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    Book Chapters | By James R Spencer | April 12, 2010
    << PREVIOUS CHAPTER    |    INDEX     Chuck Colson and Francis Shaeffer were right. We live in a post-Christian society that truly is the new Dark Ages. The return to paganism, which began in the Enlightenment, is nearly complete: The secularists are content that God is dead; the cultists think only they know God; the occultists think everything is God >> Read more
    Book Chapters | By James R Spencer | April 12, 2010
    << PREVIOUS CHAPTER    |    INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> The Pharisees resented Jesus Christ. They objected to His healing on the Sabbath (Matthew 12:9—14), His fellow ship with sinners (Matthew 9:11), His disdain for their religious traditions (Mark 7:5). Most of all they resented His claims of divinity and, as we saw in the last chapter, crucified Him for those claims. >> Read more
    Book Chapters | By James R Spencer | April 12, 2010
    << PREVIOUS CHAPTER    |    INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Our third grouping of hard cases involves cults. A cult is a religion viewed as unorthodox by the parent group from which it splintered. In the Western world, the cults we are interested in broke from the religions based on biblical revelation. Cults have spunoff from Judeo-Christianity from the beginning >> Read more
    Book Chapters | By James R Spencer | April 12, 2010
    << PREVIOUS CHAPTER    |    INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> We will reach occultists when we demonstrate that pagan religious practice will not overcome mankind's separation from God. Our approach to the occult must be rooted in our understanding that the Bible declares such practices to be abominable: "For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord ..." (Deuteronomy 18:12). >> Read more
    Book Chapters | By James R Spencer | April 12, 2010
    << PREVIOUS CHAPTER    |    INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> The same forces that created modern secularism are also responsible for the widespread adoption of occultism in the Western world. Both began when enlightenment thinkers overflowed the established channels of Catholicism in France, Lutheranism in Germany >> Read more
    Book Chapters | By James R Spencer | April 12, 2010
    << PREVIOUS CHAPTER    |    INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Fifteen billion years ago, the secularist believes, all the matter in the universe was condensed into a microscopically small point in space before it exploded in what astronomers call the Big Bang. As the exploding matter traveled outward, it began to arrange itself, through chance, into combinations >> Read more
    Book Chapters | By James R Spencer | April 12, 2010
    << PREVIOUS CHAPTER    |    INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Imagine a primitive tribe standing on a beach, clustered around a huge crate that has washed up on the shore. As they pull away the boards and rip open the plastic packing, they uncover a beautiful mahogany clock. They are awestruck as each hour it emits melodic gongs from within its breast >> Read more
    Book Chapters | By James R Spencer | April 7, 2010
     << PREVIOUS CHAPTER    |    INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> Serious atheism—secularism—developed only within the last three hundred years. Although skepticism (the idea that we can never know anything with certainty) was a minority philosophical position in ancient Greek thought, atheism had never done well. Mankind is insistently religious. >> Read more
    Book Chapters | By James R Spencer | April 7, 2010
     << PREVIOUS CHAPTER    |    INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> In order to witness to hard cases it is necessary to under stand their most basic philosophical problems. To do that we must possess a rudimentary understanding of the development of philosophical truth and error. If we understand where secularists, cultists and occultists depart from the Bible's rev elation of God >> Read more
    Book Chapters | By James R Spencer | April 7, 2010
     << PREVIOUS CHAPTER    |    INDEX    |    NEXT CHAPTER >> To approach secularists, cultists and occultists, we must first differentiate them more completely than we have done so far. This is imperative because we cannot approach everyone in exactly the same way. But how are we to decide if we are dealing with a secularist? a cultist? an occultist? What if we are talking to people >> Read more
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