deuteronomist
Puritan Board Freshman
For the sake of argument, I want to look at history through a forensic lens, insofar as our limited knowledge can get us.
I am requesting that the creation debate be left out of this thread. (Please, I know this is going to be the first thing many touch upon.)
Could the devastating course of history have been stopped? I am referencing liberalism, deism, marxism and its derivatives, mass adoption of secularism, atheism, agnosticism, and moral decay and revolution.
Could this even have been stopped?
It is clear that the beginning of the end was undoubtedly the 18th century. However, my fear is that the Protestant reformation ITSELF, acted as a corrosive force, putting into people’s minds a critical mindset, destroying the wonder and mysticism of the human mind. This isn’t a comment on the doctrines of Rome or the eastern Orthodox.
Could this have been stopped? If so, how? There sheer weight of mass human movement and cultural rot never stemmed and only has intensified. Yet there was limited trace of this problem en force until after the reformation happened.
The past 2 years have essentially forced me to significantly rewrite my political and theological opinions. It’s part of the reason I became reformed. I don’t even know if I can say I believe in religious freedom anymore. The way things are now, the trend seems inevitable. Even if the third world becomes almost completely Christian, will they even resemble orthodoxy? Once they begin adopting critical thought and study, it seems the fate there is likewise inevitable.
I am requesting that the creation debate be left out of this thread. (Please, I know this is going to be the first thing many touch upon.)
Could the devastating course of history have been stopped? I am referencing liberalism, deism, marxism and its derivatives, mass adoption of secularism, atheism, agnosticism, and moral decay and revolution.
Could this even have been stopped?
It is clear that the beginning of the end was undoubtedly the 18th century. However, my fear is that the Protestant reformation ITSELF, acted as a corrosive force, putting into people’s minds a critical mindset, destroying the wonder and mysticism of the human mind. This isn’t a comment on the doctrines of Rome or the eastern Orthodox.
Could this have been stopped? If so, how? There sheer weight of mass human movement and cultural rot never stemmed and only has intensified. Yet there was limited trace of this problem en force until after the reformation happened.
The past 2 years have essentially forced me to significantly rewrite my political and theological opinions. It’s part of the reason I became reformed. I don’t even know if I can say I believe in religious freedom anymore. The way things are now, the trend seems inevitable. Even if the third world becomes almost completely Christian, will they even resemble orthodoxy? Once they begin adopting critical thought and study, it seems the fate there is likewise inevitable.