LOVE NOT THE WORLD
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Ex-governor of
Nebraska, former USA senator Bob Kerrey spoke yesterday at Creighton university,
Omaha Nebraska, as part of the school’s Presidential Series. About 250 people were in attendance. In
particular, pertaining to ethical behavior being existent long before Judaism
and Christianity were developed he stated “So I think it’s a mistake to set up
secularism as the enemy of religion.”
I could center on
someone making a snarky remark that he knows more about Debra Winger than Eve .
. . but I shall not. Instead I’ll first provide the Word of He who is the epitome
of morality and justice: “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If
anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is
in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of
life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing
away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.”
(ESV 1Jn.2:15-17; also note Rom.12:2; Jam.4:4; Mat.16:26; Luk.9:25; 1Cor.1:20; 3:19;
Gal.4:3; Col.2:8.)
Defining
secularism using Webster’s 1828 Dictionary:
·
SECULAR: Pertaining to the present world, or to
things not spiritual or holy; relating to things not immediately or primarily
respecting the soul, but the body; worldly. The secular concerns of life
respect making making provision for the support of life, the preservation of
health, the temporal prosperity of men, of states, &c. Secular power is
that which superintends and governs the temporal affairs of men, the civil or
political power; and is contradistinguished from spiritual or ecclsiastical
power.
·
SECULAR'ITY: Worldiness; supreme attention to
the things of the present life.
Is secularism
contrary to godliness? Yes.
EBB4
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