Why The father/Father?
(Personal note.)
by
Dean Gotcher
"For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world." 1 John 2:16
The father's/Father's authority engenders individualism, i.e., the guilty conscience for doing wrong, disobeying, sinning, i.e., for lusting after the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' (dopamine emancipation) that the world, i.e., the current situation and/or people are stimulating. The father's/Father's authority system, called a Patriarchal paradigm, i.e., a way of feeling, thinking, and acting, effecting how a child (a person/an individual) responds to his self, others, the world, and authority, where the child humbles, denies, dies to, controls, disciplines, capitulates his self in order (as in "old" world order) to do right and not wrong according to established commands, rules, facts, and truth, i.e., in order to do the father's/Father's will. The father's/Father's authority system is the 1) preaching of established commands and rules to be obeyed as given, the teaching of established facts and truth to be accepted as is, by faith, and the discussing of any question(s) the children (those under authority) might have regarding the commands, rules, facts, and truth being taught, at the one in authority's discretion, i.e., providing he deems it necessary, has time, the children are able to understand, and are not questioning, challenging, defying, disregarding, attacking authority, 2) the rewarding of the children who do right and obey, 3) the correcting and/or chastening of the child who does wrong and/or disobeys, that he might learn to humble, deny, die to, control, discipline, capitulate his "self" in order to do right and not wrong according to established commands, rules, facts, and truth, i.e., in order to do the father's/Fathers' will, and 4) the casting out or expelling (or grounding) of any child who questions, challenges, defies, disregards, attacks authority.
"And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby." Hebrews 12:5-11
"Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth." Ephesians 6:1-3
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6
While dad (and mom) are not perfect, they may be (or may have been) down right tyrants—acting as children, using the office of authority they occupy (occupied) for their own selfish purpose—the office they occupy (occupied) is perfect, having been given to them by God, who is perfect, in which to serve Him. A father, in the true sense of the word, loves his children, hating their doing wrong, disobeying, sinning, holding them accountable for their actions, correcting and chastening them when they do wrong and/or disobey that they might learn to humble, deny, die to, control, discipline, capitulate their self and do right and/or obey. The father's authority in the home (although the father is not perfect) reflects the Father's authority in Heaven (who is perfect), requiring His Son, and all following Him to humble, deny, die to, control, discipline, capitulate their self in order (as in "old" world order) to do right and not wrong according to His established commands, rules, facts, and truth. The gospel message is based upon the Father's authority.
"Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise." "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me." "For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak." John 5:19, 30; 12:47-50
"For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother." Matthew 12:50
"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven." Matthew 7:21
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6
"And truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ." 1 John 1:3
"Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven." Matthew 10:32, 33
"And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels." Luke 9:23-26
"He that hateth me hateth my Father also." John 15:23
"He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son." 1 John 2:22
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." 1 John 2:15
"And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven." Matthew 23:9
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Matthew 10:34-39
"Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world." John 17:24
The agenda of those of the world is to negate the father's/Father's authority in order (as in "new" world order) for them to do wrong, disobey, sin, i.e., to "lust" after the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' (dopamine emancipation) that the world, i.e., the current situation and/or people are stimulating without having a guilty conscience (which the father's/Father's authority engenders), with affirmation, i.e., with everyone's approval. Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, et al. all had this agenda in mind.
"Once the earthly family is discovered to be the secret of the Holy family, the former must then itself be destroyed [vernichtet, i.e., annihilated, i.e., negated] in theory and in practice [theoretically and practically]." (Karl Marx, Feuerbach Thesis #4)
"... the hatred against patriarchal suppression—a 'barrier to incest,' ... the desire (for the sons) to return to the mother culminates in the rebellion of the exiled sons, the collective killing and devouring of the father." "'It is not really a decisive matter whether one has killed one's father or abstained from the deed,' if the function of the conflict and its consequences are the same [the father no longer exercises his authority in his home or in his business]." (Sigmund Freud in Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization: a psychological inquiry into Freud)
"Prevent someone who KNOWS from filling the empty space." (Wilfred Bion, A Memoir of the Future)
The soul KNOWS by being told. The flesh by "sense experience." |
When it comes to right and wrong behavior by simply replacing discussion (which retains the father's/Father's authority, i.e., the father/Father has the final say, i.e., "Because I said so"/"It is written," i.e., "I KNOW because dad said so/God's word says so") with dialogue ("I feel"/"I thing" which 'justifies' the child's lusts) the father's/Father's authority system is negated in the thoughts of the child, directly effecting the child's actions. There is no father's/Father's authority in dialogue, in an opinion, or in the consensus process, there is only the child's carnal desires, i.e., lusts being 'justified.' While the father (earthly father) can be wrong God's system of right and wrong stays in place in the thought of the child, with the child wanting to be/do right and not wrong, as there is a consequence (from above) for his thoughts and actions. When the child, through dialogue 'justifies' his self, i.e., "esteems" his lusts, i.e., his heart's desires that system (paradigm/guilty conscience for disobeying the father/Father) is gone (is negated).
"And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." Luke 16:15
"To enjoy the present reconciles us to the actual." (Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right')
"Self-perfection of the human individual is fulfilled in union with the world in pleasure." (Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History)
According to Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, et al. it is lust that "reconciles" you to the world, i.e., to one another.
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9
Your heart is "deceitful ("deceitful above all things") thinking pleasure, i.e., lust is the 'purpose' of life instead of doing the father's/Father's will, making you wicked ("desperately wicked") in your effort to negate the father's/Father's authority that gets in your way. You can not see your heart as being wicked because your lust for pleasure (your lust for lust) is standing in the way. Karl Marx (Sigmund Freud, et al.) is in your heart, waiting for you to 'justify' him (them), i.e., to 'justify' your self over and therefore against having to humble, deny, die to, control, discipline, capitulate your self in order (as in the "old" world order) to do the father's/Father's will, so you can do wrong, disobey, sin, i.e., can lust after the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' that the world, i.e., the current situation and/or people are stimulating without having a guilty conscience, i.e., so you can become like him (them), i.e., become "self actualized." Lust blinds you to the consequence (cost) of lusting after the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' that the world stimulates.
"[E]very one of us shall give account of himself to God." Romans 14:12
When the master facilitator of 'change,' i.e., the first psychotherapist seduced the woman into dialogue (into "I feel" and "I think") in a garden in Eden (regarding God's commands—regarding right and wrong behavior) he knew he "owned" her, with Adam following—with both, when they were caught refusing to admit they were wrong, blaming someone else for their actions, with Adam "throwing" the woman (and God) "under the bus," the woman "throwing" the serpent. The same applies to you (and your children) today.
"To experience Freud is to partake a second time of the forbidden fruit;" (Brown)
"The 'original sin' must be committed again: 'We must again eat from the tree of knowledge in order to fall back into the state of innocence.'" (Marcuse)
All who have come under the influence of psychology have established their self, i.e., their lusts of the 'moment' over and therefore against the father's/Father's authority.
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." 2 Timothy 4:3, 4
Facilitators of 'change,' i.e., psychologists, i.e., behavioral "scientists," i.e., "group psychotherapists," i.e., Marxists (Transformational Marxists)—all being the same in method or formula—are using the dialoguing of opinions to a consensus (affirmation) process, i.e., dialectic 'reasoning' ('reasoning' from/through the students "feelings" of the 'moment,' i.e., from/through their "lust" for pleasure and their hate of restraint, in the "light" of their desire for group approval, i.e., affirmation and fear of group rejection) in the "group grade," "safe zone/space/place," "Don't be negative, be positive," soviet style, brainwashing (washing the father's/Father's authority from the children's thoughts and actions, i.e., "theory and practice," negating their having a guilty conscience, which the father's/father's authority engenders, for doing wrong, disobeying, sinning in the process—called "the negation of negation" since the father's/Father's authority and the guilty conscience, being negative to the child's carnal nature, is negated in dialogue—in dialogue, opinion, and the consensus process there is no father's/Father's authority), inductive 'reasoning' ('reasoning' from/through the students "feelings," i.e., their natural inclination to "lust" after the carnal pleasures of the 'moment'—dopamine emancipation—which the world stimulates, i.e., their "self interest," i.e., their "sense experience," selecting "appropriate information"—excluding, ignoring, or resisting, i.e., rejecting any "inappropriate" information, i.e., established command, rule, fact, or truth that gets in the way of their desired outcome, i.e., pleasure—in determining right from wrong behavior), "Bloom's Taxonomy," "affective domain," French Revolution (Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité) classroom "environment" in order (as in "new" world order) to 'liberate' children from parental authority, i.e., from the father's/Father's authority system (the Patriarchal Paradigm)—seducing, deceiving, and manipulating them as chickens, rats, and dogs, i.e., treating them as natural resource ("human resource") in order to convert them into 'liberals,' socialists, globalists, so they, 'justifying' their "self" before one another, can do wrong, disobey, sin, i.e., "lust" with impunity.
"Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken." Jeremiah 6:16, 17
Home schooling material, co-ops, conferences, etc., are joining in the same praxis, fulfilling Immanuel Kant's as well as Georg Hegel's, Karl Marx's, and Sigmund Freud's agenda of using the pattern or method of Genesis 3:1-6, i.e., "self" 'justification,' i.e., dialectic (dialogue) 'reasoning," i.e., 'reasoning' from/through your "feelings," i.e., your carnal desires of the 'moment' which are being stimulated by the world (including your desire for approval from others, with them affirming your carnal nature) in order to negate Hebrews 12:5-11, i.e., the father's/Father's authority, i.e., having to humble, deny, die to, control, discipline your "self" in order to do the father's/Father's will, negating Romans 7:14-25, i.e., your having a guilty conscience when you do wrong, disobey, sin, thereby negating your having to repent before the father/Father for your doing wrong, disobedience, sins—which is the real agenda.
"And for this cause [because men, as "children of disobedience," 'justify' their "self," i.e., 'justify' their love of "self" and the world, i.e., their love of the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' (dopamine emancipation) which the world stimulates over and therefore against the Father's authority] God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie [that pleasure is the standard for "good" instead of doing the Father's will]: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth [in the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ], but had pleasure in unrighteousness [in their "self" and the pleasures of the 'moment,' which the world stimulates]." 2 Thessalonians 2:11, 12
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