by Terry Wane Benton<\/p>\n
How can one determine that humans are more important than anything if everything is just different forms of material accident? To be a humanist is to make humanity your god and devote religious belief to the superiority of man, and that becomes your dogma and tradition.<\/p>\n
It is a matter of pretend. Pretend that there is nothing more important than us, pretend we are more important than other animals, and pretend that there is no One higher than us that made us. What makes these matters of pretend any better than other religious beliefs and outlooks? So, this view is religious, and they are just determined not to allow God into their worldview. You arbitrarily decided that you are greater than anything else and pulled that belief out of thin air. You have no clue where your mind came from or where your conscience comes from because it is not just made of random chemicals. Your religious view is just content not to know, and you determined that you will accept no testimony <\/b>from God that contradicts your religion.<\/p>\n
A “humanist” makes himself willingly ignorant of God and refuses to let God take the place of the self-absorbed religious view of the man, wanting to believe there are none higher in position or rank than himself. Human pride is making a religious dogma out of his own ignorant assessments.<\/p>\n
Psalms 14:1 claims that “the fool has said there is no God<\/em>.” This is either correct and the humanist is wrong, or the humanist is correct, and David the Psalmist is wrong. Which is it?<\/p>\n Hebrews 3:4 claims that “every house is built by someone,<\/em>” but the humanist claims that no one built us, even though we are amazing productions of some unexplained forces. The Humanist says it was unintelligent accidents of chemicals and material. That is religious dogma, which states that all things happened by accident once and are no longer happening.<\/p>\n Hebrews 12:9 says that we have a “spirit<\/em>” inside this material “house<\/em>” (nobody made) and that God the Father is the “Father of spirits<\/em>.” The humanist prefers the dogma that spirit, mind, and conscience are simply the product of chemicals randomly creating thoughts and values.\u00a0Are spirits mere chemical reactions? That belief is foolish dogma, nothing more. Can thoughts and minds be formed in a test tube? If not, then the “Father of spirits” has to be something outside the house our spirits live in, and even the house our spirits live in (our bodies) was made by that Higher Someone<\/strong>. This is beyond reasonable doubt! Our only choices are God or material chemicals. The humanist likes to pretend that chemicals came out of nowhere and fathered our bodies, souls, and spirits. That is not a reasonable dogma!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Terry Wane Benton How can one determine that humans are more important than anything if everything is just different forms of material accident? To be a humanist is to make humanity your god and devote religious belief to the superiority of man, and that becomes your dogma and tradition. 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