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PREFACE
Here we have a collection of five short essays. Although they were written independently, I have arranged them in an order that seems to exhibit a coherence and purpose.
Arguing that intellectual neutrality does not exist, the first chapter uses Psalm 1 as its foundation to illustrate that all ideas are either Christian or non-Christian. The believer must not heed the counsel of the world, but must study the Scripture for wisdom and guidance.
Conversion involves a person's fundamental change of intellectual commitment. Rather than being a friend of the world and an enemy of God, he is now favorable to the precepts of God and hostile to secular ideas. However, although his basic dispositions have been changed, his mind does not yet comprehend the entire system of Christian truth and its implications. This is why Christian development, or the process of sanctification, is first an intellectual renewal. This is the topic of the second chapter.
The rest of the book provides several examples of the above as the implications of biblical teachings are worked out in areas such as sin, the deity of Christ, the choice of a spouse, war, and capital punishment.