History is Fiction Agreed Upon
~Napoleon~
If ever there was a postmodern declaration Napoleon nailed it. This proclamation is made far and wide in today's detached and disconnected world. We are disengaged from the truth and so we rewrite it.
Milan Kundera reminds us; "You begin to liquidate a people by taking away its memory. You destroy its books, its culture, its history, And then others write other books for it, give another culture to it, invent another history for it. Then the people slowly begin to forget what it is and what it was."
Perhaps this explains in part of the destruction of statues, and the disrespect we see for our flag. Our national history is being revised, rewritten and ruined.
This is what is happening to the church. We are allowing movements and theorists to rewrite and reinterpret the Bible according to social justice theory, LGBTQ gender theory, and pro-choice theory, all to validate and vindicate actions that are not supported by the Bible.
We are told that the Constitution is a living breathing document that must change and be adjusted and added to. The Bible, we are told, is also in need of being re-envisioned, reinterpreted, re-weaved, and that we need a new and novel reorientation to understand it in our day. Unfortunately, all of this leads to relativism.
Let me suggest three steps of action.
- Start reading your Bible more regularly, more abundantly, and more expectantly.
- Get into a regular Bible study either through your church or through a local community.
- Ask your pastor to provide for you an Adult Bible study class where you can learn the principles of interpreting the Bible. (It is called Hermeneutics.)
Remember the words of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, "Discernment is not simply a matter of telling the difference between what is right and wrong; rather it is the difference between right and almost right."
If ever there was a day that discernment was needed - that day is today!
Serving Him with you
Until He comes for us,
Fred