In his second epistle to fellow apostle Timothy, the apostle Paul prophesied that the last days on earth directly preceding the return of Jesus Christ would be filled with wickedness and evil. (2 Timothy 3:1-5)
Unless Paul was extremely lucky, his prophecy is being fulfilled in the time we live in. As you can see from the chart above, crime in the United States began to increase in the late 1960s and accelerated until it finally began to level off at the beginning of our current century.
Certainly, there's a cause and effect relationship that explains the explosion of crime that began in the late 60s. That cause was America's abandonment of God and His transcendent moral laws, and the effect was chaos and anarchy.
However, the cause of America's decline as a moral, God-fearing nation didn't begin in the 1960s; it began in the 19th century when many Christian seminaries and theology schools began to question the existence of God and the validity of His revealed word in the Bible. Many liberal theologians began to embrace Charles Darwin's dubious theory of evolution that claimed without any scientific evidence that all physical life allegedly originated in a primordial mud pond several hundred million years ago.
Darwin's theory was so bad that many of his peers debunked it as sheer nonsense. For example, John Herschel, a researcher and scientist said this: "Complex adaptions cannot arise from chance variations."
http://mechanism.ucsd.edu/teaching/philbio/Darwin%20III.pdf
And British physicist William Thompson offered this rebuttal to Darwin's claim that life evolved to its present form over several hundred million years: "The longest time for the earth to have been habitable is 200,000 years." Thompson based that figure upon heat radiation from the earth's surface and subsequent cooling.
Nevertheless, Darwin's bogus theory was music to the ears of atheists who were looking for some scientific credibility to dismiss God as a myth. When Darwin published his theory in a book titled, On the Origin of Species, (1859) atheists had finally found their messiah. Darwin had freed them from moral accountability to a Holy God. No longer were they responsible for their thoughts, actions and words. They were now free to live life any way they wanted and woe to those who objected.
Of course, Darwin's theory became the liturgy of the new humanistic religion that dismissed God and replaced Him with man. That religion found its way into elementary schools, colleges and universities all over the world. And God and His 10 Commandments were subsequently thrown out because they were considered outdated myths concocted in the minds of primitive men.
You can see the devastating effects of a world sans a Holy God. As public schools began enforcing a government manufactured wall between church and state, the Bible, 10 Commandments and prayer were banned from schools and replaced by moral relativism. If God didn't exist, then ethics and morals were strictly a matter of personal choice. Everyone was free to live their lives however they desired, just as long as they didn't "hurt" others.
Without God, the world quickly turns to depravity. Godless humanism in the 1960s gave rise to the Sexual Revolution which in turn gave rise to the holocaust of abortion as well as the explosion of STD's such as Herpes, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Syphilis and HIV-AIDS. Without God, crime exploded and divorce, out-of-wedlock births, drug and alcohol additions skyrocketed. And without God, suicides increased as many people became depressed and lost their hope in a godless universe devoid of design, purpose and reason.
And so, Paul's prophecy recorded nearly 2,000 years ago is indeed being fulfilled. Much of the modern Christian church is to blame for this. Instead of contending for the faith as the apostle Jude exhorted the early Church to do, (Jude 1:3) much of modern Christendom has settled for bread and circuses.
If the faith is no longer relevant to millions of young people who believe that they're merely the end products of random evolutionary forces, then you can blame the Christian church. Just as Nero fiddled while Rome burned, Darwin fibbed and the modern church now burns to ashes.
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