God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
Humanism is a philosophical premise that includes such concepts as:
1. Man is autonomous and independent
2. Man is his own center of reference
1. Man is self-generative and self-sufficient
2. Man has the potential to do anything he sets his mind to
3. Man is the cause of his own effects
4. Man is the source of his own activity
5. Man has a free-will to choose anything he desires – “sovereign will”
6. Man is innately good
7. Man is the subject and object of his own world
8. Man is the solution to his own problems
9. Man deserves to indulge his personal aspirations, personal gratifications, and personal reputation (cf. I Jn. 2:16)
10. Man is his own god
Human morality and submission to God’s law are entirely different in principle, though they may appear to be similar in outward appearance. Human morality arises out of culture and family training and is based on what is proper and expected in the society we live in. It has nothing to do with God except to the extent that godly people have influenced that society. Submission to God’s law arises out of a love for God and a grateful response to His grace and is based on a delight in His law as revealed in Scripture. When the societal standard of morality varies from the law of God written in Scripture, we then see the true nature of human morality. We discover that it is just as hostile to the law of God as is the attitude of the most hardened sinner.
