Elijah and the Prophets of Secularism

... or Dance With The One Who Brung Ya (Part 2)

There's trouble brewin' in South Dakota. Those uppity hicks exercised their choice... they went and chose life for the unborn instead of extermination. Now the abortion at any cost folks are up in arms.

We are reaching a collision point regarding many of our "values" and people must decide where they stand. I am reminded of Elijah and the prophets of Baal. He told the "folks" in Israel that decision time had arrived. They had to choose where their allegiance lay and by whom their values would be guided (determined, if you will.)

Elijah promptly challenged them, and the leaders of the competing worldview, to a showdown. It was kind of like, as Jesus said, "by their fruits your will know them." Elijah was forcing them to their endgame -- and doing the same for himself -- to see what each one would produce. As the story goes, his opponents wore themselves out trying to get results. Elijah sat by and watched and gave commentary. Then he set up the test challenge for himself and made it much more difficult for himself than it had been for them. With a single prayer, the God who answered with fire was the true God... Elijah's God.

It is time for the players in our modern cultural debate to come to epistemological self-consciousness... to face who they are and how they got here and what the outcome of those things taken to the extreme will produce. Like Jesus said, " Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers."