IS JESUS THE ONLY WAY? (4 OF 4)
by Zach Terry
Scripture: Matthew 7:13-14
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Is Jesus the Only Way? (4 of 4)
Series: Apologetics: Asking for a Friend
Zach Terry
Matthew 7:13-14
INTRODUCTION: We have been studying the urgent questions being asked by Generation Z, Namely, ''Is God There?'', ''Has God Spoken''.
Today we are looking at the third question and perhaps the most urgent - ''Is Jesus the Only Way?''. The key word in that question is the word, ''Only''.
Solomom the Wise tells us that, ''there is really nothing new under the Sun'' and that is certainly true when it comes to Relativism.
The concept was introduced in the academic sense nearly 500 years before Christ by the Greek Sophist Protagoras.
Protagoras was considered the ultimate ''Spin Doctor''. He could argue and side of a case that he was assigned, even when limited to the weakest supposed argument. Ironically, he authored a book entitled, ''Aletheia'' the Greek word for ''Truth''. In the opening line declared: 'Man is the measure of all things: of the things which are, that they are, and of the things which are not, that they are not.' ??His point was that truth and falsehood are determined not by objective truth, but from a person's own perspective.
He gained quite a following until the Philosopher Plato came onto the scene. Plato argued that If every truth claim is relative then this must also apply to Protagoras' own claim that truth is relative.
Plato saw something that later philosopher and academics soon forgot - Relativism dies as soon as it is asserted.
In the early 1900's Relativism made a strong resurgence in the realm of Anthropology. German-born Franz Boas and the Americans Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead suggested that no one culture had the right to critique another.
In 1947, the American Anthropological Association issued a statement that moral values are relative to individual cultures and should not be thought to apply universally. Ironically, this was issued on the heels of the Jewish Holocaust and WW2.
WHAT THSE ANT ...
Series: Apologetics: Asking for a Friend
Zach Terry
Matthew 7:13-14
INTRODUCTION: We have been studying the urgent questions being asked by Generation Z, Namely, ''Is God There?'', ''Has God Spoken''.
Today we are looking at the third question and perhaps the most urgent - ''Is Jesus the Only Way?''. The key word in that question is the word, ''Only''.
Solomom the Wise tells us that, ''there is really nothing new under the Sun'' and that is certainly true when it comes to Relativism.
The concept was introduced in the academic sense nearly 500 years before Christ by the Greek Sophist Protagoras.
Protagoras was considered the ultimate ''Spin Doctor''. He could argue and side of a case that he was assigned, even when limited to the weakest supposed argument. Ironically, he authored a book entitled, ''Aletheia'' the Greek word for ''Truth''. In the opening line declared: 'Man is the measure of all things: of the things which are, that they are, and of the things which are not, that they are not.' ??His point was that truth and falsehood are determined not by objective truth, but from a person's own perspective.
He gained quite a following until the Philosopher Plato came onto the scene. Plato argued that If every truth claim is relative then this must also apply to Protagoras' own claim that truth is relative.
Plato saw something that later philosopher and academics soon forgot - Relativism dies as soon as it is asserted.
In the early 1900's Relativism made a strong resurgence in the realm of Anthropology. German-born Franz Boas and the Americans Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead suggested that no one culture had the right to critique another.
In 1947, the American Anthropological Association issued a statement that moral values are relative to individual cultures and should not be thought to apply universally. Ironically, this was issued on the heels of the Jewish Holocaust and WW2.
WHAT THSE ANT ...
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