Politicized American 'psychiatry' and 'science' when it becomes overtly political seeks to destroy or invalidate individuals who do not share the psychiatric or scientific establishment's views.
He who is deemed mentally ill is the individual who has not compromised his individuality for the sake of functionality in that institutionalized society. Therefore, he is considered deviant even if he is normal and the society itself is abnormal. FDRs and LBJs 'lunatic fringe'.
I was thinking about the Prosperity Gospel and the idea that embedded in the Prosperity Gospel that wants us to have our best life now. I have always been adamantly against the
whole idea of the Prosperity Gospel because it preaches mostly a health and
wealth ideology and if you are not healthy and wealthy you are somehow
inferior spiritually or are not praying hard enough or obedient enough. Because
of my Pentecostal and Charismatic brethren, I’ve tried to temper my approach to
this errant theology when it is taught in isolation.
Therein lays the rub. The Prosperity Gospel when preached in
isolation without the balance of Scripture also brought into play is in fact a
false teaching and heresy. We are to teach the full counsel of Scripture not
just the parts we like. This goes for the 'God is Love' crowd too. Yeah, He is
love…He’s also very much the 'God of Wrath' too.
So, look at John 10:10, where Jesus says, “I came that they
may have life and have it abundantly.” I have heard Reformed and Calvinist teachers say that life here is only salvation from sin, not earthly
prosperity, as though one could prove from this text that the gospel has
nothing to do with earthly prosperity or happiness. This isn’t solely and
completely true…again, in isolation. People are strangely good at being in
denial or prone to their own confirmation bias without seeing the full picture.
Sometimes Christians just gather the facts they need to prove what they
want to believe but not necessarily what the Scriptures authored by God seek to teach
us.
Is there suffering in the teachings of Christianity?
Absolutely! The broad underlying premises within Scripture speak to this fact,
especially in the story of the Gospel itself. Yet that very Gospel offers us ultimate blessing and rewards…or prosperity. Is it all spiritual?
Perhaps, but nothing in the Scriptures precludes the possibility of physical reward here, now. Becoming rich, is it possible? Yes. Probable? Not likely. If there is reward now, in a way it is the 'now but not yet' being brought into a form of physicality.
Jesus does in fact promise earthly prosperity for his
people, “with persecutions,” in this life, and prosperity in the life to come:
Mark 10:29-31~ Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has
left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for
my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this
time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with
persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life. But many who are first will
be last, and the last first.”
This was similar to God’s promise to Israel in the Old Testament also.
Exodus 3:8 ~ So I have come down to rescue them from the
hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and
spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites,
Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
Exodus 3:17 ~ And I have promised to bring you up out of
your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites,
Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
Exodus 13:5 ~ When the Lord brings you into the land of the
Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites—the land he swore to your
ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you are to observe
this ceremony in this month:
Deuteronomy 28:1-15 If you fully obey the Lord your God and
carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set
you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will come on you
and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God: You will be blessed in the
city and blessed in the country. The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and
the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds
and the lambs of your flocks. Your basket and your kneading trough will be
blessed. You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. The
Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated
before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in
seven. The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put
your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.
The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if
you keep the commands of the Lord your God and walk in obedience to him. Then
all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord,
and they will fear you. The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity—in the
fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in
the land he swore to your ancestors to give you. The Lord will open the
heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and
to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will
borrow from none. The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention
to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully
follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. Do not turn
aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left,
following other gods and serving them.
What we can clearly see in the Deuteronomy passage is that
prosperity is provisional or conditional on obedience/belief. After fourteen
verse of blessing there are then fifty-four verses of curses for the
disobedient and unfaithful. In essence, if you insist on doubling-down on stupid in your sin and disobedience God might forgive this time but eventually He's going to call you out. God's going to cut you down.
So, it appears that Jesus in Mark announces at least a
provisional fulfillment of possible prosperity in the lives of his people.
Mark 10:29-31 ~ “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one
who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or
fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in
this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along
with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life. But many who are first
will be last, and the last first.”
We should therefore not doubt that such blessing is part of
the “abundance” of life that Jesus offers in this world now in John 10:10…but I
just wouldn't expect it because Jesus also told us to take up our crosses daily.
In John’s writing throughout the entire Gospel of John's context is life in direct contrast with death, not with prosperity. I agree
with the critics of the Prosperity Gospel that the true gospel always focuses
on the forgiveness of sins. But I believe it is too simplistic to say that the Gospel is limited to just forgiveness. The prosperity preachers didn’t get
their idea out of thin air. The prosperity of God’s people is a regular theme
of Scripture. The prosperity movement misreads this promise though, without the
balancing teaching of Mark 10. But the prosperity gospel needs to be addressed
by a more discerning examination of Scripture than one finds in some of their
broadly generalizing critics.
It is the propensity of human nature to want to simplify things but as we know with other topics in Scripture, a simple, direct or straightforward dogmatic statement about a non-essential is not always prudent. We should never form dogma around single statements in Scripture but use the 'Analogy of Scripture' as encouraged by the Reformers. Scripture interprets Scripture. If we’re honest, we’ll admit Scripture speaks to suffering now but not later in eternity unless one doesn't repent. It also speaks of rewards later and even occasionally…now. Just not like Jesse Duplantis, Kenneth Copeland and Joel Osteen are telling people about. That is because it is also a propensity for sinful men to gravely sin when it comes to greed also.
I learned the way the world learned and then later in life I learned the nuances and details of the Christian faith. In doing it this way I have the scientific and logic base provided by the world. I know pretty much how the world functions and thinks. Although some of its thinking processes and logic are at times horribly flawed I still understand where a godless culture comes from. The inverse is that I understnad where my proper theology engages and intersects with it. This point of transfer is critical to my method of evangelism.
Instead of trying to hammer the square peg in the round hole I minimize the interferences and show how they can in fact both work together by shaving edges and making the square world peg more into a slimmed down triangle that will be able to integrate with the linear and level theology of the Bible.
We're to be shrewd as vipers and peaceful as doves. We're to go out into the world and engage it, but not become it. Paul when arriving in a new town would go to their synagogues first to engage the people 'where they were at' basically. Show he was one of them yet teach the Gospel. He was different but not above or better. He did those things that allowed him to related to them but not become them through sin or unrighteous behavior. The Unknown God speech at the Areopogus/Mars Hill is a great example of this. This is why I do what I do and how I do it.
We need to go out an engage the world where they are at, not jsut remain in cloistered sanctuaries. It is like the Parable of the Talents.
Matthew 25:14-29 “Again, it will be like a man going on a
journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them. To one he
gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag, each
according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. The man who had received
five bags of gold went at once and put his money to work and gained five bags
more. So also, the one with two bags of gold gained two more. But the man who
had received one bag went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s
money. “After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled
accounts with them. The man who had received five bags of gold brought the
other five. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with five bags of gold. See, I
have gained five more. “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful
servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of
many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’ “The man with two bags of
gold also came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with two bags of gold;
see, I have gained two more.’ “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and
faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in
charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’ “Then the man
who had received one bag of gold came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are
a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not
scattered seed. So I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground.
See, here is what belongs to you.’ “His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy
servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I
have not scattered seed? Well then, you should have put my money on deposit
with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with
interest. “‘So take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has ten
bags. For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance.
Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.
If you just take the gift you're given and sit on it (bury it) and do nothing you have not utililzed the resources God gave to wisely. When the man came back, he gave rewards to those who increased the coins he lent them. But he took the coin away from the person who hadn’t tried to increase it. We only have so much time to do what God wants us to do with our gifts. We need to utilize the time we're given in this life to best effect (Ephesians 5:16). Time is a gift from God in this life and when it is gone in this world...it is gone forever. There are no second chances (Hebrews 9:27-28).
Mathematics is a part of what should be considered beauty. Centuries ago, the great astronomer Johannes Kepler (d. 1630) found that math enabled him to predict the relative distances between the various planets and the sun. This finding made him feel “possessed by an unutterable rapture,” bedazzled by “God [thereby] signing his likeness into the world,” symbolizing “all nature and the graceful sky” by “the art of geometry.” Modern scientists, such as the pioneer quantum physicist Paul Dirac, were similarly struck. “The fundamental physical laws are described in terms of a mathematical theory of great beauty and power.... One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.”
If mathematics has impressed many of its greatest theorists with its beauty, many scientists have been equally struck by the peculiarity of its ability to map nature with acute accuracy. The Nobel laureate physicist Eugene Wigner wrote a celebrated essay about how the ability of math to tell us about nature is “unreasonable.” Einstein said that our ability to make sense of the universe with mathematics is a “miracle,” for a universe arising from randomness would not be expected to be so rational as to correspond with such precision to the precise system that mathematics is. In his book The Mind of God Paul Davies registered his surprise at this correspondence. “Much of the mathematics that is so spectacularly effective in physical theory was worked out as an abstract exercise by pure mathematicians long before it was applied to the real world . . . and yet we discover, often years afterward, that nature is playing by the very same mathematical rules that these pure mathematicians have already formulated.”
Is there a link between the beauty of mathematics and its description of nature? There is—in music. Millennia ago, the Greek philosopher Pythagoras noticed that musical tones are in harmony if their tensions arc ratios of the squares of small whole numbers. These rules, translated into frequency, state that notes sound good together if their frequencies arc in ratios of small whole numbers. He was the first major thinker to see the connection between nature and music through the medium of mathematics. This “music of the spheres,” which Pythagoras thought was created by the harmonies among the sun and moon and planets, is the same “heavenly harmony” that Kepler described. The physicist Wilczek said they were on to something profoundly true. Atoms, he wrote, are tiny musical instruments. “In their interplay with light, they realize a mathematical Music of the Spheres that surpasses the visions of Pythagoras, Plato, and Kepler. In molecules and ordered materials, those atomic instruments play together as harmonious ensembles and ordered materials.”
So, mathematics links the world of nature and our minds by a kind of music. But do we comprehend it because we have created mathematics? Is it just another artificial human construct that we have imposed on the world? We have already seen that the fit between mathematics and the world is so close and precise that artificial imposition is unlikely. In fact, there is something about mathematics itself that suggests it has a life of its own completely apart from its use to describe nature. In other words, it seems to have its own existence and nature, quite removed from the physical world.
As particle physicist Peter Bussey argued, mathematics is not physics, even though physics depends on math. “Mathematics seems to have a life of its own.” Musician and science writer Kitty Ferguson told of the day when it dawned on her that mathematics has an objective reality apart from its use in science. “I remember clearly when it first dawned on me those human beings might have discovered mathematics, not invented it; that it might lie waiting in nature; that mathematical truth might be a part of independent reality. It wasn’t in mathematics class, but in music theory, when I studied the harmonic series. It seemed to me that this pattern could not be a human way of sorting things out. It would have existed even if human beings had never existed.”
Astrophysicist Roger Penrose also noted that mathematics has a transcendent, objective character. “There often does appear to be some profound reality about these mathematical concepts, going quite beyond the mental deliberations of any particular mathematician. It is as though human thought is, instead, being guided towards some external truth—a truth which has a reality of its own, and which is revealed only partially to any one of us.”
Once again, then, we are faced with oddities. This world seems to have been fine-tuned not just with one or two parameters but with many. If a few or perhaps even one of them were different, we would not be here. These corroborations of fine-tuning are strange enough, but the fact that there is beauty at the deepest physical levels of the universe, and that it has been noticed by agnostic and believing scientists alike, is also odd. Why would a randomly formed universe be beautiful? Furthermore, why would the beautifully rational system of mathematics so perfectly describe the way this world works? If this world is finally irrational, which is what one would expect from a cosmic accident (as it is said to be by atheists such as Richard Dawkins), then one would never expect a rational system like mathematics to fit it so closely and usefully.
As a Quality Manager having spent three decades helping to regulate, balance and run companies I realize how hard it is to keep things running smoothly, efficiently like clockwork. Things like complex or even simple systems need to be within certain ranges, weight, measurement and continuity to have them run optimally. This implies design and fine-tuning. It also assumes that there is active maintenance on said systems. This is not indicative of the tenets of atheism. It isn't commensurate or compatible with a deistic worldview. It is indicative of a creation with an intelligent designer who is actively interfacing with his design.
Even the simplest system with few parts takes enormous amounts of energy and design foresight to maintain. When we start talking about the complexity of genetics, the periodic chart and a myriad of other possible interactions and permutations genetically or chemically, the probability of the universe the way we see it today exponentially drops near zero. In other words, it is statistically impossible. Below I list some of the things that occur in the universe that defy a reasonable explanation other than God.
Water is absolutely essential for life. Yet it is so rare in the cosmos as to be statistically nonexistent. In other words, just as, when doing an inventory of your house, you would not include pennies that accidentally fell between the cushions of the living room couch, so too water is so rare that it wouldn’t make the list in a cosmic inventory. Almost all spaces between stars are too cold for water, and stars are too hot. Only on planets orbiting at just the right distance from their suns is water possible. Its formation depends on the fine- tuning of all the constants in the rest of this list.
Carbon Resonance is required to make carbon, which is the all-essential molecule for life. This resonance is a level of energy required to complete an extremely complicated process of atomic fusion that produces carbon. If the resonance were a fraction of a percent lower or higher, the process wouldn’t work, and carbon would not be created. Life would then be impossible.
The carbon resonance in turn depends on the strong nuclear force, which holds protons and neutrons together in the nucleus. This too is extremely delicate, meaning it would not work to create the possibility for life if it were not at precisely the right value, neither slightly more nor slightly less. If it were just 10% weaker, the basic elements would never have formed. If it were only 4 percent stronger, stars would last for so short a time that life would never have had a chance to evolve.
Even the weak nuclear force seems to have been tuned to just the right level. After the first second following the Big Bang, cosmologists estimate that the ratio of protons to neutrons was six to one. This ratio was necessary for life. If it had been much weaker than it is, that ratio would never have been achieved, and life would not have been possible. A stronger force by a factor of ten would also have prevented life.
Gravity was essential for the development of the present universe and the life it supports. If it had been just a tiny bit stronger than it is, all the matter exploding out of the Big Bang would have been sucked back into a black hole, snuffing out any possibility of life. If it had been just a wee bit weaker, that initial matter created by the primal explosion would have dispersed so quickly that it never would have collected into stars, one of which eventually created an environment for life.
The ratio of the electromagnetic force to the force of gravity measures the relationship of the force that holds atoms together (by keeping electrons in orbit around the nucleus) to the force between atoms. If that ratio had been only slightly smaller, the universe would not have lasted long enough for creatures larger than insects.
The weights of the parts of the atom make an enormous difference. If the neutron were lighter than it is by a fraction of 1%, isolated protons would be able to decay into neutrons, which means they would not be available for the creation of critically important atoms. Life would be impossible.
The overall density of energy and matter in the universe, conventionally the gravitational attraction of the matter and energy would pull the universe back in upon itself. If it were slightly smaller, the universe would expand too fast, and the gravitational pull of the matter would not be strong enough for the formation of galaxies.
Concerning initial entropy, cosmologist Roger Penrose said that just after the Big Bang there was such a high degree of order that matter was spread out throughout its initial volume with an astounding evenness. There are many ways in which this could have been different, but only in this one way was there a possibility for eventual life to develop. This was a fine-tuning that raises all sorts of questions.
A very special planet is needed for life. As we saw in in a previous paragraph, the planet has to be just the right distance from a star to have a temperature that would permit liquid water. It seems to need a large moon to be able to stabilize its rotation and to need a larger protective planet further away to steer comets and asteroids in another direction. It also needs certain plate tectonics to provide both oceans and dry land. No one knows whether other planets in the universe have this combination of features that supports life. But ours has all the right characteristics.
We take air
for granted. But the density of the air we breathe is 1027 times the average
density' of matter in the universe. “Places in the Universe with a density at
least as large as the air in a room are cosmically rare.” We are in this
extremely rare location in an unthinkably vast cosmos.
The inference that needs to be taken from this information is that what we see in the universe is not that of random, pointless chance and mutation but rather a calibrated machine that runs like a clock but is vastly more complex.
What are often touted as required reading is schools should have warning labels and disclaimers. These "influential" books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments. Of note...
Machiavelli's The Prince was the inspiration for a long list of tyrannies (Stalin had it on his nightstand).
Descartes' Discourse on Method "proved" God's existence only by making Him a creation of our own ego.
Hobbes' Leviathan led to the belief that we have a "right" or 'rights' to whatever we want.
Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto could win the award for the most malicious and evil book ever written...if it wasn't for the others in this list.
How Darwin's Origin of the Species and The Descent of Man proves he intended "survival of the fittest" to be applied to human society murderously...and then subsequently was by science and other misguided godless idiots.
Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil issued the call for a world ruled solely by the "will to power" devoid of God and an absolute moral benchmark therefore making everything relative to opinion, not facts.
Hitler's Mein Kampf was a kind of "spiritualized social Darwinism" that accounts for his genocidal anti-Semitism and other demonic actions.
How the pansexual paradise described in Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa turned out to be a creation of her own sexual confusions and aspirations. Considering she was a sexual deviant this is not a good thing.
Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was simply autobiography masquerading as science and justifying every sexual immorality and laying the groundwork for normalization of every sexual deviancy we see in society via normalizing it in Psychology and Psychiatry.
Do your homework or your just another tool for the monsters that use these books as justification for being 'educated', 'enlightened' and the 'elite'
I've been saying for the last five years that within a
decade pedophilia/pederasty will become legal or normalized in society. I was
laughed off of social media or slammed. The laughter is now dying off because
people are starting to realize...I wasn't just right; my window of time was too
far out. It'll be less than 10 years.
They just confirmed a radical Supreme Court Justice wingnut
that went lenient on pederasty and pedophile cases. Furthermore, she is part of
a counsel that supports CRT and is clearly biased. The dimwit radicals in the
senate didn't even care. Even some so-called conservatives (as if the term even
means anything anymore) did too.
The DSM-V is already normalizing the pedophile language to make it more acceptable. The media and nuts jobs are against the Florida bill that they claim says, "Don't Say Gay" (which it doesn't even say). The bill is trying to prevent these predators from having sex with your kids or forcing genital mutilation (gender transition) on unsuspecting children). This has become so mainstreamed that it is starting to fade into background chatter in some demographics. Not voicing one's opinion in today's political climate against this perversion is akin to basically accepting it. If the perverts do not see resistance, they will just push forward even more aggressively.
Case-in-point: Look at the reaction to the Florida senate revoking Disney's tax-except status due to their stance of defending the grooming of our children. The response has been vicious and vocal. How is transitioning your 6-year-old any different than turning them
into a catamite? For those ignorant, catamites were prepubescent males
castrated to maintain their androgenous features so grown dominant men could
use them as the effeminate sexual receptacles of their affections (see picture
below).
The Bible repeatedly showed as did history that a morally degenerate society collapses quickly. As a matter of fact, sexual degeneracy/sexual perversion is one of the main signs of a failing or failed nation. If you are even remotely normal and want to see this nation survive the next decade intact you need to realize your government (left and right), the complicit media, corporate American and academia are all aligned against you. The only way good prevails here is to fight and push back on this affront to morality. A majority of Progressive policies are immoral. If God doesn't judge this disgusting nation, He needs to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah. Sorry, I won't remain silent when I see children becoming victims of perverted old men and women.
You don't seriously believe that, do you?
How depressingly nihilistic and pitiable. That is why it has
been said that a universe devoid of God has no meaning. There is literally no
meaning or reason for it's or our existence outside of God. There is no point,
no significance. There is quite literally and existentially...nothing.
What a miserable existence. My life is of infinitely more value than that. I am more than the some of my parts, molecules, atoms. Atoms cannot rationalize, reason or love.
If God does not exist, then both man and the universe are
inevitably doomed to death. Man, like all biological organisms, must die. With
no hope of immortality, man’s life leads only to the grave. His life is but a
spark in the infinite blackness, a spark that appears, flickers, and dies
forever.
If each individual person passes out of existence when he
dies, then what ultimate meaning can be given to his life? Does it really
matter in the end whether he ever existed at all? Sure, his life may be
important relative to certain other events, but what’s the ultimate
significance of any of those events? If everything is doomed to destruction,
then what does it matter that you influenced anything? Ultimately it makes no
difference.
And existence without God means a few things. Each one more
onerous and existentially more painful than the last because of what they portend.
Please understand that a society that effectively pushes God out and treats Him
as if He doesn’t exist allows these things to befall them because in practice,
they made them true through their actions as a society.
There would be no Bible or any religious text to guide behavior or morality. There would be no absolute truth. That means everything can and will be true. Everything can and will be permissible because there is nothing to say otherwise except another person's capricious opinion (The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky). An opinion which will be no more valid than any other because there will be no measure of value in a universe without meaning or significance. Even self-evidently contradictory truths like a man is a woman and torture is good will be acceptable outcomes.
There would be no basis for law, therefore no structured society.
In other words, anarchy and chaos. There would be no punishment for
the wicked or evil. No law means no basis for telling someone their wrong. People will literally...'do as thou wilt' which just happens to be the mantra of the Satanist (Aleister Crowley). The rules of Hitler and Stalin become acceptable historical outcome.
Obviously, we already live in a world without God’s Word to govern us because it has been rejected. We are presently living in a world which denies absolute truth. It happened so gradually that most never knew how, or when it happened but we all now know that something is seriously wrong. Well, I’m telling you above that this is exactly how it happened.
For everyone and everything that draws from Biblical tradition to make a comparison to life it must be understood that that the Biblical truth that is being drawn on is in-fact historically connected vertically to a divine reality. Because of this fact the actions taken now do in reality 'echo' down through eternity as General Maximus Decimus Meridius proclaimed in the movie Gladiator.
In fact, not only is everyday reality always connected to the divine, but all the past and future were connected to every time and place in this figural interpretation of history. Every occurrence in all its everyday reality, is simultaneously a part in a world historical context through which, each part is related to every other, and thus is likewise to be regarded as being of all time or above all time.
There is a 12th century French Christian play that recent Christian theologians describe as the presence of the future in the present. A theologian named Eric Auerbach wrote that in this Christian play it is clear that Adam has advanced knowledge of Christ's coming and redemption …so that a thing of the future. [is] included in the present knowledge of any and all times.
That means…that which is biblical and historical includes a participation in realities known by faith. In other words, the future of the Kingdom was already present when the biblical authors wrote and the prophets spoke, so that the details of their writing and speaking were being shaped by the details of the future. This was not predicting the future, but more a case of absorbing the pressure of the future on their historical present. Thus, the types or the things they were seeing and depicted were already participating in the realities of the future Kingdom of God.
In other words, in this world, from the point of view of men, prophecy chronologically precedes fulfillment. In reality though and in a more important sense it is fulfillment that proceeded the prophecy. How is this possible? It is because the words of the prophet come from God who is timeless (specifically diachronic). He is and sees all time and all events as the eternal present. Time ceases to have meaning and is only needed to accommodate the limitations of human minds. The fulfillment can/could potentially precede the words of the prophet.
There are many in government, media, academia and the
wealthy that believe that Communism can really work. They believe that the
reason places like the former Soviet Union failed is because they just didn’t
have the technology to manage a planned economy. The computing power, networks
and financials just weren’t up to snuff. They believe now with the advent of
A.I., the Internet, centralized world banks, consolidated wealth and
international fiscal interdependence...it would now be feasible. The problem
with this is that it is not the system itself that would be the death knell. It
is human nature and greed. They will not be content to give half or more of
their earnings to a stranger. Those that work would have no incentive to
continue to work when they see others being bums. We see the outcome of this
type of economic system even today in California and New York. They have the aforementioned
technology to manage the economics and still are failing horrendously.
Unfortunately, the previously mentioned groups are going to keep forcing this on the populace and the more they do the more people will fight back. We’re starting to see it in the rural areas of the United States. We see it in Convoy 2022 in Canada. It is starting in Australia and Europe too. The people are tired of being repressed and the governments refuse to relinquish power choosing to gobble up even more. Those in positions of power who continue to force the Marxist philosophy are realizing their chances of doing this now are slipping away so they are attacking and being extremely aggressive with anyone that counters their narrative. Joe Rogan is only the most recent example. The question has become, who gets to the kill switch first…either the counterculture populace or the Marxist machine. The fighting is already starting. If you thought COVID was bad…that was just a warm-up. We failed that test and we’re going to fail the next one even worse. This is going to split neighborhoods, families, companies and even churches. In some cases, it already has…which some idiots in the church helped along.
Genesis 10:6-10 The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put and
Canaan. The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteka. The sons
of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty
warrior on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; that is why it is
said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.” The first centers of his
kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar.
Little is known about when Sumerian-speaking people arrived
in southern Mesopotamia, assuming they did not originate there. Either way,
from a very early period a multilingual environment existed in southern
Mesopotamia, which included languages like Sumerian, an early form of Akkadian,
other Semitic languages, and Hurrian. Some scholars have posited the
possibility of an otherwise unknown substrate, or influencing language of the
area, due to the presence of words of unknown origin in Sumerian writings.
Genesis 11:1, 5-9 Now the whole world had one language and a
common speech. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and
settled there (Babylon)…..But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower
the people were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language, they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be
impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they
will not understand each other.” So, the Lord scattered them from there over
all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called
Babel because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From
there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
A substrate or single underlying language lost to history. It has been demonstrated linguistically that later Semitic words, as a majority are compounds in Sumerian, or words of no clear origin. The preponderance of these words are, in-fact mostly administrative texts, arithmetic and some are wordlists used for scribal education. Like a people building a tower perhaps? Our knowledge of earliest known Sumerian literature comes to the fore during the Early Dynastic Period III (EDIII) >2500 BC or prior to Abraham in Chapter 12 of Genesis approximately 2000BC. So, if we adhere to a superficial timeline, we could assume that the base Sumerian language is at least a few hundred to a thousand years prior to Abraham. That means the time gap between Genesis 11 and 12 could be at least a millennium or more. The Semitic language from which all others arose or diverged therefore came prior to the time of Abraham between Genesis 11 and 12…right within the time of the Tower of Babel narrative.
