Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
What is a cult?
Although the word "cult" is universally pejorative, it does not have a fluid and or relative definition. Sociologically speaking, a "cult" is comprised of any group of people who ascribe to new interpretations of a Sacred text that are contrary to historically understood interpretations. Further, cults religiocentrically proscribe the only "acceptable" application for a Sacred text.
Doctrinal aberration exists on a continuum which ranges from Orthodox (latin; correct teachings) to Occult (latin; clandestine teachings). Religiocentric fundamentalism is the the socio-psychological pathology that measures a group member's belief that their sect's acceped application of a Sacred text is exclusively correct. The word "cult" is often inaccurately used.
From a Christocentric western theological perspective, there exists a continuum of doctrinal aberration with eight degrees of degeneration. The essential values of Christianity may be qualitiatively understood by our answers to the following six questions.
Doctrinal aberration exists on a continuum which ranges from Orthodox (latin; correct teachings) to Occult (latin; clandestine teachings). Religiocentric fundamentalism is the the socio-psychological pathology that measures a group member's belief that their sect's acceped application of a Sacred text is exclusively correct. The word "cult" is often inaccurately used.
From a Christocentric western theological perspective, there exists a continuum of doctrinal aberration with eight degrees of degeneration. The essential values of Christianity may be qualitiatively understood by our answers to the following six questions.
- Who is God?
- What is the Bible?
- Who is Jesus?
- Who is the Holy Spirit?
- What is Salvation?
- Who is the Church?
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Truth and truth--
Jesus said, “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if [it were] not [so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (John 14.1-6).”
When we neglect the elements of Creation which through the foreordination of God bear witness to the I AM, we inadvertently devalue the supremacy of Christ Jesus, Messiah. I believe that a post-modern world desperately needs modernist contextualization in order to comprehend content. The Rebuke, Repentance, and Reconciliations of Grace cannot be deconstructed into chaos in order to be sequentially understood.
When Christ Jesus, Messiah said "...I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me," (John 14.6) He didn't discuss personal understandings of that which is "the way," "the truth," and "the life." He said that He, Himself, was the literal embodiment of "the way, "the truth," and "the life."
While two plus two, truly equals four; two is also the square root of four, and four is also the square root of sixteen. The mathematical truth of two plus two equaling four applies to the truth of Geometric Theorems, Algebraic Equations, and the Advanced Analysis of Variance. Each of these is true on a progressively more complex, interrelated, and taxonomically evaluative level. If we are ignorant of the higher-order applications of addition, we may be inclined to presume that Einstein was an idiot who argued falsehood as truth. While postmodernism is surely the result of intellectual degeneration, it is vital that we don't dismiss gradients of the same truth, as falsehood.
Einstein's adaption of the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics provides valuable insight here. The First Law of Thermodynamics postulates that since the initial creation, matter can neither be created nor destroyed. Similarly, the Second Law of Thermodynamics postulates that the organization of all matter is perpetually degenerative.
With this being said, these human truths may be applied on a macrocosmic level (in addition to their obvious microcosmic functions in physics). Human knowledge, as an expression of organized matter, is perpetually degenerative when left to atrophication. With the passing of time, humanity forgets more than it has learned. With every upswing of “Fortuna's” wheel we feel that we have gained some new insight. In actuality, we have only relearned slightly less than what we have forgotten. In our own vanity, we seek to constantly reinvent the wheel.
While truths may exist in 1000 grey areas--Truth is absolute and may be known.
When we neglect the elements of Creation which through the foreordination of God bear witness to the I AM, we inadvertently devalue the supremacy of Christ Jesus, Messiah. I believe that a post-modern world desperately needs modernist contextualization in order to comprehend content. The Rebuke, Repentance, and Reconciliations of Grace cannot be deconstructed into chaos in order to be sequentially understood.
When Christ Jesus, Messiah said "...I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me," (John 14.6) He didn't discuss personal understandings of that which is "the way," "the truth," and "the life." He said that He, Himself, was the literal embodiment of "the way, "the truth," and "the life."
While two plus two, truly equals four; two is also the square root of four, and four is also the square root of sixteen. The mathematical truth of two plus two equaling four applies to the truth of Geometric Theorems, Algebraic Equations, and the Advanced Analysis of Variance. Each of these is true on a progressively more complex, interrelated, and taxonomically evaluative level. If we are ignorant of the higher-order applications of addition, we may be inclined to presume that Einstein was an idiot who argued falsehood as truth. While postmodernism is surely the result of intellectual degeneration, it is vital that we don't dismiss gradients of the same truth, as falsehood.
Einstein's adaption of the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics provides valuable insight here. The First Law of Thermodynamics postulates that since the initial creation, matter can neither be created nor destroyed. Similarly, the Second Law of Thermodynamics postulates that the organization of all matter is perpetually degenerative.
With this being said, these human truths may be applied on a macrocosmic level (in addition to their obvious microcosmic functions in physics). Human knowledge, as an expression of organized matter, is perpetually degenerative when left to atrophication. With the passing of time, humanity forgets more than it has learned. With every upswing of “Fortuna's” wheel we feel that we have gained some new insight. In actuality, we have only relearned slightly less than what we have forgotten. In our own vanity, we seek to constantly reinvent the wheel.
While truths may exist in 1000 grey areas--Truth is absolute and may be known.
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