Some bad theology and a lot of rebellion are all that hold up the charade of secular humanism.
In the Bible the patriarchs – God fearing men – ruling responsibly over their families according to God’s LawWord are the model that God holds up as our example of righteousness. The denial of Biblical patriarchy by the church has made secular humanism the power it is today.
There are five aspects to Biblical Patriarchy:
1. arranged marriages (the father is responsible for the disposition of his sons and daughters in marriage with the consent of all),
2. the Biblical dowry (three years living wages paid by the man for a virgin),
3. patriarchal authority ( the rule and responsibility of the father of the household under God’s LawWord),
4. the one-flesh nature of marriage (the disestablishment of church and state from marriage), and
5. potential polygyny (one man husbanding one or more wives).
The denial of each of these aspects of Biblical patriarchy has given secular humanism the crucial cooperation from baptized humanism it needs in order to exercise the power it wields. To see this clearly we must imagine what things might be like if Biblical patriarchy was once again understood to be righteous by Christians.
Secular humanism is simply the larger mirror of the reality of our family lives. Secular humanism does not take God’s LawWord into account and neither do humanist Christians.
I spoke to a mother of a 17 year old girl yesterday and mentioned the importance of her father being involved in making sure she married the right guy and the 3 years wages a potential husband needs to bring to the table.
“That sounds very Old Testament,” she said.
“There is no such thing as the ‘Old Testament’; that is just an evolutionary category imposed on Scripture,” I informed her, “There are the Law and the Prophets, the Gospels and Epistles: the dowry is part of God’s Law order for the family.”
“But we have done away with the sacrifices,” she responded, shaking her head.
“Right, but the dowry has nothing to do with the sacrificial system or the priesthood. It is simply God’s Law which Jesus came to reconcile us to. Like He said, ‘If you love me obey my commandments’.”
Frankly, the situation we find ourselves in is this: rather than look to God’s LawWord for our definition of right and wrong we look to our own reasoning. This is what secular humanism does as well. The laws of our country are made up without any deference to God’s Law. As we have denigrated the Law and the Prophets as being passé so has secular humanism denigrated the Constitution and our country’s Christian heritage.
Christianity in the west is bound to be impotent as long as we view God’s Law as impotent.