Richard Hollerman

We all know what insanity means. Insanity means that the person is not sane or well or rational. He is either sick, or deranged, or just plain wrong.

From what we read, it can mean “madness” or some sort of derangement. The person may be “unstable” or have a “loss of reason.” So it may be a reference to what we have written about recently and we have posted on the Website or Facebook. Or it may be what we have read about regarding the evolutionary views, with reference to the many who would say that the world and all things are several hundred thousands of years old. Of course, this is wrong, sinful, and bizarre. Yes, it is “insane” to use that term.

But we do use the term in the way that people around us might. It is “insane” to think a certain way that is obviously false and wrong. The person may be holding this particular (false) view but it is wrong and senseless nonetheless. Although it may “sound” right and educated people may insist that such-and-such an opinion is wrong or right, it is wrong, per se.

We do a lot of reading both in the morning and through the day, some seven days a week, and my table is filled with an abundance of different views and ideas. Generally, they are all wrong (from a Christian standpoint). But here they are and this is something that we must deal with. We face the bizarre world of competing views out there and we must choose right from wrong. Only one is right and we must always choose the right way.

So we say that the world around us is “insane” in the sense that people are senseless and their actions are deranged. Whether we speak of the dozens of people around us or further out, they simply don’t understand and refuse to acknowledge the truth. They insist on their own way but this way may be wrong—totally wrong.

So whether we speak of a real “insanity” or a pretend one or a symbolic one, we know that life in general, and confused, in the world, we find “insanity” reigning. We have been citing evolution all around us, and we find that this is total insanity. Some people are saying that life on earth didn’t begin 1,000 or 2,000 years before Christ but that it goes back 20,000 or 30,000 years or more.

This is total “insanity” since we know (without a shadow of a doubt) that Jesus was born about 5 or 6 BC, which means that he was about age 30 when He was put to death in AD 30, and this would have occurred about 2,000 years BC, not 30,000 years before Christ, which would be perhaps thousands of years before He was born. And some scientists might say that the earth was formed about 4 or 5 billion years before Christ (and 13 billion year ago). We find this preposterous. And this would be the product of unbelieving and denying views.

Yes, we are living in an “insane” world that denies all kinds of established facts. Yet, if people (including unbelieving archaeologists) say that they don’t believe Scripture, what are we to expect?