2021 08 11 Christian Worldview Frenchtown Community Church Frenchtown MT

Do we love Jesus? Good evening. We are blessed tonight to have a guest speaker with us, Dr. James White. He is an apologist, a theologian, an author.

I'm going to just really not try to swell his head up too much. Most of you probably know more about him than I do. But the little that I've read has been encouraging and strengthened my faith. He's going to speak to us tonight about Christian worldview.

I'm just going to go ahead and turn it over to James. Come on up, sir.

Alpha Omega Ministries and the Speaker’s Background

First of all, you have no idea whether I'm going to say anything worthwhile whatsoever. You didn't have to bring in Phoenix weather just for me. I think it literally is only a degree warmer in Phoenix, maybe actually cooler right now than it is up here.

So thank you very much for that, but you didn't need to do that. I was actually looking forward to some cool, which I understand you have up here once in a while. But just as an introduction to those of you who don't know me, and that would be very easily understood why people would not know who in the world I am, because our ministry has always been a fairly small ministry.

It began in 1983, called Alpha Omega Ministries. We were originally focused on witnessing to Mormons. We used to, every six months, go up to the General Conference, the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City, and pass out tracts.

One of my favorite memories is a radio debate that I did on KTKK Radio in Salt Lake City. See if you'd want to do this. You're in Salt Lake City, Utah. The host of the program is a Mormon attorney. You have two BYU professors versus you in studio, and that was quite an interesting experience.

The phone calls were a little bit uneven, as far as that's concerned, but that's what you expect. We started off, really, with a strong emphasis on Mormonism, but then people started asking other questions.

I was in seminary, and then moving on beyond seminary to other education. We started expanding out what we were doing in apologetics, giving a defense of the faith. I always felt that it was very important to be very accurate in your representation of what others believe.

I felt that was important, if you're representing him who says he is the way, the truth, and the life, to be consistent. We've never tried to be experts on everything there is to be an expert on. I don't think you can be an expert on all things, and I could not accurately represent every religion there is on the planet.

We've tried to be somewhat limited, but over time, we ended up dealing with a wide variety of topics and issues. I ended up working as a critical consultant on the New American Standard Bible translation.

I have written books on many, many topics, one of which, my most popular book, is called The King James Only Controversy, where I deal with the King James Only issue and people who would say that English translation is the only translation of the Bible you should ever use, that kind of thing like that.

I've taught for years in a Southern Baptist seminary in Phoenix for many, many years, but overseas as well. I started traveling overseas in 2005, and in 2019, I flew 165 ,000 miles. I taught in Melbourne.

I taught in Johannesburg and Durban, South Africa. I taught in Samara, Russia, and I'll probably never get to do any of that again. The world changed, as we all know, and as we'll be talking about this evening.

Now, I'm literally on a road trip, which is why I'm dressed rather casually. I just drove here from Paradise Valley, Livingston area, today. I had driven up from Montana the day before and Denver the day before that, and so I'm doing the KOA fifth-wheel road-tripping thing up to Moscow, Idaho, where I'll be there over the weekend, and then it's all the way back to Phoenix, Arizona, hopefully with everything intact when I get back there.

That's my big goal. I want the air conditioning units still on the top of the unit, not hanging off the side, that kind of stuff. If any of you are RVers, any wisdom you wish to provide to me, I'm figuring it out, but this is an almost 4 ,000-mile trip.

What we're doing, basically, is we've just put out the word to churches and said, if you'd be interested in having us in, like on a Tuesday night, a Thursday night, things like that, as I'm tooling around the country, I don't even know how long I'll be able to get to do this, to be honest with you.

You might say, oh, we'll always be able to do that. Have you seen what's going on in Australia and Canada? You can't cross the borders between the various states and those countries right now without your PIPAs, and if you don't think that could happen here, I don't think you've been listening to Nancy Pelosi and a few other people quite closely enough, or especially that AOC lady.

That's really scary, but anyways. As long as I get a chance to do this, we are just traveling around and trying to benefit the saints and hopefully provide you with something that will be edifying to you.

The Rise of Christian Worldview as a Urgent Issue

Now, this evening, you may ask the question, okay, so I've done a lot of debates. I think debate is a wonderful—debate used to be a normal part of a classical education, and over—since August of 1990, I've done 175 moderated public debates around the world, including in mosques in South Africa.

And when people say, you've debated in mosques? Yeah, and I've never felt safer, to be perfectly honest with you. I've stood right where the imam leads the prayers in front of what's called the Qibla in one of the largest mosques in South Africa, and unlike you who are sitting upon nice padded seats, in that situation, everyone was on the floor, right about right there, right in front of me, for two and a half, three hours.

And they're comfortable doing that. We are whips. They win the ability to sit on the floor for a long, long time contest, I can assure you of that. But, so I do a lot of things. I, by the way, have been married for almost 40 years.

Next year is our 40th anniversary. I've got four grandchildren. Some of you, maybe one or two of you in here, maybe more, might know my daughter, Summer Yeager. She has a webcast called Sheologians, where she has been doing the fight against feminism and things like that for many years now.

And I'll be honest with you, when a lot of the current stuff about intersectionality and CRT and everything else started flooding into our experience, she was one of the first people I turned to. You know you're getting old when you can turn to your children and find in them a resource for yourself.

Now, she'll tell you that's because some of her earliest memories are sitting in the back of the car, driving with dad with one of these little whiteboards, you know the whiteboards we use, the big ones, the little ones for school and stuff like that.

And we would be doing Christian worldview stuff while driving around Phoenix, Arizona. So you sow the seed and there you go, you get to do that type of thing. But my areas of teaching, at least professionally, have primarily been in the areas of theology, apologetics, Greek, Greek exegesis, Hebrew, Hebrew exegesis, textual criticism, and church history.

Church history is the first class that I taught and I still love to teach church history. I've taught Christian philosophy, religion, and logic and things like that as well. So what that means is, you put all that together, having dealt with Islam and all the issues that come from that.

I've been asked this evening to address something that, to be honest with you, as recently as maybe three or four years ago, would have been considered somewhat of a highbrow topic. A topic where, well, it's good to talk about these things once in a while, but it's not really central to everybody.

Not everybody really needs to be concerned about this or know about this kind of thing. And so when we talked about a Christian worldview, that was considered, let's be honest, for most of us to be somewhat of an advanced topic.

Sort of an elective class. And all of a sudden, here we are, and I don't care how far away you can be from a massive major city. How many, what's the population of your state, Granton? Right at a million.

Okay, we have five times the number of people in Phoenix, just in my city, than you have in your entire state. Which does make for really lousy traffic situations. Though I'll have to admit, when I pulled into Missoula, I'm like, how do you get a traffic jam in Missoula?

How does that work? But it was there. So you may think, and I have found this mindset, you may think we're too far out to have to worry too much about the very obvious cultural worldview issues that are being forced upon the majority of American citizens today.

But the reality is, you know what I see when I look at my iPhone here? 5G. You know what that means? You're connected. That means you can't keep away from this stuff. That means your schools are just as subject to the influx of an absolutely foreign understanding of humanity and life that is now taking possession and has taken possession of pretty much all of the structures of our society as any place else in the United States.

It's here. You can't avoid it. And we're seeing the implications, and the implications are huge. The Christian worldview, which was something we used to have seminars about, and you'd go, oh, that was very interesting.

Now, all of a sudden, I'm not an ancient person. You may look at me and go, you certainly look that way, but I'm just about to start my seventh decade. It means I'm not quite 60 yet, but I'm just about there.

And I can tell you that one of the most changing experiences in my life was to become a grandfather. Marriage, big thing. Big thing. And I am so thankful to be able to tell you I got married at age 19.

She was 18, and we didn't have a kid for four years, so it was not a shotgun wedding, as they used to describe it. And I am so thankful that we did, because that means I have been able to be relatively young and healthy in the young years of my grandchildren.

And I may have a shot at seeing my great-grandchildren. I think that would be an incredible experience. But getting married changes you. Everybody who has gotten married knows that all of a sudden, that changes you.

Then having your first kid changes you. Makes you, well, that child, of course, as we all know, babies are one huge, massive, selfish black hole. The world revolves around them, and they suck all of that selfishness right out of you, because you have to meet their needs.

When that diaper explodes at 2 a .m. in the morning, there's nobody else that's going to be there doing anything about it but you. And you grow up, and you learn in the process, no question about it. But all of that, graduating from college, graduating from seminary, getting your first doctorate, getting your second doctorate, publishing your first book, none of that had the kind of impact that becoming a grandfather did.

Because all of a sudden, all of a sudden, that Disney song makes sense. The Circle of Life. I'm not sure if any of you have seen that one. It's sort of an older one, but it was on constant replay on a videotape.

Any of you remember videotapes? Some of you are going, wow, he really is old. Yes, VHS videotape in my household when I was younger. All of a sudden, you start seeing yourself in the entire connected history of your family and mankind.

And you start thinking, you see this little child, and you realize that little child is the child of your child, which means that little child is going to have to... All of a sudden, you start seeing things that you never really gave thought to when you were so easily distracted by things as a younger person.

And for me, what that means in light of what I'm seeing happening in Western culture, the complete abandonment of the fundamental foundational assumptions that gave us our system of law, education, and understanding of family.

All of these things, we wonder why in such rapid order, these things are being abandoned. And now, things that only 10 years ago, you thought everybody agreed on, now all of a sudden, if you believe things that everybody believed 10 years ago, you are a hate-filled person.

You're a bigot. You may lose your job. We all know that there are companies you can work for that if you were dared to express what the President of the United States expressed only 10 years ago, you'd lose your job today.

That's how rapidly things have changed. Why? And for me, what that has done is that has made me think, how do I communicate a Christian worldview that will stand the test of time to my great-grandchildren?

How do I do that? In light of what's coming, in light of the difficulties and the challenges, how do I do that? And should that even be something I care about? Because there are a lot of people like, hey, you're polishing brass on a sinking ship.

That's where the fact that I have taught church history down through the ages, down through the ages of my life, that's where that comes in. Because I realize there have been dark, dark times in church history.

If I say 1347, aside from you, does anyone know why I would even make reference to the year 1347? What is big about 1347? Anybody? 1347 is when the Black Plague hit Europe. Between 1347 and 1351, it's hard to do exact math because it's not like they had computers and things like that, but there are certain cities in Europe where 70 of the people who were alive on January 1st, 1347, were dead by the end of 1351.

In other places, it was 50 and get a little bit more rural, and it was about 35%. But between a third and a half, and maybe a little bit more, of the entire population of the land mass of Europe died between 1347 and 1351.

There were some forms of the plague that they actually theorized could be transmitted by looking at someone because there was a certain form of it that could kill you in 12 hours. 12 hours. So the idea was, I just looked at somebody and 12 hours later, you're dead.

So they actually thought that maybe there were some forms that were just literally transmitted in that way. Now at that particular point in time, if you were writing books about end times, you'd be doing well.

Just think about it. I mean, there is nothing that you could not have convinced folks that we are right at the end, and this is it, and this is every plague ever described in the Book of Revelation. It would be pretty easy when half the people around you are dying.

But think about what's happened since 1347. Think about Luther. Think about the Reformation. Think about the Puritans. Think about McShane and some of the incredible Scottish preachers and the revivals that have taken place.

Edwards and the first and second great awakenings. Just think about the tremendous things that have happened since 1347. So if I had looked around me in 1347 and 1349, I would have come to the wrong conclusions as to what God's purposes were in this world and everything else.

I would have been wrong because I would have been interpreting scripture in light of what was happening in my particular part of the world at that particular point in time. And so it's real easy for me, I'm Scottish, and Scotsmen tend to be, well, I don't think William Wallace was the most necessarily jovial type guy in the world, if you know what I mean.

We tend to be realists. And so I look around and go, man, there could be some really bad stuff coming. And there might be. But the temptation I have to resist is going, yep, okay. Because I already know that people did that in the year 1000.

People did that during the plague during Justinian's years in the 6th century. And there's been so many times during church history where people have figured this was it. I'm awful glad that they still copied books.

That they still continue to sow the seed into the next generations. And that's what I want to try to do. Now, when we talk about a worldview, the reality is I don't care whether you know that you have a worldview or not, you have one and it determines how you think and it determines the conclusions you come to, what you're going to do with information that's presented to you.

Think about right now how people can look at the news. Of course, it does depend on what news source you're looking at. But people can look at the news and, you know, you may have some folks in your family and you all sit there and you watch a program.

And you start talking about it afterwards and it's like they were watching something completely different than you were. And you're like, how did they come to those conclusions? It's because we have worldviews.

And the more aware you are of the form of your worldview and its foundational principles, the more you can examine your own thinking for consistency and truthfulness. The less aware you are of the guiding presuppositions, the guiding assumptions in your thinking, the less you can examine the conclusions you come to and hence be consistent.

And I believe that as Christians, if you're listening to me as a Christian, we are made in the image of God and we are made to think God's thoughts after him. To think God's thoughts after him. What do I mean by that?

That's what it means to think rationally, coherently, and logically. God created this world to function in a particular fashion. When you wake up in the morning, you are thankful that gravity is not just simply something that God turns on and turns off depending on what day of the week it is.

Our universe functions according to particular laws. And as such, we are invited as his creatures, the only creatures that are described as being in the image of God, to think his thoughts after him. That does not mean that we can know everything that God knows or that God has revealed everything that God knows.

But what it does mean is that we should be individuals, Christians especially, should be individuals who seek to think logically and consistently and truthfully about all of life. Not just what we consider to be the religious aspect of life.

All of life. Why all of life? Well, let's think about it this way. The Christian message is an amazingly crazy message to the world. When you read the New Testament, you know what the New Testament tells us?

The New Testament tells us that the Christian message is that the creator of all things, all things, actually entered into his own creation in the person of Jesus Christ. Lived in the backwaters of the Roman Empire, never wrote a book, never raised an army, never visited Rome, and yet he was the creator of all things.

And died on a Roman cross. As the Apostle Paul says in 1 Corinthians chapter 1, the preaching of the gospel is to them that are perishing, foolishness. We are asking people to believe something that is absolutely insane.

And yet here we are, gathered in a warm room on a Wednesday night on the other side of the planet from where all these things took place. Speaking a language that did not exist in that day, and yet the reason this building exists, the reason this church exists, the reason we're here is because we believe that the events that took place that long ago, that far away, are actually relevant to our lives today.

How did that happen? When you take seriously what the New Testament teaches about Jesus, it is amazing. Jesus said some incredible things. These two verses, what does Jesus say? The disciples to himself, he's about to ascend back to the presence of the Father.

And what does he say? All authority has been given to me in heaven and earth. Do you believe that? Do you believe that? Incredible and massive implications. And that's, see the therefore? The therefore always points back to why it's therefore.

And so that's a connective right there. The reason that we are to go and make disciples of all nations is because all authority has been given to Jesus. We live in a society now where there is a massive authority question.

Our founders recognized basic fundamental Christian principles. They may not have all been Christians by any stretch of the imagination. But they designed a system of government that recognized that man has a tendency toward evil.

And therefore they diffused power amongst the branches of government. And basically, the Constitution is how you reign in the government so that men can remain free. But the assumption was that those free men would then live in accordance with the recognition of the law of God.

John Adams specifically said that the Constitution is meant for the governance of a moral and religious people and it is unable to function for any other type of people than that. If he's right, we've got a problem.

The point is that our founders recognized that there was a central ordering principle in the reality of God's existence that gives meaning to life. And that meaning is not given to life by the government.

It comes from God. That's why they use that term inalienable rights. And so, like I said, not all of them were believers. But they were deeply influenced by a worldview that goes like this. Now, let me back up just a second.

What kind of worldview is being presented in our universities and hence our colleges and hence our high schools and hence our elementary schools anymore? Think with me if you, graphically in your mind, view all the various fields of human knowledge.

And there are so many today. We pride ourselves. I mean, oh goodness. I'm not sure how many thousand times more powerful my phone is than the computers that guided Apollo 11 to the moon and back. But it's thousands and thousands and thousands of times faster and more powerful than the computers that they have.

And so, we think that because we can stick something like this in our pocket, that this somehow makes us significantly smarter than the people who landed on the moon. And certainly much more than the people who went before that.

We know so much today. The reality is, folks, that there was a day when we considered intelligence to be measured by how broad your knowledge was, not how specialized it was. There was a day when there were people who had knowledge in pretty much all of the fields of human reading and human study.

And today, we turn to people who have a deep, deep, deep slice of knowledge that's that wide, that isn't even related this far over, let alone historically or anything else like that. And people like that may be extremely intelligent indeed, but their opinions on things are probably not overly worthwhile at all.

They can't connect anything to history, they can't predict them, what their actions are going to bring about across a broad spectrum. They're actually dangerous, and they are the people that we are putting in charge right now, by the way, in passing.

All these fields of knowledge now, and in our public education system, how do you put them together? What's the central point? Well, there's only one central point that can be had in a non-theistic system, where you don't have the God who created all things.

The one thing in the middle that's then connected to all the history, and religion, and science, and medicine, and ethics, and morality, and everything that goes with it, all these fields of study, what holds it all together?

You. It's up to you to relate all of these fields of knowledge. And philosophers realized a long time ago, that doesn't work. None of us can do that. And yet, is that not central to what we are doing?

Is that not central to this new experiment where you get to autonomously determine the very nature of reality itself? I'm old enough to remember when a man named Bruce Jenner won the Olympic decathlon.

That was back when the Olympics were actually fun to watch. And, in fact, that was back before something called the internet, and cable TV, and all the rest of that kind of stuff, so there wasn't much else to watch anyways.

And so everybody watched it, and everybody was excited about it. How many of you remember watching Bruce Jenner? Okay, there's a few of you there, alright. We live in a day where he is running for the governor of the state of California as a female.

Now, how have we gotten to this point? How have we gotten to the point, in a matter literally of a decade, of actually thinking that what we used to believe was bigotry, and hate, and now is a whole new other way?

Well, because we've accepted this idea that what happens between here and here determines reality. And so we're trying to live out this worldview where man is in the center. I think that means there is an incoming nuclear weapon right now, and so I think we all need to get under the pews and sing Blessed Assurance, because we're about to go down.

Actually, I think that's the ringtone that a friend of mine has when his wife calls, so I'm sort of like, look out, whatever you're doing! This is bad timing. Anyways, every time that happens I say, this is something Spurgeon never had to deal with, and so there you go.

It's always funny whatever the ringtone is. What was I talking about? So Moses was in the bullrushes, and okay. So we are trying to live out and make real the idea that we are in the center and we get to determine and to relate all of knowledge, and we're big enough to do that because of what's right here.

And that's why Bruce Jenner can now be called Caitlyn Jenner. I've often wondered, does he have to give back his gold medal? Because that was the men's Olympic decathlon, right? So if he wasn't actually a man, and he was a woman, then should he get the gold for the women's decathlon from back then and give the gold to the silver?

I don't know how any of that works because it can't work in history. It's only relevant to right now. Because he could change his mind tomorrow, and we all have to go with what he says tomorrow. That's what happens when you put man in the center.

It all breaks apart. There can be no consistency from one generation to the next. These days there can't be a consistency from one week to the next. That's why things and truth changes so quickly. I'm wondering in light of what's going on right now.

If we have to seriously, I mean you can be removed from social media, you can lose your job, there are certain states that have passed laws that you can be penalized, you can be fined because you used the wrong pronouns, which is just utter insanity.

To actually change the language itself and expect you to be memorizing pronouns would be unbelievable. The attack on language, by the way, very, very important to worldview issues. But I've wondered in light of what's happening right now, can I just simply identify as a vaccinated person?

If Bruce Jenner, under pain of law, has to be called Caitlyn Jenner, though we know in reality what the genetic outcome of any examination of his cells would be, why can't I just identify as a vaccinated person?

I can guarantee you the Biden regime will not allow me to do that. Because there is no need for consistency. Without consistency, you cannot communicate any meaningful truth to the next generation. And any society that falls into that is doomed to its own destruction.

The Triune God at the Center of Knowledge

Well, what's the alternative? The alternative is you have all these fields of knowledge, and in the center, well, put all the fields of knowledge like this, and right down here, put yourself. You're in the midst of all these other things.

And from the Christian perspective, right in the center is the triune God, Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Notice I did not say simply God. Because though I don't really have time to develop it this evening, I would argue that a bare theism, a just nebulous idea of a God of some kind is insufficient to function here.

Because what happens is, okay, I'm down here, God's in the center, here's all the fields of knowledge. As I am related properly to Him, as I see myself in light of what He has revealed I am to be, which is found in the world around us, but in specific detail in what's called special revelation in Scripture.

And remember, even Adam, before the fall, was dependent upon a word from God. Before the fall, he was dependent upon God to tell him, don't eat that, go ahead and eat that. Even then. So in Scripture, there is a revelation of who I am, where I stand in history, what God's purposes are.

So as I'm related to Him, and of course in the Christian perspective, that means in submission to His truth, having received forgiveness of my sins by faith in Jesus Christ. As I'm related to the triune God, then through the triune God I can have accurate knowledge and relationship to all the other fields of knowledge because I see them as His creation.

And He does not create anything that is purposes. And so I am insufficient, if I'm in the center, to put all this stuff together. It will fly apart into chaos, and the chaos we are seeing in our society right now.

The chaos we are seeing. Every meaningful, good relationship that God has given to us, our society is attacking. What was it last week or the week before last? When you're on the road, you start losing track.

It's more like miles than time. But sometime recently, the AMA, the American Medical Association, recommended the removal of any gender identification on birth certificates. Which means, I remember, anybody else remember?

I actually got to be in the delivery room for both of my kids. And remember what happened when the birth takes place? What does the doctor do? It's a boy! It's a girl! I'll bet you anything. Probably already is true in some place like Massachusetts or California or Oregon or Washington or all those places of insanity.

I bet it's already either considered wrong or is illegal for the doctor to even say that. What is it? A human offspring. Yeah, but what is it? Well, I think we should give it some time to tell us. That's what happens.

The most basic, you can't even any longer define or celebrate fatherhood, motherhood, what it means to be a husband, what it means to be a wife. If we had a presidential candidate during the democratic primaries, he would introduce his husband.

If you don't feel the utter disintegration of that which held this nation together and which holds humanity together in that, you're missing it. You're not listening or you've been listening to the wrong stuff.

That's what this whole emphasis upon intersectionality is all about. Intersectionality divides everyone from everyone. It eats away at everything that used to unite us and says that you are an absolute victimized individual and you need to maximize your victimization points, basically.

When you think what the end result of that is, it is utter collapse of any society that is infected with this as a disease because it is a disease. What is the Christian solution? You might say, well, we already tried that.

It failed, right? No, no. Actually, it was quite successful in many ways. But the reality is even most in the church came to the point where they lost a daily recognition of some of the key truths of the faith and worldliness came in and eroded the emphasis upon what we would now properly call the Christian worldview.

We became embarrassed because of a man named Charles Darwin. We did, didn't we? Everybody in this room knows that if you open your mouth in our society and question the dogma of how mankind came to be mankind, you will be mocked and derided.

I know because I was public school educated. In fact, as a young person, I haven't really thought about that much, but I don't have any recollection of knowing anybody in our circles. I was in a fundamentalist context that was homeschooled.

There were some Christian schools, but homeschooling? Never even heard of them. I was public schooled, and I was well educated. I was educated back east in Pennsylvania up through fifth grade. One thing I will be very, very thankful, they taught me to read.

When I came out to Arizona in sixth grade, they gave me a test, and I was reading at college level. They had taught me to read, and I've always been a reader. Still, I had to fight the fight as a person who believed the Bible all the way through public education.

I was class valedictorian in my junior high school, class valedictorian in my high school. Yeah, I was that guy. I was the guy who never got a B, never got a merit, was never late for class. I'm that guy.

Please don't throw things. I've gotten over most of that. As a result, I was in the advanced biology classes and things like that. I remember in freshman year, sophomore year of high school, I would sit with my biology teacher at lunch, eating those horrific, horrific lunch burritos.

Was that not torture? Oh my goodness. Some of you, now you're going to lose all respect for me when I say this, but I love taco time. I really do. If you have a taco time here, thank you very much. We don't have any taco times in Arizona.

I would weigh 388 pounds if we had taco times in Arizona. Some of you are going, you do. No, I don't. Those tacos, the burritos, oh, those are wonderful. Man, those lunch burritos. In about 1977, oh my goodness, they were horrible, but you had to eat them.

I would sit there with my biology teacher and he would bring photocopies in from his college level textbooks. We were arguing neo-Darwinian genetics and the whole nine yards. So, I started early. Then I went to a Christian college.

Everybody's going, oh, see, there it is. No. I was double major, Bible and biology. Finished all my work for a BS in biology. Took a BA in Bible, unfortunately, but I was department fellow in anatomy, physiology.

I was the only creationist in the biology department at my Christian college. So, the battle continued. I can tell you that I don't think there has been any intellectual revolution that has been more important in the establishment of a secular worldview with man at the center.

Since each one of us is too small at the center, you know what ends up happening. You have to get a conglomeration of men at the center called the state. There will never be any transcendent meaning to life because there is no life after this because there is no creator.

Without a creator, you can put man at the center, but he is insufficient to hold it all together. So, it just becomes, well, we have to do what we can in this life now. That's why we see in our society one of the gravest dangers to any sense of justice in our society is the confusion of human justice with cosmic justice.

We used to believe that there was a day of judgment coming. We have this saying, innocent until proven guilty. You know where that came from, folks? The Bible. It doesn't say those specific words, but the concept is in the Christian scriptures and was given to us because God's law protects the innocent.

God's law says you have to have witnesses. Well, someone might get away with something. No one is ever going to get away with anything in God's law because there is a day of judgment coming. But they might get away with it in this life.

Yes, they might, but this life is very short and God has a long memory. There will never be anything that anyone gets away with because the day of judgment is coming. Well, guess what? Darwin got rid of the day of judgment.

Darwin got rid of the day of judgment. So now we have to have justice now. And if that means you have to throw 20 innocent people in prison to make sure to get the one who did something bad, then you do it.