Welcome to the Daily Blade . The Word of God is described as the sword of the Spirit , the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil . Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson , and they stand ready to equip men for the fight . Let's sharpen up .
This week we're getting into the subject of hate , specifically hating evil , and we're doing so as
we dive into Psalm 97 , so I'll read it now . It's called the Lord Reigns . He turns up his adversaries all around . And , as we've done all week , our main focus verse is verse 10 . Again it reads oh you who love the Lord hate evil . He preserves the lives of his saints , he delivers them from the hand of the wicked .
Speaker 2And for this week , my thesis is that we , as Christians , don't hate evil nearly enough . Yesterday we talked about the evil of child abuse . Today we're going to talk about how Christians don't hate the evil of standpoint epistemology enough . So for some , and perhaps most of you , you've never heard of standpoint epistemology before , at least as a term , right , but you'll recognize it when I explain it . So epistemology is simply the study of what knowledge is and how we get it and , essentially , what people that believe in this and people that believe in standpoint epistemology think . They think that what we know and how we know it is completely determined by our social position or standpoint in a given culture or society . So it is associated with Marxism and feminism and more on those tomorrow and it is most often , in my estimation it manifests as critical race theory . Okay Now , without getting too far out into the weeds , because we only got five minutes ,
standpoint epistemology is directly related to Gnosticism . You may have heard of that before . So Gnosticism revolves around a supposed secret knowledge . That's gnosis , right ? That's what knowledge is . It's a secret knowledge that only some can surmise , right .
Speaker 2But here are three reasons why we should hate standpoint epistemology more . Reason number one it exchanges the capital T truth of God for quote , unquote my truth . Okay . So basically that might be true for you but it isn't for me , kind of a thing . So your perspective from your standpoint is truth . That's what these people think . Your perspective from your standpoint is actually truth . But in John 17 , we see Jesus praying over his disciples and during the prayer Jesus says this , as recorded in John 17 , 17 , sanctify them in the truth . Your word is truth . So , guys , the word of God , the sword of the spirit , is capital T truth .
Speaker 2Reason number two God condemns partiality . So James , the brother or half brother of Jesus , said this in James 2 , 1 , my brothers , show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ , the Lord of glory . So you see a feature , not a bug of standpoint epistemology is that certain identity groups with certain immutable characteristics have higher or lower moral worth than other identity groups . And guys , let's just be real clear about this . This , definitively , is partiality , and God condemns this .
Speaker 2And reason number three is this Our identity should be in Christ above everything else . Right , we are not to find value or worth in our social standing or our identity group above the value that is being identified with Christ . So the Apostle Paul says this in Galatians 3.28 , there is neither Jew nor Greek , there is neither slave nor free , there is no male and female , for you are all one in Christ Jesus . So standpoint epistemology is literally antithetical to the unity that we are supposed to have and enjoy in the body of Christ . So are Christians called to hate ? Yes , we are called to hate evil , and our hatred must compel us to act .
So we should push back the darkness of standpoint epistemology at every opportunity . Don't miss tomorrow . We'll wrap the week up then .
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