It seems that Sally and Joe have some interesting discoveries about human beings. After millennia of thinking a certain way about God, responding a certain way to traditional church services, and having certain original sin issues, today’s postmodern man defies those classifications. No longer is a brooding, impersonal God good enough for him. Nor is a dry, humorless, lifeless liturgy enough to connect with him innermost desires. And he doesn’t struggle so much with keeping God’s law and meeting just demands, he just needs to remember to do all things in love in a broken world that’s falling apart. Fortunately for us, savvy thinkers like Joe and Sally have been able to discern the differences between medieval, historic, biblical, depraved man and/or woman, and the new man.
Joking aside, I was struck today by the overwhelming arrogance of saying that people, society, or culture today is something that it has never been before. We don’t know, in fact we can’t know! Only time gives us enough perspective to be able to rightly judge how our time compares to other times.
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