GOD
The High Cost of Rejecting God’s Created Order
VICTOR KULIGIN
Foreword by David J. Ayers
Snubbing God: The High Cost of Rejecting God’s Created Order
© 2017 by Victor Kuligin
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I dedicate this book to my father,
the hardest-working man I know,
for teaching me the value of a solid work ethic.
Foreword by David J. Ayers
Introduction: Defining the Conditions of the Debate
Chapter 1: God’s Created Order and Scientific Enterprise: Its Philosophical Underpinning
Chapter 2: God’s Created Order and Scientific Enterprise: Its Practical Outworking
Chapter 3: God’s Created Order and Evolutionary Theory: A Theological Perspective
Chapter 4: God’s Created Order and Evolutionary Theory: A Scientific Perspective
Chapter 5: God’s Created Order and the Sanctity of Life
Chapter 6: God’s Created Order and the Environment
Chapter 7: God’s Created Order and Gender Roles
Chapter 8: God’s Created Order and Sexual Morality
Chapter 9: God’s Created Order and Homosexuality
Chapter 10: God’s Created Order and Marriage
Epilogue: A Word about Godly Wisdom
More than twenty-five years ago, J. I. Packer seconded an observation that American Protestantism was “3,000 miles wide and half an inch deep.”1 Things have changed since then. It is now closer to an eighth of an inch.
We are in the grip of cultural, social, and political challenges that promise to transform the deepest, most foundational areas of existence in ways that will make us unrecognizable not only to our ancestors, but also to ourselves. Modern people are ...
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About Snubbing God: The High Cost of Rejecting God’s Created OrderConfusion abounds in a world bent on rejecting a loving Creator’s guidance on a life well lived. According to its author, Snubbing God shows how “biblical wisdom is opposed by a secular view that has at its heart a fundamental misunderstanding or outright disregard for God’s creation and how he has designed it.” Some of the issues Kuligin explores as a result of rebuffing God include gay marriage, abortion, climate change, animal rights, and evolution. Though pointing out the weaknesses of a secular viewpoint, the author provides convincing arguments for why living the way the Creator designed it leads to a rich and satisfying life. “Snubbing God is strong medicine,” writes sociologist David Ayers in his foreword. “The reader will find it challenging at points morally and intellectually. Few will agree with everything in it. Yet Kuligin has no desire to only preach to a choir, though certainly encouraging the saints is part of his aim. He is trying to get us to pull up short, to think, to reconsider the marvelous truths, and righteous demands, of the Bible and of its Author upon us.” |
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