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Pantheism |
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Basics of Pantheism Back to Top |
Buddhism, The New Age Movement, Alien & UFO Movements, Taoism, Christian Science, and Shintoism are all examples.
This worldview is a set of filters. It is a set of lies that keep the person trapped inside the lies as a captive. The Pantheist does not know that he or she is a captive but rather thinks that he or she is free. Jesus had to say to the ruling religious people of His day that they would remain in their sin as long as they believed that they did not have any need for a Savior. These poor folks are trapped in the same lie but with different window dressing. How can you help them?
The Holy Spirit has to work on their hearts.
You may use whatever sales technique that you think would be successful to "sell" them on Jesus, but you will find that they will just add Jesus to their growing pile of gods and goddesses. That is because they have a relativistic both-and worldview. Even though it is impossible, they have been brainwashed into thinking that two mutually exclusive things can co-exist. In Biblical terms, they try to put new wine into old wineskins. They try to sew new cloth to the old cloth.
How to win a Pantheist:
- Pray and seek God's face.
- Believe God.
- Believe the Bible.
- Check your own thought processes and bondages. Make sure that you don't have a relativistic oppression. Many followers of Christ have been falsely taught that the Bible is not the Word of God, that the Bible has errors, or that other texts are equal to the Bible in validity. These three lies can be easily checked and discarded. A follower of Christ will not be an effective witness if he or she has been brought into captivity to any one of these lies. Lies bring you into slavery, but the Truth will set you free.
- Seek the leading of God as you speak to a Pantheist.
- Unless you deal with the underlying lies of Pantheism, it is highly unlikely that they will ever be born again into the Kingdom of God through the blood of Christ. They will not receive Jesus as their Savior even though they may parrot the words of a sinner's prayer.
- Many false religions and cults will parrot basic Christian doctrine, but they interpret the words differently.
- A person who thinks he has Christ but does not is harder to win to Christ. Make sure you deal with the Pantheism.
- A Pantheist will not see a real need for a Savior. They may add Jesus to their list of gods and goddesses as an extra insurance policy. That is not saving faith.
- Avoid your own desire to feel like a successful evangelist, getting meaningless "confessions of faith" that make no difference in reality.
- Understand the role of evolution in the worldview of the Pantheist.
- If you understand any of the principles of Science, you can refute the dogma of Evolutionism.
- Understand where the Pantheist is coming from and what the Pantheist believes. Deal with the lies rather than ignoring them.
- Do not argue. Win over their mind to Jesus.
- Speak the Truth in love.
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While Pantheism receives revelation from demonic forces, that is, fallen angels, Christianity is based on Jesus Christ, the Living Christ, Who reveals Himself to the Christian on an ongoing basis. Believer's have the supernatural trust that is a gift from God. By this trust, we see Jesus and hear His Voice. It is Jesus Himself who reveals to us that the Bible is His Word, His Utterance. And it is Jesus Himself Who speaks to us through His Word. Jesus speaks to us through many different means: Scripture, intuition, bringing Scripture to our remembrance, apostles, prophets, etc. When God speaks to us, faith comes and with faith comes a vision of hope. This vision shows us who we are in Christ in an ever-more-clear understanding. When God speaks, He instructs us what to think, what to say, and what to do. Then, He does the work through us by His grace, His free gift of righteousness. This righteousness of God in us is the moving of the Holy Spirit that transfigures us from glory to glory to be like Jesus, killing our fleshly nature and causing Christ to be more fully formed in us. And this death to self, to the old adamic sin nature, and building up of Christ is the very thing that redeems us, sets us free from slavery to the fleshly nature, to Satan, to the pressures of the world, and to death.
(some caveats about hearing God's Voice)
In contrast to Pantheism, followers of Christ receive Jesus Christ as the only Creator of the Universe, the God Who created them and their only Savior from bondage to sin. At the same time His love for those who have been deceived by Pantheism compels God to speak to them daily through His creation and through other means; they will not listen to Him.
Some Christians have, either on purpose or by just drifting, inserted parts of Pantheism, the religion of many Evolutionists and most of Hollywood, into their walk with Jesus. They tried to make it compatible with Christ. The little changes, however, caused these followers of Christ to stop following Christ and instead they began following Pantheism. These are Christians who are deceived by movies and the messages of this present evil age. Most of them don't even have enough spiritual grounding to know that they are being indoctrinated. They think they are being taught and entertained. They don't know that their life is on the line.
God's plan for this hour is not to make all religions and philosophies get along. His plan is to have a people, a remnant company, who continue to discover Him, to walk with Him until they come into perfect unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God to one totally complete man (the Body of Christ and the Head, Jesus), to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
You know that you were created for more than you are experiencing. If you continue to think like you always thought, you will continue to get what you always got. Is it enough? Read more. Read even more.
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Pantheism's Worldview of a Supreme Being
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- claims that God is not a person
- claims that you cannot separate God from the universe
- claims that God is not the creator
- claims that God is not the lawgiver
- claims that Jesus is not the Savior
- claims that God is not the judge
- ancestor worship is common
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In direct conflict with the teachings of Pantheism, there is one triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in perfect unity yet distinct persons within that unity. God is creator of the universe and everything in it. He is all-present, all-knowing, all-powerful. All that is good comes from God. Jesus is God. The Father is God. The Holy Spirit is God. They are three persons and one God.
Unlike the teachings of Pantheism, walking with Jesus is based on the God of the Bible. The Bible speaks of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The full name of Jesus is Lord, Jesus, Christ. Lord refers to the Father. Jesus said, if you have seen me, you have seen the Father. Jesus means savior, because He came to save us from our sins. God Himself paid our price for us that His holy righteousness would be fulfilled and so that He could restore us to Himself. Christ is a synonym for Messiah or Anointed One. Christ will always be the only Anointed One. The Anointing Oil is a type of the Holy Spirit. The word, trinity, is not in the Bible, but the three persons of the trinity are very plain throughout the Bible. followers of Christ have an ongoing experience with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This is what it means to be a true Christian. Whoever will may come.
Another difference between following Christ and the teachings of Pantheism, following Christ is based on knowing Jesus personally. Followers of Christ believe Jesus when He tells them that it is in Him alone that they can find life, peace, joy, fulfillment, love, righteousness, and every other good thing. They believe Jesus when He tells them that rejecting Him as their one and only God is the most serious sin that could be committed--the sin against the first commandment.
One more difference between the teachings of Pantheism and following Jesus is that walking in this Way would make no sense at all if Jesus were not God, that is, if everything were God rather than Jesus Christ. While God is everywhere and Jesus Christ holds everything together, Jesus Christ created everything.
Another incompatibility with the teachings of Pantheism is this: a called-out person's life is all about a relationship with God. This relationship is very close and personal. It is a relationship of submission to the Holy Spirit. The human mind was never created to be operated without the Anointing of the Holy Spirit flowing through it with the human mind in complete submission. The same is true of the body. Spiritual death is defined as a condition where the human spirit, mind, or body is not in complete submission to the Holy Spirit.
Biblical Christianity's Teachings on God: The Only God is triune, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is all-powerful, all-knowing, everywhere-present, and has always existed.
No person can find purpose or meaning in life or be fulfilled outside of a relationship with God. God is love and wants a personal relationship with every person.
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Pantheism's Worldview of Jesus Back to Top |
If Pantheists have a concept of Jesus, they will not have the real Jesus. They will make Him one of their many gods and add Him to the list. They don't have a concept of sin in the same way that the God speaks of sin through the Bible. With no real sin to be forgiven, they don't know that they need a Savior.
- followers of Evolutionistic dogmas
- matter created itself or matter is eternal, or forces of nature created it, or spirits (gods and goddesses) created it.
- Panthism has absorbed Darwinism.
- Tend to add gods and theologies to everything they already have
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In divergence from the teachings of Pantheism, called-out followers of Jesus know by revelation that Jesus is God. God is One, yet God is plural. There are three persons in One God. The unity between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is beyond what the human mind can comprehend. Jesus, Son of God, one person of the one triune God, so joined to the Father that His name is Father, yet in submission to the Father. He is Savior, Lord, and Anointed one (Christ). Eternal God and incarnated as man. In him is hidden all knowledge. Without Him, we can do nothing. He lives in the hearts of those who have received His redemption and gives them strength to endure all things and walk in holiness. Jesus is the Truth, and the Bible testifies of Him. If you have Jesus, then you have the Father. If you don't have Jesus, then you don't have the Father. Jesus is wisdom, and without Him, there is no wisdom. In the same way, God is love, so Jesus is love. He is peace. He is joy. All knowledge is hidden in Him.
The diametrically opposite to the teachings of Pantheism is the revelation that Jesus as the one and only unique Son of God Who is bringing many sons into glory. True Christianity is based on knowing Jesus personally. Followers of Christ believe Jesus when He tells them that it is in Him alone that they can find life, peace, joy, fulfillment, love, righteousness, and every other good thing. They believe Jesus when He tells them that rejecting Him as their one and only God is the most serious sin that could be committed--the sin against the first commandment. Jesus said: He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. Luke 10:16 Jesus saith to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh to the Father, but by me. John 14:6
Unlike Pantheism, True Christianity is not a religion but rather a living experience with the living Jesus. It is a moment-by-moment experience of the Holy Spirit (the Spirit of Christ) guiding and directing the follower of Christ and the follower of Christ either contending with God or submitting to the Holy Spirit. If the follower of Christ contends, he or she becomes less mature in Christ. If the follower of Christ submits, he or she has actually simply entered into the sabbath rest to let God do His work through them. When a follower of Christ submits, faith comes. Faith is supernatural belief that God will do what He has just led the follower of Christ to do. At that moment, the follower of Christ has access into the grace of God, which is God's free gift. Righteousness is the free gift of God and the righteousness of God then flows to the follower of Christ. If the follower of Christ will submit his or her members to the Spirit of God, then God does His righteousness through the follower of Christ. The follower of Christ does the work, yet it is not the follower of Christ but Christ in the follower of Christ doing the work. When God does His righteousness through the follower of Christ, this plants holy seed into the heart of the follower of Christ. The old sinful person, the flesh dies a little bit each time. The Christ within is built up. This holy seed grows in the heart and brings more fruit, which, in turn, plants more holy seed. At the same time, the follower of Christ is set free from sin in some measure--this is the meaning of the word, redemption. This is the relationship that God desires to have with every person. This process proceeds through the Body of Christ. Each member of the Body of Christ, each follower of Christ, is a manifestation of the living Christ in the Earth. Each member is being fitted for a specific place of service within this Body, and the Body of Christ continues to grow until the full manifestation of the sons of God takes place at the end of the age.
In stark dissimilarity to Pantheism, true Christianity depends on the revelation that Jesus is God. Only God could pay the price for the sin of every person who ever lived or will live. The life of a follower of Christ is all about a relationship with the One Almighty Creator God, the God Who is Love. This relationship is very close and personal. It is a relationship of submission to the Holy Spirit. The human mind was never created to be operated without the Anointing of the Holy Spirit flowing through it with the human mind in complete submission. The same is true of the body. Spiritual death is defined as a condition where the human spirit, mind, or body is not in complete submission to the Holy Spirit.
As the opposite of the teachings of Pantheism as light is to darkness, God has revealed that He is a loving forgiving, but totally righteous, God. Believers have been forgiven for their sins because of the blood of Jesus. Jesus paid the price of the sins of every person. The believer is required to see reality, that is, to have the humility to realize that they have fallen short of the glory of God and that they need the Savior to deliver them. And followers of Christ no longer are forced to continually obey their own flesh so that even their own self-righteousness is as filthy rags. Followers of Christ can yield to the Holy Spirit and allow God to do His righteousness through them. God does not force followers of Christ to yield, however. Many believers are born again and remain as babes in Christ, but they will not be found among the faithful. Some Christians attempt in vain to establish their own righteousness, a self-righteousness, and so they are unable to receive the free gift of righteousness that comes from the throne of God, but they will not be found among the faithful. If followers of Christ willingly abandon their self-righteousness and self-dependence and believe God rather than their own understanding, and if they stop contending against Jesus but rather accept Him and His free gift, then God will totally deliver them at the end of this present age. If a follower of Christ dies in the meantime, they are together with Christ in glory and they join that great cloud of witnesses who have been faithful but have not yet obtained the promise.
Another thing that separates those who have been called out to follow Jesus from the teachings of Pantheism is that those who receive God's salvation are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Believers know that they have received the free gift (grace) of forgiveness of sins. Believers can know that they are going to heaven because of the goodness of God. All that is required is that a person not reject the free gift.
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Pantheism's Worldview of the Works of Jesus Back to Top |
If Pantheists have a concept of Jesus, they will not have the real Jesus. They will make Him one of their many gods and add Him to the list. They don't have a concept of sin in the same way that the God speaks of sin through the Bible. With no real sin to be forgiven, they don't know that they need a Savior.
- followers of Evolutionistic dogmas
- matter created itself or matter is eternal, or forces of nature created it, or spirits (gods and goddesses) created it.
- Panthism has absorbed Darwinism.
- Tend to add gods and theologies to everything they already have
This doesn't leave a place for the cross of Christ, salvation, or the role of the living Christ in the life of the Pantheist. There is no concept of being conformed to the image of Christ by the power of the Spirit of Christ. |
An additional fact that is contradictory to the teachings of Pantheism is that Jesus lived a holy life without sin, died as a substitution for us, descended into hell and rose again in three days, and ascended into Heaven to save us from sin, death, and the power of Satan. He conquered sin, sickness and death on the cross.
In sharp contrast to the teachings of Pantheism, Jesus now sits at the right hand of the Father interceding for us. He is the only source of forgiveness or access to the Father. Those who don't except His work are not accepting the Father and are dooming themselves to judgment.
Unlike the teachings of Pantheism, Jesus works in the lives of believers, helping us to apply and take advantage of His victory in our lives through the Holy Spirit and helping us to grow in Christ.
Another distinction between the teachings of Pantheism and the teachings of the Holy Spirit: Jesus Christ will, in God's appointed time, return to the earth to raise the dead, judge and rule over the nations with His Church, the Body of Christ, in His everlasting Kingdom.
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Pantheism's Worldview of Authority Back to Top |
- claims that time and space are illusions
- good and evil are not opposed to each other
- right and wrong co-exist as friends
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Contrary to the teachings of Pantheism, the Bible (Old & New Testaments) as revealed to the hearts and minds of believers by the power of the Spirit but not by the corrupt natural human mind, is the unique, revealed, factual, accurate, & inspired Word of God, the sole authoritative writing for faith & practice.
A dissimilarity to the claimed authority of Pantheism is that the teachings of the Bible have been shown to be absolutely accurate in every way by every test possible.
Unlike the teachings of Pantheism, God speaks directly through the Bible, creation, the conscience, and other believers. When God speaks, He never conflicts with his revealed Word in the Bible and never conflicts with His creation.
Another way that God's revelation is unlike the teachings of Pantheism: God reveals and gives the interpretation of Scripture. God forbids any human speculation, imagination, assumption, presumption, presupposition, rationalization, or anything else that adds to or takes from Scripture. The Scripture is very clear in stating that the human mind is evil, deceptive, and untrustworthy to the point that our own minds can deceive us. The battle is for the mind with Satan and the flesh on the one side and the Holy Spirit joined to the redeemed human spirit on the other side.
The teachings of Pantheism do not agree with the revelation that the church, as it is defined in the Bible, has authority. The human-designed deviations from the Scriptural church dilute this authority. Within the church, there are gifts, offices, and ministries, all of whom have a Bible-defined authority. Scripture defines those who have authority to receive the interpretation of the Bible and administer doctrine to the church.
There is a disparity with the teachings of Pantheism in that God has declared that there is one and only one truth. Truth is not relative but it is very precise and tangible. Truth is found in Jesus Christ. Whatever God has not revealed and led in is sin. Each follower of Christ, and also every unsaved person, is responsible to find God through Jesus Christ. Whoever seeks Him does find Him. He does speak to them. While the Bible has definitive truth, the Bible is not God. God must reveal the meaning of the Bible to His people. His primary authority for interpreting the Bible is through apostles. Because of the spiritual war that is currently raging, Satan introduces counterfeits of every reality, so Satan introduces false apostles. However, God assures us that we can know the difference by the Spirit of God. The false apostles will give themselves away by their works.
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- claims that man is insignificant
- claims that mankind is basically good
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A polarizing teaching of Pantheism is in conflict with the revelation that men and women were created by God, and that, at the time of their creation, they were good--as was everything else. At that time, God set man in authority over the rest of creation.
In comparison to the teachings of Pantheism, the followers of Christ realize that they were created to be joined to Jesus Christ, to have a continual flow of the Anointing of His Holy Spirit through them so that the Spirit will continually lead them and the Creator will do His work through them.
Another way that God's revelation diverges from the teachings of Pantheism is that the followers of Christ know that man obeyed Satan and became servant of Satan, and in this way, brought all creation under the control of Satan, so humans, in their natural state, are totally corrupted and in slavery to Satan and sin. This fall into sin separated man from God. Outside of the salvation that God has given through Christ, there is no hope for any person to do righteousness. Humanity is lost in sin and the result is death. The mind of man has been corrupted by the fall and is deceitful and desperately wicked. Each person is a trinity, body, soul, and spirit, and is dead to God, body, soul, and spirit, unless joined to God through trusting in the work of Jesus.
Here is a further disagreement with the teachings of Pantheism--the followers of Christ are set free from slavery to their own desires. God is working with followers of Christ through faith to untangle many lies that come from the father of all lies. If they listen, God will set them completely free, that is, redeem them. Those who are following Christ are redeemed in their spirits, having a close relationship with the Holy Spirit as they worship in spirit and in truth. The current battle is to redeem the mind. The final redemption will the redemption of the body spoken of in Romans and 1 Corinthians.
Another way to distinguish between the teachings of Pantheism the revelation of the Bible is the fact that the Bible teaches that man (and woman) is a three-part entity, spirit, soul, and body. The soul is the mind, life, and heart--these are synonyms. The human spirit and the human soul were never created to operate outside of a union with God. Jesus prayed for this union when He prayed, "I pray that they all may be one..."
Pantheism has teachings that conflict with the fact that man is appointed once to die and after this the judgment--and so Christ died for every man.
The teachings of Christ and the teachings of Pantheism are dissimilar in that the followers of Christ were created to walk from glory to every-increasing glory by the Spirit of God. Actually, every person was created for this purpose. In this age, some are disobedient to that call.
Followers of Christ have been the power behind the English and the U.S. movements to abolish slavery. Biblical Christianity has no place for the concept of races. We are all descendents of Adam. All of humanity is one race. Among the descendents of Adam, those who are born again have been born into the family of God. All who have not been born again have chosen to remain true to their father, Satan. Each person makes this choice. All are free to choose to come into God's family by putting their faith in Jesus and committing themselves to Him.
True followers of Christ respect women and do not make them a lesser creation.
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- claims that mankind is basically good
- claims that man is insignificant,
- usually claims that man's role is relating harmoniously to nature
- failure to do so results in misfortune
- success in doing so results in merit
- desire causes suffering
- tends to focus on technique
- meditation
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The problem is sin. Sin is anything that is not done in response to the leading of God, that is not done by God's miraculous righteousness working through us, or both. In the Garden of Eden, this took the form of Eve believing and obeying the serpent rather than God. In other words, whenever a man or woman sets out to establish their own righteousness, this is sin. Sin is human will that is not in submission to God's will. All sin is a lack of love, because God is love. All righteousness is a free gift from God. Those who reject Jesus do so because they don't want the righteousness of God. When the law is understood, with it's many just and holy commandments, it is the manifestation of God in His people. This active work of sin has continued in all of mankind until today. Unlike the teachings of Pantheism, The Bible teaches that human beings are sold into sin, slaves of Satan and must be bought back out of slavery by the blood of Christ. Followers of Christ are fully aware of the totally lost condition of all human beings, the inability of human beings to do good works, and the one Holy Creator God's great gift of giving His one and only way of salvation through acceptance of the atoning work of His one, unique Son, Jesus Christ. Followers of Christ do not miss all the benefits of holiness, righteousness, peace, glory, love, and joy that can only be found through Jesus. Followers of Christ are those who do not rebel against God and His free salvation, which is through Christ. Believers choose heaven rather than hell.
God's plan for humanity is very high. Sin is falling short of God's plan.
In contrast to the teachings of Pantheism, sin is failure to obey God, but sin is much more. God created man in a certain way to be guided by the Spirit of God by grace through faith. Whatever does not follow this pattern of guidance is sin.
In variance with the teachings of Pantheism, God is love, and sin is the lack of Love. God has a will and is a personal God. Sin is self-will or obedience to other spirits. Humanity was designed to be completely filled with the fullness of God at all times. Unlike the teachings of Pantheism, God desires to lead us at every moment in every detail. He desires that we hear His voice and respond in submission. We were created for this. We were created to respond by yielding to the Spirit of God and allowing God to do His works through us.
In stark contrast to the teachings of Pantheism, the problem is that, since the fall, humanity is hopelessly in slavery to Satan and cut off from God, and all creation has been corrupted by sin. That is the reason that death, sorrow, sickness, and trouble exists.
Differing from the teachings of Pantheism, true followers of Christ know that human beings are sold into sin, slaves of Satan and must be bought back out of slavery by the blood of Christ. true Christians are fully aware of the totally lost condition of all human beings, the inability of human beings to do good works, and the one Holy Creator God's great gift of giving His one and only way of salvation through acceptance of the atoning work of His one, unique Son, Jesus Christ. Followers of Christ do not miss all the benefits of holiness, righteousness, peace, glory, love, and joy that can only be found through Jesus. Followers of Christ are those who do not rebel against God and His free salvation, which is through Christ. Believers choose heaven rather than hell.
Differing from the teachings of Pantheism, a true Christian's life is all about a relationship with God. This relationship is very close and personal. It is a relationship of submission to the Holy Spirit. The human mind was never created to be operated without the Anointing of the Holy Spirit flowing through it with the human mind in complete submission. The same is true of the body. Spiritual death is defined as a condition where the human spirit, mind, or body is not in complete submission to the Holy Spirit.
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Pantheism's Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem Back to Top |
- claims that mankind is basically good
- claims that man is insignificant,
- usually claims that man's role is relating harmoniously to nature
- failure to do so results in misfortune
- success in doing so results in merit
- desire causes suffering
- tends to focus on technique
- meditation
- may claim that good spirits are to be worshiped to bring good luck
- may claim that evil spirits are to be appeased or pacified to avoid harm
- may claim that lucky charms help
- ancestor worship is common
- occult practices are common
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Salvation from humanity's sin and depravity requires forgiveness from God. This forgiveness results in the New Birth. Forgiveness and being born again are, and can only be, attained through faith in Jesus Christ, God's Son, and in His efficacious death on the cross of Calvary and His resurrection from the dead. Without being born again, no one can see, or enter the Kingdom of God. Everyone who has faith in Jesus Christ is born again, and that no other action, gift, baptize, or any other such thing is needed for a person to be born again. When a person is born again they are a member of the Church--the Church is the called out Body of Christ made up of the ministries of all the believers. Righteousness is a free gift from God and that it is part of our salvation. Faith gives us access into grace, the free gift. The free gift includes both forgiveness and righteousness. Righteousness is obtained by drawing near to God and yielding to God. Righteousness is in the moment. It is the flow of God's love through a human being. Holiness/Sanctification is the establishment of God's righteousness in the mind/soul of a person. Holiness is established by submission to the righteousness of God. Holiness represents a stability in the heart; it is a permanent transformation. Holiness is progressive as we yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit. Redemption is also progressive. Redemption is being set free from sin. Redemption is being set free to serve God. Contradicting the teachings of Pantheism, for a Christian who is following Christ, Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is an ongoing relationship. It is an unfolding revelation of the living Christ. Jesus is the only source of righteousness. As a believer yields to Jesus, the Holy Spirit both leads that follower into righteousness and also does the righteousness of God through the believer. This leads to holiness and also to redemption from slavery to sin. Yielding to sin, even for Christians, brings bondage to sin. Sin is habit-forming, but so is the righteousness that is only available through Jesus--the works He does through you.
To further differentiate The Biblical teachings from the teachings of Pantheism, salvation is a process that begins with being born again and progresses from glory to ever increasing glory. Salvation is by God's free gift and God's free gift is received through believing and receiving God. God is love, so to receive God is to receive love. Love is righteousness and the fulfillment of the law. When we yield to God, His love does His righteousness through us and fulfills all of God's law. God's love and revelation is always in complete harmony with the Bible, God's word. This is the way in which we are born again into the Kingdom of God. And this is the way in which we proceed from glory to glory to the manifestation of the sons of God, the redemption of our bodies, the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
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Pantheism's Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals Back to Top |
- claims that mankind is basically good
- claims that man is insignificant,
- usually claims that man's role is relating harmoniously to nature
- failure to do so results in misfortune
- success in doing so results in merit
- desire causes suffering
- tends to focus on technique
- meditation
- may claim that good spirits are to be worshiped to bring good luck
- may claimthat evil spirits are to be appeased or pacified to avoid harm
- may claim that lucky charms help
- ancestor worship is common
- occult practices are common
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In variation from the teachings of Pantheism, God gave his law on Sinai, and His law is holy and just and good, but human beings are not able to obey His law. As a result, no one can earn salvation.
In opposition to the teachings of Pantheism, salvation brings works, not the other way around. We are saved to good works; good works cannot bring salvation. Good works are a gift from God. They are, in fact, God Himself doing His work through us, and that is only available to the saved.
Another difference from the teachings of Pantheism is this--because the believer has been born again into God's family, God speaks the word of faith into the heart of the believer. Then, God gives the power to believe and to discern the voice of God from other voices. God gives the power both to will and to do His good pleasure. He actually does the work--it is His grace (free gift) doing the work in the believer. Then, He rewards the believer as if the believer had done something.
Unlike the teachings of Pantheism, salvation is free in Christ Jesus.
The Bible contradicts the teachings of Pantheism. The law can be summed up in one word, love. So when someone commits adultery this is the opposite of love. Satan, for the sake of confusion, calls adultery love, but it is just the opposite. The same is true of envy, murder, covetousness, disrespect for parents, perversion, or any other part of God's law.
The Bible is diverse from the teachings of Pantheism. For those who have been born again, the law is being written on their hearts by the power of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit now becomes the One who guides them and gives them power both to will and to do God's good pleasure. No one can obey God unless it is God both giving them the will do good and also doing the good works though them.
The Bible and the leading of the Holy Spirit are at variance with the teachings of Pantheism. The Bible is given as an authoritative guide to the truth, and the Holy Spirit teaches us when we read the Bible, provided we ask for leading and believe that we will receive it.
The Holy Spirit, as He has led the Church, is in disagreement with the teachings of Pantheism. The Holy Spirit teaches that the Bible gives us the order for the church and the order of the church is also given for guidance in interpreting the Bible and for understanding what is right and what is wrong
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Pantheism's Worldview of Judgment Back to Top |
- usually claims that man's role is relating harmoniously to nature
- failure to do so results in misfortune
- success in doing so results in merit
- desire causes suffering
- tends to focus on technique
- meditation
- may claim that good spirits are to be worshiped to bring good luck
- may claim that evil spirits are to be appeased or pacified to avoid harm
- may claim that lucky charms help
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The Spirit is not in agreement with the teachings of Pantheism on Judgment, heaven, and hell. There is a life hereafter: heaven for the righteous, hell for the wicked and rebellious. God Himself is the only One Who makes this judgment.
God's revelation, through Scripture, is in contradiction to the teachings of Pantheism in that resurrection and judgment of all will take place on the day appointed by God. The saved will have everlasting fellowship with the Creator God. Those who have persisted in unbelief will receive judgment according to God's wisdom.
God's revelation differs further from the teachings of Pantheism: God's judgment is continual also during life. God's judgments are remedial, though they can be very severe. God has no pleasure in correcting anyone through His judgment. God's judgment starts with gentle leading, speaking to each person who lives. If that person receives the direction of God, they will first receive supernatural belief in Jesus as Savior to deliver them from both the punishment for their sins and to also deliver them from their sins. From their, God will lead them from glory to glory by the Spirit of the Lord. The path of the just is as a shining light that shines more and more until that day when Christ is fully and completely formed in the members of the Body of Christ as they flow into that total unity with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Unlike the teachings of Pantheism, God uses punishment as a way to bring those He loves to Himself. For those who are not obedient to the Spirit of God, it becomes more difficult.
Unlike the teachings of Pantheism, Even now, Jesus is the resurrection and the life and we can partake of his life to a degree.
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How can we know anything about anything? That’s the real question
Topic: Cults
Basics of Christadelphianism
Christadelphianism and Christianity
Christadelphianism\'s Worldview of a Supreme Being
Christadelphianism\'s Worldview of Jesus
Christadelphianism\'s Worldview of the Works of Jesus
Christadelphianism\'s Worldview of Authority
Christadelphianism\'s Worldview of a Humanity
Christadelphianism\'s Worldview of the Human Problem
Christadelphianism\'s Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem
Christadelphianism\'s Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals
Christadelphianism\'s Worldview of Judgment
Christadelphianism
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Christadelphianism teaches monism, God is one person. They reject the Biblical doctrine of the...
Basics of Christian Science
Christian Science and Christianity
Christian Science\'s Worldview of a Supreme Being
Christian Science\'s Worldview of Jesus
Christian Science\'s Worldview of the Works of Jesus
Christian Science\'s Worldview of Authority
Christian Science\'s Worldview of a Humanity
Christian Science\'s Worldview of the Human Problem
Christian Science\'s Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem
Christian Science\'s Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals
Christian Science\'s Worldview of Judgment
Christian Science
True Christianity
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the Alien & UFO Cult
Basics of the Alien & UFO Cult
Basics of Aliens, UFOs and Extra Terrestrials: Aliens give every indication of being demons who are deceiving gullible people. \"The science-in-waiting of extraterrestrial anatomy has yet to acquire its first piece of data, so nobody knows what features we will behold if and when humans and aliens come face-to-face.\" (NewScientist, January 25, 2010) Science cannot verify that they might exist....
Agnostics should not be thought of as the enemy. As Christ had compassion on the masses, saying that they are like sheep without a shepherd, so we ought to look at the Agnostics with compassion and pity their empty lives that are so completely devoid of any real purpose or meaning. These are people who are crying out for meaning. Agnostics face a serious problem of meaninglessness. They may try...
The danger here is that many Christian organizations have adopted Atheistic dogmas into their own dogmas.
Atheism is a belief system that is based on a universal negative (holding to a Universal Negative is irrational unless you have it by revelation from Someone Who knows all things and is qualified to say that something doesn\'t exist) and an argument from ignorance (arguments from ignorance are also irrational.). Atheism depends on the...
People who follow Baha\'i rationalize that one God has revealed Himself through major world religions. Baha\'i rationalizes that the human soul is essentially good and that salvation and righteousness can be achieved through human effort. This self-righteousness is part of the cause of their frustration. As with all religions that emphasize human effort as the source of righteousness, the followers of Baha\'i are not able to fulfill true righteousness.
One follower...
Basics of Buddhism
Buddhism and Christianity
Buddhism\'s Worldview of a Supreme Being
Buddhism\'s Worldview of Jesus
Buddhism\'s Worldview of the Works of Jesus
Buddhism\'s Worldview of Authority
Buddhism\'s Worldview of a Humanity
Buddhism\'s Worldview of the Human Problem
Buddhism\'s Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem
Buddhism\'s Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals
Buddhism\'s Worldview of Judgment
Buddhists do not consider the Bible to be the inspired Word of God, that all Scripture is God-breathed, and that the...
Basics of Eckankar/ECK
Eckankar/ECK\'s Worldview of a Supreme Being
Eckankar/ECK\'s Worldview of Jesus
Eckankar/ECK\'s Worldview of the Works of Jesus
Eckankar/ECK\'s Worldview of Authority
Eckankar/ECK\'s Worldview of a Humanity
Eckankar/ECK\'s Worldview of the Human Problem
Eckankar/ECK\'s Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem
Eckankar/ECK\'s Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals
Eckankar/ECK\'s Worldview of Judgment
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Basics of Emergent Church
Emergent Church\'s Worldview of a Supreme Being
Emergent Church\'s Worldview of Jesus
Emergent Church\'s Worldview of the Works of Jesus
Emergent Church\'s Worldview of Authority
Emergent Church\'s Worldview of a Humanity
Emergent Church\'s Worldview of the Human Problem
Emergent Church\'s Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem
Emergent Church\'s Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals
Emergent Church\'s Worldview of Judgment
While the Emergent \"Church\" is based on the mental construct known as relativism, Christianity...
Basics of Hinduism Hinduism\'s Worldview of a Supreme Being
Hinduism\'s Worldview of Jesus
Hinduism\'s Worldview of the Works of Jesus
Hinduism\'s Worldview of Authority
Hinduism\'s Worldview of a Humanity
Hinduism\'s Worldview of the Human Problem
Hinduism\'s Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem
Hinduism\'s Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals
Hinduism\'s Worldview of Judgment
Hinduism
True Christianity
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There are three basic divisions of Hinduism. Monists stress the oneness of the universe and...
Secular Humanism is probably the most recognized name for the natural-human-goodness belief. If you Google \"Human Goodness Cult,\" you will get this page and some information from Chris Short who writes about, \"Human Service Alliance and after quite a few name changes (to include the University for Human Goodness) it is now known as the Center for Purposeful Living.\" You will also find a Wikipedia page about the so-called \"noble...
Humanism is yet another synonym for Atheism. Humanism dogmatically supposes and preaches that there is no God other than humanity. Humanists are Atheists. Atheism/Humanism is one of the most violent of all religions, and, like all religions, it claims to be peaceful. If Humanists/Atheists were truly not a religion bent on control and conversion, there would not be the angst for spreading their false gospel and defending their make-believe belief...
Basics of The Human Potential Movement/HPM
The Human Potential Movement/HPM\'s Worldview of a Supreme Being
The Human Potential Movement/HPM\'s Worldview of the Works of Jesus
The Human Potential Movement/HPM\'s Worldview of Authority
The Human Potential Movement/HPM\'s Worldview of a Humanity
The Human Potential Movement/HPM\'s Worldview of the Human Problem
The Human Potential Movement/HPM\'s Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem
The Human Potential Movement/HPM\'s Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals
The Human Potential Movement/HPM\'s Worldview of...
Intellectualism--as a cult:
Many people attribute god-like power to the intellect, and such attribution makes this form of intellectualism a cult. The intellect is just one of God\'s marvelous creations. When intellectualism begins to mean that the human mind is the source of wisdom, understanding, and knowledge, intellectualism becomes idolatry and it is a cult. The reality is that, since the fall, the intellect cannot be trusted.
We need the revelation that only...
God is moving among the Muslims throughout the world and bringing them to Christ. They are turning to Christ by the hundreds of thousands. In the Muslim religion, they pray daily that God would show them the truth, and He is. The Muslim religion is very discouraging. It offers no assurance of salvation. It is contradictory. Those who study the holy books of Islam have an even harder time believing...
Basics of Jehovah Witnesses
Jehovah Witnesses\' Worldview of a Supreme Being
Jehovah Witnesses\' Worldview of Jesus
Jehovah Witnesses\' Worldview of the Works of Jesus
Jehovah Witnesses\' Worldview of Authority
Jehovah Witnesses\' Worldview of a Humanity
Jehovah Witnesses\' Worldview of the Human Problem
Jehovah Witnesses\' Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem
Jehovah Witnesses\' Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals
Jehovah\'s Witnesses\' Worldview of Judgment
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Liberalism is founded on the supposed natural goodness of humans, which is a false supposition and an attempt to do away with the need for Jesus. The dictionary describes it as a political philosophy founded on the idea of the natural goodness of human beings, but it is a religion.
Liberalism almost always takes a position that is opposed to biblical morality and God\'s laws. When it seems to support biblical...
Basics of Materialism
Materialism\'s Worldview of a Supreme Being
Materialism\'s Worldview of Jesus
Materialism\'s Worldview of the Works of Jesus
Materialism\'s Worldview of Authority
Materialism\'s Worldview of a Humanity
Materialism\'s Worldview of the Human Problem
Materialism\'s Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem
Materialism\'s Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals
Materialism\'s Worldview of Judgment
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Materialism professes the following:
Dogmatic belief that there is no God other than humanity, no spirits, no angels,...
Given the presupposition of Rationalism, the modernists made three more assumptions: Materialism, Naturalism, and Uniformitarianism. Materialism assumes that there was no God. Naturalism assumes that God does nothing. Uniformitarianism assumes no Creation or Flood. All of these made up lies are part of modernism.
One of several related false religous concepts that work in concert: Agnosticism, Atheism, Evolutionism, Humanism, Intellectualism, Liberalism, Materialism, ...
Basics of Latter Day Saints/Mormon/Mormonism
Latter Day Saints/Mormon/Mormonism\'s Worldview of a Supreme Being
Latter Day Saints/Mormon/Mormonism\'s Worldview of Jesus
Latter Day Saints/Mormon/Mormonism\'s Worldview of the Works of Jesus
Latter Day Saints/Mormon/Mormonism\'s Worldview of Authority
Latter Day Saints/Mormon/Mormonism\'s Worldview of a Humanity
Latter Day Saints/Mormon/Mormonism\'s Worldview of the Human Problem
Latter Day Saints/Mormon/Mormonism\'s Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem
Latter Day Saints/Mormon/Mormonism\'s Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals
Latter Day Saints/Mormon/Mormonism\'s Worldview of Judgment
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There are several religions that are commonly known as \"Native American religions;\" however, religions are not given to any race. In fact, God created all people of one race. There are no races. And there is no race who is stuck with any religion. There are no Native American religions. There are no black religions. There are no white religions. Jesus Christ welcomes all people to Himself. In fact, some...
There are several ways that Naturalism is defended as a thought. What Atheists label as science is built on Naturalism, but the starting point is not sound. Since the starting point is not sound, whatever is built with that starting point cannot be sound.
The reasons Naturalists give for believing in Naturalism:
Naturalism is obvious.
However, this is just a claim without any evidence. In fact, it is one of many ways...
New Age Religion is not the same thing as the New Age Movement. The New Age Movement involves unity in diversity among many non-Christian groups. It is a loose-knit networking system. The New Age Religion is a religion. The two are different, yet they are related.The New Age Religion adopts Christian language but redefines the terms.Astrology; mysticism; use of crystals; yoga; tarot readings; holistic medicine; psychic abilities; angelic communications; channeling;...
Basics of The Occult
The Occult\'s Worldview of a Supreme Being
The Occult\'s Worldview of Jesus
The Occult\'s Worldview of the Works of Jesus
The Occult\'s Worldview of Authority
The Occult\'s Worldview of a Humanity
The Occult\'s Worldview of the Human Problem
The Occult\'s Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem
The Occult\'s Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals
The Occult\'s Worldview of Judgment
The Occult
True Christianity
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The occult is actually demon...
Basics of Post Modernism
Post Modernism\'s Worldview of a Supreme Being
Modernism\'s Worldview of Jesus
Post Modernism\'s Worldview of the Works of Jesu
Post Modernism\'s Worldview of Authority
Post Modernism\'s Worldview of a Humanity
Post Modernism\'s Worldview of the Human Problem
Post Modernism\'s Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem
Post Modernism\'s Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals
Post Modernism\'s Worldview of Judgment
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To rationalize is to think something that is irrational and to believe that it is rational. Rationalizing is irrational, that is, insane.
Unlike Christianity, rationalism defines the human mind as basically good and capable of generating knowledge without the benefit of observation or revelation. This self-generated knowledge, this miraculously revealed information, is thought to be superior or equal to divine revelation, observation or both. They are just making stuff up! In...
Basics of Relativism
Relativism\'s Worldview of a Supreme Being
Relativism\'s Worldview of Jesus
Relativism\'s Worldview of the Works of Jesus
Relativism\'s Worldview of Authority
Relativism\'s Worldview of a Humanity
Relativism\'s Worldview of the Human Problem
Relativism\'s Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem
Relativism\'s Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals
Relativism\'s Worldview of Judgment
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Basics of Scientology
Scientology\'s Worldview of a Supreme Being
Scientology\'s Worldview of Jesus
Scientology\'s Worldview of the Works of Jesus
Scientology\'s Worldview of Authority
Scientology\'s Worldview of a Humanity
Scientology\'s Worldview of the Human Problem
Scientology\'s Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem
Scientology\'s Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals
Scientology\'s Worldview of Judgment
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Secularism is a synonym for Atheism.
Secularism is a belief system that is based on a fallacy of asserting a universal negative and a logical fallacy of an argument from ignorance. Asserting a universal negative is irrational unless you know the universal negative is true. You can only know it true by Divine revelation from Someone Who knows all things, Who cannot lie, and Who is qualified to say that...
Sikhism is a sect (denomination) of Islam.
\"Anybody who can make any religious system look totally idiotic, you can be sure he doesn\'t understand it. There is not total nonsense to it--there has to be some experiential relevance or pragmatic benefit or something like that.\" Ravi Zacharias Satan rarely tells lies that have no truth at all in them. Satan rather takes the truth and twists it so that it is...
Basics of Theosophy
Theosophy\'s Worldview of a Supreme Being
Theosophy\'s Worldview of Jesus
Theosophy\'s Worldview of the Works of Jesus
Theosophy\'s Worldview of Authority
Theosophy\'s Worldview of a Humanity
Theosophy\'s Worldview of the Human Problem
Theosophy\'s Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem
Theosophy\'s Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals
Theosophy\'s Worldview of Judgment
Theosophy
True Christianity
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An esoteric group, following esoteric cosmology, claiming that the universe is ordered by the number, seven.
The...
Basics of Unification Church
Unification Church\'s Worldview of a Supreme Being
Unification Church\'s Worldview of Jesus
Unification Church\'s Worldview of the Works of Jesus
Unification Church\'s Worldview of Authority
Unification Church\'s Worldview of a Humanity
Unification Church\'s Worldview of the Human Problem
Unification Church\'s Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem
Unification Church\'s Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals
Unification Church\'s Worldview of Judgment
Unification Church
True Christianity
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The organization of Sun Myung...
Uniformitarianism is the belief that there was no flood and that there was no creation. The Uniformitarian belief is anti-Bible, anti-God, and anti-Christ. It puts death before sin. Any believe that puts death before sin makes the Gospel meaningless. The Gospel says that sin caused death and Jesus came to save us from the punishment for our sin and from our slavery to sin so that we can have life.
This...
Basics of Universalism Universalist
Universalism Universalist\'s Worldview of a Supreme Being
Universalism Universalist\'s Worldview of Jesus
Universalism Universalist\'s Worldview of the Works of Jesus
Universalism Universalist\'s Worldview of Authority
Universalism Universalist\'s Worldview of a Humanity
Universalism Universalist\'s Worldview of the Human Problem
Universalism Universalist\'s Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem
Universalism Universalist\'s Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals
Universalism Universalist\'s Worldview of Judgment
Universalism Universalist
True Christianity
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Unitarianism is not only...
Basics of Unity School Of Christianity
Unity School Of Christianity\'s Worldview of a Supreme Being
Unity School Of Christianity\'s Worldview of Jesus
Unity School Of Christianity\'s Worldview of the Works of Jesus
Unity School Of Christianity\'s Worldview of Authority
Unity School Of Christianity\'s Worldview of a Humanity
Unity School Of Christianity\'s Worldview of the Human Problem
Unity School Of Christianity\'s Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem
Unity School Of Christianity\'s Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals
Unity...
Basics of The Way International
The Way International\'s Worldview of a Supreme Being
The Way International\'s Worldview of Jesus
The Way International\'s Worldview of the Works of Jesus
The Way International\'s Worldview of Authority
The Way International\'s Worldview of a Humanity
The Way International\'s Worldview of the Human Problem
The Way International\'s Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem
The Way International\'s Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals
The Way International\'s Worldview of Judgment
The Way International
True Christianity
Basics...
Basics of Wicca witch / witchcraft
Wicca witch / witchcraft\'s Worldview of a Supreme Being
Wicca witch / witchcraft\'s Worldview of Jesus
Wicca witch / witchcraft\'s Worldview of the Works of Jesus
Wicca witch / witchcraft\'s Worldview of Authority
Wicca witch / witchcraft\'s Worldview of a Humanity
Wicca witch / witchcraft\'s Worldview of the Human Problem
Wicca witch / witchcraft\'s Worldview of the Solution to the Human Problem
Wicca witch / witchcraft\'s Worldview of Ethics, Values, and Morals
Wicca...
The following is the feedback question:
\"Liberals ended slavery, got women the right to vote, got African-Americans the right to vote, created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty; they ended segregation, passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act; They created Medicare, passed the Clean Air and Clean Water Act. What did conservatives do? They opposed every single one of these programs. My question is;...
Conservatism Is NOT the Opposite of Liberalism
Did you ever feel as if it is hard to understand the meaning of liberal and conservative? You know what each of these words, sort of. At the same time, it's hard to say exactly what either word means.
Guess what? Someone has been messing with your mind. They have been re-defining these words and then using the various meanings to confuse you. If...
If you have not read Stories Versus Truth, you may want to read that before reading this.
Mutation Questions & Answers
What is the relationship of extinction to natural selection?
Natural Selection Is Not \'Nature\'s Intelligence
In a world where science has degenerated into shouting slogans, we hear all types of claims, many of them false. Natural Selection claims to include the capability for creatures to generate various traits that improve their ability...
How Is Evolutionism Vital to Religion?
The Secular Humanist religion needs Evolution. The Atheist religion needs Evolution. Many religions embrace Evolutionism. Some depend on it. Any religion that accepts Evolutionism is choosing to believe the human mind or doctrines of demons rather than believing the Living God Who created all things. That\'s why the dogma of Evolution is so religiously defended and promoted--regardless of fact. Evolution needs an old earth (although...
How to Avoid Cults
You must come close to Jesus and get to know Him--this is the only place of safety.
There is coming a deception so terrible that it would be impossible to avoid being deceived were it not for this one way. The only way to avoid being deceived is to get to know the real Son of God so well that you can tell when something is not from...
We know only what God has told us about the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the tree of life, and the Garden of Eden. I don\'t think that we have any revelation on what happened to the tree itself. We do know that, ever since partaking of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, mankind has been plagued with an over-active sense of what is right and...
Is It Unloving to Call a Cult a Cult?
As the members of the Church of the Living God continue to walk away from His ways, the Bible becomes a very strange book to them. They see it as full of errors. One person wrote in: \"I am a fellow Christian but I believe that this website portrays to [one of the religions that worships spirit guides, that is, demons]...
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