Prominent evolutionist Christopher Hitchens has died. He was an ardent anti-Christian, yet he was still a man made in the image of God. Though we do not endorse his message, we do mourn his unrepentant heart, unless there was a recent unknown conversion to Christ. Today is the day of salvation, and no man knows the number of his days. Let each man take heed, for our days our numbered as well.
It is always a sad commentary to see great intellect used for the ills of an evolutionary worldview, and Hitchens had a passion for the evolutionary worldview.
Ironically, every false worldview must steal from the Christian worldview in order to argue against it. How? The Christian worldview is the only worldview that possesses the preconditions for intelligibility. What is that? Preconditions are those conditions that come beforehand and intelligibility is the ability to make something meaningful and understandable.
The Triune God is the bedrock of meaning, knowledge, logic, ethics, etc. Apart from Him, there is no such thing as these concepts or even the concept of a concept; it would be an illusion at best, which itself is a concept. In this, we see that the non-Christian assumes the Biblical God and all that He accounts for in order to then argue against Him. Van Til once wrote that this is like a father who must put his child on his knee in order for the child to slap his father in the face. This is no different.
Man is totally depraved, and his suppression of the truth in unrighteousness is magnified by his unwillingness to submit to Him who is the foundation of all things, for man would rather die in unbelief, judgement, and inconsistency than surrender to God in Christ. What foolishness!
To Him be the glory! Amen!
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