“Whither is God,” he [the madman] cried. “I shall tell you. We have killed him – you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how have we done this?...God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.”
In today's postmodern world, people are so consumed with themselves and their ideas of truth, that they have forgotten God and thus, to them, He is dead. People today see no reason or logic to bring God into the picture, into their lives. The pervasive worldview today is that we decide who we will become; therefore it is not necessary to have a God who would be in control of our lives. It is difficult for a Christian to live out his theistic worldview in today's postmodern world, but it can be done. The Lord knew of all the worldviews that would come into existence and yet He still gave the command to go out and reach all nations.
[...] How does a Christian theist live in a postmodern world? The views of postmodernism seem so negative and damaging that it would hinder or damper the theist's enthusiasm for living the Godly life. It would seem that the theist should just give up because, if today's society has made God dead, sees no need of Him, and denies the ideas of absolute truth and of authority, there is no way that the theist could possibly reach the postmodern individual. However, the theist must remain firm in his belief and go boldly proclaiming Christ's love for the postmodernist. [...]
[...] This would make sense because God has existed since the beginning of time, and because of God's eternal existence, theism is a worldview that is complete in its ideas. The first concept in Christian Theism is that is infinite and personal [triune], transcendent and imminent, omniscient, sovereign, and good” (Sire, p.26). This means that God has existed before time ever began and will continue to exist for all of eternity. He is personal in that He wants each individual to search for Him and to have a relationship with Him. [...]
[...] Lorenzini states, only absolute truth that exists in the postmodern mentality is that there is no such thing as absolute truth, and as far as the postmodern scholar is concerned, that is absolutely true” (Lorenzini, 2005). Postmodernism can also be seen as a shift in cultural legitimation which focuses on different facets of cultural and intellectual life” (Sire, p. 214). This view has affected the areas of religion, sciences, literature, history, fashion, etc in today's society. Postmodernism is more concerned with the meaning that is brought forth through language. [...]
[...] I was very distraught and my faith was shaken quite a bit so I began to search out all the different world religions in order to find out what the absolute truth was. I searched for more than two months the religions of Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholicism, Protestantism, etc and one day the Lord spoke to me out of His word in Psalm. He gave me the verse where it described even the heathen would exalt the Lord. I wondered how the heathen, unbelievers, would exalt the Lord unless they knew Him to be true? [...]
[...] Another concept of theism is that “Human beings can know both the world around them and God himself because God has built into them, the capacity to do so, and because he takes an active role in communicating with them” (Sire, 2004). God wants everyone to know Him and that is why He gave us His word, the Bible, in order for us to find out more about Him. All His thoughts and advice are relevant for today's people. “Christian faith stands or falls on the idea that God's self-communication has been realized in the word and God has reconciled all things to Himself” (Forte, p.22). [...]
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