Will The Real God Please Stand Up?

 At the American Thinker today, Denise McAllister has an interesting article entitled The Case for True Religion and Revolutionary Repentance. In the article she points out that some 87% of us claim to believe in God, yet the question really is what god to people believe in. McAllister believes that we are in an age of unprecedented idolatry, and that much of what people claim is God is really themselves. My pastor would agree.

Despite Levin's opening claim, we are not living in an era of unprecedented doubt. We are living in an era of unprecedented idolatry. We, as a culture, are looking for meaning in ourselves and in truth defined by our own moral standards and feelings. We are seeking understanding of who we are and our place in the world — not in our Creator, but in group dynamics and social movements that feed on self-worship. Our belief, our confidence, is in ourselves, especially as we organize within groups that prop up our own doctrines of self. Of human power and self-will, there is no doubt.

The clay has told the Artist that it is perfectly capable of molding itself. We have rejected God's objective truth, God's providential hand in human history, God's authority in culture, God's standards of morality, God's design of human identity, and God's purpose for institutions. This rejection perverts everything in society, from the individual to the family to institutions, which are "durable" only when they are built on a solid foundation. That foundation has now been bulldozed and replaced with the shifting sands of postmodernity. Subjectivism has replaced objective truth. This is the worldview of our age. It is the abolition of man.

If most people understood, really understood the God of Creation, who made each of us, and loved us before we were born, we would repent each and every day for those things we inevitably do, and for those things we do not do, that might offend him. But at the same time we would understand that our sacrifices, whatever they be, have no effect. God does not want them. Why, you may ask?  Because all is His to begin with.  Instead, what God wants is our love for Him, and our love for each other. We keep trying to do something, to try to "earn" our way into heaven. But we can not.

Fortunately, God has already done everything that needs to be done for us.  We just need to acknowledge that fact, and appreciate it.

Please go read the whole article, because McAllister is onto something here.