
False Ideas About Jesus of Nazareth - Part 4
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(1) “Scripture Twisting” by James W. Sire.
(2) Sire defines a cult. He says a cult is simply “any religious movement that is organizationally DISTINCT and has doctrines and/or practices that CONTRADICT those of the Scriptures as interpreted by traditional Christianity as REPRESENTED by the major Catholic and Protestant denominations, and is EXPRESSED in such statements as the Apostles’ Creed.”
(3) In this sense, Mary Baker Eddy’s Christian Science is a cult, as is the Unification Church headed by Sun Myung Moon, the Jehovah’s Witnesses founded by Charles Taze Russell, the Latter Day Saints (Mormons) of Joseph Smith, Unity School of Christianity started by Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, New Age based on Eastern mysticism, Hinduism, and paganism, Scientology founded by L. Ron Hubbard, and Brian McLaren‘s progressive or emergent church.
(4) One way that this REDUCTION of Jesus to being a mere mortal was DISGUISED by what is known as “The Quest of the Historical Jesus.” This quest CONVERTS the LAMB of God from the SAVIOR of the world to a GREAT MORAL EXAMPLE. Albert Schweitzer was the instigator of this quest having written a book by that same title in 1911.
(5) But the GENESIS of this SHIFT can be traced back to Immanuel Kant, the influential 18th century German philosopher, whose works centered mostly on the workings of the MIND in regard to things like REASON, AESTHETICS, and the nature of REALITY.
(6) Kant taught that Christ was “TOTALLY HUMAN” and MERELY the PROTOTYPE of a humanity that is well-pleasing to God. Kant’s philosophy leaves “NO ROOM for a SAVIOR” because, in Kant’s mind as so many cultists believe, Jesus is NOT DIVINE.
(7) “Woke Jesus” by Lucas Miles.
(8) Hegelianism is a school of a politicized philosophical system based on the ideas of the 18th century German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegelianism became the BEDROCK of Liberal Christianity and Woke Christianity.
(9) Hegel (and later Karl Marx) applied a unique argument, known as the “Hegelian Dialectic,” which maintains that PROGRESS is derived from CONFLICT. For Hegel, this conflict exists in a 3 step PROCESS involving the interaction between one proposed idea called the “thesis,” an opposite idea called the “antithesis,” with the eventual “synthesis” between the 2 opposing assertions. This idea of CONFLICT, of course, led to the Marxist idea of REVOLUTION.
(10) While both Hegel and Marx agree that progress is derived from conflict, Marx thought that Hegel’s work was rooted TOO MUCH in idealism for Marx’s ATHEISTIC worldview and thus was INSUFFICIENT for bringing about the SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATION Marx DESIRED.
(11) Albert Mohler, the 9th president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, described Marx’s process of turning Hegel’s work on its head: “He saw CAPITALISM as the thesis. He then saw a form of REVOLUTION, even a VIOLENT revolution, as the antithesis. The synthesis he promised would INEVITABLY come out of a REVOLUTION that would lead to a COMMUNISTIC UTOPIA. After the thesis would come the revolutionary antithesis and after the antithesis would come a new era of prosperity and peace under the RULE of the people known as the Soviets” [albertmohler.com 01-03-2017].
This is Episode 216.
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