Increasingly Perverse “Culture”

                                                                                                                                                                      Vol. VI, No. 8, October 1993

"A culture for whom God is no longer present will believe everything. Who would have imagined that as we became more and more technologically oriented, for example, millions of people would also become more and more devoted to astrology, directing their lives by what the planets were doing? Who would have expected that some of the most secularized cities, such as Los Angeles and Amsterdam, would become hosts to a growing array of bizarre cults, many of which reek of primitive superstition? ... When we believe in nothing, we open the doors to believe anything." [David Wells in No Place for Truth]

[Editorial Comment: Actually this is not surprising. John 8:32 tells us, "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." And Jesus said, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man cometh to the Father, but by me." (John 14:6). Thus not knowing the truth, we are not free. And not being free, we are subject to all the vagaries of untruth. Men sense their own inadequacies and without the one true God will search elsewhere for genuine joy and peace and freedom. And as each avenue leads to a dead end, as long as they continue to deny Christ, they will inexorably move to increasingly bizarre alternatives. Perhaps there is even a "law of the froward man: The more adamant the rebellion against Christ, the more irrational and perverse the substitute."]