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What Can We Do to Fix the Human Dilemma
A series of quotes based on Charles Colson book How Now Shall We Live
Review
1. The first and most fundamental element of any worldview is the way it answers the questions
of O R I G I N S . Where the universe came from and how human life began.
2. The second element key to world view is the way it explains the H U M A N D I L E M M A .
Good Intentions
Yet the notion of s i n is unpalatable to the modern mind.
People everywhere are searching for the cure for man’s b r o k e n n e s s .
Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
Search for Redemption
 Many try to suppress the longing, to rationalize sin away, to mute it with l e s r a _ _ n s w .
o The desire is universal, and every religion and worldview offers some form of
redemption.
o But the religions and philosophies are not the only ones offering redemption.
 Every worldview offers answers to the question of how we got here (creation), and an
analysis of the basic human dilemma (redemption).
o But which offers or redemption is t r u e ?
o Which gives a genuine a n s w e r to the human dilemma?
o Which ones are crass c o u n t e r f e i t s ?
Counterfeit Acts of Redemption
I.
Does it L i b e r a t e ?
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One of the most dangerous errors instilled into us by the nineteenth – century progressive
optimism is the idea that civilization is automatically bound to increase spread.
The lesson of history is the opposite. C. S. Lewis
II.
Salvation Through S e x
Medieval mystics used medication and self-denial to achieve transcendence and to commune
with the sacred; modernists use sex.
III.
S c i e n c e as Salvation
IV.
New A g e R e l i g i o n
Men and women have ultimately come up from amoebas, and they are ultimately on their
way towards God. Ken Wilber
Real Redemption
A careful examination of competing worldviews can allow us to see with astonishing clarity that
Christianity offer the only real answers to the most basic questions of life and the best
understanding of how we can be saved.
First: Christianity begins with an accurate diagnosis of the human dilemma.
Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Second: Christianity provides the only answer to the problem of sin.
Romans 3:26 for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be
just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
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