Duration: 365 days
PARADOX, MYSTERY, AND CONTRADICTION
The influence of various movements within our culture such as New Age, Eastern religion, and irrational philosophy have led to a crisis of understanding. A new form of mysticism has arisen that exalts the absurd as a hallmark of religious truth. We think of the Zen-Buddhist maxim that “God is one hand clapping” as an illustration of this pattern.
To say that God is one hand clapping sounds profound. It puzzles the conscious mind because it strikes against normal patterns of thought. It sounds “deep” and intriguing until we analyze it carefully and discover that at root it is simply a nonsense statement.
Irrationality is a type of mental chaos. It rests upon a confusion that is at odds with the Author of all truth who is not an author of confusion.
Biblical Christianity is vulnerable to such strands of exalted irrationality because…
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