“Unfortunately the modern church has too often
tried hard to avoid being strange. Modern Christians have adjusted to the
world’s standards. We don’t want to
sound unscientific, so we find ways to reinterpret Genesis 1 so it fits with
current scientific theory. We don’t want
to look odd, so we conform our fashion sense to that of the world, without considering
whether or not God has something to say about our clothing. We don’t want to be
uncool, so our tastes become identical to the world. This makes things a lot easier. There’s no conflict between the church and
the world when the church imitates the world. We don’t seem alien and strange,
as if we have come from another planet, but we are acting against our nature:
we are children of God, children of the resurrection, but we behave the same as
the children of the devil, as if we were still in the same old, dead flesh as
everyone else.” (Peter Leithart, From
Beyond the Veil, p. 115)”
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