Deceptive Philosophy     

   Following yesterday's focus on the Messiah/Christ, today we learn from Bible commentary a description of what Paul called "hollow and deceptive philosophy" (Colossians 2:8).  

   It's called "secular humanism" - humans operating independently of God. 

   This is the "religion" of most secular education, government and society, and most of the news and entertainment media around the world.

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• It teaches that everything is in its present form by impersonal chance
• That humans are the product of a chance process of evolution
• That belief in a personal, infinite God is foolish

• That knowledge exists only by human discovery, and that human reason determines the ethics of society 

• That to improve human behavior, only education, economic redistribution, psychology and human wisdom are useful
• That moral standards are not absolute, but determined by what seems good to society as determined by its leaders

• That human self-fulfillment and satisfaction are the highest good
• That people should cope with death and difficulties without belief in or dependence on God 

• Humanism began with Satan and his lie that humans can be like God; Scripture identifies humanists as those who have "exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator" (Romans 1:25)

   See also:
     Romans 1:28-32;  2 Corinthians 10:4-5;  2 Timothy 3:1-10;  Jude 3-20