Ice Cream or Insulin?
Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason draws this cogent analogy:
"There’s a difference between ice cream and insulin.
When choosing ice cream, you can choose what you like. When choosing medicine, you must choose what heals. When choosing ice cream you can choose what’s true for you. When choosing medicine you must choose what’s true.
There is significant confusion on this point. Americans think of God, religion, and morals like ice cream and not like insulin. They choose religious views according to tastes, according to what they prefer rather than according to what’s true. Non-believers view religion like ice cream."
To take Greg's analogy one step further, if you really need insulin, but instead you just eat ice cream, you won't simply go merrily on your way. You will die! In the same way, it is fundamentally wrong to say, as many do, "It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere." It's a life or death matter.
The problem in postmodern America is that many are wandering around sampling the ice cream, when what they really need is spiritual insulin!
posted by Shark Food at 11:18 AM
4 Comments:
Strange--I agree wholeheartedly that there IS Absolute truth; and that it is crucial we find it and live by it. However, it is NOT a question of adopting a certain belief: beliefs are of the limited mind, and cannot be absolute truth. Absolute truth must be seen directly, not merely believed.
To promote a certain belief (ie Chritianity) as Absolute Truth is like putting insulin-flavored ice cream in a syringe and shooting it up, rather than getting the real thing.
Anonymous -- It sounds like you are a materialist; we can believe as truth only that which we can verify with our five senses. Since beliefs may in some cases not be verifiable in that sense, they cannot be absolutely true.
Am I reading you correctly?
It sounds like you are a materialist, my friend.
There is a said dichotomy afoot in the land today. All that is considered "science" -- and therefore legally teachable in public schools -- is what can be empirically proven. Everything else is deemed "religion" and unfit for consumption by public school children.
This is unfortunate, unfair to any reasonable definition of scientific inquiry, and cannot withstand scrutiny. Religion, and the Bible, lay claim to ALL of reality, including not only the visible world but also the invisible world. To artifically separate the two is dangerous to peoples' souls and is unscientific under any rational definition of "science."
The Bible cautions us that it is the things that are that are eternally real, while the things that are visible (and knowable to the senses) are passing away.
Shouldn't we be studying the things that are eternal, not just the things that are passing away?
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