Do you have a philosophy virus? There are plenty of them in our American culture and it's likely that you have one or many. Perhaps the worst of the worse could be Existentialism.
Existentialism is the philosophy of individual existence, experience, or brokenness and chaos. It is the philosophy of anti-system because it also sees all knowledge and data disconnected and random, and it does not recognize a system or logic or design and champions individualism. It leads to a purposeless world and existence, and eventually to despair and nihilism, or nothingness. Friedrich Nietzsche was the father of Existentialism who coined the phrase, "God is dead."
I hate Existentialism precisely because it celebrates individuality and autonomy in the randomness of existence, but also because that would mean there is no design or purpose to live for. Christianity is the opposite in that is teaches creation, order, design, logic and purpose. There is a reason to live, a good reason, in that God exists and he has created all things for his own glory. We can be reconciled and redeemed in Christ to be all that God created us to be in wholesome and meaningful lives. We are called in Christ to live for his purposes and design if we will simply accept him.
True freedom comes from God when we are regenerated in and sanctified to Christ, the one for whom and through whom all things were created. Colossians 1:16, "For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him." Amen.
Existentialism is the philosophy of individual existence, experience, or brokenness and chaos. It is the philosophy of anti-system because it also sees all knowledge and data disconnected and random, and it does not recognize a system or logic or design and champions individualism. It leads to a purposeless world and existence, and eventually to despair and nihilism, or nothingness. Friedrich Nietzsche was the father of Existentialism who coined the phrase, "God is dead."
I hate Existentialism precisely because it celebrates individuality and autonomy in the randomness of existence, but also because that would mean there is no design or purpose to live for. Christianity is the opposite in that is teaches creation, order, design, logic and purpose. There is a reason to live, a good reason, in that God exists and he has created all things for his own glory. We can be reconciled and redeemed in Christ to be all that God created us to be in wholesome and meaningful lives. We are called in Christ to live for his purposes and design if we will simply accept him.
True freedom comes from God when we are regenerated in and sanctified to Christ, the one for whom and through whom all things were created. Colossians 1:16, "For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him." Amen.
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