INTRODUCTION
The world is a difficult place with many problems. Thankfully for Christians, there is an authoritative Word (the Bible) and there is a supernatural God who lives in a realm of the kingdom of God. Through a personal relationship with Christ, that realm can come breaking into reality here, and things can change. That is the heart of the message in the Beatitudes, which we studied in the last two articles.
Around the 1700s, a view of humanity called the Enlightenment emerged. The Enlightenment said human beings, using their own reason, can figure things out and get better and better. The Enlightenment supposed that human beings are evolving toward higher and higher life forms. Man doesn’t necessarily need a supernatural being to get better.
The Enlightenment was a particular view of humanity that was incredibly optimistic. The Enlightenment looked at Christianity and said, “All this gloom about sin just lowers our self-esteem. All this talk about authority does is destroy our…
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