In today’s spiritually deceived world, we often fail to see the sinister just beneath the surface of the seemingly silly. For instance, the Black Lives Matter Movement’s call for defunding and demolishing police departments may be readily dismissed by most Americans as a ridiculous idea being preposed by impetuous protestors. However, if we peer just beneath the surface, we may be surprised to find the hoof prints of the devil all over this harebrained proposition.
There is a fundamental of all fundamentals of life. It is found in a single line of Scripture, which is overlooked as insignificant by most readers of Scripture. In Mark 10:18, Jesus says, “There is none good but one, that is, God.” The Apostle Paul echoes these words of Christ in his divinely inspired indictment of the fallen human race: “There is none that doeth good, no, not one” (Romans 3:12). Truly, as the Bible teaches, there is no good but God and apart from God there is no good!
As darkness may be easily defined as the absence of light, evil may be easily defined as the absence of God. In other words, just as darkness is found wherever there is no light, evil is found in everything void of God. Any seeming good apart from God, will ultimately be proven to be done for no good reason and to come to no good end.
This fundamental Biblical doctrine, often referred to as original sin, is the bitterest of Biblical pills for our prideful and sin-sick world to swallow. It also explains why the preaching of the cross is such an offense (Galatians 5:11). The cross teaches us that we are so totally depraved, so helplessly and hopelessly lost, that there is nothing we can ever do to make ourselves good enough to be accepted by God. Therefore, God had to become a man, in the man Christ Jesus, in order to do everything for us to make us acceptable to Him, since we could do none of it for ourselves. Now that Christ has done it all for us, all we can do is swallow our pride, come to Christ on our knees, and reach out by faith and accept a nail-scarred handout—“the gift of God [which] is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23).
It has been insightfully said that the doctrine of original sin has been empirically proven over thirty-five hundred years of recorded human history. Over and over again, humanity’s attempts at good have always resulted in evil. No matter how hard man tries to create his own Heaven on earth, he always ends up creating his own Hell on earth. Of course, all of this stems from humanity’s refusal to believe in its own sinfulness and need of a Savior, as well as mankind’s dogged determination to prove man’s innate goodness and ability to save himself.
The French philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, coined this horrid heresy that man is innately good rather than inherently sinful, “The Noble Savage.” According to Rousseau, the blame for all evil should be laid at the feet of Christianity and its three God-ordained institutions—the home, the church, and the government. Rousseau believed that man in his natural state—an uncivilized savage—is innately good and can produce a paradisiacal planet if left unrestrained by religious faith, moral standards, family responsibilities, and government constraints.
It was Rousseau’s preposterous philosophy that gave rise to the disastrous French Revolution, one of the darkest and most tragic chapters in all of human history. It may also be credited for the rise of the most violent revolutionaries of all time, not just the infamous French Revolutionist Robespierre, but also Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, and even Pol Pot. All of these notorious mass murders were inspired to one degree or another by the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Like history’s most violent revolutionaries and greatest mass murderers, today’s call by the Black Lives Matter Movement to defund and demolish police departments, has the fingerprints of Rousseau and the hoof prints of the devil all over it. It’s not just a silly proposal being put forward by impetuous protestors, but a most sinister suggestion by demonically inspired "noble savages"; namely, that the path to a paradisiacal planet is to free an innately good humanity from the fetters of law and order. Of course, this lie won’t liberate good men to create their own Heaven on earth, but will let loose the fallen nature of unregenerate men, which will, as the removal of law and order always does and the Bible most ominously predicts, lead us into Hell on earth.