Pastor MacArthur explained that the current utopian philosophies that the west is embracing began 300 years ago with Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and those were imbibed by Marx and other influential thinkers who hated God and viewed Christianity as oppressive….
Rousseau’s believes are succinctly stated below video.
The Philosophy of Rousseau, that MacArthur referred to in the video above.
[MacArthur suggested that Marx and other thinkers whose work is currently greatly impacting western society, began with Rousseau’s unbiblical ideas.]
The following is an excerpt, link is provided below for those who would read the full post:
…Rousseau, however, went the other way. He suggested that the state of nature wasn’t all that bad, proposing that the people in it were self-sufficient, fairly solitary by choice, sympathetic to others, and peaceful. With nothing to fight over, they don’t fight much. Since morality hasn’t been invented yet, they are innocent and incapable of being malicious.
Importantly, people in the state of nature are free in that they can follow their own will all the time, and equal — the various sources of inequality haven’t been invented yet.
He argues that it is only when we move into society that human nature becomes corrupted, and many of the vices and evils we know all too well can flourish.
[The Bible states very clearly that mankind became depraved when they fell into sin, Genesis 3; and that mankind can follow his own will only when it comes to choosing which flavor of sin he will do; he cannot do righteousness via his will unless he is born again and then in submission to the Holy Spirit.]
Link to post on Rousseau:
The following narrative accompanied the above video at the site 5 Minute Christianity:
Link to above video for those who might want to explore his site:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3vVho-U13I&list=LL&index=1
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It was quite obvious to me they had very little Biblical knowledge.
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