Neo-Platonism vs. Christianity: Part I (Flight From Knowledge and Life) (Remastered)

This excerpt confronts modern relativism as a deliberate “flight from knowledge,” tracing how thinkers like Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and others helped popularize a pragmatic, positivistic mindset that denies absolutes, distrusts certainty, and replaces the pursuit of truth with the pursuit of utility and control. It argues that this spirit now dominates education, philosophy, semantics, and even the church shifting learning from knowing reality to manipulating it, and turning religion into a tool for personal success or social engineering rather than worship and submission to God. At bottom, the author contends, relativism is not intellectual humility but a strategy to evade the inescapable testimony of creation and conscience to God: because every fact is God-created, true knowledge inevitably points to Him (Ps. 19:1–3; Rom. 1:19–20). The result is social unraveling hatred of law, responsibility, family, and loyalty because the “self as god” cannot tolerate binding obligations, only relationships of use without duty. The piece closes with a stark conclusion: men cannot escape God or the knowledge of Him (Ps. 139:7–12), and the end of the flight from knowledge is either repentance and true understanding in Christ or the unavoidable knowledge of judgment, when every knee bows and every tongue confesses Jesus Christ as Lord (Phil. 2:10–11).