Welcome to Every Thought Captive, I’m Phil Steiger.
In the latest edition of Time, columnist Andrew Sullivan writes on faith and belief in an article titled, “When not seeing is believing.” His point is that the root problems in our world are a result of people taking religion seriously and actually believing in absolute truth. His solution is that believers need to take a different approach to their faith—namely, a more humble approach. As a result no religious believer will have the audacity to believe their religion is true.
For Sullivan, “humble” is a code word for relativism. For him, and many others, to hold a belief humbly is to not really hold it at all. But that is certainly not what he means. His article proposes a very specific form of religion, and asserts that it should be true for everyone. According to his definition of “humble,” he has been rather arrogant. In reality, it is not hard to hold to the truth of Christianity and be truly humble.
This has been Every Thought Captive, a Christian worldview minute sponsored by Quail Lake Community Church. For more information, please visit quaillake.org.
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