Today's Heresy

If there is one common theme that I've noticed in modern Christianity, it is the defamation of and obstinance to intellectualism and supernaturalism.

Even as I write these words the built in reponse may already be brewing; the response welling to the accusation of pride and arrogance. The lesson that I've learned over and over again as I've studied theology is that there are proper ways to think. Likewise, there are improper ways to think and as a result, unless we are wise to the possibility and the implication we will be totally blind to their effect.

The reason I begin with intellectualism is because it represents what our nation, more than ever, requires to understand the scriptures, apart from the Spirits revelation. One of the leading causes of spiritual stupor and gospel deafness is the lack of a pursuit of the scriptures. We see the scriptures as a coffee table emblem, or poetry that can lighten our spirit but not remove our problems; change our perspective but not our plight, gives us hope, but not save us. It's the very sentiment talked about above that leads to that blindness. One of the primary causes of this whole effect is the concept of libertine, or free-will, relative to God.

If I was the enemy and I had the ability to do nothing more than influence you, the first thing I would do is remove your interest in the key to knowledge about God, then when you were suffeciently insulated from it, I would propose a self-sustaining belief system, that, so long as you never look outside of it, seems purposed and completely suffecient to all the causes of the world...having nothing to do with God. This IS Free-Will, compounded by the sin of hardness and arrogance toward God's word - as if they were not as Peter said; ...'the words of life; to whom shall we go?'

You may say, we have free-will...God wants us to freely love him.

I say that you are totally blind to what you're saying. At this exact moment a healthy dose of intellectualism would alleviate frustration, because we could pursue with vigor, the meaning, implication and effect of all of those words, strung together so haphazardly. Many have attempted, I believe quite successfully, to prove the meanings of these words. I'll not do that again here, suffice it to say however, I'll do this through a word picture.

If you believe the scriptures and you must to even attempt to call yourself a christian, you know that Christ is the groom. The church is the bride and the church is made up of people. That makes you the bride.

Imagine the scene...

Christ is the Lion of Judah. My imagination of God's power sees it as limitless and this is not imagination, it's what the scripture makes quite plain. Consider that even on earth we have pictures of strength. Look at Arnold Schwarzzenegger. No one would want to arm wrestle him in his prime. And yet are we not talking about Christ.

His name is above all names!

His beauty is so much that we do not even know what it is, and so are we forbidden to even imagine it. For the scripture says do not create images of God, in the likeness of anything in Heaven, or on Earth, or in the Sea below.

To my most dull sense and by the weakest of comparisons, this makes Christ, Ken, from Ken and Barbie.

What does that make us? Well if you take the scriptures in mind and you read Ezekial 16, you'd see that we are a bloody mess, born of parents who are Godless and moronic, having left us to die in our own blood just after birth. But, if you believed in free-will, this makes you the highest pursuit of God. Surely God would not waste his time on the ugly and less desirable.

Even more so, according to free-will, God has placed all the power of this dating relationship in the hands of the church...

So, quickly the dating relationship is shaping up; Christ is magnificient and his bride must also be if Christ who is the King and has all power has bestowed some of it on His bride...to date Him..."if she wants..."

Is your God that weak that he needs your permission?

Or do you have no concept that what is right does not come by mutual agreement or assent? What is right, is right, independent of what you think about it, or even if you resist it in ignorance. And let me ask you this, of the two of us, God and man, which of us knows for sure which is which? And if God, being full of glory and is the fullness of all majesty and power says that you are to be His bride...under what circumstance do you think He would need your permission to effect what IS right in His eyes?

This is free-will. It makes God a welp, Christ impotent and the church the highest prize of pursuit and affection. I can find no evidence, even in syllogism that the people of this planet or any other hold such a high standing in the eyes of God. Nor can I reconcile free-will to do anything other than to make a clay pot god and the potter his slave to do it's bidding...called modern day christianity.