TITLE: Is Man Is the Measure of all Things?

2. TITLE: Is Man Is the Measure of all Things? • TEXT: Psalm 8, Romans 3:10-23 • THEME: Man’s greatness can only be found in the greatness of God’s grace.

4. Dallas Willard "There are four great questions every human being must adopt an answer for in order to live."

5. Dallas Willard "There are four great questions every human being must adopt an answer for in order to live." • What is real?

6. Dallas Willard "There are four great questions every human being must adopt an answer for in order to live." • What is real? • Who has the good life?

7. Dallas Willard "There are four great questions every human being must adopt an answer for in order to live." • What is real? • Who has the good life? • Who is a good person?

8. Dallas Willard "There are four great questions every human being must adopt an answer for in order to live." • What is real? • Who has the good life? • Who is a good person? • How do you become a genuinely good person?

10. What is the true nature of man?

11. I. A Secular Humanist View of Man A. Humanism Defined: A Humanist is someone who is interested in the intellectual and academic disciplines called humanities- so called because they deal with human nature in its fullness, the non-rational side of man as well as the rational. These have typically included literature, history, the fine-arts, philosophy and sometimes theology

12. I. A Secular Humanist View of Man • Secular Humanism Defined: It is the addition of the word “secular” where the contrast begins and is to the Christian an oxymoron. The word “secular comes from the Latin word “saeculum” which means time or age. To call something secular is to call it time bound, a creature of history with no vision of eternity.

13. Humanist Manifesto I and IIPrinciples in Conflict • The universe is self-existing and not created HMI

14. Humanist Manifesto I and IIPrinciples in Conflict • The universe is self-existing and not created HMI • There are no eternal values or outside enforcer of values. The only morality is that which emerges from human experience. HMI

15. Humanist Manifesto I and IIPrinciples in Conflict • The universe is self-existing and not created HMI • There are no eternal values or outside enforcer of values. The only morality is that which emerges from human experience. HMI • Man has only the here and now. HMI

16. Humanist Manifesto I and IIPrinciples in Conflict • The universe is self-existing and not created HMI • There are no eternal values or outside enforcer of values. The only morality is that which emerges from human experience. HMI • Man has only the here and now. HMI • Man alone can fulfill his own dreams and pursue his own achievements apart from the involvement of a supreme being. HMI

17. Humanist Manifesto I and IIPrinciples in Conflict • In some cases it is possible to believe in a God abstractly as long as you do not act or think as if he exists. HMI

18. Humanist Manifesto I and IIPrinciples in Conflict • In some cases it is possible to believe in a God abstractly as long as you do not act or think as if he exists. HMI • Traditional dogmatic or authoritarian religions that place revelation, God, ritual or creed about human need or experience do a disservice to the human species. HMII

19. Humanist Manifesto I and IIPrinciples in Conflict • We can discover no divine purpose for the human species. No deity can or will save us- we must save ourselves. HMII

20. Humanist Manifesto I and IIPrinciples in Conflict • We can discover no divine purpose for the human species. No deity can or will save us- we must save ourselves. HMII • Traditional religions are sexuality repressive and do damage to mans psyche. HMII

21. Key promoters of Secular humanism. Francois Arouet (Voltaire) Philosopher Karl Marx Economist Tolstoy General Lenin President Sigmund Freud Psychologist Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher

22. Key promoters of Secular humanism. Adolph Hitler Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher Francis Crick Scientist Albert Ellis/Kinsey Sexologists Guttmacher/Sanger

23. Key promoters of Secular humanism. Betty Freidan Author Isaac Asimov Author B.F. Skinner Psychiatrist Carl Rogers Psychiatrist John Dewey Philosopher

24. C. Secular Humanisms View of Christianity

25. C. Secular Humanisms View of Christianity • Hostile

26. Bill O’Rielly Interviewing Bill Maher.

27. Voltaire “This is what fools have written, what imbeciles comment, what rogues teach, and what you children are made to learn by heart. And the scholar who is filled with indignation and is irritated by the most abominable absurdities that have ever disgraced human nature, is called, “blasphemer!””

28. Paul Kurtz “Humanism cannot in any fair sense of the word apply to one who still believes in God as the source and creator of the universe… (Humanism) is squarely in opposition to the movements which seek to impose an orthodoxy of belief and morality.”

29. Karl Marx • “Religion is the opiate of the people.”

30. Charles Darwin “I can hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true

31. Friedrich Nietzsche “Christianity should not be beautiful or embellished; it has waged deadly war against this higher type of man (the perfected man of secular humanism) … Christianity has sided with all that is weak and base with al its failures.”

32. C. Secular Humanisms View of Christianity • Hostile • Responsible for history evils

34. What is the true nature of man?

35. II. Problems with Secular Humanism (Romans 3:10-23) A. Shift from focus on God and Heaven to Earth and Man. . • Hitchcock, “Genuine human progress and fulfillment must be based on the recognition that man is dependent on God.”

36. II. Problems with Secular Humanism (Romans 3:10-23) • Shift from focus on God and Heaven to Earth and Man. B. No meaning or purpose beyond this life.

37. II. Problems with Secular Humanism (Romans 3:10-23) • Shift from focus on God and Heaven to Earth and Man. B. No meaning or purpose beyond this life. Pascal, “Science (and secular humanism) might become anti-humanistic, by reducing man to a mere speck in the universe.

38. II. Problems with Secular Humanism (Romans 3:10-23) • Shift from focus on God and Heaven to Earth and Man. B. No meaning or purpose beyond this life. C. Diminishes the sinfulness of man

39. II. Problems with Secular Humanism (Romans 3:10-23) • Shift from focus on God and Heaven to Earth and Man. B. No meaning or purpose beyond this life. C. Diminishes the sinfulness of man Romans 3:23 “for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.”

40. II. Problems with Secular Humanism (Romans 3:10-23) • Shift from focus on God and Heaven to Earth and Man. B. No meaning or purpose beyond this life. C. Diminishes the sinfulness of man D. Condemns Christianity while ignoring the evil its own history

41. II. Problems with Secular Humanism (Romans 3:10-23) • Condemns Christianity while ignoring the evil its own history. • Voltaire and Lafayette • Marx, Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin • Hitler • Mao Tse Tung • Khmer Rouge

42. II. Problems with Secular Humanism (Romans 3:10-23) • Shift from focus on God and Heaven to Earth and Man. B. No meaning or purpose beyond this life. C. Diminishes the sinfulness of man D. Condemns Christianity while ignoring the evil its own history E. Secular Humanism is a betrayal true humanism.

44. What is the true nature of man?

45. III. A Biblical View of Man: Psalm 8 Man is created a little lower than “elohim.” • Man bears God’s Image: Genesis 1:26 says “let us make man in our own image”

46. III. A Biblical View of Man: Psalm 8 A. Man bears God’s Image: B. Man is the apex of God’s creation:

47. III. A Biblical View of Man: Psalm 8 A. Man bears God’s Image: B. Man is the apex of God’s creation: Man is by nature sinful, self centered and prone to deception. God values man so much he has made the supreme sacrifice to redeem him.

48. III. A Biblical View of Man: Psalm 8 A. Man bears God’s Image: B. Man is the apex of God’s creation: C. Man is by nature sinful, self centered and prone to deception

49. III. A Biblical View of Man: Psalm 8 A. Man bears God’s Image: B. Man is the apex of God’s creation: C. Man is by nature sinful, self centered and prone to deception D. God values man so much he has made the supreme sacrifice to redeem him.

50. Peter Hitchens Rogier van der Weyden The Last Judgment