While many persons of faith possess an unshakeable conviction in the divinity of Christ, the rise of modernism and secularism in the last few hundred years has brought about a growing doubt in this central article of the Christian Faith. Materialist presuppositions have poisoned biblical studies and seeped into Scripture 101, stripping the Gospels of all that is supernatural and leaving behind a Jesus who is a mere prophet and moral teacher.
This drastic shift in perception of Christ has naturally led to an even greater disinterest in Him. Modern man is so soaked in secularism that he simply shrugs off this distant figure with no apparent impact on his immediate concerns. To borrow, and slightly alter, a phrase from Flannery O’Connor: “If he’s just a man, to hell with him.”
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