Days of Noah

   Yesterday I heard a new (to me) term in the news. "Flexible reality." What on earth is that? It was used in relation to the transgender issue to argue that reality can be bent to accommodate the desires of the individual. Come on! What's real is real and cannot be bent simply by thinking it's something different than what it really is. The idea that there are no absolutes has been around for a very long time, but thinking a person can change their gender is taking it to a higher level. 

   Some of the humanistic philosophies found in Ecclesiastes 3 are:

   1. Fatalism (v. 9)  everything is predetermined

   2. Skepticism (v. 11)  you can't know anything for sure (no absolutes)

   3. Epicureanism (v. 12-13)  have fun, that's all there is to life

   4. Deism (v. 16-17)  we'll all come out all right in the end

   5. Evolution (v. 19-20)  man and beast are all alike

   6. Universalism (v. 22)  just be sincere and you'll be okay; we all go to the same place anyway

   Some of the modern thinkers expanded on these ideas. Charles Darwin and evolution, John Dewey and no absolutes, Julias Wellhausen and humanism which led to Albert Einstien and relativism, Soren Kierkegaard and situation ethics.

   These philosophies have permeated our society and are taught as fact all the way from grade school to graduate school. It has gone so deep that people can't distinguish fact from fantasy and now it is being called flexible reality.

   I wonder how long God will put up with all this nonsense. It seems to me the world is pretty much in the same shape as it was in the days of Noah when "GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." It had reached the breaking point and God put an end to it with a worldwide flood. The world is again ripe for judgment.

   Is there such a thing as flexible reality? Absolutely not!