Post by walterparr on Aug 7, 2006 15:12:30 GMT -5
Our society is in serious trouble.
Over the past forty years there has been a dramatic decline in the quality of our education and morals, and an equally dramatic rise in crime, murder, suicide, abortion, drugs, sexual promiscuity, divorce, debt and other societal ills.
The experts are struggling to understand the reasons for this decline.
Is it economics?
Is it the fault of special interest groups?
Is big business to blame?
Is it caused by the Republicans? The Democrats?
A.W. Tozer concluded that almost everything wrong with our society is due to the fact that as a nation, we have been losing the knowledge of God.
He went on to state that almost all of life's problems and their solutions are theological.
The person who comes to a right belief about God will relieve himself of a million other problems in life.
The person who has a wrong concept about God will add a million other problems to his life.
There is hardly a problem in society that can't be traced back to misperceptions about God.
It is impossible for an individual to keep their moral practices sound or a society to keep their values right when their idea of God is erroneous or inadequate.
If this decline of the knowledge of God has brought on almost all of our troubles, then the rediscovery of the knowledge of God will go a long way toward curing them.
Today, the most important obligation for Messiah’s Holy Community is to purify our concept of God until it is once more worthy of Him.
If we would bring back true spiritual power to our lives and health to our nation, we must think about Yahweh as He is - revealed in Scripture, not as we assume and imagine He is.
Over the past forty years there has been a dramatic decline in the quality of our education and morals, and an equally dramatic rise in crime, murder, suicide, abortion, drugs, sexual promiscuity, divorce, debt and other societal ills.
The experts are struggling to understand the reasons for this decline.
Is it economics?
Is it the fault of special interest groups?
Is big business to blame?
Is it caused by the Republicans? The Democrats?
A.W. Tozer concluded that almost everything wrong with our society is due to the fact that as a nation, we have been losing the knowledge of God.
He went on to state that almost all of life's problems and their solutions are theological.
The person who comes to a right belief about God will relieve himself of a million other problems in life.
The person who has a wrong concept about God will add a million other problems to his life.
There is hardly a problem in society that can't be traced back to misperceptions about God.
It is impossible for an individual to keep their moral practices sound or a society to keep their values right when their idea of God is erroneous or inadequate.
If this decline of the knowledge of God has brought on almost all of our troubles, then the rediscovery of the knowledge of God will go a long way toward curing them.
Today, the most important obligation for Messiah’s Holy Community is to purify our concept of God until it is once more worthy of Him.
If we would bring back true spiritual power to our lives and health to our nation, we must think about Yahweh as He is - revealed in Scripture, not as we assume and imagine He is.