Liberating Planet Earth

The Inevitability of .Lib~ation 135
thought and action; the anti-Christian can achieve an offensive,
destructive campaign against the Christians – as contrasted with a
consistently satanic self-destructive life of drugs and debauchery
— only by stealing the Biblical worldview and twisting it to evil
purposes.
In short, to become real~ evilyou need to become pretty good.
The Bible says that all those who hate God love death (Proverbs
8:36b). Therefore, for God-haters to live consistently, they
would have to commit suicide. It is not surprising that the French
existentialist philosopher Albert Camus was fascinated with the
possibility of suicide. It was consistent with his philosophy of
meaninglessness. To become a h~toric threat to Christians, unbelievers
must restrain their own ultimate impulse, namely, the quest for
death. Thus, their increase in self-consistency over time is incomplete,
until the final rebellion, when their very act of rebellion
brings on the final judgment.
This will be the final culmination in history of Satan’s earlier
act of envious defiance in luring the mobs to crucifi Christ: an act
of violence that insured his total judgment and defeat. Yet he did
it anyway, out of spite. When God finally removes His restraint
on their suicidal impulse, they will launch their suicidal rebellion.
The removal of God’s restraint is always a prelude to judgment.
So the ethical war will escalate. Whom should we expect God
to bless in t.lis escalating ethical war? The Christian whose worldview
is consistent and God-honoring, or the God-hater whose
worldview is inconsistent and God-de&ing? Who will be burdened
by greater moral and intellectual schizophrenia as time
goes on and self-understanding increases? Whose plans of conquest
will be inconsistent with his philosophy of existence, the
Christian or the anti-Christian? Who is truly growing in selfunderstanding,
the Christian or the anti-Christian?
The answers should be obvious. Unfortunately for Christian
preaching in the twentieth century, pessimistic theologies make
the obvious obscure, and they have been dominant since the
1930’s.’