and thus designated as opposing “principalities and powers’
(cf. Eph. 6:12), then it has joined the action on the devil’s
playground. They participate in the diabolic power-
struggles of human social pyramids. To be sure, there is a
place for such social problem-solving. Secular governments
are obliged to engage in such. Religion will inevitably
advocate such. Genuine Christianity does not seek to
eliminate, destroy or debunk such involvement by these
human institutions, but only to devalue such by recognizing
that it is not an end in itself, and will not ultimately solve
the world’s problems. All the while Christians must
recognize that peripheral problem-solving in the arena of
the fallen world-order is not the primary task or mission of
the church, and that there is no particular “Christian
solution” for every perceived problem in the world.
Problem-solving religion becomes but another social
agent utilizing expedient tools of force as clubs by
justifying the “might of the right” and the “right of might”
in the power-plays of the world arena. Playing the world’s
game by using their methodology, such religion does not
help the situation, but becomes part of the problem in their
self-effort to provide remedies. When Christians think that
they are “serving” God by attempting to solve the problems
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