It's Friday, January 26, 2024. I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily

analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

You know, sometimes it's important for us to recognize patterns and one of those patterns

is seeing that for every denial of a religious doctrine in a secular age, some secular doctrine that at least

shadows the same purpose or substance tends to show up.

So even in a psychotherapeutic age, if you don't have a doctrine of sin then you have some idea of some kind of psychotherapeutic diagnosis.

Something's gone wrong.

And frankly, you have to have some category for moral behavior that we all at least all saying people recognize is morally wrong.

And you could actually go through the entire culture and understand that there is a secular shadow of every major Christian doctrine,

but just this past Wednesday in the pages of USA today,

it's a very clear shadow indeed that appeared.

So here's the headline,

Doomsday clock stays near catastrophe.

So this reminds us that going back to the Cold War,

there has been something called the doomsday clock. This doomsday clock was put together in

1947 by the group that is known as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist. Now clearly a

bulletin is a publication but it's the group that is behind that publication that came up with the idea of this doomsday clock.

And the reason for it was the development of atomic weapons, nuclear warfare, and the threat of nuclear

annihilation in terms of an exchange of thermonuclear weapons.

The idea of this doomsday clock is that it would serve as a warning to humanity of how close

we are to apocalypse. And remember that apocalypse means the dramatic violent end of the

world. And these scientists decided that they would put the clock and tell the public

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