Host of DAILY TRUTH - The Generosity of God challenges liberal theology that depicts man as a parasite, arguing instead for a biblical anthropology where humans are image-bearers and creators. He asserts that God is not stingy despite resource scarcity, noting that 60 million unborn children murdered in 45 years could have cultivated solutions if viewed as cultivators rather than consumers. Ultimately, the episode urges listeners to reject blasphemous views of divine cruelty, embracing a theology where obedience leads to flourishing and recognizing humanity's God-given capacity to create resources. [Automatically generated summary]
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Right View of God and Man00:06:34
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Our God is not a stingy, cold, cruel God, our God is a generous God.
Our God lavishes His blessings upon His image bearing creatures.
Our God has filled this planet, this world, His worlds, with everything we need.
And how dare we believe that God has not provided enough and take it even further than that for us to think that God is stingy, that His creation, His world does not maintain, it does not possess, it does not contain the treasures and resources that we need, and then to top it off.
To go a step further and say that God has provided a world without enough resources, and at the very same time, God has commanded us to be fruitful and multiply?
That is to say of God that He has strategically designed us and our call, that if we obey Him, obedience will lead towards our own destruction and demise.
Is that your view of God?
Do you believe that God has commanded us?
His image bearing creatures to do something that, if they fulfill his command, that by means of their own obedience, it would bring about destruction.
That is not our God.
That is a blasphemous theology.
See, the problem in our day, liberalism has seeped into not just our culture, but our church, our churches.
And there are two faults.
At least two faults.
Bad theology, but also bad anthropology.
So let me speak to anthropology for a moment.
Theology is our view of God.
Anthropology is our view of man.
So, what do we think about God?
Do we think he's stingy?
Do we think he's called us to be fruitful and multiply, knowing that the more people we have, that this world that he's created doesn't have the necessary resources to sustain that multiplication to where it will end in the apocalypse and mass hunger and destruction?
We need to have the right view of God.
He's generous.
He is good.
What he has commanded us to do will lead towards flourishing, not destruction.
Obedience leads towards blessing.
We must believe that.
That's our view of God, theology, anthropology, our view of men.
Who do you believe that people are?
Cultivators or consumers?
Have you thought about that?
See, our liberal world tells us that people are nothing more than parasites.
Have you thought of that?
On the one hand, they have this.
Seemingly positive view of man.
Right?
That man, you know, follow your heart.
Every single Disney movie I've ever seen, right?
Trust your heart.
Trust your heart.
And because they're saying that at the core of man, in his heart of hearts, he is moral.
He is good.
And yet, on the surface, he's a consumer.
He's a parasite.
And we'd be better off, our world would flourish more if we had less of these parasitic human beings.
So, murdering 60 million of them in the last 45 years in the womb is a positive strategic play.
If you're a part of the Democratic Party, But our God says otherwise.
His word teaches otherwise.
You see, it's the exact opposite.
See, God's word says, in the heart of heart, man is depraved.
And he only thinks evil thoughts continually.
And yet, on the surface, so in the depth of man is original sin.
And yet, on the surface, even despite sin, the image of God, while tarnished, still remains intact.
And so even for the unbeliever, totally depraved in their heart, the unbeliever still bears the unmistakable image of God.
And because he bears the image of God, he is not first and foremost a consumer, simply a mouth to feed, but he is a creator in the image of his creator.
God is the only true creator who creates ex nihilo.
That is, he creates out of nothing.
But mankind, his image bearers, create not ex nihilo, not out of nothing, but we take the something that God has generously provided and we cultivate and we multiply it.
60 million babies murdered in the last 45 years in the womb.
You can think like the liberal, that's 60 million less mouths to feed, or you can think like the Christian, who knows how many millions of those babies would have found as they grew up, if they were permitted to live, would have found solutions and resources and all these strategies to feed not just themselves, but infinitely more.
Do we believe that?
What's your view of God?
What's your view of man?
Theology, anthropology.
Is God stingy and cruel, only providing a limited amount of resources, and then calling us to be fruitful and multiply, knowing that if we obey Him, it will end in our destruction and demise?
Or is He generous, benevolent, and kind and infinitely wise?
Theology.
Anthropology.
Are people good on the inside, but parasites and consumers on the surface?
Or are they totally depraved, apart from the saving grace of Jesus on the inside, but even the unbeliever still an image bearer of the living God, able to cultivate and create and do much more than simply consume?
Is God Stingy or Generous00:00:17
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