Here is a popular view which I picked up from the internet: “Postmodernism focuses on the relative truths of each person. In the postmodern world, understanding, interpretation is everything; reality only comes into being through our interpretations of what the world means to us individually.” There is so much talk still about postmodernism along with articles on the subject, many speak of it as a definite new age or new times our modern societies are experiencing. But is this really so?
In the book of Judges the Bible says, “In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes,” (Judges 17:6; 21:25, NASB). This means that at times whatever was true for the Israelites, they did it. They forgot all about the signs and wonders God performed in freeing them from Egypt and while they roamed the desert. After Joshua died, God allowed the people kings who would act as agents of the divine will (Judges 2:16, NASB). Repeatedly, we see the people doing evil acts against God. He then punishes or disciples them; they thereafter repent and seek forgiveness. Following this, through the leadership of another judge—raised by God--forgiveness was granted. When the Judge dies, the people returned to living sinful lives. The cycle repeated itself.
Postmodernism, says Dr. William Lane Craig in his book, Reasonable Faith (pg. 18), “is a myth.” He says, it “is one of the craftiest deceptions that Satan has yet devised.” You see, postmodernism (post-modernism or after modernism) is leading us to believe that modernism is over. But Dr. Craig says that is untrue. In modernism or in the age of modernism humanity used reason and science to deny the supernatural. So anything we cannot prove with our five senses is left to “a matter of taste and emotive expression.”
Today atheism, agnosticism and general skepticism are alive and well. So if we think modernism is over, Satan wants us to put aside “our best weapons of logic and evidence” in defence of the gospel, according to Dr. Craig. As Christians, the Bible tells us that no matter where we are “put here for the defense of the gospel,” (Phil. 1:16, NIV). We are also supposed to “knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments,” (2 Cor. 10:4, NLT). So we need to know what is happening in our societies and neighbourhoods and families and respond reasonably and appropriately without fear and to do so “with gentleness and respect” (1 Pet. 3:15).