1. Mary Poplin Presbyterian Church of the Master #1 of 4 April 12, 2015 IS REALITY SECULAR?

2. TESTIMONY & WORLDVIEW INTRO

3. COLLEGE YEARS Started college “Christian” No class mention of God or Jesus Few profs and friends hostile Lacked Knowledge of Christ Cannot be born Christian

4. A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons because they have perverted their way; they have forgot ten the Lord their God. TO FORGET GOD

5. INTELLECTUAL LIFE Radical Feminism Multiculturalism Critical Theory (Marxist) Cultural Studies Post Modernism

6. BEWARE OF PLAUSIBLE ARGUMENTS To reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. Colossians 2: 2-4

7. PERSONAL LIFE Alcohol Discoes Drugs (recreationally) Serially Monogamous

8. GOD GAVE THEM UP IN THE LUSTS OF THEIR HEARTS TO IMPURITY, TO THE DISHONORING OF THEIR BODIES… Romans 1 For although they knew God, they did not honor Him… Claiming to be wise, they became as fools…

9. Good and evil both increase at compound interest. C S Lewis

10. SPIRITUAL LIFE “ Spiritual but not Religious” Transcendental Meditation Feminist Spirituality New Age Bending Spoons

11. DECEITFUL SPIRITS AND THE TEACHINGS OF DEMONS Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared… Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths.

12. THE DREAM Cells in HIS Body A Friend The Bible Conferences

13. MOTHER TERESA “Our work is not social work It is religious work”

14. I WAS HUNGRY, THIRSTY, NAKED, LONELY, SICK, IN PRISON… AND YOU…MATTHEW 25

15. INTELLECTUAL CRISIS Secularizing Mother Teresa No language the university could understand Nor desired to understand Foreign worldview (ancient, irrelevant) Or sweet but untrue or unnecessary

16. WORLDVIEWS OPERATING SYSTEMS OF THE MIND

17. FOUR GLOBAL WORLDVIEWS Material Naturalism Secular Humanism Pantheism Monotheism (Judeo-Christianity)

18. FOR ANY OF US TO BE FULLY CONSCIOUS INTELLECTUALLY WE SHOULD NOT ONLY BE ABLE TO DETECT THE WORLDVIEWS OF OTHERS BUT BE AWARE OF OUR OWN—WHY IT IS OURS AND WHY IN THE LIGHT OF SO MANY OPTIONS WE THINK IT IS TRUE. JAMES SIRE

19. THE SECULAR CLAIM Neutral, Unbiased Safer for Global World Necessary More reasonable More progressive

20. “If you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. ” C.S. Lewis

21. SECULARISTS ON RELIGION Optional personal choice Faith and feelings for those who need Private, Not public, Do not bring to work Not a candidate for truth Dangerous

22. Jews introduce a personal, all powerful God – I AM Jews oppressed group experience great success in extreme conditions Israel’s prophets fall silent 400 BC to Christ Lives of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu Socrates, Plato, Aristotle Lyceum, Academy Sophists, Skeptics, Epicureans, Stoics HISTORY – AXIAL AGE - FROM 800 BC 200 BC

23. CHRIST AS “CRUCIAL DIVIDING LINE – THE AXIS OF WORLD HISTORY” GEORG FRIEDRICH HEGEL

24. Problem of Secular Worldviews No moral plumbline Political determines the moral Human Reasoning Alone Ignore Laws of Human Nature