reformed blogging.

A fellow student on campus was flabbergasted that I would compare America’s indifference to the Holocaust with her indifference to Christ. Up until this point she had understood and agreed with what I had been saying. Namely, that the grounds for her unbelief were not logically warranted and that, as she concurred, objective truth could not be found through the “neutral” presuppositions of atheistic science. It was agreed, and it almost seemed as if something clicked in her head; her face lit up but just as quickly darkened as I explained that science had to work off of theistic presuppositions in order to make any sense.

At this point she shook her head and, though she could not provide any alternative, confidently asserted that sooner or later viable explanations would surface. When I pointed out that she was still working off of unbelieving presuppositions, which would never allow the possibility of Christian theism, she shifted grounds and replied that she was rather comfortable without any certainty, religious or scientific. It was at this point, then, that I told her that her indifference would not make change objective reality, and that it was akin to America’s indifference toward the Holocaust. She was taken aback. After she had thought it through she emphatically denied the claim.

Time was short, however, and she had to go to class. As we parted she asked why it was that I did what I was doing. My response was brief, but it drove the point home. Until now we had been discussing philosophical issues, barely scratching the hard issues of the truth of the Gospel. I told her that I did what I was doing because I believed that man was God’s creation (rather than God being man’s creation); and that God had, at a point in time within history, sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for my own sins. She understood everything I had said and even acknowledged most of it, even that Christ was a historical figure, yet belief in Christ Jesus as Savior could not be an option.

The truth of the gospel–that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came, suffered and died at the hands of men according to God’s foreordained plan as my Surety–is a truth that cannot and must not be denied. Men suppress the truth in unrighteousness, but this in no way changes the truth of the Gospel nor its absolute necessity.

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
- Acts 4:12