[TheRealThing]

https://www.rzim.org/read/a-slice-of-inf...revelation

Spirit that was a great article and I greatly appreciate your having posted the link. The dichotomy established by the enlightenment as it turns out, just happens to be a pet peeve of mine and a subject on which I have posted several times. As the writer lays out, there has been a separation of spiritual and temporal thought, (or earthly, for lack of a better term)

I am not one who believes that any one form of truth, can or should exist apart from the others. Especially in the case of the way spiritual truths impact social and scientific truths. No partition, no wall of separation should exist between the spiritual and the temporal, and that even if for the time being, the temporal does happen to be grounded in science. I say 'for the time being,' because IMHO the Lord will melt this universe at some point very soon with a fervent heat. But rejection of any truth perverts all truth in the mind of any who would be so foolhardy. My contention about all knowledge then, is as follows.

As is the case with everything that exists within the universe, that Thing which came first was God. If one does not accept that simple foundation, no matter what he builds, it is doomed to collapse as do all lies. This is what He says about understanding creation; John 8:12 (KJV)
12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

It is impossible for one who denies Christ to understand nature fully. Why? Because man's mind brilliant though it may be, in the natural state is one of partial yet substantial darkness. To wit, in Romans 1:21 Paul declares, when men choose a lifestyle outside of Christ, 'their foolish hearts are darkened.' Now, I understand fully that the truth of salvation is utterly unattainable outside a saving knowledge of Christ Jesus, but I cannot see anyway to limit the light of knowledge (the illuminated mind or as the writer of your article referred to, the enlightenment) to salvation only. The Light, illuminates men's hearts to receive all truth. Conversely, the darkness causes man to reject the heart of all truth, God. It would be like trying to understand the solar system while denying the sun.

But in man's dogged rejection of that light, lies the reason why he pushes so hard for the exclusion of Christianity or God's tenets from the public forum, from the public square, from the law, from the halls of congress and from the courts of this land. But it is also why men came up with the Big Bang Theory, and the Theory of Evolution. But worse, America at some point in the relatively recent past, turned her back on her need of the Lord. So now in the case of all the contempt and hatred erupting in our land, we see that in doing so we have sown the wind, and now we are and WILL reap the whirlwind. Anyone whom would deny that America is out of control at the social level, and since we are a government of and by the people, therefore at the federal level too, is kidding himself.

But I digress just a bit. Science falls short because they dismiss creation in favor of an exploding rock. Which theory BTW is so fraught with unresolvable impasse that Big Bang theory adherents had to fall back to the absurd position of saying that an impossible number of universes have existed simultaneously in time and that in one of them the Big Bang worked.

I won't belabor the point further, but anytime man denies God, His creative hand, and His sovereignty over every last little smidgeon of DNA, the very science he depends on to carry the day will at some point betray him. And, man will be forced to either admit the truth or he will have to lie. And since men prefer to believe a lie: 2 Thessalonians 2:11 (KJV) 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

My position is that all truth is of God, and man when he denies God at any point, will suffer for having done so. I believe the day of Tribulation is very likely near upon us, and the suffering will be impossible to describe.