Society in Australia and probably in Europe and other parts of the West is transitioning to types of religious belief that either have no God or have a God quite unlike the God of their forefathers. There are many reasons for this. Some are education, availability of information, wealth and increased time for intellectual curiosity; this is a little like the people that saint Paul encountered in the Areopagus in Athens. In the Areopagus saint Paul's efforts at evangelism were not very successful, he didn't have an existing Jewish community listening to his sermon, and the philosophers who were mentioned in the passage (Acts chapter seventeen) had what saint Paul says is "worldly wisdom"; it seems that worldly wisdom is mostly religion proof.
So, here we are, Christians in a well educated culture where religion has lost authority and retains only some credibility, and we have only the same gospel that saint Paul preached on our lips, or do we? Maybe worldly wisdom has touched our thinking too, and if it has is that bad or good or neutral from your perspective?
I watched a short video on this topic, not from a Christian (I think), here it is
So, here we are, Christians in a well educated culture where religion has lost authority and retains only some credibility, and we have only the same gospel that saint Paul preached on our lips, or do we? Maybe worldly wisdom has touched our thinking too, and if it has is that bad or good or neutral from your perspective?
I watched a short video on this topic, not from a Christian (I think), here it is