TODAY ON TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
IS MAN REALLY BASICALLY GOOD?
WE KNOW THAT SOFTWARE COMES FROM A PROGRAMMER
AND THE PRESENCE OF INFORMATION AT THE FOUNDATION OF LIFE
SUGGESTS THE ACTIVITY OF A MASTER PROGRAMMER FOR LIFE.
WELCOME TO TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM,
A PRODUCTION OF CORAL RIDGE MINISTRIES.
I’M PASTOR ROB PACIENZA.
SCRIPTURE TELLS US THAT SATAN IS THE FATHER OF LIES.
HE TEMPTED THE FIRST TWO HUMANS WITH LIES THAT BROUGHT DEATH.
SATAN CONTINUES TO CONVINCE US OF LIES TODAY
REJOICING IN THE CATASTROPHIC RESULTS.
TODAY AND ALL MONTH WE WILL BE EXPOSING LIES
THAT HAVE LED OUR NATION INTO CHAOS.
THE FOUNDATIONAL LIE THE ONE THAT LIES
AT THE ROOT OF ALL THE OTHERS IS THE LIE THAT
“THERE IS NO GOD.”
THE BIBLE CALLS IT FOOLISHNESS.
BUT IT ALSO TELLS US THAT, BECAUSE OF SIN,
WE SUPPRESS THE TRUTH IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
STILL, THE TRUTH IS THERE FOR US TO SEE.
DR. JERRY NEWCOMBE EXAMINES THIS LIE, “THERE IS NO GOD,”
IN THIS PREVIEW OF OUR NEW DOCUMENTARY,
CULTURAL CHAOS: THE LIES BEHIND AMERICA’S BREAKDOWN
BUT WHEN IT COMES TO RELIGION, WE’RE NOT TWO SIDES OF THE SAME
COIN AND YOU DON'T GET TO PUT YOUR UNREASON
UP ON THE SAME SHELF WITH MY REASON.
BELIEF IN GOD, SAY THE MODERN ATHEISTS,
IS A FORAY INTO IRRATIONALISM.
YOUR STUFF HAS TO GO OVER THERE ON THE SHELF WITH
ZEUS AND THOR AND KRAKEN.
BELIEF IN GOD IS SUPPOSEDLY ANTI-INTELLECTUAL,
BUT IS IT REALLY?
TO BORROW A LINE FROM DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY,
I’M NOT SURE THE REV. JOHN HARVARD WOULD AGREE
WITH THAT NOR THE PURITAN ELIHU YALE
OR THE PRESBYTERIAN ELDERS WHO FOUNDED PRINCETON.
IT NEVER MADE SENSE TO SAY THAT THERE IS NO GOD,
BUT YOU CAN SEE HOW PEOPLE WHO ARE CAUGHT IN KIND OF A,
IN A INTELLECTUAL WHIRLPOOL WHERE EVERYBODY BELIEVES
THAT AND WHERE SCIENCE BEGINS TO POINT,
THE NARRATIVE BEGINS TO POINT AWAY FROM GOD
AND PEOPLE ARE SAYING, WELL,
WE KNOW EXACTLY HOW WE GOT HERE THROUGH RANDOM PROCESSES.
AND SCIENCE NOW SHOWS IT TO US.
BUT THE EVIDENCE FROM SCIENCE HAS BEEN COMING IN
SLOWLY, SLOWLY, SLOWLY.
AND I THINK ANYBODY WHO'S REALLY INTO THE SCIENCE SAYS, WHOA,
WE DIDN'T KNOW THIS SCIENCE NOW SHOWS US WITH CRYSTAL CLARITY
THAT IF ANYTHING WERE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT IN ONE DIRECTION
OR THE OTHER, THERE'D BE NO POSSIBILITY OF LIFE.
OVER THE LAST 100 YEARS, THERE HAVE BEEN THREE DRAMATIC
DISCOVERIES THAT HAVE CHALLENGED THAT MATERIALISTIC WORLDVIEW AND
HAVE BROUGHT BACK WHAT I CALL THE GOD HYPOTHESIS.
THE IDEA OF THAT A TRANSCENDENT INTELLIGENCE IS NECESSARY TO
EXPLAIN WHAT WE SEE IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD.
IN PARTICULAR, THE THREE BIG DISCOVERIES ARE NUMBER ONE
THAT THE UNIVERSE, AS BEST WE CAN TELL HAD A BEGINNING THAT IS
TO SAY THAT THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE OF MATTER SPACE,
TIME AND ENERGY ITSELF CAME INTO EXISTENCE A FINITE TIME AGO
THE SECOND BIG DISCOVERY IS WHAT PHYSICISTS REFERRED TO AS
THE FINE TUNING OR THE COSMOLOGICAL FINE TUNING.
MANY PHYSICISTS NOW REFER TO OUR UNIVERSE
AS A KIND OF GOLDILOCKS UNIVERSE,
WHERE THE FUNDAMENTAL FORCES ARE OF PHYSICS
ARE NOT TOO STRONG OR NOT TOO WEAK,
THE MASSES OF THE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES,
NOT TOO HEAVY, NOT TOO LIGHT,
THE SPEED OF LIGHT, NOT TOO FAST, NOT TOO SLOW.
ALL THESE PARAMETERS ARE JUST RIGHT
TO ALLOW FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE.
AND THAT RAISES A QUESTION.
HOW DID THEY GET THAT WAY?
AND THEN A THIRD MAJOR DISCOVERY.
AND I THINK IN SOME WAYS, THE MOST EXCITING OF ALL IS
THE PROFOUND COMPLEXITY OF THE LIVING CELL,
THE SIMPLEST UNIT OF LIVING ORGANISMS.
THE CELL TURNS OUT NOT TO BE SIMPLE AT ALL,
BUT INSTEAD IT DISPLAYS A MANIFEST,
A COMPLEX REALM OF INFORMATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY,
LITTLE TINY MINIATURE MACHINES AND
DIGITAL CODES STORED IN THE DNA THAT DIRECTS THE CONSTRUCTION OF
ALL THE PROTEIN MOLECULES OUT OF WHICH THOSE MACHINES ARE MADE.
AND SO THAT BEGS A HUGELY IMPORTANT QUESTION,
WHERE DID THAT INFORMATION COME FROM?
WE KNOW THAT SOFTWARE COMES FROM A PROGRAMMER
AND THE PRESENCE OF INFORMATION AT THE FOUNDATION OF LIFE
SUGGESTS THE ACTIVITY OF A MASTER PROGRAMMER FOR LIFE.
SO BELIEF IN GOD IS NOT SO IRRATIONAL AFTER ALL.
NONETHELESS, SKEPTICISM SEEMS TO BE THE PREVAILING ETHOS
IN TODAY’S CULTURE.
THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN A WAR AH AGAINST GOD AND GOD'S PEOPLE
AND THE IDEA OF A GOD,
BECAUSE MAN HAS ALWAYS WANTED TO BE IN CHARGE.
HE'S WANTED TO CONTROL,
YOU KNOW HIS OWN FAITH TO CONTROL LIFE AND DEATH.
SO I THINK WE'RE SEEING THE CONTINUATION OF A TREND THAT
WE'VE ALL WATCHED WITH ALARM OVER THE LAST DECADE, AND
THAT IS THAT YOUNG ADULTS ARE TURNING AWAY FROM THE CHURCH.
THEY'RE EMBRACING THE IDEA OF NONE AS A RELIGION,
WHICH IS BASICALLY BELIEF IN NOTHING OR BELIEF IN SELF.
AND SO WHEN THAT GENERATION GOES TO HAVE CHILDREN,
THEN THOSE CHILDREN AREN'T BEING RAISED IN THE CHURCH.
MEANWHILE, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE BYPRODUCTS OF REJECTING GOD?
IF YOU LOSE THAT IDEA OF GOD GIVEN INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS,
IF YOU LOSE GOD, THEN YOU LOSE THOSE FREEDOMS AND
PRETTY SOON YOU'RE WALLOWING IN THE DARK OF ATHEISM.
PEOPLE WHO ARE ATHEISTS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD,
BELIEVE THAT WE ARE JUST LIKE THE ANIMALS.
THERE'S NOTHING SACRED ABOUT US.
THERE'S NO AFTERLIFE.
THERE IS NO REASON NOT TO DO WHATEVER FEELS GOOD.
I WROTE THIS BOOK RECENTLY CALLED IS ATHEISM DEAD.
AND I STARTED THE BOOK WITH A QUOTE
IT'S A FAMOUS SOLZHENITSYN QUOTE.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN WAS RUMINATING ON WHAT HAPPENED IN
RUSSIA WHEN THEY, WHEN EVERYTHING WENT INSANE IN 1917.
AND YOU KNOW, YOU TALK ABOUT LAWLESSNESS.
I MEAN, YOU, YOU, YOU TALK ABOUT THE SOVIET UNION AND
PEOPLE WONDERED HOW HAS THIS HAPPENED TO US?
AND THE ANSWER THAT THEY GAVE, WHICH IS REALLY THE ANSWER
TO THIS QUESTION IS THAT MEN HAVE FORGOTTEN GOD.
ARMY MARCHING
AND IF YOU LOOK AT ALL THE MOVEMENTS
OF THE PAST HUNDRED YEARS IN THE 20TH CENTURY,
THOSE WERE ALL SECULAR STATUS MOVEMENTS.
ATHEISTIC, IF YOU WILL,
WHERE THE STATE IS THE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY.
WELL, THEY KILLED 120 MILLION PEOPLE OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE.
OKAY? AND WHAT WAS THE ONLY CURB AGAINST THEIR ABUSES?
THE CHURCH, THE MORAL PEOPLE OF GOD
WHO HAD A HIGHER AUTHORITY THAT THEY WERE CALLED TO?
AND WHAT WE'RE SEEING NOW IS THE RESULT OF A NUMBER OF DECADES
OF TURNING AWAY FROM GOD.
BUT WE HAVEN'T REALLY SEEN THE FRUIT UNTIL NOW.
AND, AND WHAT CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS MADNESS.
MOST PEOPLE KNOW THAT WHAT IS HAPPENING IS CRAZY BUT SUDDENLY
YOU'RE TOLD NO, NO, NO, THERE'S A NEW REALITY.
IT IS BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE TURNED AWAY FROM GOD.
AND THE ONLY QUESTION IS, WILL THERE BE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN
GOD WHO ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO SAY WHAT GOD HAS TO SAY
FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS THAT'S REALLY THE ONLY QUESTION.
ANOTHER KEY POINT BELIEF IN GOD IS THE FACT IN
THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT OF SELF-RULE UNDER GOD,
THE AMERICAN FOUNDERS RECOGNIZED THAT THE LORD
IS THE SOURCE OF OUR RIGHTS.
NO GOD, NOT RIGHTS.
WELL, OUR FOUNDING DOCUMENTS, IF YOU GO TO
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, IT SAYS IT THIS WAY.
YOU HAVE THESE INALIENABLE RIGHTS.
WHERE DOES IT COME FROM, THAT YOU WERE CREATED BY GOD,
NOT DICTATED TO BY STATE, AND THAT MORAL CONSCIENCE
IS THE ONLY THING THAT CAN ACTUALLY
KEEP THE STATE IN ITS PROPER PLACE.
WELL, ATHEISM TRIES TO WIPE ALL THAT OUT.
I LOVE WHAT DENNIS PRAGER SAID.
HE SAID, EVEN IF YOU ARE AN ATHEIST AND YOU LIVE IN AMERICA,
YOU SHOULD BELIEVE IN GOD.
HE SAID, AND IF YOU DON'T ACT LIKE YOU DO
BECAUSE YOUR FREEDOMS DEPEND ON IT.
ONCE YOU GET AWAY FROM THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE HAVE RIGHTS FROM GOD
AND THE GOVERNMENT’S JOB IS TO PROTECT THOSE RIGHTS
AND THAT THE GOSPEL SAYS THAT
YOU DON’T DO UNJUST MEANS TO REACH A JUST END,
YOU HAVE TO PLAY BY GOD’S RULES TO REACH THE END,
THEN, ONCE YOU GET AWAY FROM THAT,
THEN IT’S JUST A POWER GRAB.
FURTHERMORE, MOST OF THE SIGNIFICANT REFORMS IN THE WORLD
HAVE BEEN DONE BY PEOPLE WHO BELIEVED
WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT HUMAN BEINGS,
THAT WE’RE MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD.
THE FIRST GREAT VOICES AGAINST OPPRESSION IN HISTORY AND
THE ABUSIVE POWER WERE THE HEBREW PROPHETS
AND OF COURSE THEY'RE TRUE TO EXODUS,
LET MY PEOPLE GO.
NOW WHEN IT COMES TO JUSTICE, A LOT OF PEOPLE SEE INJUSTICE,
BUT WHEN IT COMES TO FREEDOM, THE BIBLE IS UNIQUE.
HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT THE EGYPTIANS, NO FREEDOM,
THE BABYLONIANS, NO FREEDOM, THE GREEKS, NO FREEDOM,
ULTIMATELY EVERYTHING'S FATE, MOIRA.
BUT HERE'S THE STARTLING THING, MODERN ATHEISM, NO FREEDOM,
THEY ARE NATURALISTS IN SCIENCE
AND SO EVERYTHING'S CHANCE, NECESSITY, DETERMINISM,
SO SAM HARRIS FREEDOM IS AN ILLUSION, FICTION.
WE ARE THE GUARDIANS, JEWS AND CHRISTIANS, OF FREEDOM AND
THAT COMES OF COURSE, SHOWN IN EXODUS, LET MY PEOPLE GO
AND A WHOLE WAY OF LIFE LIVING FREE TOGETHER.
EXODUS IS THE GREAT PRECEDENT FOR FREEDOM
DOWN THROUGH HISTORY,
WHERE YOU TAKE INDIVIDUAL REFORMERS,
YOU KNOW MY FAMILY, GUINNESS FAMILY, ARTHUR GUINNESS WAS
A FRIEND AND SUPPORTER OF WILLIAM WILBERFORCE,
THE GREATEST SOCIAL REFORMER IN HISTORY,
WHEN YOU GO BACK TO BARTOLOME LAS CASAS
IN THE 16TH CENTURY, TACKLING THE CONQUISTADORS,
ALL GREAT REFORMERS HAVE BEEN PEOPLE OF FAITH,
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, HARRIET TUBMAN,
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.,
IT IS VILE NONSENSE
TO SAY THAT THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IS OPPRESSIVE,
IT IS THE SOURCE OF FREEDOM.
EVERY TIME THERE IS A CALAMITY, A NATURAL DISASTER,
WHETHER IT'S THE EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI OR WHETHER IT'S YOU KNOW,
BAD THINGS THAT HAPPEN ELSEWHERE AROUND THE WORLD,
WHY IS IT THAT AMERICAN CHRISTIAN
FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS ARE USUALLY AMONG
THE FIRST RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS ON THE SPOT?
AND, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, LET'S BE HONEST.
IT'S NOT AS IF THAT, WHEN THEY ARRIVE THERE,
THEY MEET HINDU RELIEF, ORGANIZATIONS, OR
BUDDHIST RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS OR ISLAMIC RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS.
THEY DON'T,
IT IS CHRISTIAN FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE THERE.
ULTIMATELY, WHEN YOU FORGET GOD, WHEN YOU TURN AWAY FROM GOD,
THINGS HAPPEN.
AND THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN ARE NEVER GOOD.
MOST OF THE TIME, OUR DENIALS OF GOD
ARE IMPLICIT RATHER THAN EXPLICIT.
MOST PEOPLE STILL DON’T OUTRIGHTLY DENY GOD.
INSTEAD, THEY LIVE AS IF HE WEREN’T REAL.
THE PERSON WHO STANDS UP AND DECLARES THERE’S NO GOD USUALLY
KNOWS HE’S DOING SOMETHING AT LEAST SOMEWHAT CONTROVERSIAL.
BUT OTHER CULTURAL LIES ARE POWERFUL
BECAUSE THEY’VE BEEN REPEATED SO MANY TIMES THAT
MOST PEOPLE ACCEPT THEM AS FACT WITHOUT PROOF OR EVIDENCE.
IT WOULD HARDLY EVER OCCUR TO MOST PEOPLE
TO EVEN QUESTION THESE LIES.
ONE SUCH LIE IS THE COMMONLY STATED BELIEF THAT
“PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD.”
IT SOUNDS OPTIMISTIC AND HAPPY.
BUT THE IDEA THAT HUMANKIND IS ESSENTIALLY VIRTUOUS
HAS BEEN ONE OF THE DEADLIEST BELIEFS IN HISTORY.
HERE’S DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY
TO ADDRESS THE LIE THAT “MAN IS BASICALLY GOOD.
IS MAN REALLY BASICALLY GOOD?
WELL, IT IS TO THE SCRIPTURE...TO THE WORD OF GOD
AND THE TESTIMONIES OF THE LORD THAT WE SHOULD TURN.
“THE HEARTS OF THE SONS OF MEN IS FULL OF EVIL,
THE WHOLE HEAD; THE WHOLE HEART IS FAINT AND SICK
“FROM THE SOLE OF THE FOOT EVEN UNTO THE HEAD
THERE IS NOT SOUNDNESS”
“WE ARE ALL AS UNCLEAN THING,
ALL OUR RIGHTEOUSNESSES ARE AS FILTHY RAGS”
“THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS,
AND DESPERATELY WICKED: WHO CAN KNOW IT?”
SAID THE LORD.
“I KNOW THAT IN ME THERE DWELLETH NO GOOD THING.
I FIND A LAW THEN, THAT WHEN I WOULD DO GOOD,
EVIL IS PRESENT WITH ME”
“IF WE SAY THAT WE HAVE NO SIN, SAID JOHN,
THEN WE DECEIVE OURSELVES AND THE TRUTH IS NOT IN US”
“THE WHOLE WORLD LIETH IN WICKEDNESS”
WELL NOW, YES, BUT THAT IS SO NEGATIVE AND SO PESSIMISTIC.
WE NEED SOMETHING LIGHTER AND CHEERIER THAN THAT TO CHEW UPON.
WELL, LET’S SEE ABOUT CHRIST.
LISTEN TO HIS WORDS:
YE SERPENTS, YE GENERATION OF VIPERS,
HOW SHALL HE ESCAPE THE DAMNATION OF HELL?
DEPART FROM ME YE ACCURSED INTO EVERLASTING FIRE
PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS.
WHY DO YE TRANSGRESS THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD?
FOR OUT OF THE HEART PROCEED EVIL THOUGHTS, MURDERS,
ADULTERIES, FORNICATIONS, THEFTS,
FALSE WITNESS, BLASPHEMIES:
THESE ARE THE THINGS WHICH COME FORTH FROM THE HUMAN HEART.
I SAY UNTO YOU,
WHOSOEVER COMMITTETH SIN IS THE SERVANT OF SIN
JESUS CHRIST, WHO KNEW INTIMATELY
ALL OF THE HEART OF MAN,
KNEW THAT MAN’S HEART WAS INDEED WICKED FROM HIS YOUTH.
THIS IS THE SAME CHRIST WHO SAID:
“THIS CUP IS THE BLOOD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
WHICH IS SHED FOR MANY FOR THE REMISSION
OF THEIR, OF THEIR, OF THEIR...BASIC GOODNESS
OR DID I GET THAT WRONG?
...FOR THE REMISSION OF THEIR SINS.
JESUS CHRIST CAME INTO THE WORLD THAT OUR SINS MIGHT BE FORGIVEN.
NO, THE SCRIPTURE TEACHES THAT MAN IS NOT BASICALLY GOOD.
CHRIST TAUGHT THAT MAN IS NOT BASICALLY GOOD,
AND HISTORY CONFIRMS THAT MAN IS DEFINITELY NOT BASICALLY GOOD.
ANTHROPOLOGISTS TELL US THAT 1/3 OF ALL HUMAN BEINGS
WHO HAVE LIVED ON THIS PLANET HAVE DIED
AT THE HANDS OF THEIR BROTHERS
THAT MANKIND HAS KILLED 1/3 OF THE HUMAN RACE.
INDEED, EVEN COMMON SENSE WOULD SEEM TO STAND UP AND SHOUT
THAT MAN IS NOT BASICALLY GOOD.
TAKE JUST A LITTLE STROLL WITH ME
AND YOU SEE A POLICEMAN STANDING ON THE CORNER. WHY?
TO HELP THE BASICALLY GOOD PEOPLE ACROSS THE STREET?
OR GO INTO THE BANK TO DEPOSIT YOUR CHECK
AND YOU WILL NOTICE THE 18 INCH STEEL DOORS THAT
THAT MONEY IS GOING TO BE PLACE BEHIND AT NIGHT,
AND THE ALARM BUTTONS ON THE FLOOR BY THE TELLERS.
WHY?
WELL, THEY WANT TO BE ABLE TO SOUND AN ALARM IN CASE
THE WIND COMES IN AND BLOWS THE MONEY AWAY.
OR STOP BY THE VICE PRESIDENT AND ASK FOR A LOAN,
AND YOU ARE GOING TO RAISE THE WHOLE QUESTION
OF THE SUBJECT OF SIN IN HIS MIND,
AND HE’S GOING TO HAVE SOME VERY INTERESTING QUESTIONS
TO ASK YOU THAT WOULDN’T BE NEEDED AT ALL,
IF MEN WERE ALL GOOD.
YOU LOOK AT UNCLE SAM
AND HE HAS A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A LEVELHEADED IDEA ABOUT THAT.
WHY DO WE SPEND THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON COURTS
AND JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS, ON JAILS AND PRISONS,
IF MEN ARE BASICALLY GOOD?
WHY HAVE WE SPENT TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON DEFENSE..
FROM THOSE BASICALLY GOOD FOLK OUT THERE?
EVERY MISSILE AND EVERY SILO IS A SILENT AND ELOQUENT
TESTIMONY TO THE FACT THAT MAN IS BASICALLY EVIL.
HOW IN THE WORLD COULD SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE BECOME SO DECEIVED,
AND EVEN DENY THE VERY FOUNDATIONS OF THIS COUNTRY.
ONE THING IS ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN:
THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF THIS COUNTRY, TO A MAN,
KNEW THAT MEN WERE EVIL.
AND BECAUSE THEY KNEW THAT MEN WERE EVIL
THEY KNEW THAT POWER CORRUPTS
AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY AND
THEREFORE, NOT TOO MUCH POWER MAY EVER BE COLLECTED
INTO ONE OR A FEW HANDS.
AND THEREFORE: THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
IS TO BE DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS:
THE EXECUTIVE, THE JUDICIAL, AND THE LEGISLATIVE.
MORE THAN THAT, THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENT ARE TO BE DIVIDED
BETWEEN THE FEDERAL AND THE STATES
AND EVEN SOME RESERVED UNTO THE PEOPLE.
AND MORE THAN THAT, THE POWERS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
ARE TO BE DEFINITELY LIMITED AND SPECIFICALLY ENUMERATED.
AND MORE THAN THAT: THERE ARE TO BE OTHER CHECKS AND BALANCES,
SUCH AS THE VETO, AND SUCH AS
THE POWER OF THE CONGRESS TO OVERRIDE A VETO,
AND THE COURTS TO DECLARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL
THE ACTS OF THE CONGRESS.
THESE AND MANY OTHER THINGS ARE ALL PART OF
THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION AND SYSTEM BECAUSE...MAN IS EVIL.
AND WHAT, WE’VE SEEN THE REALITY OF THE SIN OF MAN.
WE’VE SEEN, NOW THAT THERE ARE RAMIFICATIONS OF THIS SIN
AND THE DENIAL OF IT.
IT IS INDEED TRAGIC AND ONE OF THE GREATEST IRONIES OF HISTORY,
THAT MAN’S SELFISHNESS AND SINFULNESS,
WHEN IT IS ACKNOWLEDGED AS SUCH AS IT IS IN OUR OWN SYSTEM.
IT PROVIDES A SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT THAT ALLOWS FOR
THE GREATEST FREEDOM AND THE GREATEST PROTECTION
OF OUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS.
BUT THAT THOSE WHO DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE
THE SINFULNESS OF MAN,
INVARIABLY, SUCH AS IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION WHERE THEY
SAID THAT MAN WAS GOOD AND THEY LIVED..
ENDED UP WITH A BLOODY HORROR;
AND THE TERROR OF THE GUILLOTINE;
OR IN THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION WHICH LED TO THE GULAG;
OR IN THE NAZI TERRORS OF THE HOLOCAUST
IN ALL THESE SYSTEMS,
ALL OF THESE PEOPLE BELIEVED MAN IS BASICALLY GOOD
AND THEY PRODUCED A HELL RIGHT HERE ON EARTH.
HI, I’M JENNIFER KENNEDY CASSIDY.
THE LIE THAT MANKIND IS BASICALLY GOOD
IS REPEATED OVER AND OVER TODAY.
AND YET, AS MY FATHER JUST EXPLAINED,
IT’S ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS AND DEADLIEST LIES EVER TOLD.
BECAUSE WE HUMANS HAVE FALLEN IN SIN,
WE OFTEN SUPPRESS THE TRUTH IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS
AND IT LEADS TO REAL WORLD DEVASTATION.
AND THERE ARE MANY MORE LIES THAT OUR CULTURE
BELIEVES WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING IT.
THAT’S WHY WE WANT YOU TO HAVE THE BRAND-NEW BOOK
WE’VE JUST PUBLISHED,
10 LIES OF A CULTURE IN CHAOS: WHAT YOU BELIEVE MATTERS,
AS OUR THANKS FOR YOUR GENEROUS DONATION
TO THE WORK OF THIS MINISTRY.
IN ADDITION TO OUR OWN ROB PACIENZA, JERRY NEWCOMBE, AND
MY DAD, D. JAMES KENNEDY,
WE’VE ALSO ENLISTED EXPERTS LIKE
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THE DECEPTIONS WITH GOD’S TRUTH.
IT’S COMING STRAIGHT FROM THE PRINTING PRESSES AND
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AND SO MUCH MORE.
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IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, THE SERPENT TEMPTED EVE
BY CASTING DOUBT ON THE TRUTH OF GOD.
ADAM AND EVE BOUGHT INTO THAT LIE,
AND OUR WORLD FELL INTO SIN AND DECAY.
SINCE THAT VERY FIRST SIN, CORRUPT HUMAN BEINGS
HAVE A PROPENSITY TO TURN AWAY FROM GOD
AND TWIST THE TRUTH INTO LIES.
IT BEGINS WITH THE FIRST BIG LIE,
THAT THERE IS NO GOD,
WHICH THE BIBLE TELLS US IS THE BELIEF OF FOOLS.
SOMETIMES, HOWEVER, THOSE FOOLS ARE VERY VOCAL.
ONE OF THEM IS THE BRITISH BIOLOGIST RICHARD DAWKINS,
WHO IS PERHAPS THE FOREMOST ATHEIST IN THE WORLD.
HE CREATED A STIR ABOUT FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
WHEN HE PUBLISHED HIS BOOK THE GOD DELUSION,
WHICH WAS A BROADSIDE ATTACK ON RELIGION,
AND PARTICULARLY CHRISTIANITY.
DAWKINS HAS ATTACKED THE BIBLICAL GOD,
AS PORTRAYED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
AND HE HAS DISMISSED THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST
FOR OUR SINS AS A DEEPLY UNPLEASANT AND UNNECESSARY IDEA.
BUT DAWKINS IS BEGINNING TO DISCOVER THAT HE DOESN’T LIKE
THE WORLD HE’S HELPED CREATE.
IN A SURPRISING INTERVIEW WITH THE BBC RECENTLY,
DAWKINS SAID THAT HE CONSIDERS HIMSELF A CULTURAL CHRISTIAN.
AND HE LAMENTED THE DECLINE OF CHRISTIANITY
IN HIS NATIVE ENGLAND AND THE REST OF EUROPE,
WHILE AT THE SAME TIME ISLAM IS ON THE RISE.
HE SAYS HE IS STILL A COMMITTED UNBELIEVER,
BUT HE LIKES LIVING IN A COUNTRY
FORMED AND SHAPED BY CHRISTIANITY.
IT’S IRONIC SINCE DAWKINS HAS DONE MORE THAN MOST
TO DIMINISH CHRISTIANITY IN THE U.K. AND IN THE WEST.
HE’S SPENT A GOOD PORTION OF HIS PUBLIC LIFE DEMEANING
CHRISTIANITY AS ANTI-INTELLECTUAL AND BARBARIC,
AND MAKING THE CASE FOR THINKING PEOPLE TO ABANDON GOD.
AND FACED WITH THE RESULTS, HE’S FLINCHING.
AS C.S. LEWIS FAMOUSLY WROTE,
WHEN YOU TRY TO BANISH THE GOD OF THE BIBLE,
YOU DON’T END UP WITH SECULARISM,
BECAUSE THERE’S REALLY NO SUCH THING.
MANKIND IS INCURABLY RELIGIOUS,
AND IT’S NOT A MATTER OF WHETHER WE WILL WORSHIP GOD
IT’S A MATTER OF WHICH GOD WE WILL WORSHIP.
DRY, INTELLECTUAL UNBELIEF TURNS OUT TO BE NOTHING MORE THAN
FUEL FOR THE FIRE OF RELIGIONS LIKE RADICAL ISLAM.
APATHY WILL ALWAYS BE OVERTAKEN BY ZEALOUS BELIEF.
SO DAWKINS PROCLAIMED THAT THERE IS NO GOD,
AND HELPED CONTRIBUTE TO THE DRY UNBELIEF OF ENGLAND
AND EUROPE THAT’S NOW BEING CONSUMED RADICALISM.
HE’S DISCOVERING, TO HIS REGRET, THAT DRIVING OUT CHRISTIANITY
ALSO DRIVES OUT THE LIBERTY, RESPECT FOR LIFE,
AND VALUE OF BEAUTY THAT CHRISTIANITY PRODUCES AND
THAT CANNOT BE PRODUCED BY ATHEISM, OR BY ISLAM,
OR BY ANY OTHER FALSE IDEOLOGY.
INDEED, THE FOOL HAS SAID IN HIS HEART, “THERE IS NO GOD.”
I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TODAY.
THE NEXT TIME YOU’RE IN SOUTH FLORIDA,
WE’D LOVE TO HAVE YOU COME RIGHT HERE FOR WORSHIP AT
CORAL RIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN FORT LAUDERDALE.
OR YOU CAN JOIN US VIA LIVESTREAM AT
AND MAKE SURE TO CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA AT FACEBOOK,
TWITTER-X, INSTAGRAM, AND ON YOUTUBE.
AND NOW HERE’S A LOOK AT THE NEXT TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
MY BODY, MY CHOICE IS A HOLLOW SLOGAN.
THERE IS NOTHING THERE.
IT’S JUST A CLAIM OF BRUTE FORCE
THAT'S NEXT WEEK
THIS HAS BEEN A PRODUCTION OF CORAL RIDGE MINISTRIES