Look at this contrast: “Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who
is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.”
(I Corinthians 2:12) “The natural person
does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and
he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.”
(I Corinthians 2:14)
The reason that Darwin promoted naturalism
was because he was a “natural person” who could not understand spiritual
things. The reason that the church of Jesus Christ continues to grow amidst the
opposition of the natural world of natural people is that the Spirit of God is
at work giving spiritual life to all of God’s children.
While the world boasts in its Darwins,
Dawkins, and Hawkings, the church boasts in this: that “we have the mind of Christ” (I Corinthians 2:16), and so we “understand and know” the only true God,
“who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth”,
(Jeremiah 9:24) as recognized by all who have received “the things freely given us by God”.
© 2013 Monte Vigh ~ Box 517,
Merritt, BC, V1K 1B8 ~ in2freedom@gmail.com
Unless otherwise noted,
Scriptures are from the English Standard Version (The Holy Bible, English
Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good
News Publishers.)
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