The Need for Human Control
Inthe era of Postmodernity, no
one facet of the humanized culture has been more accepted, more revered, and
yet has caused more damage than the quest for human control. The human mind
desires to be in control of everything, from creation and sustenance, to
degradation and death. The quest for control has driven many a man to his wits
end and several to an early grave. “Perhaps nowhere is this sense of human
control more evident than in reproductive technologies” (Hollinger p. 96). The influence
and implications for Christian ethics that man’s need for control is having is
the reduction of God as the world’s Sovereign. If one desires to have children
and cannot, they hurry off to a fertility clinic. Likewise, if one is pregnant and
desires not to be, they hurry off to an abortion clinic. No one trusts God’s
will and His plan for their lives.
We live in this era of Postmodernity as if God has somehow lost control over the world and the people in it. A positive feature to man’s determinat…
We live in this era of Postmodernity as if God has somehow lost control over the world and the people in it. A positive feature to man’s determinat…
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