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Dr. Everett Piper pointed out the transposition of good and evil in the moral double-speak which has made front page news the past few weeks in his Washington Times Article this past weekend. He pointed out that our youth are vilifying those defending themselves and making heroes out of those who are savagely destructive.
And, as revealed in Breitbart over the weekend, this moral perversion is rooted in the highest levels of America’s government.
Of the evil one’s knack for dressing as an angel of light, Dr. Piper spoke of the front-page news of the past few weeks. The trauma on our college campuses where good and evil are inverted/transposed. He said:
Good has become evil, and evil is good. The villains are dead Jews who simply wanted to protect their country, and the heroes are those who invaded that country, raped their women, and beheaded their babies.
But lest we think there is no way out of this mess, there is an answer. It is found in returning to and teaching Truth with a capital T. It’s found in those moral laws that have been tested by time, defended by reason, validated by experience, and endowed to us by Revelation.
By Revelation, he refers not to the title of the Bible’s final chapter, but the entire biblical text. The divine Word of God which reveals that to which we would otherwise be unable to know. It is that revelation upon which mankind relies for a foundation and the ability to achieve the task assigned as God’s vice regent on the earth.
Dr. Piper ends his article by noting this historic dependence in those arenas of academia which were among the greatest, during the time they acknowledged their Christian foundations. He says:
Put simply, we will never stop the childishness we are watching on the evening news until we return to teaching the enduring ideas upon which the American academy was initially founded, ideas like these are found in Harvard‘s original mission statement:
Let every student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom, as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning.
There was a time when universities across the country had these words etched in stone above the entrance to their libraries:
You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free
Because these same universities have long since abandoned their mission, they now have to deal with a monster of their own making: a mob of immature students who don’t even know these words are Christ’s and that he is the only way to stop the chaos.
Cursed is all learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ
~Princeton University, 1746
From the Tower of Babel to William Wilberforce, Christianity has won many victories. The people of God can expect this to continue as the providence of God designs.
Come Wednesday to be encouraged as we stand
firm the ground God has bequeathed to each of us!
*Note: Regarding the "E" in ESG:
Dr. Calvin Beisner has been a thorn in the side of the global warming
movement for years and will be with us in June to discuss his new book.
Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host.
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