Self-sufficient humanism. Paul saw it coming – “lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.”
God? Who Needs Him?
May 31, 2013
Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold. Matthew 24:12
Jesus may have had our day in mind when he spoke these words. Charles Taylor in A SECULAR AGE, writes….
“I would like to claim that the coming of modern secularity in my sense has been coterminous…”
(NOTE: Had to look this word up. Means having the same boundaries or extent in space, time, or meaning)
“….coterminous with the rise of a society in which for the first time in history a purely self-sufficient humanism came to be a widely available option. I mean by this a humanism accepting no final goals beyond human flourishing, nor any allegiance to anything else beyond this flourishing.”
“Of no previous society was this true.”
So here is the most encouraging thing I can think of to checkmate the reality of our age:
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. Hebrews 13:8