Human Wisdom: Mankind Is The Ultimate Norm
Man says: “Mankind is the Ultimate Norm By Which Truth and Values Are To Be Determined.” According to (Human Wisdom) Secular Humanism, all reality and life center upon human beings.
God says: “….. the Messiah (Jesus) is God’s power and God’s wisdom. For God’s nonsense is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.” 1 Corinthians 1:25
Excerpts and paraphrases in this post are from https://www.allaboutworldview.org/secular-theology.htm
Human Wisdom: Secular Worldview – Mankind at the Center
The Secular Worldview is a religious worldview in which “man is the measure” — mankind is the ultimate norm by which truth and values are to be determined. According to Secular Humanism, all reality and life center upon human beings. In fact, we act as God. Our friends at Summit Ministries have helped us explain the basics of the Secular Worldview across ten major categories. For comprehensive coverage of each concept, please click on READ MORE at the end of each paragraph.
Secular Worldview – The Individual Elements
The Secular Worldview is a comprehensive view of the world from a materialistic, naturalistic standpoint. Therefore, the Secular Humanist sees no place for the supernatural or immaterial. “There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends that instead of the gods creating the cosmos, the cosmos, in the individualized form of human beings giving rein to their imagination, created the gods.”1 The following elements of the Secular Worldview naturally flow from this core foundation:
Secular Theology – Atheism
Secular Humanists believe that there is no God, that science and the scientific process have made God obsolete. Humanists believe that only matter – things we can touch, feel, prove, or study – exists and has always existed. Man is only matter (no soul or spirit). No supernatural explanation is needed for the existence of this matter. READ MORE…
Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God’s holiness and sovereignty. acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.
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Secular Worldview – Conclusion
The Secular Worldview is a comprehensive conception of the world from a naturalistic standpoint. “The ultimate failure of Secular Humanism is in the fact that of its very nature it promises what it cannot fulfill. By encouraging people to put their trust in earthly happiness it programs them for disillusionment. This is in large measure the reason why the history of the modern world has been characterized, intellectually, by philosophies of pessimism like Existentialism and by often-rancorous bitterness over various plans for worldly improvement. In the twentieth century, mass slaughter has been perpetrated not by religious believers in opposition to heresy but by secularists convinced that their plan for a worldly utopia is the only possible one.”2
Other Related Resources:
“6 Cracks in a Secular Worldview” By Rebecca McLaughlin
