Our world has gone mad. If you could transport someone from the 1500s, say John Calvin,

into the present with a time machine, he would be shocked at what he found.

They don't know what a boy and a girl is? What happened? One thing

that happened is that our world, apostatizing from the Christian faith, began

to believe that the world was infinitely malleable,

that we could do with it whatever we would,

bend it into any shape we desired.

We began to believe that we ourselves were gods,

not the image be bears of God.

In his book, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism,

in the Road to Sexual Revolution, Carl Truman explains these two fundamentally opposed ways of looking at the world as the mymedic and poetic views of the world.

He explains, quote, put simply, these terms refer to two different ways of thinking about the world.

A my medic view regards the world as having a given order and meaning, and thus sees human beings

as required to discover that meaning and conform themselves to it.

Poasis, by way of contrast, sees the world as so much raw material out of which meaning and

purpose can be created by the individual.

In Romans 1, 18 to 21, the Apostle Paul writes,

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven

against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men,

who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.

For his invisible attributes, namely his eternal power and divine nature,

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