EVANGELISM AWRY.
The hidden humanism of the evangelical churches promotes the easy religion of do-it-yourself salvation. Much of this is achieved by twisting
1. God said it.
2. I said it.
3. I have therefore believed it.
4. I have automatically got it (irrevocable eternal life).
This is he humanistic psychology of New England Theology that pervades America and much of the global outreach in the third world after one hundred years of the Golden Age of Evangelism. Refined as faith by William James, the Father of American Psychology, in his Varieties of Religious Experiences in the 1850’s. This plague of easy religion that wet global in the 1948 B.G. Crusades is a complete distortion of the Reformation’s message of grace.
This easy religion offering unconditional acceptance into the Kingdom by SELF FAITH and automated repentance is justified by the moral majority who twist Romans 10:9 away from its context and bibliolatrously venerate it (& verse 13). Then the clergy of easy-religion use them to interpret all other Scriptures. This illogical hermeneutic becomes the arbiter of all New Testament truth and acts as a blocking filter to disallow both the effects of the curse and its legacy of ORIGINAL SIN to deny man’s utter dependence upon the endowment of grace to repent and believe the Gospel.
If the heart of man is as wicked and deceitful as the Psalmist, the Prophets and Jesus maintained, then only grace will enable ‘saving-faith’ unto regeneration, called the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH.
Only grace can turn worldly sorrow into godly sorrow (repentance).
Only grace can cause the wanton heart to seek the Lord wholeheartedly.
Only grace can awaken the deadened soul to hear the CALL OF CHRIST TO FOLLOW HIM.
Only grace will thereafter cause the awakened soul to HEAR AND LEARN OF THE FATHER.
Only grace can bring a person to face his/her failed and fallen SELF.
Only grace can show the awakened his sin and his RESURRECTED SAVIOUR.
Only grace can instil and infuse the HOPE OF REDEMPTION by opening the eyes of the awakened to Christ in the Scriptures, and INSTANTANEOUSLY regenerate him and translate him from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of HIS dear Son.
Grace has received a bad name from Christendom’s moral majority. Indoctrinators of sectarianism, especially right-wing evangelicals conveniently see only black or white: viz: Calvinism or Arminianism.
Today this allows them to dispense with ORIGINAL SIN, the weakened state of human faculties from sin and the disabled, dysfunctional conscience that universally leads men to WORSHIP SOMETHING OR SOMEONE rather than Christ. Some unwittingly end up worshipping worship itself in a form mystical mesmerisation, which can hold hypnotic sway over the indulging group. This especially takes place where expectation of signs prevail and physical aberrant behaviour is accepted without question.
Even religious worship is merely an expression of a natural universal inborn desire of humanity to worship ‘THEY KNOW NOT WHAT. whether they are born into a Christian or pagan culture. The apostle Paul saw this at Mars Hill, in Athens. It can be regularly observed in among agnostics, so-called atheists, and various religions including spiritism and animism. Worshipping the god of REASON is nonetheless a religion. This includes the sophists spawned by Thomas Aquinas etc.
Eve was brought into Eden’s paradise in a state of innocence (not righteousness) but she, unlike Adam, unwittingly worshipped a paranormal spirit incarnate in the Serpent. She led Adam to succumb to her worshipful desire for KNOWLEDGE of the gods. Part of the curse endemic to mankind, is the NATURAL BENT TO WORSHIP which when indulged will smooth the dying pillow of the indulger, thus placating any fears about life’s temporariness.
America turned away from the message of its Puritan Fathers when the lapsed evangelist Jonathan Edwards in 1746 wrote ‘The Freedom of the Will. He had not only rejected the Puritan Fathers, but re-echoed the humanism of Origen, Pelagius, and Jacob Arminius. What was their root problem that led them into Christian humanism? They rejected both the Genesis account and the Romans 5 description of hereditary original sin and were deluded by Rome’s notion of Adam’s original righteousness. The logical extension of this main error is to misunderstand the image of God in human creation, and then innately arm all humans with the faculty of preserved freewill and an active light of conscience. Implied in this heresy is the notion of a universal residual vestige of inner faith enabling receptivity to God’s overtures.
1. Adam was crated in a state of innocence from which he and Eve fell when they rejected God’s offer of grace through the tree of life by grasping for paranormal knowledge from the Tree of Knowledge.
2. Adam was made in the tripartite image of God with a body-soul-spirit. As such he was unique to the animal kingdom with his reflective capacity to confer with himself, internalize, rationalize and cogitate accordingly beyond mere instinct. Of the trinity God the Father; God the WORD; and God’s Spirit self reflection is manifest in the Scriptures in Genesis and In the Gospel of John etc.
3. God created Adam with a definitive difference. He gave him a LIVING SOUL unique among the animal kingdom.
4. When Adam and Eve fell from their state of innocence their souls ceased to live. From the deadening effect of the fall into ORIGINAL SIN decay and degeneration had begun. The conscience had been seared and cauterized. Where once its light was God centred, it now self righteously became self centred in its link to the corrupted power of FREEWILL. Where once at the beginning of creation it reflected and echoed the voice of God, now it merely became evil in its duplicity, reflecting self-interest and self centredness. This is why the apostle Paul called the conscience ‘evil’.
John 1:9, truly declares the truth that the inner light of Christ’s indwelling is the only light which lights up the recipients of the Gospel throughout the world. Without it the impenetrable darkness of sin’s deadening effect is thus described in the ensuing verses 10 etc. That caused both the world and ‘His own’ to ignore or reject Him (the LIGHT).
Instead of the Puritan Reformation return to biblical faith through grace, we have come the full circle and made access to divine grace through human faith (that Jesus, the apostles and the prophets said we lack in the sceptical human heart of unbelief.)
