Battle of Ideas: Session 1
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The Secret Battle of Ideas About God: Session 1
The Secret Battle of Ideas About God: Session 1
Why this series?
Why this series?
(The need, the ability to stir our thinking) Scriptures to Consider:
susceptibility before serpent () Primarily because of a lack of relationshipMan’s susceptibility before the womanCannot see the goodness in what is commanded nor what is allowedLack of depth in relationshipIn the end, the inability to know the truth about God hurt relationship with Him, each other, and essentially robbed them from the greater and greatest joys in life (not to mention bringing of curse of sin etc)
Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
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I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.
Show Video:
The Secret Battle of Ideas
QUESTIONS:
What things have shaped you most?Can you name some bad ideas that have had terrible consequences?
What things have shaped you most?Can you name some bad ideas that have had terrible consequences?
Victor Frankl was imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Dachau during the Second World War. As a Jewish professor of neurology and psychiatry he became world renowned for his book, Man’s Search for Meaning, which sold over eight million copies.
In it he unfolds the essence of his philosophy that came to be called Logotherapy — namely, that the most fundamental human motive is to find meaning in life. He observed in the horrors of the concentration camps that man can endure almost any “how” of life, if he has a “why.” But the quote that stirred me recently was this:
I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers. (“Victor Frankl at Ninety: An Interview,” in First Things, April 1995, p. 41.)
I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers. (“Victor Frankl at Ninety: An Interview,” in First Things, April 1995, p. 41.)
In other words, ideas have consequences — consequences that bless or destroy. People’s behavior — good and bad — does not come out of nowhere. It comes from prevailing views of reality that take root in the mind and bring forth good or evil.
MOST PEOPLE FALL PRAY TO ONE OF FIVE IDEA VIRUSES
Secularism
The New Spirituality
The Postmodern Worldview
Marxism
Islam
LIFE’S BIGGEST QUESTIONS:
Am I loved?
Why Do Hurt?
Is there meaning to life?
Why can’t we all get along?
Is there any hope for the worldIs God even relevant to answer these questions?
QUESTIONS:
QUESTIONS:
How are ideas like viruses?
How are ideas like viruses?
Which world-views do you see affecting people everyday?
Which world-views do you see affecting people everyday?
Can other worldview be bad for peoples lives?
Can other worldview be bad for peoples lives?
How can we in turn cultivate good ideas?
How can we in turn cultivate good ideas?