Dear Editor,
Thank you for Matthew Roberts’ encouraging article on a cultural recovery in the May issue of en.
Both Jordan Peterson and Tom Holland make reference to God having made man in His image. This is the only vital truth that can overcome and replace the secular story which has given rise to the contemporary crisis in self-understanding. It is time for us boldly to proclaim that our Creator, making us in His image, is the only reliable truth that can enlighten our confused generation on the following issues: that there is a purpose to our human lives; that human beings have immense value; that our personal faculties are highly honoured, being reflections of God’s own personal attributes; that there can be clarity about moral and ethical standards since our Creator provides them in his Law; that there is One who seeks a real love relationship with us, who speaks to us and calls us to respond.
Our human hunger for such a reassuring framework should lead our society to question and to abandon the godless secular agenda that has caused so much psychological damage to so many. Despite the fact that unbelievers may baulk at the key corollary that if God is our Creator then we are responsible to Him, Christians may take courage in affirming that God created man in His image for two reasons: this is the key to resolving the existential crisis that affects so many people; and it lays again the necessary foundation for the gospel to be seen as vital.
All this is what our generation desperately needs to hear – and we are the ones capable of telling them. Let us seize the moment!
Yours sincerely,
Clive Every-Clayton
Kingussie
