TITLE: Is Man Is the Measure of all Things?

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TITLE Is Man Is the Measure of all Things?

• TEXT Psalm 8, Romans 310-23
• THEME Mans greatness can only be found in the
  greatness of Gods grace.

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Dallas Willard

• "There are four great questions every human being
  must adopt an answer for in order to live."

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Dallas Willard

• "There are four great questions every human being
  must adopt an answer for in order to live."
• What is real?

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Dallas Willard

• "There are four great questions every human being
  must adopt an answer for in order to live."
• What is real?
• Who has the good life?

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Dallas Willard

• "There are four great questions every human being
  must adopt an answer for in order to live."
• What is real?
• Who has the good life?
• Who is a good person?

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Dallas Willard

• "There are four great questions every human being
  must adopt an answer for in order to live."
• What is real?
• Who has the good life?
• Who is a good person?
• How do you become a genuinely good person?

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What is the true nature of man?
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I. A Secular Humanist View of Man

• A. Humanism Defined
• A Humanist is someone who is interested in the
  intellectual and academic disciplines called
  humanities- so called because they deal with
  human nature in its fullness, the non-rational
  side of man as well as the rational. These have
  typically included literature, history, the
  fine-arts, philosophy and sometimes theology

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I. A Secular Humanist View of Man

• Secular Humanism Defined
• It is the addition of the word secular
  where the contrast begins and is to the Christian
  an oxymoron. The word secular comes from the
  Latin word saeculum which means time or age.
  To call something secular is to call it time
  bound, a creature of history with no vision of
  eternity.

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Humanist Manifesto I and IIPrinciples in Conflict

• The universe is self-existing and not created HMI

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Humanist Manifesto I and IIPrinciples in Conflict

• The universe is self-existing and not created HMI
• There are no eternal values or outside enforcer
  of values. The only morality is that which
  emerges from human experience. HMI

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Humanist Manifesto I and IIPrinciples in Conflict

• The universe is self-existing and not created HMI
• There are no eternal values or outside enforcer
  of values. The only morality is that which
  emerges from human experience. HMI
• Man has only the here and now. HMI

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Humanist Manifesto I and IIPrinciples in Conflict

• The universe is self-existing and not created HMI
• There are no eternal values or outside enforcer
  of values. The only morality is that which
  emerges from human experience. HMI
• Man has only the here and now. HMI
• Man alone can fulfill his own dreams and pursue
  his own achievements apart from the involvement
  of a supreme being. HMI

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Humanist Manifesto I and IIPrinciples in Conflict

• In some cases it is possible to believe in a God
  abstractly as long as you do not act or think as
  if he exists. HMI

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Humanist Manifesto I and IIPrinciples in Conflict

• In some cases it is possible to believe in a God
  abstractly as long as you do not act or think as
  if he exists. HMI
• Traditional dogmatic or authoritarian religions
  that place revelation, God, ritual or creed about
  human need or experience do a disservice to the
  human species. HMII

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Humanist Manifesto I and IIPrinciples in Conflict

• We can discover no divine purpose for the human
  species. No deity can or will save us- we must
  save ourselves. HMII

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Humanist Manifesto I and IIPrinciples in Conflict

• We can discover no divine purpose for the human
  species. No deity can or will save us- we must
  save ourselves. HMII
• Traditional religions are sexuality repressive
  and do damage to mans psyche. HMII

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Key promoters of Secular humanism.

• Francois Arouet (Voltaire) Philosopher
• Karl Marx Economist
• Tolstoy General
• Lenin President
• Sigmund Freud Psychologist
• Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher

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Key promoters of Secular humanism.

• Adolph Hitler
• Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher
• Francis Crick Scientist
• Albert Ellis/Kinsey Sexologists
• Guttmacher/Sanger

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Key promoters of Secular humanism.

• Betty Freidan Author
• Isaac Asimov Author
• B.F. Skinner Psychiatrist
• Carl Rogers Psychiatrist
• John Dewey Philosopher

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C. Secular Humanisms View of Christianity
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C. Secular Humanisms View of Christianity

1. Hostile

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Bill ORielly Interviewing Bill Maher.
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Voltaire

• This is what fools have written, what imbeciles
  comment, what rogues teach, and what you children
  are made to learn by heart. And the scholar who
  is filled with indignation and is irritated by
  the most abominable absurdities that have ever
  disgraced human nature, is called, blasphemer!
  

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Paul Kurtz

• Humanism cannot in any fair sense of the word
  apply to one who still believes in God as the
  source and creator of the universe (Humanism) is
  squarely in opposition to the movements which
  seek to impose an orthodoxy of belief and
  morality.

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Karl Marx

• Religion is the opiate of the people.

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Charles Darwin

• I can hardly see how anyone ought to wish
  Christianity to be true

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Friedrich Nietzsche

• Christianity should not be beautiful or
  embellished it has waged deadly war against this
  higher type of man (the perfected man of secular
  humanism) Christianity has sided with all that
  is weak and base with al its failures.

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C. Secular Humanisms View of Christianity

1. Hostile
2. Responsible for history evils

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What is the true nature of man?
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II. Problems with Secular Humanism (Romans
310-23)

• A. Shift from focus on God and Heaven to Earth
  and Man. .
• Hitchcock, Genuine human progress and
  fulfillment must be based on the recognition that
  man is dependent on God.

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II. Problems with Secular Humanism (Romans
310-23)

• Shift from focus on God and Heaven to Earth and
  Man.
• B. No meaning or purpose beyond this life.

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II. Problems with Secular Humanism (Romans
310-23)

• Shift from focus on God and Heaven to Earth and
  Man.
• B. No meaning or purpose beyond this life.
• Pascal, Science (and secular humanism) might
  become anti-humanistic, by reducing man to a mere
  speck in the universe.

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II. Problems with Secular Humanism (Romans
310-23)

• Shift from focus on God and Heaven to Earth and
  Man.
• B. No meaning or purpose beyond this life.
• C. Diminishes the sinfulness of man

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II. Problems with Secular Humanism (Romans
310-23)

• Shift from focus on God and Heaven to Earth and
  Man.
• B. No meaning or purpose beyond this life.
• C. Diminishes the sinfulness of man
• Romans 323 for all have sinned and come short
  of the glory of God.

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II. Problems with Secular Humanism (Romans
310-23)

• Shift from focus on God and Heaven to Earth and
  Man.
• B. No meaning or purpose beyond this life.
• C. Diminishes the sinfulness of man
• D. Condemns Christianity while ignoring the evil
  its own history

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II. Problems with Secular Humanism (Romans
310-23)

• Condemns Christianity while ignoring the evil its
  own history.
• Voltaire and Lafayette
• Marx, Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin
• Hitler
• Mao Tse Tung
• Khmer Rouge

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II. Problems with Secular Humanism (Romans
310-23)

• Shift from focus on God and Heaven to Earth and
  Man.
• B. No meaning or purpose beyond this life.
• C. Diminishes the sinfulness of man
• D. Condemns Christianity while ignoring the evil
  its own history
• E. Secular Humanism is a betrayal true humanism.

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What is the true nature of man?
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III. A Biblical View of Man Psalm 8

• Man is created a little lower than elohim.
• Man bears Gods Image
• Genesis 126 says let us make man in our own
  image

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III. A Biblical View of Man Psalm 8

• A. Man bears Gods Image
• B. Man is the apex of Gods creation

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III. A Biblical View of Man Psalm 8

• A. Man bears Gods Image
• B. Man is the apex of Gods creation
• Man is by nature sinful, self centered and prone
  to deception. God values man so much he has made
  the supreme sacrifice to redeem him.

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III. A Biblical View of Man Psalm 8

• A. Man bears Gods Image
• B. Man is the apex of Gods creation
• C. Man is by nature sinful, self centered and
  prone to deception

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III. A Biblical View of Man Psalm 8

• A. Man bears Gods Image
• B. Man is the apex of Gods creation
• C. Man is by nature sinful, self centered and
  prone to deception
• D. God values man so much he has made the supreme
  sacrifice to redeem him.

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Peter Hitchens Rogier van der Weyden
The Last Judgment
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Peter Hitchens, Rogier van der Weyden

• I peered at the naked figures fleeing toward
  the pit of hell...These people did not appear
  remote or from the ancient past they were my own
  generation They were me and the people I knew I
  had absolutely no doubt that I was among the
  damned, if there were any damned.

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Four great questions worldview questions

• 1. What is real? Christianity says that God is
  real. He is truth and he is the sources of all
  truth. Jesus said, I am the Way, the Truth and
  the Life, no one comes to the Father except
  through me. We cannot understand what is real
  unless we start with God.

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Four great questions worldview questions

• 2. Who has the good life? ? For the Christian the
  good life is found by growing and living in union
  with God in a mutually loving relationship.

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Four great questions worldview questions

• 3. Who is a good person? A person is declared
  good and righteous when he places his faith and
  trust in Jesus Christ. It says, Abraham
  believed God and it was credited to him as
  righteousness.

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Four great questions worldview questions

• 4. How do you become a genuinely good person?
  ?Romans 8 says we become good by living under the
  law of the Spirit of God.

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Peter Hitchens

• And in all my experiences in life, I have
  seldom seen a more powerful argument for the
  fallen nature of man, and his inability to
  achieve perfection, than those countries in which
  man sets himself up to replace God with the
  state pg. 152.

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Philosopher A.N. Wilson

• When I took part in the procession last Sunday
  and heard the Gospel being chanted, I assented to
  it with complete simplicity. My own return to
  faith has surprised no one more than myself. Why
  did I return to it? Partially, perhaps it is no
  more than the confidence I have gained with age.
  Rather than being cowed by them, I relish the
  notion that, by asserting a belief in the risen
  Christ, I am defying all the liberal clever-clogs
  on the block.

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Philosopher A.N. Wilson

• But there is more to it than that. My belief has
  come about in large measure because of the lives
  and examples of people I have knownnot the
  famous, not saints, but friends and relations who
  have lived, and faced death, in the light of the
  Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance
  that they have a future after they die.

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Philosopher A.N. Wilson

• Sadly, the secularists have all but accepted
  that only stupid people actually believe in
  Christianity, and that the few intelligent people
  left in the churches are there only for the music
  or believe it all in some symbolic or contorted
  way which, when examined, turns out not to be
  belief after all. As a matter of fact, I am sure
  the opposite is the case and that materialist
  atheism is not merely an arid creed, but totally
  irrational.

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Philosopher A.N. Wilson

• Materialist atheism says we are just a collection
  of chemicals. It has no answer whatsoever to the
  question of how we should be capable of love or
  heroism or poetry if we are simply animated
  pieces of meat. The Resurrection, which proclaims
  that matter and spirit are mysteriously
  conjoined, is the ultimate key to who we are.

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