Issachar Gazette: Common Sense in an Age of Vain Ideology
Abre mis ojos
See: Athens and Jerusalem
Great book: Assumptions That Affect Our Lives
Different starting points, different conclusions
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God is personal and unlimited |
Nature is impersonal and does not reason
Gods are amplified humanity
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Man is imago dei; created by choice, not chance
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Man is random assembly of amino acids (dehumanizing); men came from fish (Anaximander, Darwin)
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The Lord is God |
Man is god, the measure of all things (self-deification) |
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Greek |
Hebrew (Judeo-Christian)
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Mode of Thinking |
Eye-Sight: photographic impressions |
Essence of things: content before external form. |
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Measure of all things?
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Man |
God as alpha and omega |
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Worth of Life |
Sparta: abortion or infanticide of the weak (collectivism)[1]
Athens: abortion of inconvenient babies (individualism)[2] |
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Materialism or Supernaturalism |
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Source of information: objective, superhuman source absolutely necessary in defining human values
Man is not qualified in and of himself to be his own standard of moral or ethical measurement: Jer 17:9 – unreliable source of guidance
God’s unchanging laws. – not subject to public opinion or the vote. Nonnegotiable.
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