What is humanism? As Christians, are we to harbor humanistic feelings?
For we seem to be more concerned with how we view each other as humans than how God views us. We love to make each other happy than to do what God loves us to. Even when we offer to help each other on a range of matters, we tend to do it more for humanistic reasons rather than doing it because it is not only the right thing to do, but it is what God loves us to. Does God accept us for simply being humans?
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Asked October 11 2014
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Jeremiah Kaaya
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Peggy Carter
By definition, humanism is an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.
Jesus died for the sins of human beings, and rose to offer eternal life to all who believe. God is the answer to all human needs, and he only wants to be our Savior and LORD. Humanism promotes the belief that mankind is the master of his own fate, and the captain of his own soul.
Jesus taught his disciples to love GOD with ALL their heart, and to love others in the same way they loved themselves... unselfishly. Wouldn't it follow that when we show love for our fellow man we are following God's command? This is UNLIKE Humanism that promotes serving mankind for the sake of MAN, rather than for the sake of GOD.
It seems that humanism is a way of promoting and elevating MAN, and denying GOD. It doesn't seem to be, so much, a philosophy of the way a person views other human beings, but of the way a person views himself. It appears that humanists elevate self rather than God, and promotes the belief that SELF can determine his own salvation and well being.
Lena Wms
Jesus was very interested in how humans treated one another. Careful reading of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus was expressing thoughts of great love and mercy. He advised a man not to even call another man worthless or a fool except to be in grave danger of judgment. To walk the extra mile with a man, to give your cloak to one in need. The problem is humanism attempts to bypass God's redemptive Son to stand and say "We have no need of a Savior, We can do this on our own."
Do we need to believe in ourselves? Only in the point that we can do all things through CHRIST which STRENGTHENS us!!!
Be Blessed
Lena