A COMPARISON OF THE TRADITIONAL BELIEF SYSTEM OF THE BIBLE AND THE COMPREHENSIVE BELIEF SYSTEM OF HUMANISM
(rearranged by topic)
Source: Dr. Ed Rowe, NEW AGE GLOBALISM 84-88 (1985).
ABSOLUTES:
God-Centered View: Certain absolute moral values.
Man-Centered View: Uncertain, amoral values.
CERTAINTY AND CHANGE:
God-Centered View: God does not change (there is certainty) therefore this system includes law which defines certainty.
Man-Centered View: There is no certainty because there is constant change (evolution); therefore law must be continually changed.
DEVIL (EXISTENCE OF)
God-Centered View: There is a devil (Satan).
Man-Centered View: There is no devil.
DRUGS:
God-Centered View: Use of drugs is wrong.
Man-Centered View: Use of drugs is OK.
EUTHANASIA:
God-Centered View: Killing of old people and sick persons (euthanasia) is wrong.
Man-Centered View: Killing of old people and sick persons (euthanasia) is OK.
FAITH:
God-Centered View: Man is able to freely receive the benefits of God's grace by faith.
Man-Centered View: Man's faith is in himself and he must create his own benefits.
FAMILY:
God-Centered View: The family is the basic unit of society. The family is responsible to fulfill physical necessities.
Man-Centered View: The individual is the basic unit of society. Society is responsible to fulfill physical necessities.
FELLOWSHIP:
God-Centered View: God has made man in His image-spirit, soul and body-to be in fellowship with Him.
Man-Centered View: Man is an animal (soul and body) and needs only to be in fellowship with himself.
FORGIVENESS:
God-Centered View: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. (Forgiveness is required here).
Man-Centered View: Humanism teaches love is never having to say "I'm sorry" (No need for forgiveness).
HOMOSEXUALITY:
God-Centered View: Homosexuality (sodomy) is wrong.
Man-Centered View: Homosexuality (sodomy) is OK.
JUDGEMENT:
God-Centered View: We have to answer directly to God for our actions ultimately.
Man-Centered View: Humanism teaches the individual need answer only to himself.
LAW AND AUTHORITY:
God-Centered View: The law is the authority that establishes the boundary of conduct.
Man-Centered View: No man need recognize any authority beyond himself.
LESBIANISM:
God-Centered View: Lesbianism is wrong.
Man-Centered View: Lesbianism is OK.
LIFE AFTER DEATH:
God-Centered View: Life after Death.
Man-Centered View: No life after death.
LOVE:
God-Centered View: God is love.
Man-Centered View: Sex is love.
LYING:
God-Centered View: Lying is wrong, regardless what the liar thinks.
Man-Centered View: Lying doesn't exist if the liar thinks its O.K.
MAN (NATURE OF):
God-Centered View: Man is basically evil, separated from God and God has to determine a set of values for him.
Man-Centered View: Humanism teaches Man is basically good and therefore is able to determine his own values by himself.
MEN AND WOMEN:
God-Centered View: Men and women are different.
Man-Centered View: Men and women are the same.
OVERVIEW:
God-Centered View: God, creation, morality, the fallen state of man, redemption through Christ and the free-enterprise capitalist system.
Man-Centered View: Rejection of God and substitution of evolution, amorality, basic goodness of man, and one-world socialist system.
PORNOGRAPHY:
God-Centered View: Pornography is wrong.
Man-Centered View: Pornography is OK.
PROFANITY:
God-Centered View: God's name should not be profaned, because God should be respected above all.
Man-Centered View: Humanism allows the profaning of God's name since God does not exist.
PROSTITUTION AND ABORTION:
God-Centered View: Prostitution, incest and abortion-on-demand are wrong.
Man-Centered View: Prostitution, incest and abortion-on-demand are OK.
PUBLIC NUDITY:
God-Centered View: Public nudity is wrong.
Man-Centered View: Public nudity is OK.
REPRODUCTION:
God-Centered View: Sex is for procreation and we are to multiply and inhabit the land.
Man-Centered View: We are over-populated (a lie) and must stop having babies.
RIGHT AND WRONG:
God-Centered View: There are absolute rights and wrongs.
Man-Centered View: There are no absolute rights and wrongs.
SEX AND MARRIAGE:
God-Centered View: Sex is a beautiful relationship between husband and wife who have become one flesh.
Man-Centered View: Sex is a physical animal need that must be gratified in any way that the person craves.
SEX AND THE PUBLIC:
God-Centered View: Sensuality and sexual activities should be in private.
Man-Centered View: Sensuality and sexual activities in public are acceptable conduct.
SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE:
God-Centered View: Sex outside marriage (fornication, adultery, etc.) is wrong.
Man-Centered View: Sex outside marriage (fornication, adultery, etc.) is OK.
SIN (EXISTENCE OF):
God-Centered View: Guilt and shame result when a person does something wrong (sin) according to that which is written (the law of God).
Man-Centered View: No guilt and shame exist because no one can do any wrong (sin). Wrong (sin) does not exist, therefore guilt and shame do not exist.
SIN (RECONCILIATION):
God-Centered View: God has freely given, (by grace) Jesus Christ (so that man can be reconciled to God).
Man-Centered View: Humanism teaches there is no sin and man needs to be reconciled only to himself.
SOVEREIGNTY OF NATIONS:
God-Centered View: The sovereignty of each nation to govern itself.
Man-Centered View: One-world system ruled by an intellectual elite.
SUICIDE:
God-Centered View: Suicide is wrong.
Man-Centered View: Suicide is OK.
SUPREME BEING:
God-Centered View: God is Supreme Being, therefore faith and trust are in Him.
Man-Centered View: Man is Supreme Being, therefore faith and trust is in man.
God-Centered View: God is a supernatural being, omnipotent (all powerful), omniscient (knowledge of everything).
Man-Centered View: Humanism teaches psychic phenomena to give man (supreme being) the sense (feeling) of being supernatural. Psycho trip.
VALUES (SOURCE OF):
God-Centered View: God has written His values (the Bible) and if man obeys he will be prosperous and have life (love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, kindness, dependability, goodness and self-control).
Man-Centered View: Man must follow his own changing values and society must be responsible for the consequences of his actions (abortion, illegitimate births, lesbianism, homosexuality, murder, hatred, strife). human2.htm
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