Merit Paradox "GAAP" God's 'Physics' solves Infinity/Finity Dichotomy Due Disclosure Divine DNA! Witness: US ON TRIAL: "Integrity Properties" Back to Appendix This page is not as well-written as I would like, of course. The historical assessment in it is too important to leave out. Flow is choppy; I apologize in advance.

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Richard Wagner wrote operas with German mythological themes. In his Ring Operas, the tragic hero ends up, by means of his VIRTUOUS MOTIVE, causing the destruction of everything. This good-destroying-everything concept, is called Götterdämmerung in German. It's a pregnant word.

Götterdämmerung is Satan's policy; the success of it is patent via religion's sordid history. Purpose is to create a dark ages, so man rejects God, never learns Him. Thus Satan wins in the Trial.

So, science is also religion, now. Competing. Intellectuality is EMOTIONALLY sold, just as in religion: you are a good person, if you are 'scientific', see. So the emotional hook for the pseudo-intellectual, is just as much religious, as for the dumbest holy-roller who ever lived. So, that 'virtue' of being 'good', destroys everything. Götterdämmerung, baby. Let's see how...

Satanic out-maneuvering in the so-called 'theory' of evolution starts with definitions that are tautological, just like reincarnation and animism religions do (explained Godevol.htm). Worse, the PREMISE is that something INANIMATE can spawn ANIMACY. A child can see through that insanity. Yet, look at all the effort spent, and by some truly brilliant people! This criticism is not to debunk science. Rather, this is to PROMOTE science, since God's Physics (of-His-Own-Nature) underly all scientific laws, so the more of those laws we see, the better we can understand Him (potentially). Satan &Co. would like it very much if we go back to the Dark Ages, so to destroy the human race. However, to GET there, they've got to sell the man-becomes-god idea any way they can, so to unify us enough to foment Götterdämmerung. If you look through history, you'll find that all big unification attempts, like a flurry of treaties, PRESAGE war and/or mass persecution.

So Satan&Co. promote science and 'reason' and religion as if competing with each other, when in fact they are all the same: man's claim of self-virtue. This, Satan&Co. promote, in order to CREATE chaos, because such promotions polarize polities, within and without. The polarization occurs, because those who become the elite, get fat, sassy.. and eventually OSSIFY. That's why the Catholic Church rose .. and fell.

That's why, periodically in history, those in 'authority' suffer revolts. Granted, those revolting ARE revolting (disgusting) themselves, with or without a deemed-valid pretense for revolt. So, science being so incredibly DUMB to promote evolution, thus sows the seeds of its own future denouement, as indeed happened with past science/authority: in each case, due to an overweening arrogance by those authorities involved. So, the 'uneducated' will of course eventually revolt with iconoclasm, usually under some demagogue; and a dark ages ensues.

The deeper reason for this recurring phenomenon is man's insecurity, due to his sin nature in Adam+any sins he's committed which weaken him even further. See, when change occurs, people get helped, but they almost always FIRST get hurt. Change destabilizes man, because he equates familiarity, with security. Put him into a changing situation, and you rob him of the familiar; so, he feels threatened, simply because he lacks familiarity with the circumstance he faces. This, whether the circumstance is pleasant, or not; whether he recognizes he's feeling threatened, or not. So, then: some have come to be FAMILIAR with the idea that science is good; some replace 'god' with science, and therefore expect science to be infallible, or derive their ego-comfort in a different way: that science NEVER claims a conclusive answer ("the data suggest"). Thus, they can always comfort themselves that since the (irrelevantly-tested or picked) data never bear out any proof of anything, but always suggest, there is no assured answer. So, anyone who HAS assurance must be stupid, for science is not like that. So, they are assured in their UNassurance. Safely.

Others, uncomfortable with the pseudo- or real intellectuality of science, just plain hate it. Couple this with the unprecedented pace of change in man's 'progress' over the past two centuries, and especially over the past two generations, and you have a tinderbox for revolution. The insanity of the evolution idea will eventually show, due to the ossification of its proponents; which results in political pressure to AGREE imposed on those who would 'belong' to the community, just as has always been true with denominational religions; hence, those who don't fit in will be ripe for any demagogue to rally them to rebel. Power versus power, and everyone falls into the pit of the dark ages.

We are on the verge of yet another such fall into the pit of dark ignorance, destroying what science and advances we've learned, like the peasants destroyed all those valuables in the Czar's many houses during the early stage of the Russian Revolution. As noted above, Satan&Co. use over or under exposure to truth to foment emotional reaction. In the past 100 or so years, mankind has been OVERexposed to technological advance. He's not kept pace with it, psychologically. While the same can be said for the impact of the Industrial Revolution, the combination of that plus the current technological revolution -- is too much. The problem with so much overexposure is this: it needs MEDIATION by counter-truth. Which is, Bible Doctrine. Morality, which is also authored by God, will not be enough help for man to orient to so much massive CHANGE.

Here's why. All power, all existence, is derived from the physics of God's Own Nature -- and reflects it (Rom1:20). The power and existences all being (positive or negative) derivative physics, and therefore separatist, if such power is NOT INTEGRATED with God, it is EXTREMELY destructive; atomic science well illustrates the power of the tiniest derivative in the atom. "Derivative" means an oppositeness inheres. So, any REJECTION creates an oppositeness with its own existence, because that REJECTION is a NEGATIVE derivative (reaction) to God. So, sin totally destroys man; man of himself elected a power ABOVE himself, and still does -- either toward-God, or away-from-God. But, in all events, RELATED to God. Because, God is the source of all power.

Derivative power can be explained with the following example. If you bounce a ball against a soft surface, the ball will either not bounce BACK at all, or will do so weakly. Conversely, if you bounce a ball against a steel or brick WALL: the STRENGTH of the wall is far harder and stronger. So, the ball will bounce BACK far harder/stronger, in 'reply'. God, thus, being INFINITE strength, is so STRONG a 'wall', that when the 'ball' of volition bounces AGAINST Him, the force and velocity of the DESTRUCTION to the human is extremely high. In fact, if God didn't INSURE the soul's indestructibility, we'd be obliterated at our first sin. Because, the power of sin is the Law, as Paul quipped. And the Law, is from God. So the 'law' of REJECTING God has a FAR greater power -- derivative of GOD, because bouncing 'against' God -- not derivative of the being who does the rejecting.

Hence salvation and post-salvation spiritual growth are ONLY possible if GOD accomplishes them, since the derivative of negative volition creates a state of God vs. God, so to speak -- the DERIVATIVE POWER is a reactive thing, reactive against God. So, of a power LEVEL which RIVALS God's Own. Of course, since any rejection is necessarily a lesser power, God Himself always can defeat any rejection's power. However, to do this and NOT compromise the free will of the rejector, is truly a masterful thing. So it is NOT demeaning to God that He save us and grow us. It is also NOT demeaning to us that He do so. So it is NOT demeaning to admit our total helplessness and depend ON Him. So it is NOT demeaning to be constantly confronted with our own puny nature and failures. So it was NOT demeaning for Christ to pay for us on the Cross. It is, after all, a challenge of such magnitude, that ONLY God can confront and defeat! So it was NOT demeaning that Christ should have depended on the Holy Spirit ONLY during the entire 1st Advent: for, even perfect human power is no match for the teeniest negative derivative power bouncing against God.

So, man's ability to ADJUST when things are bad or good, requires FIRST, that man ADJUST TO GOD. Absent that, he has no integration, as we saw with Adam's insane figleaves thingy in Part II. So, then: when man experiences EITHER improvement or reduction, his corridor for healthy adjustment is very narrow. By over- or under- exposing him to any 'good' or 'bad' in his life, either on a micro level or on a macro level, Satan&Co. foster DESTABILIZATION. It doesn't take much. So, currently, the trend has been over-exposure to improvement, and man has been so hungry for so long, he can't cope. Since mankind typically never does much adjusting TOWARD God, he breaks. Prosperity kills the greater, since man's internal mechanisms for adjustment are basically adversity-oriented (sin nature). Fighting is what man knows; further, when in straitened circumstances, he is more curious about God (out of self-interest). Pleasure, though, he can't handle. So, the trend of improvement more devastatingly fosters a larger destruction, than were man still living off the soil.

Bible Doctrine uniquely mediates all man's problems by progressively relating them to God's Plan, which thus better integrates the BELIEVER HIMSELF, with God. Hence, as we saw in Part IV's ".. Your Thinking" section, the derivative power is reduced, as growing believers talk, think; and their conversations 'beget' like thinking in others around them who agree. This integrative process starts, of course, with salvation. It progresses, as the believer learns Doctrine under his right pastor-teacher, and perseveres in that course. However, as history amply proves, man's DESIRE for this course is at best sporadic, and short-lived. Else, the Catholic Church and its protesting children, state religions, would never have stayed in semi-monopolistic power for so long.

We are at a unique spot in history, possibly: for the first time, not only has man come under an unprecedented rate of change, but the ONE thing which long remained familiar, religious monopolies, have crumbled; this, largely due to yet another unprecedented factor, the level of interest in Bible qua Bible throughout the globe (even higher than the 1700's and 1800's). The FOURTH unprecedented factor is related to that unprecedented level of interest: the attendant PROSPERITY that GOD ECONOMICALLY PROVIDES due to such interest (see the 1st halves of Lev26 and Deut28).

See, until the fantastic Scripture discoveries of the mid 1800's, man was largely under the heel of denominations. So, his personal access to Scripture was largely controlled (or his ability to UNDERSTAND it, controlled) by a few large denominations. This had the effect of STULTIFYING free learning of Scripture; instead, the denominations superimposed their own creeds, so that their congregants wouldn't be able to read whatever Scripture they could get apart from the 'spin' of their respective denominations. So, people called themselves Catholics or Lutherans or Anglicans or Baptists. Instead of, "Christians". Granted, a lot of great and valuable evangelisation was accomplished by the denominations. However, because they restrict their creeds to babyish definitions of Bible Doctrines, their congregations almost NEVER get out of spiritual babyhood. So, they all must apostatize to gain or keep power, folding in garishly-stupid lies as if God's (mariolatry, baptism-saves, getting-the-Ghost, taboos, works, etc). So, Satan gets to play lots of games, and we Christians are none the wiser.

However, by the mid-1800's, these denominational semi-monopolies in both Catholicism and Protestantism, blew wide open. The local churches were the ones most avidly PURSUING the MSS. and reading them: learning, in short, the way God intended, as happened in that first generation after Christ rose. Consequently, the denominational approach was no longer man's sole option: he could be independent, now. Granted, though much of the independent-church movement started long before the mid 1800's, it didn't have the impetus for widespread growth until those discoveries, because it didn't have truly-independent sources of AUTHORITY -- Scripture MSS. Instead, all the would-be independents had to work with, were denominationally-slanted TRANSLATIONS.

All that changed, with the collations, discoveries, etc. of men like Tregelles and Tischendorf. The discovery in the 1950's of ancient RELIABLE Greek grammar rules (which made all scholars rewrite their grammar books), massively heightened man's ability to objectively PROVE what the original-language texts MEANT. So that, by the middle or last quarter of the 20th century, the 'independent local church' was instead the mainstream, and the ecumenist/ denominational version of Christianity was in substantial decline. In part, this 1850 et. seq. changeover occurred, because people discovered from the newly-free-to-all Scripture, that many of the denominational doctrines taught were anti-Biblical. Some Bible Doctrines which folks now saw, and thus blew open the ecumenical decline were:

• Mary wasn't a virgin after the Birth of Christ, and instead had many kids by Joseph, her lawful husband.
• Faith alone in Christ Alone SAVES PERMANENTLY and CANNOT BE LOST due to the efficacy of the CROSS, not due to ANY other factor;
• Water Baptism doesn't save;
• Holy Spirit is the authority, not man, not religion;
• Bible ALONE is the Word of God, and is the entire criterion for spirituality;
• Paul was the LAST apostle appointed personally by the Resurrected Christ, so NO ONE and especially NO denomination can claim apostolic authority.
• Churches are SUPPOSED to be independent, NOT denominationally-controlled, and religion is a harlot;
• Bible's Dispensationalism CONNECTS covenants, doesn't negate or override them;
• Bible teaches Rapture, so preterism, amillenialsm are not Biblical;
• Ritual is NOT commanded by God for spirituality, but is usually (not always) condemned;
• Bible study IS commanded by God for spirituality, in a prescribed manner (under a pastor-teacher);
and so on.

The cultural impact of this BIBLICAL discovery by independent churches, which simmered since the Reformation (well, sometime earlier) but exploded worldwide sometime after World War I ended, is gigantic: and, probably unique in history. The biggest consequence of it is that people began to regard their INDIVIDUAL life before God as having primacy over the church to which they belonged. If a person belongs to a denomination, its very bigness gives him a 'corporate' sense of spirituality. However, in a local church, there is NO bigness -- so, no 'middleman' between God, and him. Sure, the pastor is still the authority -- but there are many pastors. So, the individual TAKES MORE RESPONSIBILITY for his own spiritual life. (Denominational folks tend to assign the responsibility to their 'elders' in the denomination.)

Thus you have the collateral SECULAR trend from the 1850's onward, of INDIVIDUALISM. The prior traditions of autocracies and oligarchies, though punctuated ever with the Greco-Roman idea of representative government, had largely been accepted: the leader had more absolute authority, and the individual was less important. Come the breaking-open of Scripture, though, and INDIVIDUALISM became much more stressed. It's no coincidence that America's individualistic streak is founded upon an individualistic responsibility toward God, apart from denominations. So it's no coincidence that independence movements around the globe were, below-radar, fostered by a growing interest in Bible itself: after all, that's how AMERICA'S ideals were formed.

So another big consequence of the so-called 'independent-church movement' (as if it were political instead of Biblical, lol): WORLDWIDE, man is rapidly homogenizing AWAY from his traditional cultures, all of which were religion-based, in favor of MATERIAL commonalities. This separation of God-and-culture (a healthy one, always) thus opens up BOTH the potential for truly-free seeking of God .. or, massive war. This, because the old ties being loosened creates a temporary state of psychological flux.

World War I's psychological effects were pretty devastating. Authority was seen to be the cause of the war, everywhere. If you look at the polities in existence at the time WWII began, you'll notice an alarming similarity: they were all run by demagogues or men of powerful oratory who got USED as demagogues. You had Roosevelt, Churchill, Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin (later Stalyin), Mao, the Japanese militarists, Peron, and many others. Each nation's people was ripe for a 'polestar' (as Hitler liked to call himself), and each nation, had one. Pole, as in polarize. Ripe for war. So, after the war, ripe for ANGER, repudiation of authority. So, ripe for individualism. But, for the wrong reason. So if negative to God, the individualism STILL occurs. But, for the wrong reason. To counter, the RIGHT reason: awareness, faith in Him, desire to Know Him Better.

Fortunately, the world at large was so exhausted by the war, it had breathing space to consider choosing God for the right reasons. Some, did. Most, did not. That's why all the instigators of the so-called 'revolutions' in China, the Middle East, Africa, were emboldened to occur; we suffered a massive BREAKDOWN in faith. We rejected the monarchical system, en masse; we rejected our hitherto-accepted authorities. We still are. We've not recovered from WWII, which was merely an outgrowth of WWI, which was merely Satan's response to positive volition to BIBLE on an individual level by millions of people. For, where there is positive volition to God, Satan has to set up a counterfeit in order to counterattack.

So, then: the believer's role is FAR MORE IMPORTANT than usual, vis à vis his fellow man. The contagious, MEDIATIVE, attractive TRUE thinking of Christ's, is what will deliver the world from 'the dark side of' its current trend. Of course, even if delivered, the trend will eventually result in a dark ages. But we who are alive now, can help massively POSTPONE it, by growing up in Him. Which, after all, is our FIRST privilege and post, ordered by the Lord, for Father: because, we are FIRST, Priest-Kings-in-training. We thus owe our home countries, as a patriotic duty -- to grow up in Him, as well. For, we have each been DEPLOYED by God to whatever nation He's sent us, to be among that nation's best citizens (see Rom13, 1Tim2). Ambassadors, even: no ambassador is good, if not loyal to the country where he's stationed: see 2Cor5:20. We'll have a lot to answer for, if we don't get real serious about learning Him, real fast...

Of course, independent local churches can be just as apostate as any denomination. So also, many in a denomination might be far LESS apostate than a given group of local churches. Point is, COMPETITION=FREEDOM. Here, freedom to learn Scripture INDIVIDUALLY. Blown wide open, due to our unprecedented WORLDWIDE technological advance: so, now available in the ORIGINAL LANGUAGES even to the poorest citizen -- for the first time, in history. WE ARE AT AN APEX. And, a nadir. War (here and now, economically-fought), conflict, confusion, etc. are the characteristics of an apex, just as they always have been.

Of course, eventually one of two outcomes will happen, since believers, DESPITE this freedom, will nonetheless STILL choose not to learn their wealth-in-Christ, Bible Doctrine: either the independents will all band together in an attempt to exercise political hegemony (which is how Catholicism got started, and is a current trend among independents in the US here in 2003); or, they will seek some kind of treaty with one or more of the traditional denominations (another current trend happening as you read). Either outcome is a satanic goal, and Satan&Co. are equally served by EITHER outcome occurring. Which, of course, the current insanities of treating science, technology, etc. as 'gods' OR demons, will neatly aid.

So, since our current, satanically sponsored trend toward tyranny-via-chaos cannot be regulated on a macro level at all (i.e., politically), the only solution is for believers in the polity to keep learning Bible Doctrine (see Part IV's 'contagion' role of thought). That alone will provide the necessary mediation, and reduce the trends toward either tyranny or chaos. Of course, we believers never live up to our role.



Emotional Hooks - Bill Maher

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Emotional Hook Example of 8/31/2003 Talk Show between Carrie Fisher and Bill Maher.

For example, many would agree with the sentiments expressed by Bill Maher and Carrie Fisher, when the latter hosted the former on her talk show, aired 8/31: Religion is evil. Yet they, like so many others (and me, too, back in my teens) equate religion, with Christianity. Oh? There are no other religions on the planet? Oh? Religion=belief in God=Christianity? See the flawed logic, there? See the cleverly false if A then B? If religion=belief in God and religion is stupid, then belief in God is stupid; so there is no God. Handy, huh. Note how cleverly Satan&Co. tell the truth that the only valid faith IS Christianity, yet BOND that truth to their own invention, religion; so, intellectuals the world over mindlessly equate the two AS A WEAPON to denigrate Christianity. It's an easy trap to fall into, and probably not one Christian, while still an intellectual unbeliever, would have escaped it. After all, in any supernatural movie you see, what denomination's name is portrayed as 'Christian', but Catholicism? As if that were the correct definition, and Biblical. Odd, how no one cares to question such bonding, huh. Rather, people just AGREE with it, so don't ever ask themselves, gee, what if God is the God of the Bible, but the way He and Bible are 'sold', are lies?

Both Maher and Fisher were commenting how ludicrous Christians were, to believe Christ was actually born on December 25th; Maher went on to note how ludicrous it was to believe that all the answers were in some book.. after all, this is 2003. His main point was that people shouldn't just cock up some story or book to explain things: what's wrong with just not knowing an answer? As you listen to them discuss these issues, you quickly realize they are reacting to people, to justify their disbelief in the Bible. Brilliant though both are, they like so many (all of us, at one time or another) use illogical premises:

• Just because religions the world over have predicted God taking on human form (a prophecy in the Bible since Gen3), doesn't mean that it couldn't/didn't/shouldn't happen. Here, the naysayers make the same mistake as so-called 'science', disregarding a HUGE database existing for millenia, simply because they don't like its message. Note the dead giveaway, subjective negative volition. Data is not 'objective', even if it is a huge collection of observations and beliefs, simply because it asserts God exists. For, only stupid people BELIEVE in God.
• Just because some people believe He was born on December 25 (Bible doesn't give a date), doesn't mean God doesn't exist or Bible is bad.
• Just because people are goofy, just because believers in a deity are goofy, doesn't mean there's no deity, nor does it mean THAT deity doesn't exist.
• God shouldn't write a book? The illogic here is pitifully patent. For, if God does exist, wouldn't it be more sensible to WRITE A BOOK, so that man needn't rely on experiences which could be considered hallucinatory? Wouldn't it be less strain on man's free will if God wrote a book man could choose to know, rather than IMPOSE Himself on man via spectacular display? LOL, we humans go wacko if some poor guy is running late for his plane, and we shut down the whole airport (LAX, year 2002) -- so any runner MUST be a terrorist! So, then: if we get so wacky over a runner, how well will our brains work if we had routine physical manifestations of Holy God? (Part III's Third Reason for Invisibility covers this topic in more detail.)

But oh, how proud they are of their anti-Christ conclusions! But ho, how proud we Christians are of our pro-Christ (so WE think) conclusions! Thus the irrelevancy-of-analysis goes unspotted, by BOTH sides. Safely. So of course, these two are just like the rest of us: none of us are immune from abusing logic. After all, the topic is God, and thus the sin nature in Adam MUST go dissociatively wacky in analysis.