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ligion. Scientific method judges all rival forms of this-worldly
truth. F@h, scientists have been highly optimistic about the potential
for bettering men’s lives through science and technology.
Science will free mankind from the limits of scarcity and ignorance!
This faith in science was especially strong prior to World
War I.
In short, these five points are basic to a vision of victory. They
have motivated the most powerful, world-transforming movements
in man’s history. But now that the faith of Christianity’s
rivals is waning, Christians have a unique historical opportunity
to recapture the minds of men with the Bible’s vision of victory.
But this requires that Christians become confident in Christianity.
This means that they must also have confidence in the earthly
future, for a reh&on whose @iriciples do not guarantee earth~ success for
its followers a a covenanted community is not a religion which irupires
contdence.
Restoration
Christians must call the external culture’s guidelines back to
God’s revealed law. They must regain the leadership they forfeited
when they adopted as Christian the speculations of selfproclaimed
“reasonable” apostates. If this is not done, then we will
slide back once more, until the unbelievers at last resemble that
African tribe, the Ik, and the Christians can begin the process of
cultural domination once more. If neither happens, then society
will return eventually to barbarism.
Understandably, I pray for the regeneration of the ungodly
and the rediscovery of Biblical law and accurate Biblical eschatology
on the part of present Christians and future converts.
Whether we will see such a revival in our day is unknown to me.
There are reasons to believe that it can and will happen.T There
are also reasons to doubt such optimism. The Lord knows.
7. Gary North, Th Sinai Strategy: Economics and the Tm Commandments (Tyler,
Texas: Institute for Christian Economics, 1986), pp. 86-92: me Sabbath
Millennium.”