The wisdom of the world (1Corinthians 1:20-31)

There is an old saying, don’t judge a man until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes. When I was a kid, I was told that saying came from the Indians. Except they used “moccasins” instead of “shoes”. They never told my how the Indians knew what a mile was. Anyway, the point was that you are not supposed to criticize someone until you know where he is coming from. This bit of wisdom is usually spouted off by the left. They will say something like, “you don’t know what it’s like to be gay,” or poor, or a single mother, or a Democrat, or something like that.

Now, some of you may be surprised to hear this, but the people on the left are actually humans. And because of that, they don’t always practice what they preach. If any of you have been checking out my news page this weekend, you would have noticed this headline: Pastor Decried After Child’s Arms Severed. The story is about that woman in Dallas who cut her daughter’s arms off and allowed the daughter to bleed to death. The story attempts to place blame with the pastor of this woman’s church, a man named Doyle Davidson. Before reading this story, I never knew who this man was. The story first says that this woman wasn’t crazy until she moved to Texas. So, the pastor isn’t entirely to blame. The State of Texas has some fault in this as well. Then the article talks about the pastor and his teachings. It makes the point that this pastor is crazy himself. Why, he believes that women should submit to their husbands, that he can talk to God and God talks to him, that he can cure a disease by “laying hands” on someone! What a nut-job! The story makes frequent references to this man’s website, but interestingly it never offers a web address so the reader can find the site himself. Well, I did the search and here is the link: Doyle Davidson. I must be clear first, we have not been able to read this site fully, we cannot pretend to know everything this man teaches, so per-fidem.org and the Texian Party do not endorse Doyle Davidson, his website, his church, or his ministry. We, unlike the AP, think that our readers should have all the information we can give them so they can make up their own minds. That is the only reason we have posted this link.

I bring up this story because I want to point out how the left is quick to rebuke conservatives when they criticize someone, but they don’t follow their own rules when criticizing the right, especially the “religious right.” And it’s obvious the left considers Doyle Davidson and his church to be in the “religious right.”

I have said before that in order to understand creation, you must first believe in God. The universe is, after all, God’s creation. Once you have made that leap of faith, your God-given reason will teach you about the universe. This is reason guided by faith. The vast universe can be understood in one grand theory. This is the only grand theory that I’ve found that doesn’t require exceptions. You can understand this theory just fine. It is very simple to you: God created the heaven and the earth (Gen 1:1 KJV), it is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man (Psalm 118:8). Those two verses are the very first verse in the Bible, and the exact middle verse in the Bible. This theory is simple to you, because you have taken the leap of faith. Try explaining it to someone who hasn’t taken that leap. To him it will seem like foolishness, which brings me to my next verse reference, “For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom; 23but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness, 24 but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God” (1 Cor 1:23&24 NASB). This is the problem with the left, they haven’t “walked a mile (or something like that) in our moccasins.” Yet they pretend to understand faithful people enough to criticize them. And they have the nerve to say that Christians should watch what they say!

The Texian Party believes that Christians should stand up for their faith. Say to the left, “you know what, God talks to me, too.” When teachers and professors, doctors and lawyers, presidents and diplomats publicly confess their faith in a loving God who is in control of creation, it will become impossible for the enemy to declare Christians irrelevant whackos. Faithful people who fear God (that’s another phrase that is misunderstood by those who choose not to understand) are the heart and soul of America. And thank God we are!

–J.E. Heath
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