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Tim Moore To help us plumb the depths of the wisdom of the book of Proverbs on this week's episode of Christ in Prophecy, I've reached out to someone whose learning and insight are respected far and wide. Dr. Al Mohler is not only the President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, he is a deep thinker, incomparably well-read, and a cherished friend.

Dethroning Wisdom

Tim Moore: When speaking of intelligence, there was also once an American political party called the Know-Nothings, as they seemed to gravitate toward ignorance. Today, our society seems to have devolved instead of evolved. In other words, our culture is tech-savvy, but it certainly lacks wisdom. How have we gotten to where we are today?

Dr. Mohler: A part of the problem is us simply dethroning all of the natural and created hierarchies and authorities. When I was a boy, I needed to know what was true and what was false, so I went to my parents and asked. There were other trusted authorities in my life. I could go to my pastor. I could go to all kinds of Christian leaders in my church. I knew behind them were entire structures of authority, for they would go back to the Word of God, and that is the authority of God Himself.

But, ever since the fast-paced revolutions of the 20th Century, there has been a dethroning of authority. Without authority, there can be no wisdom. There can be no acknowledgment of truth. And so, we've arrived at a point where truth is emotivism or expressivism. This means that people will say, "When I say that I believe that two people of the same gender should be married, it is not that I actually believe there is any objective truth about that being good or bad, it's just that I am expressing who I am and expressing my emotional state by making that statement."

Now, just to be clear, there is no civilization that can survive that kind of nonsense. And, there is no way Christians can square that kind of nonsense with our Christian responsibility.

The Relativistic Avoidance of Wisdom

Tim Moore: There was a time when most Americans would have agreed on at least the basic ethical foundations for having a dialogue. They believed that there was truth, and there were individuals whom they would have found trustworthy. Today, I think the foundation of our society has eroded because it is no longer resting on knowable truth. This divide has grown so great that I fear Americans will not be able to agree as one voice that there is one source of wisdom. Do you disagree with that assessment?

Dr. Mohler: I do not disagree. And, I will say there is no political rescue for this problem. There is no scientific rescue to this problem. There is only a theological rescue.

Post-modern and Relativistic, truth is just something that people create. The antidote to Relativism is Biblical Christianity.

Sinners can never stay consistent in their non-Christian worldview as it is so inherently unstable that it doesn't work by definition. So, you even have someone who is a radical Atheist like Richard Dawkins who says, "There are no Post-modernists at 33,000 feet." Gravity does not care if you believe in it or not. So, it is just another reminder of the fact that those who try to hold to a Relativistic understanding of truth do not want their heart surgeon to have a relativistic understanding of truth.

Tim Moore: No, they do not. When it comes to guarding the hearts of our children and grandchildren, how do we balance the importance of being salt and light in our darkening society and yet protect them by following the admonition of Proverbs 14:7 which says, "Leave the presence of a fool, or you will not discern words of wisdom"?

Dr. Mohler: Yes, and that assumes that you have a choice, as that is not always something that our children will get to have. Often times they will be sitting in a classroom with some "fool" and they really have no choice in just getting up and walking out, so they've got to learn how to think. We need to build theological, biblical, and intellectual defenses into our children's lives.

And, we need to keep the conversation going. The most important classroom needs to be at the dinner and breakfast table.

We also have to understand what we are up against and push back. Just look around us at this society as it is openly embracing insanity, irrationality, and untruths. We have a society that keeps trying to look at itself with a straight face and say, "No, we believe a boy can be a girl and a girl can be a boy." Then, yet again, the inconsistency comes up when all of a sudden they understand, "Well, this isn't exactly working out too well, but we can't admit that."

We have got to be in a constant mode of not being tossed to and fro, but instead saying: "Look, we expect a sinful world to act like a sinful world, and we expect a sinful world to think like a sinful world. But, our task is neither to think that way nor live that way.

And so, we do need to be very watchful of what is taking place, especially as parents. Christian leaders have to understand that we are surrounded by children, teenagers, and young people for whom these challenges are just immense.

The Rejection of Wisdom

Tim Moore: On your podcast "The Briefing," you spoke of a false fixation on Intersectionality, which is the ideology used by Secularists that deliberately flaunts the wisdom of God by embracing false hierarchies which are based on abnormalities, if you will. Intersectionality galls the sense of anyone who adheres to a Christian worldview. What do you see coming down the pipe that is even more abhorrent and crazy but is inevitable given the trends in our culture today?

Dr. Mohler: The confusion over what is male and female will grow worse. Throughout virtually all of my adult years, the most pressing questions have been intellectual, what we would call in the academic world Epistemology: How do I know that the Bible is the Word of God? How do I know that God really inspired the Bible? How do I know that Jesus Christ is really the Son of God? How do I know that Jesus really was raised from the dead? Those were the "how do I know" questions that have been the obsessive concern of Christian apologetics.

But, today we are living in a world in which people are denying reality itself! We have a war on matter. We have a war on creation. Something as simple as what is male and female is now the subject of widespread, increasing, and unprecedented confusion.

Now, let me just point out, that there never has been a society in all of human history that has been as confused about these things as we are today. This confusion is due to a rejection not just of the Bible, rather this is a rejection of creation and the created order.

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