I sat down today to do some more of my current assignment. And I looked at the statement I had made about Jesus having absolute authority over everyone! Then this thought hit me: Humanistic psychology doesn't believe that! But then that thought continued into the following:
If there are no absolutes, as humanistic psychology believes, then I don't have to surrender myself to Jesus or enthrone Him as Lord. I can keep myself as lord instead.
Having no absolutes removes from me the need for God. I can then be free to do what ever I want to whomever I want, and I can do whatever I want, whenever I want. And because there are no absolutes, truth is now relative, and no longer fundamental and absolute, I can say that there is no truth. And because of all this, God obviously doesn't exist! Or maybe He or She does exist! There are no absolutes after-all! I wasn't there when this world happened, I can not definitively say how it did or didn't happen!
Oh look, the very first problem that has arisen from a lack of absolutes is indecision! I cant make up my mind, I cant decided things, I can no longer sleep at night, because my indecision is driving me insane!
And because God either does or doesn't exist, He or She either did or didn't create humans! And this lack of absolutes leaves far more than just the foul taste of indecision, it has left an uncertainty of creation! The creator either does or doesn't exist, so earth either was or was not created! Meaning that humans either were or were not created. But, this opens the door for some instability!
Lets just believe this piece of obvious rubbish over here called evolution! It's got some very major holes in it, but at least it has stability. Either that or we could believe this other theory or idea... that earth was populated with animals and humans by aliens. That gives an element of stability too!
And because there are no absolutes, people can believe what they want! And, because either having had crawled out of pond scum, or left abandoned by aliens, means I can still do whatever I want! I can still enthrone myself as lord!
And because humans either crawled out of pond scum or were left abandoned, human life is hardly sacred. We were left on our own, to our own devices. I can do what I please – included in that is my right (because I am my own lord, I now have rights) to kill my unborn baby, and anybody else’s unborn babies for that matter! I can declare that is it is a right to kill... we can now kill the unborn, we can now kill the old, and in that we will add the disabled, and the useless, and pretty soon there will be no-one left but me!
And if I decide I need to kill my neighbour, I can claim temporary insanity, if I pay my lawyer enough he or she will get me off with minimal requirements on my behalf! And I can go on telling the ever widening void in my heart to shut up and sit down, because I am lord!
I am the only one who cares about me, I am the only one who’s going to look after me, so I'm going to do whatever it takes to get me to where I want me to be! (No matter to those who gets trampled underfoot!)
And if I am a leader of a country, then I'm going to use all my practiced ambition, manipulation, abuse and whatever else to take over that country over there (because I want the land and its resources more than they do!). And because, today, I'd like to believe that some of humans are not as advanced or as evolved as the rest of us, I'm going to say to my citizens that those in that country no longer deserve to exist. We need the land and resources more than they, and we are more advanced or evolved than they! Thus, genocide has been legitimised! Those less evolved or less advanced beings no longer have the right to live!
I am my own god and I am president – I can do whatever the hell I want!
And it is now, with shock, dismay and enraged anger that someone would dare tell me that God does in fact exist, that there are in fact absolutes, that I am a sinner, that I need saving.
How dare they present to me their archaic beliefs. How dare they speak to me about the things I have fought for years to silence in my heart! How dare they tell me that heartless aliens didn't seed earth. How dare they tell me that humans didn't evolve from goop! How dare they tell me that there is a benevolent God who loves me, cherishes me, died for me and offers me grace and forgiveness!
What's worse than all that is that this God now demands that I shift my carcass off my throne and put Him there instead! They tell me that I don't have the qualifications to rule the world, let alone myself! And they tell me that there is nowhere in the universe where I can get those qualifications!
I spent years silencing this in my heart, and it is as if they have been secretly listening to my hearts silent screams! How dare this God come to the fore! How dare He and His followers upset my equilibrium! And now, I am pushed into the corner and my only response is to remove all trace of this God from the constitution, schools, workplaces, hospitals, homes, heads and hearts! And if they don't want to let it go, then they can go – to prison, or worse! I simply can not accept that I am a sinner and need anything!
I did all this myself! I had no help. Where was God when I prayed for the abuse to stop? He didn't answer, because He didn't exist! I stopped it! So why do I need someone else to save me? I already did that! Why do I need a saviour? I've been on my own for so long! Why did some Gods son feel the need to die for me?
I know how this world works – you do everything you can to get everything you want, everything you don't want and everything that is left over that you might want, but don't need! Then, you die … alone … cold … hungry … with no friends! So what is the point of wanting or having a saviour?
How do you share the good news of Jesus with a person in this state of mind? How does one introduce this person to Jesus?
