Obviously the underlying reason people are anxious for scientists to prove evolution is so they can discard any notion of an Almighty God who will ultimately hold them accountable.

As renowned humanist Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) writes in his classic, Confessions of a Professed Atheist, “I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning, consequently assumed it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption.

“The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics; he is also concerned to prove there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do.

“For myself, as no doubt for many of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaningless was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.”

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Under America’s prevailing system of political correctness today, it is considered near-disgraceful not to see the homosexual lifestyle in an empathetic light. And a gay “marriage” is to be seen as having the same moral, institutional validity as any committed, monogamous heterosexual union. To view it as sinful is to be “un-Christ-like.”

A recent Q&A in the Sunday New York Times Magazine featured Mike Jones, the male gay prostitute in Colorado who “outed” the Rev. Ted Haggard, former head of the National Association of Evangelicals.

In response to the statement, “Millions of people appreciate that you spoke up, but still, as a prostitute, you’re hardly a shining exemplar of gay accomplishment,” Jones justifies himself with, “I prefer the term ‘male escort.’ If I was strictly a prostitute, people would probably think I was working the street. And I’m not. These men were coming to me with really big emotional issues, and I was comforting them.”

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I remember when Billy Graham made his big “final” crusade in New York City a year ago, all the endless local TV commercials for the three-day extravaganza had him shouting from the screen, “God loves you!”

It made me think of how TV’s the Rev. Robert Schuller, in the ’80s, made this his signature sappy sentiment for awhile: “God loves you and so do I.”

I remember as a high-schooler how I’d watch him say that (with his affected voice and gimmick smile at the pulpit of his grandiose Crystal Cathedral near Los Angeles), and think, “Well, what if somebody like Charlie Manson’s watching the Hour of Power right now?! Surely you’re not really being sincere!”

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The short little Bible verse that throws all this out the window is Psalm 5:5: “The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.”

Jordan explains, “Now when that verse says ‘God hatest all the workers of iniquity,’ the response should be, ‘Did you get that?!’ Most people say, ‘Well, yeah, but, uh, uh, uh . . .’ That’s not the response!

“The response is, ‘God hates all workers of iniquity.’ That verse doesn’t say simply that, ‘God hates the sin but loves the sinner.’ Do you see that? That verse says God hates all workers of iniquity.

Another slam-dunk little verse is Psalm 11:5: “The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.”

It’s followed by the assurance, “Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup. For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.”

Jordan explains, “You see, the holiness of God—the integrity of God—will not tolerate sin and it hates it. Now, that’s something you need to remember because sometimes we think that God, because of His grace and because of Calvary, will tolerate sin. He doesn’t.

“The Cross is the greatest demonstration of God’s attitude toward sin the universe will ever see. God’s attitude is it took the sacrifice of His Son to put it away. It took the sacrifice of the most valuable entity the universe could ever possess to put away sin.

“It is a big deal, and the Cross answers it, and God commends His love toward us that ‘while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.’ While we were yet somebody God hated, Christ made it possible for Him to love you.

“I was reading that verse in Revelation 13 just yesterday about how He’s ‘the lamb slain from before the foundation of the world.’ That means God had this stuff planned out before He created anybody. Mercy! You talk about grace upon grace; and righteousness and meekness—that’s it!

“Psalm 45 says God ‘lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness. If you loved righteousness, you’d have to hate wickedness. Now, you know, folks, as Believers, if you love righteousness, there’s no way you can love wickedness. It’s okay to be intolerant about that.

“This world we live in, the stupid philosophy of Genesis 3 prevails today. People think like it’s something new, sophisticated and chic, and all that stuff, but it’s as old as the Garden of Eden.

“People get the idea that you can tolerate evil; that everything’s relative and it’s okay just to put up with it and that’s not at all what the Cross teaches you. The Cross teaches you God put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

“Jesus Christ had the same thinking process; the same value system God the Father had. He thought just like the Father. God’s appointed Him to be His standard-bearer.”

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As China missionary R. Dawson Barlow writes in his 2004 book, The Origin of the Races, “The conflict between the Bible and the various evolutionary views is not a battle between ‘religion’ and ‘science.’ It is a war between two philosophies!

“It is a battle originating from people filled with antagonism and animosity toward ‘God’ (in general) and Jesus Christ (in particular), and most of all, the fierce denial that anyone would have to give an account of themselves to such a God.

“It constantly rears its bloodthirsty, antagonistic head in battle array against the claims of Jesus Christ, and most especially against our Lord’s claim of exclusivity (‘. . . I am THE way . . . no man cometh unto the Father but by me.’)

“That is probably the most unpopular utterance that can be uttered today, even in some circles of the world of Christian publishing. So let it be! . . . The message of our Lord is offensive to those enamored with their own righteousness.”