This episode continues the history of major themes in identity politics, highlighting the role of "intersectionality," the compounding of oppression based on participation in multiple oppressed groups. A brief contrast between Identity politics and the Biblical worldview regarding oppression is provided towards the end.
Primer on Identity Politics
This initial episode provides a brief history of identity politics beginning in the 1970's and highlights the distinctive focus of identity politics as opposed to conventional or traditional politics. The principle theme is perceived oppression based on one's own race, class, sex, nationality, etc. Those who embrace identity politics typically focus on combatting oppression based on the group in which they participate.
Can You Handle the Truth?
This episode begins the application of putting on the belt of truth in the context of spiritual warfare (Eph. 6:10-18). It begins with the challenges of being led by the Spirit when confronting someone else with the truth, noting the necessity of relying on God's power and wisdom. Most can't handle the truth, so minimally believers need to wait on God's power and direction in confrontation. That most people resist the truth highlights the initial universal rejection of truth, according to Romans 1:18. Yet, in the case of believers, the Holy Spirit overcomes this resistance. The episode elaborates on the convictions of John 16:8-11 and explains how the Holy Spirit reverses the Great Exchange, where all of us exchange the truth of God for a lie.
Naturalism vs. Creationism..so what?
Naturalism is one of the primary stumbling blocks to receiving the Christian faith, and believers should avail themselves of the data of science which supports creationism. And residual naturalism in believers is corrosive of faith and distorts one's view of the sovereignty of God. I give my testimony how God delivered me from the naturalistic compromise of theistic evolution.
Natural Selection and Irreducible Complexity
The irreducible complexity of organs precludes the possibility of natural selection's ability to produce and preserve any beneficial advantage in evolving new species. The eye is a notable case in point, Darwin himself admitting its staggering complexity.
The fingerprint of God in the cell
The simplistic view of a cell in Darwin's time allowed for the possibility of natural selection working on random variations as a viable mechanism for evolution. Francis Crick's sequence hypothesis in 1957, where the order of bases in the DNA acts as a language in ultimately constructing proteins, has since made natural selection an insufficient mechanism for evolution. Randomness working on the language of genes almost always corrupts, and convinced Crick that life could not have evolved here on earth.. Crick's discovery didn't make him a theist. He kicked the can down the road, claiming aliens seeded the earth with life.
The gene: where naturalism goes to die
The simplistic view of a cell in Darwin's time allowed for the possibility of natural selection working on random variations as a viable mechanism for evolution. Francis Crick's sequence hypothesis in 1957, where the order of bases in the DNA acts as a language in ultimately constructing proteins, has since made natural selection an insufficient mechanism for evolution. Randomness working on the language of genes almost always corrupts, and convinced Crick that life could not have evolved here on earth.. Crick's discovery didn't make him a theist. He kicked the can down the road, claiming aliens seeded the earth with life.
Naturalism, a precursor of a depraved mind
The knowledge of God available in creation is inescapable, yet when men persistently and willfully reject the knowledge of God, God can give them over to a depraved mind. It is akin to the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit
Naturalism: is it blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?
Modern-day naturalism, where it approaches willful rejection of the incontrovertible truth of God in creation, is tantamount to the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Romans 1 concluded 2000 years ago that rejection of the knowledge of God in creation is inexcusable. With the exponential increase in scientific knowledge, the evidence of God in creation has exponentially multiplied, making modern man even more accountable. Might naturalism be the modern-day version of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit?
Romans 1: 18-23 applied to the question
The uncritical, even unscientific embrace of evolution by many scientists, illustrates the universal problem of mankind: the knowledge of God is inconvenient, and all naturally suppress the truth and replace it with futile speculations.