedia
The Internal Threat- worldly pride
p. 90 “the Christian Mind knows that a cunning or intelligent man may lead a life of almost diabolical pride, in which he strives in every moment to minister to the desire and vanities of his own inflated self - and yet may pass for a respectable law-abiding citizen.”
-for the Christian, to not succumb to pride and vanity in his place in society
who may succum
Examples – language of the world
Note especially his concern for the vocabulary p. 100 and 101 to seduce the Christian mind into accepting debauchery as legitimate.
Final note – overcoming the world
P 104 – 105 – if Christians think carefully and prayerfully…”
-descriptions akin to swordplay with the world.
posted by Tulipman @ 4/01/2006 01:30:00 p.m.
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