The morality and ethics of the culture in which we now dwell are soft and pliable—and grossly unserious. Nothing means anything, while anything goes. It is a plastic world: cheap, brittle, easily broken and easily thrown away. The more modern man strives to bring meaning to life, the less life means.
If everything is anything, then nothing means anything.
The Christian who does not take God seriously falls prey to the emptiness and futility of this existence. Even as he claims his faith, he drifts inexorably away from it. One reason God expects more than this from His children is that He knows that every moment we are not living with Him, our faith is being eroded by the fallen culture in which we dwell. In time the believer’s faith becomes as plastic and brittle and meaningless as the sulfurous world in which he dwells.
This world will never reinforce our faith; it will only undermine it.
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