SHARE Magazine October 2017 | Page 18

The Lie of Secular Humanism L Let us not be deceived. Another insidious stream now flows. Modern intellectualism and human reasoning, with their increasing avalanche of attacks upon the Bible, seek to discount the miraculous. As a result many professing believers are now falling into the trap of trying to do God’s work in the flesh. The devil knows how powerful Christians can be if united in covenant, and that God designed a united Church to reach a divided world. Therefore, the devil has a counter-plan: to divide and conquer. Congregations and Christian families are splintering everywhere. Lack of intimacy within local congregations means that people are going elsewhere to find loving support. At the same time unbalanced and unscriptural doctrines have crept into the community of Christian believers. Secular humanism is a deceptive yet extremely harmful cancer which exalts human beings, eliminates the Creator, and establishes the foundation for popular anti-biblical philosophies. New Age evangelists today proclaim that all people possess inner good within them like a sleeping god, and they extract a Hindu monistic belief that all matter, including human beings, originates from the same source. Their belief is pantheistic, proclaiming that “all is god,” and that man, therefore, does not need a Savior, outside of himself. He can save not only himself from destruction, but also the world. This belief has permeated modern society to such an extent that large corporations are now sending their managers to seminars to enhance their 18 | SHARE | MAGAZINE October - December 2017