MATERIALISM;
HUMANISM

The Bible tells us in a variety of ways of an ancient curse that lingers with us to this very hour—the willingness of human society to be completely absorbed in a godless world!…

We have become a “profane” society—absorbed and intent with nothing more than the material and physical aspects of this earthly life. Men and women glory in the fact that they are now able to live in unaccustomed luxury in expensive homes; that they can trade in shiny and costly automobiles every year; and that their tailored suits and silk and satin dresses represent an expenditure never before possible in a society of common working people.

This is the curse that lies upon modern man—he is insensible and blind and deaf in his eagerness to forget that there is a God, in his strange belief that materialism and humanism constitute the “good life.”

Matthew 6:19–21; Luke 12:33–34; John 1:10; Colossians 3:1–4; 1 Timothy 6:17–19

Who Put Jesus on the Cross?, 98, 99.