THE FIRST POSTMODERNIST

One may think, Postmodernism, as a critique against modernity, is a new movement. But it ain’t. Do you know where postmodernism was really born? Going by the biblical perspective, postmodernism was born in Genesis chapter three. And the story goes… Now the serpent was craftier than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. The serpent said to the woman, “Did God really say so? Can you be certain about what the creator had actually meant when he asked you not to eat the fruits from that particular tree? The woman said to the serpent, we may eat fruits from the trees in the garden but God did say that you must not eat from the tree in the middle of the garden, you must not touch it or you will die. You will not surely die, said the serpent to the woman, for God knows that when you eat your eyes will be opened and you will be like God knowing good and evil. That’s it, Did God really say so? And if you violate Gods command you play God and you redefine good and evil. Is propositional truth absolute? Postmodernism really began right in the Garden of Eden questioning about what God had really spoken and was it not possible to redefine his reality and do it on your own terms.

Today, all the major ideological constructions are being tossed on the ash heap of history. All that remains is the cynicism of postmodernism, with its false assertions that there is no objective truth or meaning, that we are free to create our own truth and thereby knowledge.

Asangba Tzudir