LOVE NOT THE WORLD

 

LOVE NOT THE WORLD

 

  Ex-governor of Nebraska, former USA senator Bob Kerrey spoke Wednesday, October 22, 2019

 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 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 ecclesiastical power.

·         SECULARITY: Worldiness; supreme attention to the things of the present life.

  Is secularism contrary to godliness? Yes.

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