The erasure of our loving God who sets the parameters for our behaviour
Though it's never expressed as a stated belief or understood as such, our culture on a most fundamental level in it’s zeitgeist understands the erasure of a justification for moral actions. As seen with how marriages are now in effect dating and their reliance upon the feeling of love as the only foundation and when that feeling fades or transforms, so to does the marriage. The vows at the alter are void, they’re spoken between two souls without a reason to keep them. They are dead, meaningless tradition and nothing else. A form of expression of the love that they feel currently, as apposed to the longstanding faithful love that is to be representative of The Lord’s love for us which will continue on through mistakes and all transformations of the other person. That is until that person irrevocably severs themselves from you (2 Tim 2:13) or you both die and go to see the God who gave you life face to face (2 Cor 5:6-8).
Thus Naturalism, Materialism & Empiricism has permeated the being from the ground up. Through the enforcer of scientific thought which in itself ironically relies upon a nebulous pseudo-Platonic philosophy in order to say that it is true kinds of things exist (hardware stores, dogs & etc) as apposed to that particulars only exist (re-arranged wood, collection of cells & etc) which is the dogmatism of empiricism. Through this enforcer and it’s accompanied claims of empiricism it is easily understood that sensory experience and therefore the ‘self’ is what determines the value of moral actions. Not something that is independent of the person. Though this point is not thoroughly understood or even close to it, it’s basic principle is woven into every action and thought of the natural man. And unfortunately also as leftover garbage which needs to be discarded in the minds of many Saints.
This is why the emergence of ‘your truth’ & ‘my truth’ have coincided with the dictatorial rise of naturalistic philosophy. It’s the logical end (really beginning point) that the person is the arbiter of what is. The misnomer of ‘belief’ to mean ‘truth’ is also a logical end point as empiricism relies upon sensory experience as the justification for knowledge and belief therein is in essence the same as truth.
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