The Word of God vs Postmodernism

In this first vodcast of the “Food for the Faithful” series I want us to look at how the God of all creation operates. Simply put, He creates reality by speaking it into existence. This process of creation involves His Son who is the living Word of God. The Postmodernist doctrine infecting society today seeks to do the opposite. It attempts to give language the power to uncreate as opposed to create. It doesn’t merely seek to destroy or undermine; it seeks to call that which plainly and manifestly exists into non-existence. But the power which calls all things into existence, the very Light of Life, cannot be put out. And so, I will read to you from the Gospel of John 1: 1-5 taken from the impactful Bible translation of Eugene Peterson known as The Message:
The Life-Light
1 1-2 The Word was first,
the Word present to God,
God present to the Word.
The Word was God,
in readiness for God from day one.

3-5 Everything was created through him;
nothing—not one thing!—
came into being without him.
What came into existence was Life,
and the Life was Light to live by.
The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness;
the darkness couldn’t put it out.
And from John 1:14-15 this time from the 21st Century King James Version (KJ21):
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld His
glory, the glory as of the only Begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.
And from Colossians 1:16-17 from the New American Standard Bible:
16 for by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or rulers, or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.
17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

These readings demonstrate the importance of the Word since by the Word all things are not merely created but held together. Which is why Postmodernists seek to deconstruct language. They seek to nullify what cannot be invalidated, namely reality itself. And they do so violently. I refer to the brutal censoring from those who claim to be “WOKE”. Note their choice of wording here, WOKE has replaced the Light of Christ. I cannot emphasise sufficiently the need to understand where this ideology originates since if permitted it will come after the fellowships where we gather and to our places of employment in an attempt to force us to conform to language aimed at nullifying the reality held together by the Living Word.