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Dialectical Christianity: the praxis of heresy

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Dean Gotcher

Authors note:  This article covers many aspects of our culture regarding the praxis of the dialectical process, particularly dealing with the effect it has on a Christians faith in God and his word.  For those who have experienced the "culture shock" of the "culture war," this material will be revealing  For those who love the process, well . . . ."

2 Peter 2

    But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

    For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

    Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

    These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
 
    For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

Self and the environment: the dialectical curse.
The Great Commission is didactic not dialectic.
The Great Deception is dialectic.
angst
Overcoming the dialectical split by circumventing the traditional family role in society.
The conscience becomes seared in the praxis of consensus.
The "detoxification" of the traditional family experience.
    If we had only known!
    Ambiguity allows a person to appear moralistic when they are not.
Contrast vs. Similar
The use of fear to pressure citizens out of their right of faith.
The "Suffering" Christian.
Labor of love replacing the shedding of blood.
The diabolical process of consensus.
The dialectical paradigm is the praxis of heresy.
Example of dialectical trickery used in the court system.
No prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Behavior "science" can only identify the carnal nature of man
Personal and Social Peace: Whoever defines terms for you controls your life.
The Sixth Sense―self-environment dialectical homo-stasis―personal-social peace.
An overweening interest in the future development of the child by the community.
The "right of the child."
The charlatan
Transparency negates the right of privacy.
The church is not for the lost it is the fellowship of the redeemed.
Change the environment, change the man. Change the man, change the environment.
God and His Creation: Hierarchy not Equality.
It is not a race issue, it is a sin issue.
Pride
Making change easy
Sin
A church is apostate the moment its leadership discourses what God calls an abomination in an effort to find common ground.
Self and environment reconciled: the degeneration of mans soul.
You must choose which definition to accept: God's or Man's
The person with a conscience must go through confusion to come to consensus.
An example of how "therapist" define the traditional―patriarchal―family
God does not ask you "how you feel," or "what you think."
Choose today whom you will serve.
Obedience towards God is not possible in our flesh.
The emerging church, a cult of pleasure.
The breeding ground for the global revolution of the 21st Century.
Slides: Dialectical councilors
Slides: The dialectical man: The dialectical culture: The dialectical church
An overseer or a wolf; serve either God or mammon
The corridor where dead men walk.
Dialectical Christianity.
Self is the democrat in you.
To believe or to evaluate.
Evaluators are opinionated, believers are not.
A closing explanation of the end of the ages.

Self and the environment: the dialectical curse.

All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.
Obadiah 1:7

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Genesis 3:19

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 1 Corinthians 15:50

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Matthew 16:26

    The Word of God is a didactic, patriarchal paradigm. It is a system of thought and action based upon belief and action―praxis. "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." Mark 16:16  A person either believes in God and his word, and follows Gods commands or he does not believe in God and his word (doing his commands in this case would have no eternal benefit).  If he believes, his righteousness is imputed (price of sin {which is death} is paid for by Christ Jesus) Romans 4:11, 22-24; 5:13.  If he does not believe he will pay the price (which is death) since his righteousness (his work) is worthless, as a filthy rag. Law which curses man (since he can not obey it in his carnal nature), is now loved and obeyed, 1. through the death of Christ on the Cross (redemption) and 2. through his resurrection and the sending of the Holy Spirit (Christ in us). 

    The Father revealed with law ("let their be ..."), the Son redeemed us from the curse of the law, and the Holy Spirit perfects the law within us. His law therefore 1) defines the creator's (the Father's) will for his creation-man, i.e. obedience, 2) the law, revealed, destroys mans pride in his works (it identifies his justification and his works as unrighteous and him as unregenerate), 3) the law was fulfilled in Christ Jesus, who delivered us (redeems those who repent of their sins) from the curse of the law (our good works exposed as evil) and, 4) the Holy Spirit develops within us (as we daily humble ourselves before God and seek his will), the image of Christ (sanctification-his works manifested through us).  What we could not do through the flesh―obey God's law (His commands)―is accomplished through Christ on the cross, his shed blood (without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin), his resurrection  and ascension, so the Holy Spirit could work the will of the father in us (believe upon Christ and God's law now becomes a promise which he fulfills within and through us as we daily live our lives sacrificed unto Him―"Not my will, but thine be done."). That no man might boast.  That all glory be given to God.

CONTRASTING (DIDACTIC) VS. COMPARING (DIALECTIC)

"Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him."  Colossians 3:9, 10

THE DIDACTIC PARADIGM IS BASED UPON OBEDIENCE UNDER AN AUTHORITY SYSTEM

Evaluation of what is right vs. wrong behavior is determined from Authorities position (Authority contrasts between him and mans nature: what is from his is truth and what is from mans nature is lie )—truth is established, above the current situation. This paradigm is identified as NEGATIVE since it causes alienation between a person and the world they desire to relate with due to their obedience to higher authority who forbids their association with the world i.e. obedience to commands instead of fulfilling natural desires ("felt" needs).

THE DIALECTIC PARADIGM IS BASED UPON QUESTIONING ALL AUTHORITY, QUESTIONING ALL THINGS

Evaluation of what is right vs. wrong behavior is determined from what is currently perceived best for the individual and society (comparing what they, man and the world, have in common, determined through social engineering methods, the dialectical process—social engineers will tolerate you as long as you support them and their programs, think dialectic i.e. think global)—truth is ever-changing, re-discovered in the current situational. i.e. there is no authority above man, there is only mankind in man (the collective man, the desire for belonging, in all individual men) in the quest of realizing himself (the collective identity in the individual, humanism), finding his "purpose" in and with the world (comparing, what "we" have in common with the world around "us").  This paradigm is identified as POSITIVE since it encourages a person to realize their natural desires within the common desires of others, with the "purpose" of helping all mankind to actualize their common desires—self-actualization.

    From Genesis to Revelation the Word of God is contrasting ways of thinking (paradigms). "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8, 9  The repeated plea is that man would turn back to God and his paradigm. "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon." Isaiah 55:7 

"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 2:15John

God's love is didactic—love from above not from below,
the worlds love is dialectic—love from below, not from above.
Benevolent love from above can not be accepted as loving and is considered as most illusory. "The abolition of religion, as the illusory happiness of men, is a demand for their real happiness. The call to abandon their illusions about their condition is a call to abandon a condition which requires illusions." Karl Marx MEGA I/1/1  Illusion is that condition of being obedient to a higher authority (conscience) rather then being obedient to the voice of collective man (consensus) i.e. man controlled by the world visa social engineers (facilitators) and their dialectical method (dialoguing to consensus).

The Great Commission is didactic not dialectic.
Church Growth and Emerging Church ministers are getting it wrong.
They are by their own nature Apostate (using the diaprax method: substituting teaching truth with dialoguing opinions).

They error, not knowing the scriptures.
Matthew 28:19, 20

"Go ye therefore, and teach (μάθητεϋώ: to instruct, make disciples, make pupils of) all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching (διδάσκώ: didasko, i.e. didactic;  to impart instruction, instill doctrine, to explain or expound, to teach)  them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen" Matthew 28:19, 20

    There is no middle ground (room for discourse) in a didactic, deductive, patriarchal paradigm (commands based). Break one part of the law and you break it all. Discourse will not change the outcome, only repentance will.  The situation is antithesis, dualism; obey me and you will be blessed or disobey me and you will be cursed, black or white, right or wrong, heaven or hell, sheep or goats, saved or lost, Christ or Belial, something is one way and can not be any other way, etc. Except or repentance, we have nothing we can bring before God for our disobedience.  We most recognize and praxis our total dependence upon him for our obedience.

"Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known." Deuteronomy 11:26-28  Deuteronomy 27:15-26

The Great Deception is dialectic.

While truth liberates (frees the soul from man's temporal, enslaving carnal nature), truth also alienates (frees the soul from the acceptance of those who seek harmony/peace with the world, i.e. man's temporal, carnal nature).

Didactic Paradigm: God (our creator) is the measure of all things.

    "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." Galatians 6:4

    "Let no man deceive himself.  If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.  For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness."  1 Corinthians 3:18-19

"For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself." Galatians 6:3

Dialectic Paradigm: Man (the creation) is the measure of all things.

"Every class lacks the breadth of soul which identifies it with the soul of the people, that revolutionary boldness which flings at its adversary the defiant phrase; I am nothing and I should be everything." "The only practically possible emancipation is the unique theory which holds that man is the supreme being for man."  Karl Marx  Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right'

"Man has only to understand himself, to take himself as the measure of all aspects of life, to judge according to his being, to organise the world in a truly human manner according to the demands of his own nature, and he will have solved the riddle of our time. But there is no other salvation for him, he cannot regain his humanity, his substance, other than by thoroughly overcoming all religious ideas and returning firmly and honestly, not to 'God', but to himself." Frederick Engels The Condition of England A review of Past and Present, by Thomas Carlyle, London, 1843 Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, 1844

"The justice of state constitutions is to be decided not on the basis of Christianity, not from the nature of Christian society but from the nature of human society." Joseph O'Malley, Ibid.

"... the Freudian hypothesis ... does not lead back to the image of a paradise which man has forfeited by his sin against God ..."
"[... the Freudian hypothesis leads] to the domination of man by man." "Frauds individual psychology is in its very essence social psychology." Eros and Civilization: A philosophical inquiry into Freud Herbart Marcuse

"My first scientific dream was that if I were God I would be able to start an adequate science of the universe.... all measure and tests of humanity should be constructed after the model of God involved in the creation of the universe.... a science of the Godhead also a science of culture cannot be produced at a distance and post mortem by philosophers and historians; it must be initiated and inspired by the creators of the cultures themselves." "... the origins of my work go back to a primitive religion and my objectives were the setting up and promoting of a new cultural order."  "As I tried the sociometric system first on the universe and on the concept of God, its first manifesto was a revolutionary religion, a change of the idea of the universe and the idea of God.  The god of Jesus was further extended, the son 'withered away' until nothing was left except the universal creativity of the Godhead and only one commandment: To each according to what he is (an all-inclusive acceptance of the individual 'as he is).'"  "A creator, as soon as his work has emanated from him, has no right to it any longer except a psychological right.  He had all rights upon it as long as it was growing in him but he has forfeited these as soon as it is gone out of him and becomes a part of the world.  It belongs to universality."  "Parents have no right upon their offspring except a psychological right. Literally the children belong to universality."  "We propose, therefore, the specialization of the notion of parenthood into two distinct and different functions-the biological parent and the social parent.  They may come together in one individual or they may not.  But the problem is how to produce a procedure which is able to substitute and improve this ancient order." "...we have described roleplaying as diagnostic method but it can also  be used as 'role therapy' to improve the relations between the members of a group."   [If you have ever participated in role-playing, Moreno is the noted Marxist who developed it for Americans, with the hope that it would be utilized towards achieving a global community.] "The community needs, therefore, to be explored and, if necessary, purged from undesirable cultural conserves .... The community must be 'deconserved' from the pathological excesses of its own culture, or at least, they must be put under control." "Sociometry can assist the United States, with its population consisting of practically all the races on the globe, in becoming an outstanding example of a society which has no need of extraneous ideas or of forces which are not inherent in its own structure."  J. L. Moreno Who Shall Survive

"Through the repression of needs and wishes, it translates this constraint into a compulsion of internal nature, in other words into the constraint of social norms. That is why the relative destruction of the moral relation can be measured only by the difference between the actual degree of institutionally demanded repression and the degree of repression that is necessary at a given level of the forces of production. This difference is a measure of objectively superfluous domination. It is those who establish such domination and defend positions of power of this sort who set in motion the causality of fate, divide society into social classes, suppress justified interests, call forth the reactions of suppressed life, and finally experience their just fate in revolution." Jürgen Habermas Knowledge & Human Interest, 1968, publ. Polity Press, 1987. Chapter Three: The Idea of the Theory of Knowledge as Social

"… the man who has achieved a philosophy of life – who knows who he is – has arrived at this truth through painful intellectual effort in which the more complex mental processes of the Cognitive Taxonomy are clearly functioning." "Judges problems in terms of situation, issues, purposes, and consequences involved rather than in terms of fixed, dogmatic precepts …." "Obedience and compliance are hardly ideal goals." "A basic tenet of liberal education is that it is by means of intellectual effort that a philosophy of life in large measure is formed." "The major ingredient required in such instruments is that the problem be sufficiently subtle and complex … that the generalized set which we wish to observe can be brought into play." "We are not interested in whether the problem is solved accurately or with elegance." "We want the student to lead the good life and become a good man in all his parts." "… the greatest good for the greatest number." Benjamin S. Bloom  Taxonomy of Education Objectives Book I Cognitive Domain 1956  This book is used in all education institutions, "Christian" included, to train teachers in how to develop and present their curriculum.  The curriculum used determines the next generations paradigm, how they will think. This is no trivial matter.

God's thoughts and ways vs. man's thoughts and ways

    From the fall of Lucifer (Isaiah 14:12-15) and then the fall of mankind  (Genesis 3:1-6) the didactic, patriarchal, biblical paradigm―"my thoughts ... my ways" (thoughts and actions directed toward God, the creator, filtered through God's word)―has been despised by the dialectical, heresiarchal, worldly paradigm―"your thoughts ... your ways" (thoughts and actions directed toward the world, the created, filtered through mans thoughts and experiences).  Mans paradigm is a system of thoughts (theory—meditating upon man's experience) and action (dialectic praxis) based upon opinion (perception; "and Eve saw ...")―private interpretation/enlightenment (requiring questioning).  His paradigm always ridicules thought (meditating upon God's established word) and action (didactic praxis) based upon belief in and obedience to God's established Word, not discovered by private interpretation or through human experience―revelation (requiring faith).

"The ideas of the Enlightenment taught man that he could trust his own reason as a guide to establishing valid ethical norms and that he could rely on himself, needing neither revelation nor that authority of the church in order to know good and evil." "Everything that is not reducible to number becomes illusion for the Enlightenment." Stephen Eric Bronner  Of Critical Theory and It Theorists

    The dialectical paradigm focuses upon those things which are common (similar) to its environmental nature―material (touch, taste, sight, smell, sound).  It will take that which is spiritual and either filter out or redefine anything which is not in harmony with or which interferes with this material cosmic consciousness―holism i.e. cosmomorphism, the system as a whole determines how the parts function, "The whole is more than the sum of its parts." Whatever appears to be the best way to satisfy a person's or a group's desired goal, in light of the evidence supported by the environment, whatever is rational, reasonable, practical in the current setting, to solve the problem of personal and social dissatisfaction (caused by the didactic patriarchal paradigm), whatever "seems to be right" to mankind, is right to mankind. The  bible warns us of the consequence of our natural self-environmental dialectical rationalization:  "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Proverbs 14:12 The bible also warns us not to unite (make a contract) with anyone with a self-environmental dialectical purpose (2 Corinthians 2:14-18).

"As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ." Galatians 1:9-12

"angst"

    According to dialectical thinking―"man's thoughts ... man's ways"―"good and evil," can not to be comprehended outside of human experience. Thus "God's thoughts" and "God's ways" must be realized and actualized (illuminated) from within a common human praxis (community human experience—practice) or be negated (considered as worthless). Situation ethics, values clarification, Socratic critical thinking, are just some of the labels given to this dialectical system of thought and action.  Therefore, according to dialectical thinking (man's "thoughts and ways"), God's "thoughts and ways" (life in God) cause a dialectical split between man's nature (his "thoughts and ways") and the natural environment (the cosmos) which he finds himself in. Thus, according to man's "thoughts and ways," the belief in, and the praxis of God's "thoughts and ways" is the root cause of the self-environmental dialectical rift, the reason for angst.

"Alienation is the experience of ‘estrangement' (Verfremdung) from others, . . ." "Alienation has a long history. Its most radical sense already appears in the biblical expulsion from Eden." "Alienation, according to Feuerbach, derives from the externalization (Entausserung) of human powers and possibilities upon a non-existent entity: God. . ." "God is thus the anthropological source of alienation . . ." "Alienation will continue so long as the subject engages in an externalization (Entausserung) of his or her subjectivity."  Bronner Of Critical Theory and its Theorists

   Actually, alienation results from mans attempt to "internalize" God's "powers and possibilities," to becoming god like―self-actualization―where the paradigm of obedience to God (where justification is found in God―in the creator) is negated by the paradigm of self-environment  union (where justification is found in mans ability to evaluate and synthesis himself within his environment and his environment within himself―seeking harmony with himself and the creation).  Otherwise when man evaluates nature from God's revelation, it results in his awareness of God's domination over nature, domination over his own nature included. In the light of God's word, he comes to realize the corruptness of not only his neighbors nature but his own nature as well, and is willing to forsake all for the creator.

"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Matthew 6:24

"If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:26

"Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake." Luke 6:22

    When man evaluates the environment from his own sensitivity, his own nature (touch, taste, sight, sound, smell, and perceptional, reasoning abilities), it results in his union with the environment―he becomes a cosmic god (definer of what is good and what is evil—evil defined as commands which are based upon revelation or experiences which are anti- or non-natural, i.e. irrational). Based upon his relationship in the environment, he determines what is of worth to relate with and what is not of worth to relate with i.e. what is expendable or must be removed for the betterment of self and the environment). This is the essence of philosophy and the seeking to the question "Who am I?" "Why am I here?" and "Where am I going?" (which philosophy can never answer with certainty).  His carnal nature, which draws man into oneness with the creation, once justified (rationalized), enslaves him.  He no longer controls his carnal nature, it controls him. Actually those who know how to control the environment, which controls his nature, now control him. A self-environmental dialectical praxis is now in place.

"We know how to change the opinions of an individual in a selected direction, without his ever becoming aware of the stimuli which changed his opinion." "We can predict, from the way individuals perceive the movement of a spot of light in a dark room, whether they tend to be prejudiced or unprejudiced." "We know how to influence the buying behavior of individuals by setting up conditions which provide satisfaction for needs of which they are unconscious, but which we have been able to determine."  "…our potential ability to influence or control the behavior of groups. If we have the power or authority to establish the necessary conditions, the predicted behaviors will follow."  Carl Rogers On becoming a person

    Those who understand man's carnal nature and who control the environment now have dominion over mankind. This is why facilitators of men (acting as agents of Satan, some knowingly, most unknowingly) work so hard to control the environment where decisions are made―environment control, climate control―environmentalism; conscietization, democratization, etc. Thus, according to the dialectical paradigm, the self-environment dialectical quest becomes mankind's only hope in "discovering" and "actualizing" his "purpose" within the creation. In actuality it makes him a slave, under the control of those who control the environment with his own carnal natures attachment to it. He may be a happy slave (of carnal flesh), but he will be a slave nevertheless, expendable at his owners wish.

"If an individual wishes to maintain a position of arbitrary authority, then it behooves him to inhibit the development of any rules permitting reciprocal process observation and commentary."  "the therapist … is the group historian, only he is permitted to maintain a temporal perspective, and he remains immune from the charge that he … elevates himself above the others." Irvin Yalom Theory and Practice and Group Psychotherapy

    Eradicating the patriarchal paradigm, according to dialectical reasoning, removes the source of alienation from the creation. This is illusionary, the blinding of mankind from God, from the creator.  This paradigm lures and then leaves mankind in sin. "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness."  Ephesians 4:17-19  The self-environment dialectical quest, which can never satisfy the soul of man is the source of angst (anguish). (Listen to James Borchert teaching on Martin Luther, the Catholic Church and angst 10-29-06; 1 hr. 39 min.)

Overcoming the dialectical split―circumventing the traditional family role in society 

"By ‘dialectical' I mean an activity of consciousness struggling to circumvent the limitations imposed by the formal-logical law of contradiction." Norman O. Brown Life Against Death

"Black is black and white is white. Neither torture, maltreatment nor intimidation can change a fact. To argue the point… serves no useful purpose."  P.O.W. Major David F. MacGhee responding to brainwashing attempts (replacing a didactic paradigm with a dialectical paradigm in praxis) by the North Korean , January 19th, 1953

    "Formal-logical law of contradiction" defines the traditional family environment―a didactic, patriarchal paradigm―where children are taught "right is right and wrong is wrong"―obedience. "Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right." Ephesians 6:1  Those who praxis the dialectical paradigm, purpose not to disobey (which would keep the didactic paradigm in consciousness and therefore power) but rather to "circumvent" (get around by getting in power and then cancel out) the didactic paradigm.

"Bypassing the traditional channels of top-down decision making, our objective centers upon .... transform public opinion into an effective instrument of global politics." "Individual values must be measured by their contribution to common interests and ultimately to world interests.... transforming public consensus into one favorable to the emergence of a stable and humanistic world order." "Consensus is both a personal and a political step. It is a precondition of all future steps..."  Ervin Laszlo  A Strategy for the Future: The Systems Approach to World Order.  Laszlo laid the groundwork for the social agenda of global control via environmental issues, i.e. the Rio Conference, 1992.  According to Laszlo man's purpose, purpose found through discourse and not through revelation, liberates man from God (a closed system of right and wrong) and allows man to be one with nature. Other web source: Who is Ervin Laszlo? Globalist (dialectical) books he has published. The quest to prevent Armageddon via global dialogue (internal-external collective discourse), i.e. cosmic planetary consciousness ("we are it" "all of humanity as one being" "become conscious of our unconscious collectedness" "we must live as one body") following the belief of noosphere, Vernadsky-"an important pioneer of the scientific bases for the environmental sciences") via kabala (cabbala): video

    To "the enlightened," the didactic paradigm (a closed system of thought) is seen as a non-sensuous based belief system.  According to their paradigm, fixed law, established by a patriarch and then enforced by a patriarch paradigm, is regarded as the mechanism of repression.  Proper behavior, contingent upon faith in someone in authority, is correlated with Fascism (as advocated by Erick Fromm Escape from Freedom, Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality, and Benjamin Bloom Taxonomy of Educational Objectives Book II: Affective Domain "Weltanschauung¹" p. 166 )

"Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities." Jude 7, 8 

    In a dialectical paradigm, the didactic-patriarchal paradigm is treated with disrespect. It is ridiculed. It is written off as as nonsense (non-sensuous based).  According to Norman O. Brown, imposed laws are the source of conflict (contradiction) when they interfere with any natural self-environmental relationships. Patriarchal laws cause alienation―estrangement (Verfremdung) from others―a self-environmental dialectical rift. When laws are presented in a "formal-logical" construct (obey vs. disobey) it limits the "normal" praxis of earthy desires (compromise, tolerance of deviancy, sensuous discovery of purpose).  Such laws are to be "struggled" against (resisted, put up a fuss) until the system which created and promoted them gives up―is negated by its own act of abdication.  Traditional Marxism killed the person for his property while Transformational Marxism talks the person into hand over their property for the sake of the village or experience social isolation (called shaming in the soviet system). The didactic (right vs.wrong) paradigm  must not only be negated in the mind of the person but must also be absent from the life experience of the home, and the praxis of the community.  This is revolutionary praxis, when "theory and practice" (sensuous self desires and sensuous environmental experiences) are "rationally" and experientially united―consensus. 

    As can be deciphered from the following quotations, the conscience becomes seared in the praxis of consensus―con-sensuous.

The Agenda: "detoxification" of the traditional family experience.
(Turning the fear of judgment into the mocking of those who believe and preach it.)
For the sake of social harmony

"The conception of the ideal family situation for the child: (1) uncritical obedience to the father and elders, (2) pressures directed unilaterally from above to below, (3) inhibition of spontaneity and (4) emphasis on conformity to externally imposed values." Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality

    The dialectical process in praxis (group therapy) is used to coach those under the influence of patriarchal authority how to prevail over their fear of chastisement and to consciously outwit such a system of "repression."  They become adept in sidestepping an obedience/disobedience definition of behavior and thus are able to justify behavior with what was originally labeled, by traditionally minded parents, teachers, ministers, etc., as deviant―"polymorphously perverse"―behavior. No matter how "caring" or "nice" the counselor (change agent) may seem to be and no matter how dire the situation may appear to be this is the leaven they bring into the loaf.

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." Hosea 4:6

    The traditional home, with its obedience based paradigm, is considered the cause of the self-environmental dialectical rift.  All of psychological counseling is built upon eradicating the cause of this rift―the patriarchal family and the patriarchal culture (as the quotations below make clear), through the use of "re-education."  Yes, dad and mom are not perfect, but the office is. It is the office, given by God, that the New World Order seeks to eradicate from the face of the earth.  It only takes a little leaven in the home and in the neighborhood to pressure the parents into abdicating the office.    I Corinthians 5:6  The universal quest is to bring the community between the parent and the child, to force the parent into abdicating their child to the universal village. "Any non-family-based (dialectic) collectivity that intervenes between parent and child and attempts to regulate and modify the parent-child relationship will have a democratizing (anti-patriarchal) impact on that relationship . . . any intervention between parent and child tend to produce familial democracy regardless of its intent." Warren Bennis The Temporary Society  Thus when the parent-child patriarchal home is forced by socialist laws (DHS) to abdicate to community (commun-ist) demands the parent-child patriarchal home is annihilated. "Thus, for instance, once the earthly family is discovered to be the secret of the holy family, the former must itself be annihilated [vernichtet] theoretically and practically." Karl Marx Theses On Feuerbach #4   To make laws which force parents to substitute chastening with discourse, (replacing "right and wrong" with opinion) is to destroy a nation of free people; a Constitutional Republic built upon "liberty in law, and  Lex-Rex. "In a democratic society a patriarchal culture should make us depressed instead of glad; it is an argument against the higher possibilities of human nature, of self actualization." Abraham Maslow, Maslow on Management  "Human consciousness can be liberated from the parental complex only be being liberated from its cultural derivatives, the paternalistic state and the patriarchal God." Norman Brown Life Against Death.  "… once the parent can in any way imagine his own orientation to be a possible liability to the child in the world approaching the authoritarian family is moribund, regardless of whatever countermeasures may be taken." Warren Bennis ibid.

    "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes." Romans 3:10-18  (see psalm 36:1) Our prisons are filled with spoiled children; the product of a permissive, self-seeking, self-esteem, "I want it 'here and now,'" instant gratification, anti-chastening, dopamine seeking, social-psychology controled society.

    This is "government" sanctioned child abuse. I put government in quotation marks as it is our elected officials, our representatives, who have turned on their own citizens by abdicating to the propaganda of the social-psychologist―transformational Marxists―recognizing and legitimizing their humanist, globalist, perverse agenda. All elected officers, legislative, executive, and judicial now cower in fear under the monster they let in the house.  A poem my mother taught in the one room school house, explains our demise. It is entitled "The spider and the fly."

Ambiguity allows a person to appear moralistic when they are not.  In all actuality they are advancing a political agenda of immorality.  Dean Gotcher

"A half truth ... is false since the missing half changes the content of the obvious fact."  Herbert Marcuse Eros and Civilization, 252

    All is not what it "seems to" be.  The DHS presents itself as a saint on the side of the child. It is neither.  It is for it's praxis of a self-environmental dialectical world peace, using cosmic empathy to justify its abusive actions toward the traditional family.  The spirit behind it is sinister, despite the expressions of compassion it uses as front. For all in the "profession" who think they are doing good the following statements reveal the actual intent of this praxis.

"Children are polymorphously perverse. . . . by the standards of normal adult sexuality." "Infantile sexuality is the pursuit of pleasure obtained through the activity of any and all organs of the human body [touching, seeing, muscular activity, pain, etc.]." "Fore-pleasure is the preliminary play with all parts of the body, and represent a perpetuation of the pure polymorphous perverse play of infantile sexuality." " "Psychoanalysis declares the fundamental bisexual character of human nature; .... The ‘magical' body of occidental mysticism, and the ‘diamond' body of oriental mysticisms, and, in psychoanalysis, the polymorphously perverse body of childhood." "Dionysus affirms the dialectical unity of the great instinctual opposites: reunifies male and female, Self and Others, life and death." Norman O. Brown Life Against Death

"Prior to therapy the person is prone to ask himself ‘What would my parents want me to do?' During the process of therapy the individual come to ask himself ‘What does it mean to me?'"  Carl Rogers On becoming a person

"Without exception, patients enter group therapy with the history of a highly unsatisfactory experience in their first and most important group--their primary family."  Irwin Yalom The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy

". . . 'to expose the patient, under more favorable circumstances, to emotional situations which he could not handle in the past.  ... undergo a corrective emotional experience suitable to repair the traumatic influence of pervious experience.' Franz Alexander, 1946 in Ibid.

"Through the therapist's continued willingness to verbalize and to confront the calamity calmly, patients gradually realize the irrationality of the feared calamity."  Ibid.

"The therapist assists the patient to clarify the nature of the imagined danger and then ... to detoxify, to disconfirm the reality of this danger."  Ibid. (emphasis added)

He reenacts early family scripts in the group and, if therapy is successful, is able to experiment with new behavior, to break free from the locked family role he once occupied.  ... the patient changes the past by reconstituting it."  Ibid.

"There is no type of past behavior too deviant for a group to accept once therapeutic group norms are established." Ibid.

CONTRAST VS. SIMILAR

For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. 1 Corinthians 1:21 

God's wisdom is based on contrast―light-dark, creator-created―while the worlds wisdom is based on what it has in common―human nature-human rights-Eros, i.e. what God calls reprobate. Romans 1:28, 2 Corinthians 13:5, 2 Timothy 3:8, Titus 1:16.

    The United Nations knows that in a "face to face, informal meeting," leaders and representatives compromise their allegiance to their country and become devoted to the global cause―the common cause.  True representation can only exist with contrast between differing parties whereas Socialism―Democracy―can only exist with identifying and focusing upon what is common between differing parties.  National sovereignty is maintained in across the table, formal meetings―recognizing differences between nations―as the UN says ". . . attitudes which make for national aggression," and globalism is engendered in face to face, informal meetings―discovering what is similar between people―". . . attitudes that increase international understanding."  Source: Tensions that cause war ... a group of men brought together by UNESCO 1950 

    I can not overemphasize how important this is to know.  If you are to understand the paradigm shift which has taken place in the USA, you must comprehend the shift from formal to informal meetings and the language which manifests itself in such meetings―"Is ours" and "Not yours," formal, contrast language has been replaced with  "We 'ought' to ...." informal,  "what we have in common" language.  To take such a shift in language is the destruction of the culture of obedience to parents, to law, and particularly to God and the creation of a culture of disobedience to parents, to law, and particularly to God.

consensus

    In the environment of similar, contrast (secular v. sacred) is negated―neutralized, marginalized, and then removed.  Neutralized when everyone―the We―has equal input, marginalized when the We then refuse to listen to you, and removed when the We decide you are being divisive and you need to go, or you realize you are no longer being listened to by the We and you decide to leave on your own. The Emerging Church is built upon this process of merging the secular and sacred, the negating of contrast.

 "Ingroup-Outgroup"

    In the environment of contrast, similar is regarded as conspiratorial and judged as most evil―heresy/treason/deception. It is reflected in the phrase "Evil company corrupts good morals."  A person with this paradigm must either repent, convert, or leave/die.  "Obedience and loyalty are the first requirements of the ingroup member. What is called power‑seeking and clannishness in the outgroup is transformed into moral righteousness, self‑defense, and loyalty in the ingroup." "The ingroup must be kept pure and strong. The only methods of doing this are to liquidate the outgroups altogether, to keep them entirely subordinate, or to segregate them in such a way as to minimize contact with the ingroups."  Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality 

    None of these options (liquidate, subordinate, segregate), as listed by the Marxist Theodor Adorno, are given by God to the church, the called out ones―out of darkness into light as a solution. The church is, like pilgrims and strangers, in the world, but not of the world―not similar. 1 Peter 2:9-11 To build upon this worlds dialectical system is the purpose of the Apostate Church. Those who praxis it hypocritically accuse the patriarchal of liquidating, subordinating, and segregating while they themselves liquidating, subordinating, and segregating those who do not conform to their self-environmental dialectical unity. The true Church of God's making does not build itself upon the "felt" needs of man (temporal, common-disobedient, customer driven) but rather upon Christ (spiritual, holy―obedient, Lord lead). Justification, for the Church, is not built upon man's sensuous temporal common "felt" needs but is found in Christ Jesus, the chief cornerstone, unmingled with human reasoning, flow charts, facilitated meetings, poles and surveys, etc.  Ephesians 2:20

"Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy." 1 Peter 2:5-10

"I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat." 1 Corinthians 5:9-11

    I write here as a Christian whose Lord has stated that this world is not his kingdom. John 18:36  Unlike any other religion whose claim is repent, convert, or die, it is in God's hands to determine the time of death and the eternal resting place for those who reject Him and His Word and it is not mine.  I am simply to follow Christ and be a witness of His mercy and grace in the life I now live in him; by His blood, by my testimony in Him, and by my not loving this life to the end―to endure does not imply vengeance. "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." Romans 12:19

    Yet I must expose those who praxis heresy/treason.  My faith does not negate my right to protect my person, my family, my neighbors, and my nation, from enemies―foreign and domestic―for conscience sake. The one thing that I can not do is defend my faith.  It defends me, not from the environment, but from my self―my carnal nature―and its desire to fellowship with the environment, i.e. to worship the creation. I must let God and His word defend me for my eternal soul's sake. "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee." Psalms 119:11 The self-environmental dialectical union, when applied to the laws of the nation I live in, usurp my right of faith.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. Colossians 3:5-7

    The inalienable (no man can put a lien upon) rights recognized by our framing fathers (of the U. S. A.) were foundational to each sovereign state's identity―every citizen has the right of faith, faith which protects them from their carnal-socialist-environmentalist-cosmic focusing nature.  Communism―communitarianism, socialism, globalism, humanism, environmentalism, internationalism, etc.―building upon the dialectical praxis of synthesizing self and environment―seeks to remove those rights.  They can not exist with those rights in place.  They always remove rights by redefining them as privileges.  They do this by getting those in authority to change or shift their focus.  To no longer focus upon contrast (didactic) but to focus upon similar (dialectic) i.e. those things which we all have in common―our carnal nature, our common "felt" needs―is what unites us. Broad is that path.

    "One for all and all for one"―consensus―removes my right of humbling and denying myself before a holy and just God and restricts me from proclaiming my faith to the world so that others may come to know Him and proclaim their faith in Him to the world. Dialectical censorship is to 1. prevent men from worshiping God in private―proclaim God's judgment upon evil in his private domain, i.e. seen as an act of neurosis―and 2. prevent him from proclaim God's judgment upon evil in the public domain, particularly in policy setting environments (from the home to the highest offices of the land, to the church itself) i.e. seen as propagating neurosis.

"Work done by Horkheimer in the thirties identified 'neurosis as a social product, in which the family was seen as a primary agent of repressive socialization.'" "A logical connection emerges with the anthropological perspective of the young Marx wherein ‘the eye becomes the human eye, the ear the human ear.'" Erich Fromm, Marx's Concept of Man, New York, 1961, p. 133  Stephen Eric Bronner Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists p. 212

"Every neurosis is an example of dynamic adaptation; it is essentially an adaptation to such external conditions as are in themselves irrational and, generally speaking, unfavorable to the growth of the child." Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom

"Adult sexuality, restricted by rules, to maintain family and society, is a clear instance of repression; and therefore leads to neurosis." "The repression of normal adult sexuality is required only by cultures which are based on patriarchal domination." "The abolition of repression would only threaten patriarchal domination." "Freud, Hegel, and Nietzsche are, like Marx, compelled to postulate external domination and its assertion by force in order to explain repression." Brown, Norman O. LIFE AGAINST DEATH. Middletown Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1959 

"The more gratifying one's sexual life is, the more fulfilling and pleasurable is one's work." "It is necessary to establish not only the best external conditions of work, but also to create the inner biologic preconditions to allow the fullest unfolding of the biologic urge for activity." "Hence, the safeguarding of a completely satisfying sexual life for the working masses is the most important precondition of pleasurable work." "Sex-economy sociology was born from the effort to harmonize Freud's depth psychology with Marx's economic theory." "Since work and sexuality (in both the strict and broad senses of the word) are intermately interwoven, man's relationship to work is also a question of the sex-economy of masses of people." "Every effort must be made and all means employed to guard future generations against the influence of the biologic rigidity of the old generation." "The principle weapon on the arsenal of freedom is each new generation's tremendous urge to be free. The possibility of social freedom rests essentially upon this weapon and not upon anything else." "Every physician, educator, and social worker etc., who is to deal with children and adolescents will have to prove that he himself or she herself is healthy from a sex-economic point of view and that he or she has acquired exact knowledge on human sexuality between the ages of one and about eighteen." "… the education of the educators in sex-economy must be made mandatory." "Work and sexuality derive from the same biologic energy." "Psychoanalysis is the mother, sociology the father, of sex-economy." "The child's and adolescent's natural love of life must be protected by clearly defined laws." "Those forces in the individual and in the society that are natural and vial must be clearly separated from all the obstacles that operate against the spontaneous functioning of this natural vitality." "It is the elimination of all obstacles to freedom that has to be achieved." "Natural sociability and morality are present in men and women. What has to be eliminated is the disgusting moralizing which thwarts natural morality and then points to the criminal impulses, which it itself has brought into being." "Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology." "the right of the woman to her own body." "The termination of pregnancy is at variance with the meaning of the family, whose task it precisely the education of the coming generation – apart from the fact that the termination of pregnancy would mean the final destruction of the large family." "The preservation of the already existing large families is a matter of social feeling; . . the large family is preserved because national morality and national culture find their strongest support in it."  Wilhelm Reich THE MASS PSYCHOLOGY OF FASCISM Translated by Vincent r. Cargagno. The Noonday Press, New York, 1946 4th printing 1971 p. 295 

"This carry-over from the study of neurosis to the study of labor in factories is legitimate." "Work is not about paying the rent anymore--it is about self-fulfillment." "Enlightenment management and humanistic supervision can be a brotherhood situation." "Partnership is the same as synergy." "The United States is changing into a managerial society." "In our democratic society, any enterprise--any individual--has its obligations to the whole." "Tax credits would be given to the company that helps to improve the whole society, and helps to improve the democracy by helping to create democratic individuals." "The goals of democratic education can be nothing else but development toward psychological health." Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management  John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998

"So it looks as if nudism is the first step toward ultimate fee-animality-humanness.  It's the easiest to take.  Must encourage it. Only trouble is, I feel uneasy allying myself with nuts, fringe people, borderline characters, e.g. as in this number of ANKH; the tipoff―there are only young, shapely, & beautiful bodies." "Yet nakedness is absolutely right. So is the attack on antieroticism, the Christian & Jewish foundations. Must move in the direction of the Reichian orgasm." "This movement can be dignified and Apollonian & can avoid pornography & neurosis & ugliness. I must put as much of this as is possible & usable in my education book, & more & more in succeeding writings."  "Marxian theory needs Freudian-type instinct theory to round it out. And of course, vice versa."  ". . . I've decided to get into the World Federalists, become pro-UN, & the like."  "The whole discussion becomes species-wide, One World, at least so far as the guiding goal is concerned. To get to that goal is politics & is in time and space & will take a long time & cost much blood." ". . . A caretaker government could immediately start training for democracy & self-government & give it little by little, as deserved." "This is a realistic combination of the Marxian version & the humanistic. (Better add to definition of "humanistic" that it also means one species, One World.)" "Only a world government with world-shared values could be trusted or permitted to take such powers. If only for such a reason a world government is necessary. It too would have to evolve. I suppose it would be weak or lousy or even corrupt at first--it certainly doesn't amount to much now & won't until sovereignty is given up little by little by 'nations.'"  Excerpts from The Journals of A.H. Maslow, Volumes I and II.
Lowry R.J. (1979)

"To identify with more and more of the world, moving toward the ultimate of mysticism, a fusion with the world, or peak experience, cosmic consciousness, etc."  Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p. 42

    Thus, according to those seeking and promoting a world of self-environmental dialectical unity all who  praxis neurosis (think didactically and seek to promote and sustain a patriarchal paradigm) must be prevented from attaining a platform of influence in the public domain, for their own "good" and for the "good" of others.  An example follows on how this is done in a facilitated meeting:

"In the first phase various members of the group quickly attempt to establish their customary places in the leadership hierarchy [seek to establish a patriarchal paradigm]." "Next comes a period of frustration and conflict brought about by the leader's steadfast rejection of the concept of peck order and the authoritarian atmosphere in which the concept of peck order is rooted [the facilitators role is to prevent the establishment of a patriarchal paradigm, frustrating any efforts to do so]."  "The third phase sees the development of cohesiveness among the members of the group, accompanied by a certain amount of complacency and smugness [giving up on traditional leadership the group starts to turn to itself to solve the problem at hand]." [an unstable stage] "In the fourth phase the members retain the group-centeredness and sensitivities which characterized the third phase, but they develop also a sense of purpose and urgency which makes the group potentially an effective social instrument [those in the group no longer seek approval from an outside source, i.e. parent, boss, constituents, God, etc. but rather seek approval from within the group - "group think"]."  Kenneth Benne Human Relations in Curriculum Change

    Be warned. Under the "right of the child" the home is public domain. The patriarchal father of the traditional home must be sent to the guillotines (the patriarch beheaded; i.e. either those under his influenced must be removed or he must be either convert or neutralize, marginalize, and removed if necessary; all "solutions" result in a praxis of patricide) if he does not follow the directorates public policies "for the people, by the people, of the people."  In this case his children will be taken from him. Instead of "Click it or ticket" it will be "If you spank em, well take em." 

"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." Hebrews 12:6-8

The use of fear to pressure citizens out of their right of faith

"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." 2 Timothy 1:7

    "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
    The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." Romans 8:13-17

    The diabolical process of consensus uses those things in the environment such as job promotion, good grades, next term in office, etc., to force me (through the fear of lose of something in my life if I don't participate) to "look into myself" and "get in touch with myself," and to quit "denying myself," and to "esteem myself," and to "actualize myself," etc. so I can make the group "feel" good about themselves. This is the worst form of treason. This is the form of treason which enslaves its own citizens with their own will―carnal will. "By a careful design, we control not the final behavior, but the inclination [a person's weakness] to behavior―the motives, the desires, the wished.  The curious thing is that in that case the question of freedom never arises.." Carl Rogers quoting B. F. Skinner On becoming a person  (bold emphasis in original as italics) 

    Subtly, suggestions are used to seduce, deceive and manipulate each person into a group hug, a communal praxis of "cosmic" harmony, an annihilation of a didactic paradigm with the establishment of a dialectical paradigm.

"… new models are … acquired subtly, as a result of overt or covert suggestion, unconscious identification with the therapist, corrective emotional experiences … operant conditioning via implicit or explicit expressions of his approval or disapproval." Irvin Yalom Theory and Practice and Group Psychotherapy 

Labor of love replacing the shedding of blood.

    Love in the dialectical praxis of self-environment unity is the meeting of self and others "felt" needs (See Maslow's hierarchy of "felt" needs.)  This labor of love is demonstrated by the non-profit institution, which Church Growth and the Emerging Church is structured from. Why do people work for nothing?  Because of the satisfaction they get from helping satisfy others needs.  What do they get in return? Human approval; i.e. the respect of men.  This is the Eros the Marxists, like Herbert Marcuse Eros and Civilization, Erick Fromm The Art of Loving, and  Abraham Maslow, preached in the 60's. It is now being preached from pulpits and praxised by churches around the world. 

    But love, from God's definition, is not the satisfaction we get from the meeting of others "felt" needs, what we have done for our family, our community, our country, our world, but what he has done for us.  It is found not in the pleasure of social harmony, but in proclaiming the truth of God's love, found in Christ Jesus, which causes social disharmony, for the sake of man's soul and his eternal life; to the shedding of blood, not of others or even our own, but His.  "Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin." The NGO, non-profit, apostate church, built upon the meeting of mans "felt" needs, is founded upon Eros (the respect of men), the true church, built upon God's love, is founded upon the blood of the lamb (God's love for us). One starts with a survey of "felt" needs, the other starts with the preaching of God's word to repentance. The church is made up of the redeemed not the unregenerate.

"Re-education must be clever enough in manipulating the subjects to have them think that they are running the show."  "The objective sought will not be reached so long as the new set of values is not experienced by the individual as something freely chosen."  "An outright enforcement of the new set of values and beliefs is simply the introduction of a new god who has to fight with the old god, now regarded as a devil."  "The individual accepts the new system of values and beliefs by accepting belongingness to a group."  "A feeling of complete freedom and a heightened group identification are frequently more important at a particular stage of re-education than learning not to break specific rules."  Kenneth Benne Human Relations in Curriculum Change, 1950; Chapter 3 Principles of Re-education Kurt Lewin and Paul Grabbe "Conduct, Knowledge, and Acceptance of New Values" The Journal of Social Issues, 1:3:56-65 August, 1945

    Those who praxis the fusion of the  self-environment dialectical rift always declare war on their own "citizens." They must do so to find those who hold to an "old 'system of values and beliefs." This process is not successful until all are participants. Therefore all "citizen" must be treaded as guilty until they are proven innocent by their "willful" participation in and promotion of "the new system of values and beliefs."  In education this is experienced by teachers during in-service training, in government it is experienced by legislators in sub-committee meetings, in the workplace it is experienced by all in the team building session, and in the church it is experienced by believers in youth activities, "bible studies," and board meetings.  

    "If the individual complies merely from fear of punishment rather than through the dictates of his free will and conscience [this combination is where a person is willing to finding the middle ground―compromise―to maintain relationships for the purpose of acceptance/advancement], the new set of values he is expected to accept does not assume in him the position of super-ego [the super-ego―incorporating similar (what we have in common)―is not the same thing as the conscience―based on contrast (right vs. wrong)], and his re-education [paradigm shift] therefore remains unrealized." "How can free acceptance of a new system of values be brought about? The individual accepts the new system of values and beliefs by accepting belongingness to a group.  [From then on] the new system of values and beliefs dominates the individual's perception ['group think,' 'village think']." Kurt Lewin quoted in Kenneth Benne's Human Relations in Curriculum Change   (emphasis added) 

    This is why it is so difficult to persuade those in Church Growth or the Emerging Church of the danger this process poses to their soul, even though it is so clearly revealed to you by the Word of God.  Amazingly this act of "attending" to the things at hand in the environment to actualize one's potential is exactly the same procedure used by Satan on Eve in the Garden of Eden.

"To identify with more and more of the world, moving toward the ultimate of mysticism, a fusion with the world, or peak experience, cosmic consciousness, etc." Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p. 42

"The person at the peak experience is godlike . . . complete, loving, uncondemning, compassionate and accept[ing] of the world and of the person." Abraham Maslow Toward a Psychology of Being

"He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil."  John 3:18, 19  "If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?" John 3:12

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways, the objective however, is to change it." Karl Marx

    The dialectical paradigm is the praxis of heresy. It is the praxis of change rather than the praxis of obedience. As stated above it always declares war on its own citizens.  All must be considered and treated as an enemy, all must be considered guilty of didactic thinking (God gives us all a measure of faith) and all must be re-educated before they can properly demonstrate dialectical thinking" (enlightened-sensuous based reasoning) before they are considered "innocent" (works salvation, participatory democracy) considered "self-actualized".

    The new guilt complex appears to be historically connected with the rise of patriarchal religion (for the Western development the Hebrews are decisive)." "The guilty conscience is formed in childhood by the incorporation of the parents and the wish to be father of oneself." "We must return to Freud and say that incest guilt created the familial organization." "Human consciousness can be liberated from the parental (Oedipal) complex only be being liberated from its cultural derivatives, the paternalistic state and the patriarchal God." "The abolition of repression would only threaten patriarchal domination." "Freud, Hegel, and Nietzsche are, like Marx, compelled to postulate external domination and its assertion by force in order to explain repression." Norman O. Brown   LIFE AGAINST DEATH  

    "The most effective method for weakening the child's will is to arouse his sense of guilt." "The most important symptom of the defeat in the fight for oneself is the guilty conscience."  "We are proud that in his conduct of life man has become free from external authorities, which tell him what to do and what not to do."  Erick Fromm Escape from Freedom

"We must develop persons who see non-influencability of private convictions[*] in joint deliberations as a vice rather than a virtue."  Kenneth Benne Human Relations in Curriculum Change   * people with principles, not swayed by opinions of men.

    Dialectical trickery can only be accomplished by shifting a person's paradigm from an obedience-based environment (Jesus Christ in the wilderness) to an evaluation based environment (Eve in the Garden of Eden, the ten spies in the promised land, etc.).  From a paradigm where right behavior produces blessing and wrong behavior produces wrath―commands which are spiritually and not temporally understood, not materially comprehendible, laws not found in and justified by the material environment or laws which are at odds with immediate temporal desires―to a paradigm where if rational, sensual, desires can be apprehended in the environment they can be justified and exercised in the environment, where the obey vs. disobey closed system is considered as non-sense, impractical, unreasonable, and/or irrational, in light of this "open minded" system, i.e. systems thinking, general systems theory, synergy, etc. "Partnership is the same as synergy. The problem for the accountants is to work out some way of putting on the balance sheet the amount of synergy in the organization, the amount of time and money and effort that has been invested in getting groups to work together."  Abraham Maslow, Maslow on Management  This was the very same purpose driving the soviet system. Hummm?

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 2 Peter 1:20, 21 

    God's and redeemed man's praxis is law and obedience―belief and promise.  The environment itself does not provide the information necessary to determine correct behavior therefore a need for revelation or non-sense (does not make sense to us at the time, and/or is only spiritually discernable) based information from an authority who can provide it, God, parent, teacher, etc. who must inculcate this information.  Since the information is not based upon or immediately grasped by human senses it must be repeated over and over until it is internalized.  It is not necessary to have a positive affective support from the environment. Self control supersedes self esteem. The cognitive learning environment teaches all who praxis in it how to control affective desires, preventing the self-environment dialectical union i.e. materialism, hedonism, etc.

"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction." Proverbs 1:7

"Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding." Proverbs 4:1

"My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent." Proverbs 6:21-29

"Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish." " A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke." "The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility." "He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach. Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge. An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity." Proverbs 12:1; 13:1; 15:33; 19:26-28

"Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need." Philippians 4:11, 12

"But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will." 2 Timothy 2:26

"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." 2 Timothy 3:16, 17

    Satan's and fallen man's praxis is change, of questioning all things―evaluate―consider the environment. "Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself." Jean Piaget  In this process personal interpretation is essential, the material (sense based) environment must provide all the information necessary to determine "correct" behavior. Therefore a method of reasoning is needed whereby sense based information can be immediately apprehended and processed to determine proper behavior in "changing times" in light of personal and social changing "felt" needs.

"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. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." 1 John 2:16, 17

    Behavior "science" can only identify the carnal nature of man, find that which man has in common―similar―with the creation―the law of the flesh. All which is spiritual must be reclassified according to this "scientific" method. Ironically this is the very same system utilized by eastern religion. "Psychoanalysis is the heir to a mystical tradition which it must affirm." "Whitehead constantly draws attention to the dialectical patterns in mystical thought." "Psychoanalysis, mysticism, Freud, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Marx – the unseen harmony is stronger than the seen." "Common to all of them is a mode of consciousness that can be called the dialectic imagination." Normal O. Brown Life Against Death  (emphasis in original)  This was also, as stated by Brown, Karl Marx's line of reasoning.  It is the same reasoning used today in government, the workplace, education, and even the "Church"―Church Growth, Emerging Church, Ecumenical, etc., all seeking synergy. Brown stated, concerning his book on the development of "behavior science"—the synthesis of Marx and Freud—"To experience Freud is to partake a second time of the forbidden fruit; and this book cannot without sinning communicate that experience to the reader."

"Empirical observation is the sensible world as practical, human sense activity." Karl Marx Thesis on Feuerbach # 5
"The essence of man is not an abstraction inherent in each particular individual. The real nature of man is the totality of social relations." Karl Marx Thesis on Feuerbach # 6
"‘Religious sentiment' is itself a social product, a particular form of society." Karl Marx Thesis on Feuerbach # 7
"All social life is essentially practical. All the mysteries which lead theory toward mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice." Karl Marx Thesis on Feuerbach # 8
" Materialism which does not conceive sensuous existence as practical activity, can only observe the world. [It can not change it.]" Karl Marx Thesis on Feuerbach # 9
"The standpoint of the old type of materialism is civil society; the standpoint of the new materialism is social humanity or human society." Karl Marx Thesis on Feuerbach #10
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways; the point is to change it."  Karl Marx Thesis on Feuerbach #11

"Philosophy is not outside the world; it simply has a different kind of presence in the world. The world is its ground; it is the spiritual quintessence of its age. The world is the object of its enquiry and concern.; it is the wisdom of the world." "The philosopher appeals to reason not faith, teaches rather than dogmatizes, demands and welcomes the test of being doubted, promises truth, and aims at the achievement of a world ‘becoming philosophical.'" "In short, philosophy as theory finds the ‘ought' implied within the ‘is', and as praxis seeks to make the two coincide." "The justice of state constitutions is to be decided not on the basis of Christianity, not from the nature of Christian society but from the nature of human society." "The state arises out of the exigencies of man's nature." "Laws must not fetter human life; but yield to it; they must change as the needs and capacities of the people change." "To enjoy the present reconciles us to the actual . . ." Comments by Joseph O'Malley Ed. of Karl Marx's Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right'

"…philosophy as struggle with error and superstition is also and always enlightenment." "Everything that is not reducible to number becomes illusion for the Enlightenment." Stephen Erick Bronner Of Critical Theory and its Theorists

"Sense experience must be the basis of all science." Karl Marx MEGA I/3, p. 123
"Science is only genuine science when it proceeds from sense experience, in the two forms of sense perception and sensuous need, that is, only when it proceeds from Nature." Karl Marx MEGA I/3, p. 123
"The struggle against religion is therefore indirectly a struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion. [Obedience based patriarchal paradigm]" Karl Marx MEGA I/1/1

    The quest to harmonize the natural man to this material world―his social and physical environment―is reflected in one of the most important books used for teacher training today―Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Book I Cognitive Domain written by Benjamin Bloom.

"It has been pointed out that we are attempting to classify phenomena which could not be observed or manipulated in the same concrete form as the phenomena of such fields as the physical and biological sciences. It was the view of the group that educational objectives stated in the behavior form have their counterparts in the behavior of individuals ... observe(able) and discrib(able) therefore classifi(able)." Benjamin Bloom Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Book I Cognitive Domain

"In fact, a large part of what we call 'good teaching' is the teacher's ability to attain affective objectives through challenging the student's fixed beliefs and getting them to discuss issues." David Krathwohl, Benjamin Bloom  Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Book II Affective Domain

    The perversion we are experiencing in our nation, and the contempt for and attack upon the traditional family paradigm―obey vs. disobey, "fixed beliefs"―is a direct effect of the praxis of this "scientific" method being applied in our education, our government, our workplace, and our churches.  The scriptures warn of the effect this process will have upon all who embrace it.

"For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith." 2 Timothy 3:6-8

"And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient [decent];"  Romans 1:28

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL PEACE:
Whoever defines terms for you controls your life.

    "To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.  For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
    They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
    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. Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it." Jeremiah 6:10, 13-19

"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." 1 Thessalonians 5:3

"Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law."  Luke 12:51-53
 
"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."  John 14:27

"And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." Philippians 4: 7

The Sixth Sense―self-environment dialectical homo-stasis―personal-social "peace."

    If the dialectical paradigm is to replace the didactic paradigm, a sixth sense must be incorporated into the self and the environment, the sense of social approval, social identity, social peace―homeostasis―between the self and the earthly environment―the spirit of world peace, of antichrist (an earthly acceptable Christ). This sense must be treated as equal to the other five senses. This sense is the "ought" within us. "Oughtiness is itself a fact to be perceived." Abraham Maslow The Farther Reaches of Human Nature  The "ought" is the child within us watching our friends on their way to the park,  having a good time without us.  The pain of alienation, the self-environmental dialectical rift, is caused by the categorical imperative "No! You can not go out."―the patriarchal paradigm of obedience.  It cries out to the restrainer "You just don't understand." and then, because nobody is listening, sobs to itself "Nobody understands!" I have yet to meet a liberal who does not remind me of of Cain, a sulking child. Beware of sulking children.

Language which supersedes or interferes with the self-environment relationship, which causes a dialectical rift between self and the earthly environment, must be negated from our consciousness if we are to arrive at world peace.

"Language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men." Karl Marx MEGA I/5, p. 19

"The corruption of language expressed in the legend of the Expulsion from Paradise, where all the creatures had been named by Adam." Max Horkheimer quoted in Martin Jay's book The Dialectical Imagination

"B. L. Whorf  helped Thomas S Kuhn recognize how language effects one's world view, as compiled in John B. Carroll's book Language, Thought, and Reality.  Thomas S Kuhn concludes 'Scientific knowledge, like language, is intrinsically the common property of a group or else nothing at all. To understand it we shall need to know the special characteristics of the groups that create and use it.'" Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

"[Human] emancipation lies in fantasy and the language of experience irreducible to linguistic rules: mimesis. . . . Marcuse thus could write that ‘the realm of freedom lies beyond mimesis.'" Stephen Bronner Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists  "Universal Reconciliation relies on a reason that is before reason-mimesis or ‘impulse.'" Jürgen Habermas The Theory of Communicative Action  "Impulse, the primary fact, back of which, psychically we cannot go." John Dewey, "Social Psychology," Psychological Review, I (July, 1894), p. 404

    Therefore, if self and the environment are to be united on common ground then obstructionist language must be negated―therefore the need to rewrite the Bible in homo-stasis (contemporary―transitory) language and censor those portions which can not be "processed."  "Ought" is the expression of self's internal desire to experience―comprehend by sensation―something in the "here and now" environment which has been prohibited―an obstructed appeal to approach something of perceived pleasure.  It is the articulation of inhibition―inhibition of  the language of science, of theory, of "seems to be," of self.    It is the articulation of the inhibition of man's "scientific" nature to discover "truth," to be innovative.

"When we learn to silence the inner voice that judges yourself and others, there is no limit to what we can accomplish, individually and as part of a team. Absence of judgment makes you more receptive to innovative ideas." Michael Ray in Maslow on Management, written by Abraham Maslow.  

A "change agent... should know about the process of change, how it takes place and the attitudes, values and behaviors that usually act as barriers.... He should know who in his system are the 'defenders' or resisters of innovations." Ronald Havelock, A Change Agent's Guide to Innovation in Education.  

In the chapter titled Some Disappointments in Innovation A Pattern of Failure written by Carl Rogers we read  "What we need to learn, it seems, are ways of gaining acceptance for a humanistic person-centered venture in a culture more devoted to rule by authority."   Carl Rogers  Freedom To Learn FOR THE 80'S 

"During the period of innovation, an environment is invisible. The present is always invisible because the whole field of attention is so saturated with it It becomes visible only when is has been superseded by a new environment."  Federal Education Grant, Dec. 1969  Behavior Science in Teacher Education Program p. 237

"b. RESISTANCE TO SOCIAL CHANGE. Another aspect of traditionalism is the tendency to oppose innovations or alterations of existing politic‑economic forms. ‘The best ways to solve social problems is to stick close to the middle of the road, to move slowly and to avoid extremes.'" Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality

    When it comes to social matters the deductive method of reasoning (lecture/logic/certainty/knowing) must be replaced with the inductive method of reasoning, of innovation (discourse/probability/speculation/uncertainty/thinking and feeling). Certainty, the cause of inhibition, must be  replaced with an environment of uncertainty if "ought" is to be given an opportunity for expression―i.e. "equality of opportunity." "In a deductive argument, the truth of the premises is supposed to guarantee the truth of the conclusion; in an inductive argument, the truth of the premises merely makes it probable that the conclusion is true."  Garth Kemerling 2002. .  Deductive-Inductive paradigm shift Part I, Part II, Part III

The moment "an overweening interest in the future development of the child"* by the community is incorporated into the parent-child relationship the traditional home is moribund.

"For however much the state or community may wish to inculcate obedience and submission in the child, its intervention betrays a lack of confidence in the only objects from whom a small child can learn authoritarian submission, the parents."  *Warren Bennis The Temporary Society

    According to dialectical thinking, when obedience to God, parent, teacher, etc. causes a self-environment―physical, mental, and social—dialectical rift a lot of bad things happen to the person and the world he lives in―neurosis, alienation, reification, sublimation, repression, inhibition―all leading to division and war. Since "fight or flight" sustain social pain, this process looks at inhibition as the avenue to take if we are to arrive at world peace. Inhibition is created the moment self's inclination to relate with something or someone in the environment is restrained for fear of, or the actual use of,  physical, mental, and social pain―physical in the form of chastening or the threat of chastening, mental in the form of removal of other things of pleasure or the threat of such removal, and social in the form of the "significant others" disassociation or the threat of removal of such association. Thus, according to dialectical thinking, the resulting affect of rejection and alienation―inhibition―caused by obedience to a higher authority, is the creation and sustention of a "parochial" (close minded) national paradigm. Therefore the home environment is seen as either the barrier of or the pathway to globalism. Since the "seedbed" for nationalism is found in the home environment where the "right of the parent" rules, the platform for globalism is the "right of the child."

    The "right of the child" is based upon this humanistic assumption.  A "safe and positive¹" environment, as defined by this dialectical based religion (humanism), is one in which discourse―between parent, child, and community―is the ground on which the "rights of the child" is established. ¹Source: Final Federal-Provincial-Territorial Report on Custody and Access and Child Support; PUTTING CHILDREN FIRST  2002 PDF file (Canadian Law)  "We propose, therefore, the specialization of the notion of parenthood into two distinct and different functions-the biological parent and the social parent.  They may come together in one individual or they may not.  But the problem is how to produce a procedure which is able to substitute and improve this ancient order."  J. L. Moreno Who Shall Survive (Marxist, father of role playing)

   When the "right of the child" is applied, the God given role of the parent is negated. "Any non-family-based collectivity that intervenes between parent and child and attempts to regulate and modify the parent-child relationship will have a democratizing impact on that relationship"  Warren Bennis The Temporary Society   The children is then under the charge of a sensually-based environment―this is governmentally sanctioned child abuse―public-private partnership from then on rules; self and environment are dialectically united―homo-stasis abounds. "In addition, mindful of the global shift away from concepts of parental power towards parental responsibilities.... attention will have to be given to surrogate motherhood, issues around alternative modes of conception,(7) adoptions by same sex couples, and other models of alternative family life." (bold emphasis in original) Source: South African Law Commission; Issue Paper 13; Project 110  The review of  THE CHILD ACT  First Issue Paper  [18 April 1998] Closing date for comment: 31 July 1998 ISBN: 0-621-28026-7  PDF file 

    Reading this material (on the "right of the child") is the same as reading the "old" U.S.S.R Constitution and the "rights" it gave to the child-parent-community partnership―soviets. "Citizens are obliged to concern themselves with the upbringing of children, to train them for socially useful work, and to raise them as worthy members of socialist society." Article 66, USSR Constitution  This is the "It takes a village . . . "² propaganda touted by neo-Marxists today.  That agenda has not changed despite the iron curtain "falling." "Democratization has encouraged people to participate, glasnost' has allowed them to articulate their feelings, and pluralism has legitimated the rights of groups to form on the basis of a consciousness of self-interest." David Lane, Soviet Society Under Perestroika. American Education is based on this communistic ideology "Individuals in a democracy are responsible for the conduct of a democratic political system as well as a democratic way of life."  David Krathwohl, Benjamin Bloom Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Book II Affective Domain  

    It is not as though we have not had voices in the past warning us: "Has authority been banished in these later days? Has the world reached a point where it will condone the formation of pupil soviets? Will C. Woods, Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of California March 1921.  Note the year, the source, and the state. Our social institutions which aim to "help" mediate social-individual problems are actually soviets. "The institutions in socialist society which act as the facilitators between the public and private realms are the Soviets." Norman Levine The Process of Democratization  The soviet's function is to negate the language of obstruction in environments where policy is being made, including, and especially, the home.

    According to dialectical thinking, the language of obstruction is the word "Not," as in "Thou shalt not ....,"  "You can not ...," "You must not ...," etc. When this language is used, with force or threat of force, to interfere with another person's potential―one's possibilities discovered through sensuous experience, what the "here and now" environment has to offer them―self is denied actualization―self and environment have experienced a dialectical rift.  When the command "Because I said so!" represses (inhibits) the appeal to discourse, "Why can't I?" "Lets talk about it." (set off by the "You can not ...!" command), comprehending the environment through sensation is repressed by the praxis of comprehending obedience―"What part of 'Can Not.' do you not understand."  The heresiarch paradigm of love of the creation, i.e. love of pleasure―similar, i.e. narcissus―can not stand the patriarchal paradigm of obedience to the creator―contrast and obedience.  Its goal is patricide, "the negation of negation," the removal of the patriarchal father figure from the self-environment praxis. 

"Confronted with the rigidity of the adult ... one turns naturally to the question of whether the prospects for healthy personality structure would not be greater if the proper influences were brought to bear earlier in the individual's life, and since the earlier the influence the more profound it will be, attention becomes focused upon child training." Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality  

". . . Can the student accept the fact that the traditional family might be changed and might possibly disappear?" Paul Dressell et al. General Education: Explorations in Evaluation, American Council on Education, 1954, p. 185

"The recent transformations in parental roles in the Western nuclear family have made children more independent. Their socialization thus comes more and more from school, youth groups, and from the workplace, once they enter it. This freedom is a two-edged sword. Being open to many influences can make children more well rounded, but the lack of clear guideposts can lead to a kind of relativism that stunts their moral development. Indeed, many young people rightly sense a great void in our consumer society and try to fill it through escapist entertainment or massive consumption of psychotropic drugs." http://www.thebrain.mcgill.ca/  THE BRAIN FROM TOP TO BOTTOM ANATOMY AND FUNCTION ANATOMY BY LEVEL OF ORGANIZATION SOCIAL, INTERMEDIATE

"Mass media, and an ever-increasing range of personal experiences, gives an adolescent social sophistication at an early age, making him unfit for the obedient role of the child in the family."  "One of the consequence of the increasing social liberation of adolescents is the increasing inability of parents to enforce norms, a greater and greater tendency for the adolescent community to disregard adult dictates, and to consider itself no longer subject to the demands of parents and teachers."  "The old ‘levers' by which children are motivated--approval or disapproval of parents and teachers--are less efficient." James Coleman The Adolescent Society

"Freedom, as Fromm argued in Escape from Freedom meant ‘freedom to,' not merely ‘freedom from.'"  Martin Jay  The Dialectical Imagination

Transparency negates the right of privacy.

    If social discourse―self and the social environment discovering each other―is the desired outcome, then the medium through which the sixth sense is allowed freedom must be realized. Self must be esteemed, the "ought," the language of rebellion, must again be allowed freedom of expression. "What is particularly important here is that recognition of one's own individuality [self-environment reconciliation] is the basis for recognition of the individuality of everyone, and for the democratic concept of the dignity of man.  The individual may have ‘secret' thoughts which he will under no circumstances reveal to anyone else if he can help it. To gain access is particularly important, for here may lie the individual's potential." Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality  This is the area of man's private battle between his creator and the creation.  Once you divulges your "ought" to another person, you have nothing you can call private, you are now transparent.  The one who has access to this information now knows your weakness, your carnal inclinations, your "ought to be," and can easily facilitate your change into a dialectical self-environment praxis. Persecution of the true Church becomes acceptable to and practiced by the Apostate Church due to this praxis of transparency.  While the true Church repents of its "oughts," before God (thus it is able to see), the Apostate Church justifies and practices it's "oughts" before man (therefore it is blind).  When man sees his "ought" he sees his "goodness" and is thus unable to see his own wickedness. He will call that which God calls evil as good, and that which God calls as good as evil, as Adam and Eve praxised in the Garden of Eden.

    "Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
    But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
    For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
    We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh." 2 Corinthians 4:1-11

    Because the attribute of human nature is to "bond" with the universe, and this is common to all of mankind, the attribute of obedience to God and his word is not recognized as an option.  To the dialectical mind, "made in the image of God" means the ability to evaluate the environment from man's own sense-based experience.  Despite the fact that God created us in his image, to evaluate the environment from His word (he gave us all a measure of faith―obedience based paradigm), behavioral "science" can only perceive this behavior as abnormal. Jesus made the statement "Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" Luke 18:8b  This process is what is being used to fulfill that statement.  "But for the elect's sake." Matthew 24:22

"There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." 1 Corinthians 10:13

    Man, according to this paradigm, must be identified―marked (in mind and in practice, in cognition and in affection)―as a social animal―a beast. 

"‘Have you merely released the beast, the id, in man?' There is no beast in man. There is only man in man, and this we have been able to release." "Do we dare to generalize from this type of experience that if we cut through deeply enough to our organismic nature, that we find that man is a positive and social animal? This is the suggestion from our clinical experience." "Maslow puts up a vigorous case for man's animal nature . . . " Carl Rogers On becoming a person  

"It looks as if nudism is the first step toward ultimate free-animality-humanism. Must encourage it." The Journals of Abraham Maslow Ed. by Richard J. Lowery

"The ability to promise involves the loss of the natural animal forgetfulness of the past, which is the precondition for healthy living in the present." "The innermost core of man's nature, the base of his ‘animal nature,' is positive in nature." "Freud's later writings attribute to the ego a basic tendency to ‘reconcile,' ‘synthesize,' ‘unify' the dualism and conflicts with which the human being is beset." "To rediscover the animal in man"  Normal O. Brown Life Against  Death  

    A book I have often referenced, Life Against Death, was a popular cult book of the 60's written by the neo-Marxist Norman O. Brown.  It promoted the dialectical unity of self and environment―Freud and Marx, individual and society.  Brown acknowledged the tie of the dialectical process and its praxis to the event which took place in the Garden of Eden―Eve's "rationally justified" rejection of God's command for the unity of self with the environment. Brown stated "To experience Freud is to partake a second time of the forbidden fruit; and this book cannot without sinning communicate that experience to the reader."  Source: the March 23-30, 2005 issue of Metro Santa Cruz, an article written by Mike Connor  "Apocalypse Now A new book about radical UCSC philosopher Norman O. Brown sheds light on the Freudian scholar of the Dionysian apocalypse."  Connor writes "But Brown believed that the payoff was worth the price of sin―namely, that alienation would be overcome, and the return of the repressed completed, rendering problems of sin permanently moot." 

"Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others." Ephesians 2:2,3

    The very title of the book "Life against Death" explains the purpose of the unity movement, to rebuild the world upon man's carnal, earthly sensuous, "good" nature. Life, according to this process, is maintained through the "rationally justified" rejection of an obedience-based paradigm. Obedience to the patriarchal God of the Bible is death to the dialectical unity of self and the earthly environment.  For all dialectical thinkers life is experienced when self and the world come together in peace―consensus.  Since it inhibits dialectical praxis, the obedience paradigm is the source of death.  By its continual command of "dualism"―contrast―in the mind of the individual and in the social praxis it is categorized as hindering individual and world peace.   The biblical structured paradigm―right verses wrong, obey verses disobey―is anathema to a "homo-stasis" experience between one's self and the "here and now" environment.  According to Brown, the "dialectical imagination," what God calls the "imagination of the heart" (earthly driven desires), is the pathway to world peace.  Purpose driven is self-environment dialectical praxis―a unity praxis of "self actualization."  "Salvation Is a By-Product of Self-Actualizing Work and Self-Actualizing Duty." Abraham Maslow  Maslow on Management

The church is not the unregenerate it is the fellowship of the redeemed.

"Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a publican." Matthew 18:15-17 

    What Peter Drucker asked the business world (the Non-Government-Originations―NGO's) "What is your Business?" became the question for the Church "What is our purpose?"  Both are built upon man and his environment―the consumer and his "felt" needs. All institutional statements (secular and sacred) are reshaped around this desired outcome. "The purpose of a business (March 12): To find out what a business is, start with its purpose, which must lie outside of the business itself, in society. "There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.  Find out what needs your customers want fulfilled right now. Are your products meeting these needs?"  Peter F. Drucker  The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done  "All institutions, including governments, churches, universities, and so on, will become more interdependent, more market- and customer-driven" (Peter F. Drucker Leader to Leader, No. 1 Summer 1996).  "What is our business?" "Who is our customer?" "What does the customer consider value?" (IMPORTANT Lessons from Peter Drucker http://www.changingchurch.org/perspec/vol24/druck.htm)  National Resource Center  "New level of leadership [a critical mass of transformational leaders] characterized by an unshakeable faith to transform the lives of others by creating a synergy of energy within their circle of influence."  Erik Rees  Seven Principles of Transformational Leadership -- Creating A Synergy of Energy™  Source: Pastors.com,  Saddleback & Rick Warren's Web site.

    God did not make us to be so:  Genesis 6:15; 8:21;  Deuteronomy 29:10-24, Jeremiah 7:23-28, 2 Corinthians 10:3-6.  God made us and he guides us, as all these scriptures testify, under a paradigm of obedience―to Him.

"This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness." Ephesians 4:17-19

"But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." Ephesians 4:20-24

    "Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication (πορνεία  porneia, which we get the word pornography from: includes adultery and incest).

    Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." 1 Corinthians 6:15-20

    God made us with a patriarchal identity―hierarchal. "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him." Genesis 2:18  After Adam and Eve bonded self―desire―with the environment, God gave these patriarchal conditions to them both.   "Unto the woman [God] said ... and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." Genesis 3:16

". . . this mentality of man as the master can be traced back to the first chapters of Genesis."  Max Horkheimer  Eclipse of Reason

    We are spiritual, made in the image of God―to have dominion over the earth, ruling under God's laws―as Adam was to do, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion ... over all the earth."  Genesis 2:26  "For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof." 1 Corinthians 10:26  In Christ Jesus we have a new dominion to rule over, a new foundation to rule from, and a the new man to rule through.  "Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." Ephesians 6:10-12  In all of this, including "Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right." Ephesians 6:1. We are formed by God, physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually for a patriarchal paradigm.  It is Satan's sole purpose to depose that paradigm.

Change the environment, change the man. Change the man, change the environment.

 "A successful change includes, therefore, three aspects: unfreezing the present level, moving to the new level, and freezing group life on the new level." Kurt Lewin

"In brief, unfreezing is the breaking down of the mores, customs and traditions of an individual – the old ways of doing things – so that he is ready to accept new alternatives."  Edger Schein and Warren Bennis Personal and Organizational Change Through Group Methods: The Laboratory Approach

"We have said that (change agents) need a social engineering theory which provides conceptual tools for diagnosing the possibilities for change, for locating the forces which support it, and for devising change procedures for those which oppose it..."  "The engineering of change and the meeting of pressures on a group or organization toward change must be collaborative." "Collaboration is required  across lines of ‘theory' and ‘practice.'" "Collaboration between ‘theorists' and ‘practitioners' does not come ‘naturally.'" Kenneth Benne Human Relations in Curriculum Change

"The dialectic of Hegel and Marx's variation on the theme, contain discrepancies between actual and desired conditions. The contradiction between thesis and antithesis [the self and the environment―the other] set up pressures that eventually force a new state of affairs, the synthesis. The desired condition is synthesis, the elimination of contradiction and conflict between thesis and antithesis. Conflict between thesis and antithesis bring about a restructuring that reduces or eliminates (negates) the conflict." (Richardson, George P., Feedback Thought in Social Science and Systems Theory as quoted in Judy McLemore, The Architects of Total Quality Management General Systems Theory and Marxist Theory-Praxis; www.stopcp.com/TQMJudyMcLemore.pdf)

"If the 'restoring of life' of the world is to be conceived in terms of the Christian revelation, then Marx must collapse into a bottomless abyss." Jürgen Habermas Theory and Practice

GOD AND HIS CREATION: HIERARCHY NOT EQUALITY

"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?" Hebrews 12:9

"And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven". Matthew 23:9

"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." 1 John 3:1, 2

I and my Father are one. John 10:30

    "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
    Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." Philippians 2: 6-11

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. John 14:26

    "Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
    I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.  All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you." John 16: 7-15

    God did not make man with a dialectical social identity―equality. He made him with a didactic identity―hierarchy. Equality is denied in an environment of hierarchy.  Hierarchy is denied in an environment of equality. They are anathema to each other; the one which submits to the other must abdicate its foundation, its identity, and its purpose.

"For equality of opportunity to take place the family must be weakened." "The family has little to offer the child in the way of training for his place in the community." "Strengthening the family to draw the adolescent back into it faces serious problems, as well as some questions about its desirability."  "Rather than bringing the father back to play with his son, this strategy would recognize that society has changed, and attempt to improve those institutions designed to educate the adolescent toward adulthood."  James Coleman The Adolescent Society.  The Supreme Court of our land has used this mans material extensively on matters of education. He was educated under the Marxist Paul Lazarsfeld, a member of the Frankfurt School.

"Once the earthly family is discovered to be the secret of the heavenly family, the former must be annihilated, both in theory and in practice." Karl Marx, Feuerbach Thesis #4.

"The conception of the ideal family situation for the child: uncritical obedience to the father and elders, pressures directed unilaterally from above to below, inhibition of spontaneity and emphasis on conformity to externally imposed values." "The power‑relationship between the parents, the domination of the subject's family by the father or by the mother, and their relative dominance in specific areas of life also seemed of importance for our problem." "It would then be more understandable why the German family, with its long history of authoritarian, threatening father figures, could become susceptible to a fascist ideology." "On the other hand, Christianity as the religion of the ‘Son' contains an implicit antagonism against the religion of the ‘Father' and its surviving witnesses, the Jews." Theodor Adorno  The Authoritarian Personality

    Note the perverted understanding of the Bible by Adorno. The supposed Father-Son "antagonism." Those who look through dialectical lens constantly do this sort of thing when they "study" the Bible. It is not a social issue it is a spiritual issue.  It is not a race issue it is a sin issue. This is what they can not or refuse to comprehend.  To redefine sin as social alienation is to justify a world of "guiltless" sin.  Shaming, a people thing, replaces guilt, a conscience thing. If there is not guilt, there is not sin.  According to this false reasoning, the law which produces guilt (awareness of sin) was not fulfilled in Christ, it was negated by Christ, the law is irrelevant, thus negating guilt.

    Another common trait of Neo-Marxism, in the States and around the world, is their association of the evils of Fascism with a patriarchal paradigm―negate the spiritual issue of sin by shifting the  focus onto the issue of social alienation―confusion. "Submission to authority, desire for a strong leader, subservience of the individual to the state, and so forth, have so frequently and, as it seems to us, correctly, been set forth as important aspects of the Nazi creed that a search for correlates of prejudice had naturally to take these attitudes into account."  Ibid.

    With God's response to Adam's abdication of the paradigm of obedience and belief  "Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife: and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: ...." you can hear: "Why did you let social identity, social relationships―discourse overrule your identity with me―obedience?" "Why did you shift from a didactical, patriarchal, obedience-based paradigm to a dialectical, heresiarchal, evaluation-based paradigm?" "Why did you abdicate the office of authority I placed you in." 

For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1:21, 18

PRIDE

"Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed." Isaiah 2:3

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." Ephesians 2:8, 9

"Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies." Psalms 40:4

"Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished." Proverbs 16:5

MAKING CHANGE EASY

    By replacing inculcation with discourse, change can be made easy―this is what re-education means.  The role of the facilitator is to initiate and sustain discourse as the means of discovering and internalizing "truth" which is ever changing: "Truth and knowledge are only relative and that there are no hard and fast truths which exist for all time and places."  Benjamin Bloom Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Book I Cognitive Domain p. 32  "In the eyes of the dialectical process, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred." Karl Marx  "All is in flux ... process of truth seeking itself." G. Hegel 

    This is the same dialectical method Satan used on Eve in the garden of Eden. Self and environment can become united through discourse. A person's religious foundation, his didactic, patriarchal paradigm, is annihilated the moment he theoretically discourses categorical imperatives with himself and the world.  Instead of learning the truth about himself and the world, through teaching and preaching, he can now "discover" it for himself. Truth lies within self and the universe; it is cosmic based. Within this "scientific" method (materialism) lies the potential for self-actualization, self fulfillment, the self and the universe can become united―the discursive collective "rational" society realized―"but the ends thereof are the ways of death." Proverbs 16:25

THE DIALECTICAL PROCESS IS SO-CALLED SCIENCE

"O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen. 1 Timothy 6:20, 21

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. Therefore let no man glory in men. 1 Corinthians 3:18-21

    In the didactic, patriarchal paradigm analysis reveals whether you know the truth, whether you heard it (ears that can hear―faith comes by hearing),  and whether you comprehend the truth (based upon obedience, not based upon intellectual-experiential understanding, i.e. Gnostic). You must obey the truth (faith, belief), and apply the truth as directed (be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only). Analysis is whether you did these three things: know, comprehend, and apply the truth, in other words, whether you listened and obeyed.

"And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable." Isaiah 3:4, 5

"Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble." 1 Peter 5:5

    To circumvent antithesis (obey vs. disobedience) requires discourse between you and yourself concerning the situation, the environment, the social press you find yourself in. You can actually talk to yourself and argue with yourself―self discourse. Self-justification is possible when the issue of antithesis (right vs. wrong) is overcome (circumvented) through the act of speculative discourse, making that option (obey vs. disobey) imperceptible. The conscience will kick in only afterwards, if it does at all, and then we usually justify, to ourselves, what we did was necessary for our promotion, our grade, our next term in office, or respect in the "village," in the moment.  If we don't justify we tend to go into depression because the moment of truth was lost and we willfully participated in its demise, we took part in the promotion of a "living" lie, living in that it will bring the next group of victims under the same beast you help actualize not only with your participation but also with your name.

"During the period of innovation, an environment is invisible. The present is always invisible because the whole field of attention is so saturated with it. It becomes visible only when is has been superseded by a new environment."  Behavior Science in Teacher Education Program 1969

    Discourse liberates you from categorical imperatives―unquestionable and universal commands.  Unquestioned categorical imperatives subject you to a religious foundation―fundamentalism with its objective truth (mandated obedience). The outcome then is no longer an issue of obedience to a higher authority but rather whether you used a rational, practical process in your quest for homeostasis within the cosmos―world peace. A rational, experiential process, not obedience, becomes the method for knowing your purpose in life (Gnosticism). "One of the things I love about Peter Drucker is that he helps those of us in non-profit ministry to figure out what is the purpose." Rick Warren.  Source: CNBC video on Peter Drucker  Your worth is dependent upon your willingness to participate in the change process to "discover" purpose in life.  If you do not participate or if you associate with others who refuse to participate you will be extruded.

"Eventually, the group will extrude the deviant.…deviant because of their interpersonal behavior in the group sessions and not because of a deviant life style or past history.…communication toward a deviant is very great initially and then drops off sharply as the group rejects the deviant. They may smile at one another when he speaks or behaves irrelevantly; they will mascot him, they will ignore him rather than invest the necessary time to understand his interventions." Irvin Yalom Theory and Practice and Group Psychotherapy 

    This is the "good news" of the Apostate, dopamine driven, synergistic church of today.  Believers are experiencing the back hand and the back door of this fellowship. 

    When you have been booted out or leave on your own, don't expect to hear from your "friends." They won't call to find out what happened.  If perchance they do it will only be to justify their willingness to stay in the absconder church. Things are not as they appear.  It is not that you have forsaken the fellowship of saints, it is that the church is no longer a fellowship of saints. It is practicing an altered state of "koinonia" (κοινωνία―fellowship).

     The Bible is throughout declaring a Patriarchal paradigm; restoring hearts to a loving Heavenly Father, and revealing his grace and mercy toward those who cry out for his help, who ask for forgiveness and who repent, and his love towards those who obey. God curses those who reject this paradigm.

"For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse."  Malachi 4:1-6

SIN

"And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him." Genesis 4:6-8

    Sin in a didactic, patriarchal paradigm is disobedience to the instructor: willful failure to listen to the instructor, willful failure to obey the instructor, and willful failure in applying the instructions as directed by the instructor. Sounds like the traditional classroom.  One's actions most often practiced (praxis) in the classroom is "self-control" or "self-discipline."  It is understood, if you were talking to your self (daydreaming―staring out the window―"imagination of the heart"―fixing a "felt" need i.e. having a dopamine moment) or talking to others, you were not listening to the instructor.

    Sin in the didactic paradigm is estrangement of man from God or higher authority―spiritual alienation, and can only be overcome by the conditions established by God―by the one who states I Am―"Because I said so." Any action which interferes with this outcome is treated as anarchy/apostasy and such teaching is considered treason/heresy. Such a process can not be tolerated because of its nature of destruction to the individual, family, citizen, and country. Laws are only changeable according to the dictates of God or higher authority (in a Constitutional Republic, the principled representative elected by the citizens and the citizens themselves―all persuaded by the contract over all).  For example; read George Washington's Fare Well Address.  Laws and truths are seen as established (Lex-Rex) and any other way of thinking is considered subversive or evil. The statement "[We] must develop persons who see non-influencability of private convictions in joint deliberations as a vice rather than a virtue." would be understood as evil in intent.  Source: Kenneth Benne  Human Relations in Curriculum Change

    "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
    Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
    I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine." John 10:1-14

"In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred."  Karl Marx

"When a man has finally reached the point where he does not think he knows it better than others, that is when he has become indifferent to what they have done badly and he is interested only in what they have done right, then peace and affirmation have come to him."
G. F. W. Hegel, in one of the casual notes preserved at Widener.

    Sin in a dialectical, heresiarchal, cosmic bound paradigm, is unquestioned obedience to the instructor: listening to the instructor, obeying the instructor, and applying the instructions as directed by the instructor without questioning the office and the commands of the instructor in light of the environment―the  situation.  In this classroom you must "think outside the box," the "didactic, patriarchal box" that is. You must question the didactic, patriarchal instructor ("Question authority," "Question everything") so you can hear all the voices around you, so you can sense the environment, the cosmos, incorporate the deviant, and let it reveal its "truth" to you.  You must know how to feel others "feeling," and to think others "thinking."  All is in the process of becoming.

    To infringe upon this transforming or emerging outcome is to be in sin. Christians are being removed from the institutional "Church" of today because they are hurting "feelings," causing dissension within the group. Their fault is having a desire to return to the Word of God as their foundation instead of building upon this "group hug," "group think," systems thinking process.

A church is apostate the moment its leadership discourses what God calls an abomination in an effort to find common ground.

"To study something means to study it in the process of change; that is the dialectical method's basic demand." L. S. Vygotsky Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes

    Sin in the dialectical paradigm is "the estrangement of man from man." Paul Tillich   Temporal alienation can only be overcome by arriving at a collective self―the We. "Then both parties recognize their rigidified position in relation to each other as the result of detachment and abstraction from their common life context. And in the latter, the dialogic relation of recognizing oneself in the other, they experience the common ground of their existence." Jürgen Habermas The Idea of the Theory of Knowledge as Social Theory  Any established truth which interfere with this outcome, which is not experientially comprehendible, is treated as an inhibitor, a barrier. The testimony of socio-psychologists give witness to the universal desired to overcome a biblical paradigm, according to them, an inhibitor to social harmony―therefore the need for ecumenical movements―diapraxis.com.

"Neither the Bible nor the prophets, neither the revelations of God can take precedence over my own direct experience." "Experience is, for me, the highest authority." "The individual in such a moment, is coming to be what he is. He has experienced himself. He has become what he is." "Existential living is to say that the self and personality emerge from experience. It means that one becomes a participant in and an observer of the ongoing process of organismic experience." Carl Rogers On becoming a person

"A stranger, even if his name were God, who imposes commands upon us must be resisted, he must be killed because nobody can stand him." Paul Tillich

"The answer to man's predicament lies in the realization by individual man, that all men are essentially one and that the one is God. This self-realization is a 'return' to union: potential becomes actual. He is telling those Christians who can hear that they can accept humanism without relinquishing Christianity if they will accept man as the true meaning of God." "Humanism asserts that the test of human conduct must be found in human experience; concern for man replaces concern about pleasing God." "Humanism elevates man to the rank of God." "Tillich's message is that God is man, mankind, humanity." Leonard Wheat Paul Tillich's Dialectical Humanism

"Techniques for overcoming resistance, developed mainly in the field of individual psychotherapy, can be improved and adapted for use with groups and even for use on a mass scale." Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality

A "change agent... should know about the process of change, how it takes place and the attitudes, values and behaviors that usually act as barriers.... He should know who in his system are the 'defenders' or resisters of innovations." Ronald Havelock, A Change Agent's Guide to Innovation in Education.

Working through the resistances to change is the key to the production of change." Irvin Yalom Theory and Practice and Group Psychotherapy

"If a paradigm is ever to triumph it must gain some first supporters, men who will develop it to the point where hardheaded arguments can be produced and multiplied . . . the man who continues to resist after his whole profession has been converted is ipso facto ceased to be a scientist." Thomas Kuhn  The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Self and environment reconciled: the degeneration of mans soul.

"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

    According to the dialectical praxis where self and environment are reconciled, man and his laws must unremittingly be reborn―re-educated, "life long learning,"―again and again in the group. They must follow the changing, relativistic, postmodern voice of "group think" i.e. continuous improvement, sustainable development, spiraling development, etc.  Set laws or truths must be subject to change as the "felt" needs of men change or else be considered as relics of the past and treated as "nonsense." "Laws must not fetter human life; but yield to it; they must change as the needs and capacities of the people change." Joseph O'Malley ed. Karl Marx's Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right.   "The individual is emancipated in the social group." Norman O. Brown Life Against Death

"Protestantism was the strongest force in the extension of cold rational individualism." Max Horkheimer Vernunft und Selbsterhaltung, p. 33

"It is not individualism that fulfills the individual, on the contrary it destroys him. Society is the necessary framework through which freedom and individuality are made realities… only in a socialist society." Karl Marx

    "Self-esteem" is a dopamine moment which emerges from "group-esteem"―respect of men―a collective dopamine moment known as consensus.  Therefore conditions which interfere with "self-esteem" must be experienced as non-sensuous and must be expunged from the individual's consciousness, his theorizing, his thinking, as well as from his environmental praxis.  The society in which he lives and the leaders whom he follows must not interfere with this dialectical praxis where self and environment are united for the common cosmic cause.

"For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not." Romans 7:18

"So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God." Romans 8:8

"For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." Romans 8:13

"But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof."  Romans 13:14

"Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." 1 Corinthians 15:50

"And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.  For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." Galatians 5:24; 6:8

"Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;" 1 Peter 2:11

"Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God." 1 Peter 4:1,2

"He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all." John 3:31 John the Baptist speaking of Jesus Christ

    According to the Transformational Marxist, Antonio Gramsci, "Truth is a moment in correct praxis."  This "logic" was the justification for the killing fields in the French, Russian, Chinese, etc revolutions―declaring war on and then killing their own citizens―removal of dopamine consuming "elements"―citizens labeled as preventing the use of, wasting, or hoarding "drug" money―storing up dopamine (pleasure) for themselves i.e. an elderly person, hanging on, using up their decedents, or the states "drug" money; the unborn child messing up a young girls life, interfering with her desires, her hopes, using up her "fun" time, her (and any one who has to help her) "drug" money. In other words, "our" money and time could be put to better use―to self and environment pleasure. 

    Removing "social capital,"―themselves, their children, their company, their associates, their fellowship, etc.―from the common community is likewise associated with hording for the same reasons. Behavior which interferes with or prevents the common shared pleasure of social relationships must be identified and the person or persons counseled and medicated, if "necessary"―"therapy for normals,"―to bring them back into right alignment with themselves and the environment.  Despite the effort of those applying this method to achieve "world peace," the outcome has always been the same―ruthlessness.  It is always brutal to those who suffer at the hand of its disciples―lovers of pleasure, the approval of men―who are always "justified" in being heartless, for the sake of the common good, the common cause.

"But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now." Galatians 4:29

"And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration." Revelation 17:6 [Read the book of Revelation. The patience of the Saints, and God's judgment.]

    Those who interfere with the collective enjoyment of this life must be eliminated, as is being done in American today.  Abortion, euthanasia, etc. can only be justified through its praxis.  This means the laws of the flesh (sensual laws―man's natural inclinations) must be both "rationally" and "experientially" liberated from spiritual laws, as well as God created natural laws which repress the human body and its natural "felt" needs―approach pleasure, avoid pain. 

     According to this process the heavenly environment, revealed to us through God's Word and His Holy Spirit, must be integrated with a focus upon the earthy environment, mankind's common "felt" needs. The only way this can be attempted, as demonstrated by Satan, Adam, and Eve in the Garden of Eden, is to paraphrase God's Word, put it in opinion format, then praxis the dialectical process by synthesizing it with self and the environmental press―common "felt" needs i.e. desire for pleasure, for personal and social peace and harmony and avoid pain.  You can cover this process with all the "scriptures" you process and pick, but it will always produce the same outcome―persecution of the righteous―always!

"And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation." 2 Corinthians 5:18, 19

    Those who praxis the dialectical paradigm believe that those who praxis the didactic paradigm can not escape its influence without their assistance.  Without them, all efforts will leave the person  inhibited. "Often this is too challenging a goal for the individual to achieve on his own, and the net effect is either maladjustment or the embracing of a philosophy of life developed by others." David Krathwohl and Benjamin Bloom Taxonomy of Educational Objective: Book II Affective Domain  pp. 165, 166   (Bloom then references the Transformational Marxists and Critical Theorists, Theodor Adorno and Erick Fromm, as his Weltanschauung¹―his world view, his paradigm. Fromm wrote: "In the process of history man gives birth to himself. He becomes what he potentially is, and he attains what the serpent--the symbol of wisdom and rebellion--promised, and what the patriarchal, jealous God of Adam did not wish: that man would become like God himself." Erick Fromm You shall be as gods)

You must choose which definition to accept: God's or Man's

"A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways." James 1:8

"That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;"  Ephesians 4:14

"And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinion?  If the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.  And the people answered him not a word." 1 Kings 18:21

The person with a conscience must go through confusion to come to consensus,
and lose his soul along the way.

    According to the dialectical paradigm, inhibition (a persons inability to move, to make a decision, one way or the other) is produced when he is fearful of pain―seen as punishment for bad behavior―and therefore he is unable to make up his mind on how to respond to the situation for his and everyone else's best purpose.  Inhibition is therefore due to a lack of information. This is because a person's barrier behavior―inculcated principles and standards―prevents him from evaluating the whole environment for answers. The right answers are dependent upon the right questions asked.  If the questions relate to the standards one is holding on to (facts) he will not come up with the right answers.  Thus the questions are asked by the facilitator, or those who have been facilitated.  Their questions deal with feelings and thoughts which will generate the right answers for group focus. In his quest for play behavior―pleasure, approval―deviancy in the environment must be included.  This condition, according to dialectical thinking, can only be overcome through the uniting of the secular (self) and the sacred (the environment)―the "significant" other (in liberal terms)―through discourse.  Discourse in this setting can only be theoretical, speculative, heretical.  In the discourse, the truth and facts are dismissed and feelings and justification take their place―similar replaces contrast.

"Religion and science can be kept apart, indeed, one is able to do conscientious screening and not let one activity impede the other―in short, it is an exercise in 'role playing.'" J. L. Moreno Who Shall Survive?

    The very moment one begins to discourses categorical imperatives he has shifted his focus from the heavenly environment―obedience, to the earthly environment―compromise. This is done because discourse with the earthly environment violates the heavenly environment and validates the earthly environment.  The earthly environment becomes the arena for setting norms. The person will always find and build upon what both self and environment have in common―to approach pleasure and avoid pain―physically, mentally, and socially.

    When the secular and the sacred are united in this diabolical way, the secular (similar―approach pleasure, avoid pain) always negates the sacred (contrast―obey-don't disobey).  The distinction between secular and sacred then becomes blurred or disappears. This is the method used to overcome the restrainer of temporal desires (classified as repression) and to expunge from society―the environment― the source of cosmic alienation, the patriarchal God of the Garden of Eden and those who obey him and praxis his paradigm. This is man's effort to resurrect the body.

CHOOSE TODAY WHO YOU WILL SERVE

"No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."  Luke 16:13

    The difference between these two paradigms is revealed to us throughout the scriptures.  Adam and Eve, and all mankind following, have praxised the dialectic paradigm―disobeyed God.  Jesus Christ praxised the didactic paradigm―He obeyed the Father.  He obeyed the instructor, denying himself, humbling himself, to redeem us from the instructor's wrath, which is upon all "children of disobedience." Ephesians 5:6; Colossians 3:6

    God's law is perfect. It converts the soul and reveals to us our carnal, pleasure-seeking nature (addiction) and our need for a savior (deliverance).  "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus" does not negate God's law which reveals our sin, but changes our hearts so his law is no longer a burden. It is recognized for what it is, spiritual, and is now loved. The instructor's correction and chastening―pain―is now comforting ("thy rod and thy staff they comfort me" Psalms 23:4).  Instead to the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil being desired, we now desire the Tree of Life―Jesus Christ.  One leads to death, the other is life.

"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." 2 Thessalonians 3:3-12

"Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle."  2 Thessalonians 3:15

    Our love of dopamine (pleasure) prevents us from naturally loving God's law.  His law reveals our love of dopamine. Put us in an environment of pleasure and we end up disobeying God's law, even when we say we believe it and desire to obey it―a belief-action dichotomy―James 1:14-15  Like a drug addict we can never overcome this condition on our own even with the help of a group.  Without Christ we can not not sin. In him we should not sin. The scriptures tell us not "when" we sin but "if" we sin. "And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation for our sins:" 1 John 2:1, 2 Read all of  1 John 2 for a great explanation of what God expects of us.

"For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica;" 2 Timothy 4:10

    Yet there are times in life where the battle between belief and desire is intense, a time we experience cognitive dissonance. We are caught in a state of cognitive dissonance when we do not set our mind on things above―Colossians 3:2.  Cognitive dissonance is "The lack of harmony between what one does and what one believes." "The pressure to change either one's behavior or ones belief."  Ernest R. Hilgard, Introduction to Psychology

"O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" Romans 7:24

    Nothing in the creation can redeem us from such addiction, it will only encourage it, and even convince us, when we are under its influence―self-environment dialectical harmony―that we are doing great things for God while we persecute those who warn us of its addictive power. The answer is found in Jesus Christ. "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin." Romans 7:25  But he must know you. He knows you when you know, comprehend, and apply his fathers will: "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 "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 It is an issue of obedience, not of self or group justification. We must obey him for he is our justification.  When we disobey him the world becomes our justification, and our friend. "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Mark 8:36 "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God." James 4:4

"Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." 1 John 4:17

    You will always justify pleasure and serve the god of your creation when you try to equate your self (love of self-dopamine-pleasure) with God and His love, i.e. humanize God and his word as Eve did in the Garden of Eden, and to evaluate from this praxis.  Through discourse, whether to your self or in a diverse group, you will lean on your own understanding, rely on your own sensuous perception of truth―seek to appear sensible.  This praxis of self-environmental synthesis ("love fest," "group hug") is the outcome of group consensus. To protect and preserve the institution of the brotherhood is where truth, and the righteous man who proclaims it, is often sacrificed.  "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." 2 Timothy 3:2-5  "Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them." Romans 1:32 "Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;" Hebrews 11:25

    The power of God comes from our obedience to him, not from our evaluation of him and his word in the "light" of our individual or collective wisdom (self justification). "Whoever/whatever makes me (us) feel good or important, I (we) will follow." This is the reasoning of the world and is the cosmic pathway to death. Broad is that pathway. "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Matthew 7:13, 14

    "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be."
    "So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.  And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness." Romans 8:2-10

"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.  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." 1 John 2:16, 17

"For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." Titus 2:11-14

"But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;"  Ephesians 5:3

 Approaching pleasure and avoiding pain 
The emerging church, a cult of pleasure

"If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable." 1 Corinthians 15:19

    The common thread of identity between mankind and his environment is to approach pleasure and to avoid pain.  Because we are created from the dust of the ground, apart from God we are temporal and carnal seeking in nature―fallen man.  Therefore our nature is to recognize and seek after pleasure and avoid pain (including reproof, chastening, etc). God created the neurons which transmit both pleasure and pain (touch, taste, smell, sound, and sight) to the brain for response. God created the brain which not only seeks to identify the source of the pleasure or pain, which the neurons recognized, but to evaluate and remember the event in an effort to continue, to restore, or to recreate the environment which triggered the pleasure neurons.

    We are also wired by God to use the body to remove ourselves from the environment where the source of pain came from or to use the body to conquer and remove from the environment the source of the pain.  We rationally seek to remove pain producing events from the environment so pleasure producing events can be maintained or restored.

    When the instinctual solutions of "fight or flight" do not seem to be an option the brain becomes confused, is inhibited, and remains in a state of compliance toward the source of the pain.  According to humanism, the inhibitor of the self seeking pleasure (union) with the environment is God, parent, laws, etc.  This condition is of interest to the dialecticians because fight and flight are hard-wired responses which lead to war between people and societies or leads to alienation between people and thus displaced societies, whereas inhibition is the brain frustrated in producing a "rational"  understanding of the environment in its effort to produce a "practical" peaceful (dopamine―homeostasis) solution. This the difference between Verstand (understanding by command) and Vernunft (understanding by reasoning). "'Vernunft' must regain the field from which it had been driven by the triumph of 'Verstand.' " Martin Jay The Dialectical Imagination  This also associated with the difference between '''gemeinschaft' and 'gesellschaft,' the difference between community and society; "the very existence of Gemeinschaft rests in the consciousness of belonging together and the affirmation of the condition of mutual dependence"  and Gesellschaft  "reference is only to the objective fact of a unity based on common traits and activities and other external phenomena" (Tonnies 1925: 69, 67).  As Jane Howard put it in her book, Please Touch, written about Esalen, California, the center for T-Group, the encounter movement "... the groups provide the right 'gemeinschaft' for the 'angsts' of our 'zeitgeist.'" Jane Howard Please Touch

    Therefore, according to this "thinking," when a command is given which can not be sensibly justified by the evaluation of the "here and now" environment, inhibition is produced.  The person's true identity with the world is incapable of expression, i.e. it is suppressed, and is thus forced into the unconscious mind, producing neurosis, repression, etc.  Thus, according this socialist biased "logic," passivity and aggression result from the self-environmental dialectical rift producing blind followers and fighters for a patriarch leader, i.e. Hitler. Every Bible preaching minister and God fearing Christian will be identified and responded to as such.  Any command which can not be "scientifically" rediscovered via discourse in the here and now environment must be identified as irrational and the one giving the command treated as a potential Hitler.

   "An attitude of complete submissiveness toward ‘supernatural forces' and a readiness to accept the essential incomprehensibility of ‘many important things' strongly suggest the persistence in the individual of infantile attitudes toward the parents, that is to say, of authoritarian submission in a very pure form." "Authoritarian submission was conceived of as a very general attitude that would be evoked in relation to a variety of authority figures‑‑parents, older people, leaders, supernatural power, and so forth." "It is a well-known hypothesis that susceptibility to fascism is most characteristically a middle-class phenomenon, that it is ‘in the culture' and, hence, that those who conform the most to this culture will be the most prejudiced." "Superstition indicates a tendency to shift responsibility from within the individual onto outside forces beyond one's control . . . the ego has ‘given up,' renounced the idea that it might determine the individual's fate by overcoming external forces."

    "A tendency to transmit mainly a set of conventional rules and customs, may be considered as interfering with the development of a clear-cut personal identity in the growing child." "... dominated by the authoritarian aspects of the parent‑child relationship or by a more democratic type of relationship, the ability of the subject to appraise his parents objectively, as contrasted with an inclination to put the parents on a very high plane." "An important feature of the Nazi program, it will be recalled, was the defamation of everything that tended to make the individual aware of himself and his problems . . . every kind of psychology except aptitude testing came under attack." Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality

    In the format of the dialectical paradigm, this third way of response, inhibition, is where the discourse option becomes available for use by the facilitator, as it did for Satan, as he applied it on Eve in the Garden.  The person is talking to his self "in the moment," in the "here and now," to gather information on how to respond to the environment for the sake of escaping pain (unconscious desire for pleasure inhibited by a non-sensuous based command) and dialectically uniting with or restoring pleasure―via inductive reasoning, can and cannot is united in synthesis with the  praxis of negating (not accepting in discourse) the not part of cannot.  

    When self and environment are uniting in the moment, the eyes are wide open and Eros is calling.  According to the cosmic religion of the One World Order, instead of war or emigration, inhibition is the pathway, the necessary common battle ground in which to move mankind toward world peace.

    A condition is necessary where the options of fight and flight are frustrated in an effort to force discourse into action (theory and practice―individual-social discourse, i.e. interpersonal relationships).  When collective mankind ( the village, the community―that unity directly above the individual and the traditional family) is classified as the environment where self-environmental dialectical partnership can be "actualized" then discourse between the individual and the collective environment become the only avenue to collective pleasure―the pathway to world peace.

    Unity, homeostasis, harmony,  holism or wholism (a synthesis of God and religion, God—Gaia—must be "discovered," not from reading a book but by gazing into nature with an open mind and heart), etc. are all words identifying a moment in life where peace between self and the environment are actualized, where "All is well," where all individuals in the collective zeitgeist become self-actualized.  Yet all three options (obey, disobey, circumvent) leave man in his fallen carnal condition. The third option (circumvented antithesis) is the worse of all as it deceives man into thinking he has overcome life's problem of pain. This is the world of illusion, a world of "seems to", where truth which interferes with the illusion is seen as the source of confusion. It is the condition where citizens die at the hand of the state/nation/globalists. This option always declares war on its own citizens, and can not realize success until all citizens are participating in its illusion. In fact only those who are participants are considered citizens and are worthy of any protection based upon their worth "in the moment." Inalienable rights are replaced by socially necessitated privileges.

    Because the three options of fight, flight and inhibition are seen by the dialectical mind as the only natural responses to any barrier to pleasure, obedience to authority―which uses pain (physical, mental, and social) and thus becomes the gatekeeper of the land of pleasure (physical, mental, and social pleasure naturally found in the environment)―is seen as unnatural, as non-sensual. That is until they are in control. "Freud referred to as the group's ‘need to be governed by unrestricted force . . . it's extreme passion for authority . . . it's thirst for obedience.'"  "Among the strongest of these is man's need for an omnipotent, omniscient, omnicaring parent, which together with his infinite capacity for self-deception creates a yearning for and a belief in a superbeing." Irvin Yalom Theory and Practice and Group Psychotherapy  Of course they can lead since they will know what your "felt" needs are at the moment, via polls, surveys and feedback loops, etc. As Adam and Eve discovered in the Garden of Eden their evaluation Genesis 3:1-6  landed them into trouble with the gatekeeper of the land of pleasure―it is his property after all.

"The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself."
"The life which he has given to the object sets itself against him as an alien and hostile force."
Karl Marx MEGA I/3, pp. 83-84

    For Karl Marx this condition or paradigm (property rights, parents rights) was identified as the source for alienation and reification. Sigmund Freud saw it as the source of repression and sublimation. Both saw obedience to authority (religion) as the source of illusion, man's effort to avoid pain, forcing him in an unnatural, non material (spiritual) solution, detaching him from his "true" identity with the creation, i.e. materialism, producing a self-environmental dialectical rift.

    In a patriarchal paradigm, where war and emigration remain as viable options, where obedience is seen as the only right option, world unity is impossible. Wherever inhibition prevails (according to socio-psychologists―transformational Marxists―it correlates with obedience to authority―neurosis), the individual can not express himself but becomes a tool used by the one in authority for his personal gain.  He could talk to himself all day long but a collective environment of dissatisfied voices would be necessary to overthrow the one voice which was in authority, that voice demanding obedience ("Thou shalt have no other Gods before me"). 

"For a state to become a state it is necessary that the citizen cannot continually think of emigrating, but that the class of cultivators, no longer able to push to the outside, presses upon itself and is gathered into cities and urban professions. ... for a real state and a real government only develop when there is a difference of classes, when riches and poverty become very large and a situation arises where a great number of people can no longer satisfy its needs in the accustomed way."  Hegel Source: Carl Friedrich The Philosophy of Hegel

 The breeding ground for the global revolution of the 21st Century.

"In the beginning man gives birth to himself, he becomes what he potentially is. He became what Satan― the symbol of wisdom and rebellion―promised and which the patriarchal God of Adam did now wish, that man would become God himself." Erick Fromm.

    Cafe Houses and saloon's were the enclaves where European revolutions were bred in the 19th and 20th century.  The facilitated small group meetings of Total Quality Management, Total Quality Leadership, Transformational Outcome Based Education, Dare, Community Oriented Policing, HMO, School-To-Work, Church Growth- Emerging Church, United Nations, Council of Foreign Relations, etc. have become the breeding ground for the global revolution of the 21st Century.

    Freedom of speech in a dialectical paradigm is always bound to the collective voice.  Anything outside of the "group think" is seen as an enemy and as a potential source of pain.  Since people are programmed not to fight or flee in the process, they tend to glass over, become inhibited, regress, when you catch them without their "comrades" and you confront them with the pain of reality (with ultimatums, categorical imperatives, commands).  According to the theory and practice of the dialectical paradigm, until the environment changes into one which promotes the pleasure of interpersonal discourse (approach pleasure-positive) and one which also promotes the pain of social alienation (avoid pain-negative, the pain of alienation from God―Spiritual, is replaced with the pain of alienation from man―temporal/dopamine), mankind remains under the control of God, redefined as demiurge (the Gnostic god of repression), the source of alienation.

    Sophia (wisdom-the urge to know) along with Satan (the facilitator of rebellion) helped man actualize philosophy (love of wisdom) to rescue him for a didactic paradigm of obedience to authority, to take prisoner man's soul from God.

"In direct contrast to German philosophy, which descends from heaven to earth, here we ascend from earth to heaven." Karl Marx MEGA I/5
"Philosophy is not outside the world; it simply has a different kind of presence in the world. The world is its ground; it is the spiritual quintessence of its age. The world is the object of its enquiry and concern.; it is the wisdom of the world. Marx calls philosophy the activity of applying free reason, and divides it into two phases, theory and praxis." Joseph O'Malley  Ed. of Karl Marx Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right'

"Philosophy, in terms of the problems with which it deals, originates in the conflicts and difficulties of social life, in the relations of theory and practice." John Dewey Democracy and Education

". . . philosophy as struggle with . . . superstition is also and always enlightenment. Everything that is not reducible to number becomes illusion for the Enlightenment." Stephen Eric Bronner  Of Critical Theory and It Theorists

"Philosophy is the conscious effort to knit all knowledge and insight into a linguistic structure in which all things are called by their right names."  Max Horkheimer Eclipse of Reason  [Horkheimer references the Garden expulsion based upon language which Adam, (who named the animals) did not create and the Tower of Babel, again language created which was not from man direct environmental praxis.]

"Doubt is the starting point of modern philosophy. Rational doubts have been solved by rational answers. The irrational doubt has not disappeared and cannot disappear as long as man has not progressed from negative freedom to positive freedom.  Man is free from all ties binding him to spiritual authorities, but this very freedom leaves him alone and anxious, overwhelms him with a feeling of his own individual insignificance and powerlessness. We are proud that in his conduct of life man has become free from external authorities, which tell him what to do and what not to do." Erik Fromm Escape from Freedom

"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools," Romans 1:22  
"Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." 2 Timothy 3:7 
"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever." Psalms 111:10

DIALECTICAL COUNSELORS

"Universal Reconciliation - where reconciliation includes the interaction of human beings with nature, with animals, plants, and minerals." J. Habermas The Theory of Communicative Action., 1981 see F. Grenz, Adornos Philosophie, pp. 57-58

"What the great world needs, of course, is a little more Eros and less strife." "'Dialectical' dreamers." Norman O. Brown,  Life Against Death

"There is no type of past behavior too deviant for a group to accept once therapeutic group norms are established."  Irvin Yalom Theory and Practice and Group Psychotherapy

"… deviants because of their interpersonal behavior in the group sessions and not because of a deviant life style or past history." ibid

"The person at the peak [experience] is godlike . . . complete, loving, uncondemning, compassionate and accept[ing] of the world and of the person."  Abraham Maslow Toward A Psychology of Being

"Self-actualizing people have to a large extent transcended the values of their culture." A.H. Maslow The Farther Reaches of Human Nature

"They are not so much merely Americans as they are world citizens, members of the human species first and foremost." ibid

"It looks as if nudism is the first step toward ultimate free-animality-humanism. Must encourage it." "Nakedness is absolutely right. So is the attack on antieroticism, the Christian and Jewish foundations." Richard Lowery The Journals of Abraham Maslow

"Neither the Bible nor the prophets – neither Freud nor research – neither the revelations of God nor man – can take precedence over my own direct experience."  Carl Rogers On becoming a person

"The more that the client perceives the therapist as empathic, as having an unconditional regard for him, the more the client will move away from a static, fixed way of functioning, and the more he will move toward a fluid, changing way of functioning." Ibid

"The innermost core of man's nature, the base of his ‘animal nature,' is positive in nature."  Ibid

"Do we dare to generalize from this type of experience that if we cut through deeply enough to our organismic nature, that we find that man is a positive and social animal? This is the suggestion from our clinical experience."  Ibid

"‘Have you merely released the beast, the id, in man?' There is no beast in man. There is only man in man, and this we have been able to release." "The individual in such a moment, is coming to be what he is. He has experienced himself. He has become what he is." Ibid

"Doing what ‘feels right' proves to be a competent and trustworthy guide to behavior which is truly satisfying." When the individual is inwardly free, he chooses as the good life this process of becoming." Ibid

". . . to identify with more and more of the world, moving toward the ultimate of mysticism, a fusion with the world, or peak experience, cosmic consciousness, etc." Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p. 42

"One of the necessary foundations for self esteem is (esteem) respect and applause from other people." Ibid., p. 56

"In our democratic society, any enterprise--any individual--has its obligations to the whole." Ibid., p. 74.

"Tax credits would be given to the company that helps to improve the whole society, and helps to improve the democracy by helping to create democratic individuals." Ibid., p. 75.

"The more enlightened the religious institutions get, that is to say, the more liberal they get, the greater will be the advantage for an enterprise run in an enlightened way." Ibid., p. 293.

"This voice which really isn't you but tells you the way the world works is a direct attack on creativity. We have to work to remove it." Michael Ray, Ibid., p. 223.

"When we learn to silence the inner voice that judges yourself and others, there is no limit to what we can accomplish, individually and as part of a team. Absence of judgment makes you more receptive to innovative ideas." Michael Ray, Ibid., p. 225.

THE DIALECTICAL MAN;
THE DIALECTICAL CULTURE;
THE DIALECTICAL CHURCH

    "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet."
    "And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them." Romans 1:26-32

"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

AN OVERSEER OR A WOLF;
SERVE EITHER GOD OR MAMMON

"For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock."   Acts 20: 27-29

"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."  Matthew 6:24

The power of the We―Self-Actualization―The Collective Self
The corridor where dead men walk.

"O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself:
it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps."
Jeremiah 10:23b

"But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death." James 1:14-15

    Self does not care what happens to you, as long as you satisfy its desires. That is why you must get control over it, or it will take control of you. It will take over and possess you; it will own you, and it will approve of the environmental call, the collective voice, in the praxis of self-social justification.  It will neutralize, marginalize and if necessary remove you for the call of that voice.

"For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members." Romans 7: 18-23

    Self loves pleasure.  When we are placed in a pleasurable environment we are drawn towards it, i.e. our self nature draws us toward it. If you do not control this nature, it will draw you into the moment, into the "here and now." You will sell your soul for worldly (self-environment) pleasure.  The discourse between you and your self will always move you into the direction of pleasure, into self justification, into the love of the temporal creation. God gives us his word and his spirit to guide in proper praxis in regard to our relation with him and our human nature.  Genesis 3:6-24

"... she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; ... and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked?" Genesis 3:6, 7, 10, 11

    Defiance to God's command continually awakens our sensuous nature, our self identity,  our possibilities, our self actualization. We can now "live" (experience pleasure, praxis life) apart from God.  But for defiance to take place we must first be drawn into the praxis of justifying (sensuously reasoned discourse with ourselves and with others―the environment) our self's desire for pleasure, we must praxis self-environmental dialectical reasoning―a revolutionary, heresiarchal paradigm based upon human reasoning. This praxis negates the praxis of you under the authority of God, parent, law, etc.,―a patriarchal paradigm based upon obedience.  The praxis of defiance is based upon the voice of human reasoning.

"Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? ... Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife ..." Genesis 3:11, 17

    The brain is hard wired by God for the act of approaching pleasure and avoiding pain (temporal).  The restraint of its carnal nature is found in "every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."  Matthew 4:4  Because our natural inclination is to approach the pleasures of this life, the only protection we have from spiritual harm is found in obedience to God, i.e. proper behavior―faith. To the carnal man, "Christians" included, when this is not accepted, "fight or flight" or inhibition become the only options available.  Inhibition is where we wait for conditions to change so we can again gain control over the environment (fight, flee, or approach) for the sake of our pursuit of pleasure―self-environmental unity.

    Apart from obedience to God―faith in his word (spiritual)―we resort to fighting, fleeing, (based upon human reasoning) or inhibition (which cries for human reasoning). All are temporal.  Human reasoning (how we feel, and what we think; based upon our perception) can only assist us in approaching pleasure and avoid pain (temporal).

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." Ephesians 2:8, 9 
"For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith."  Romans 1:17

    God's word―unmingled with human reasoning―can only be perceived as an obstacle to our desired pleasure and our aversion toward pain. When we are afforded the opportunity (enticed) to mingle God's word with our human reasoning (diaprax-synthesis his word with our "felt" needs; i.e. compromise), our self-environmentally quest ("approach pleasure-avoid pain") is justified and our fear of God (it does not matter how you feel or what you think, obey me or else) is negated. Opinion and works negates faith. Thus our works (rationally justified purpose) for God and his church," seeming to be spiritual, are in reality temporal, based upon justifying our own selves―"What does this mean to me?" i.e. "What can I get out of this for me?"  "Christians" can thus praxis sin and still call it righteousness.

"And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works."  2 Corinthians 11: 14, 15     

Dialectical Christianity:
looking at the word of God through human eyes,
hearing the word of God through human ears, and
evaluating the word of God through human reasoning

     "A logical connection emerges with the anthropological perspective of the young Marx wherein ‘the eye becomes the human eye, the ear the human ear.'" Erich Fromm, Marx's Concept of Man 

Self abhors being humbled and hates being denied. It shuts its eyes and covers its ears and pouts when reproved. It is the defiant child within. Genesis 4:6-8

For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. Matthew 13:55

They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. Titus 1:16

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation. Matthew 12:43-45

Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon [immediately] with joy receiveth it; Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. Matthew 13:19-23
(emphasis added.  Note: The stony places are your friends:  if admiration of persons is your foundation, God's word can not take root, it will not be your foundation in evaluating yourself and your relationships.  When God's word becomes an offends to others and they start to turn away from you or persecute you, you will also be offended by his word and not stand, you will "wither away" Matthew 13:16.)

And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or not. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. Deuteronomy 8:2, 3

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. Isaiah 2:11

And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. Matthew 23:12

And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Philippians 2:8

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. James 4:6, 10

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: 1 Peter 5:6

It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:  If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself. 2 Timothy 2:11-13

For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Titus 2:11-14

Self is the democrat in you.

"Eros is fundamentally a desire for union with objects in the world."
"Eros is the foundation of morality." 
Norman O. Brown Life Against Death

"If if feels good, just do it."
Herbert Marcuse Eros and Civilization

    Self is the liberal, the democrat in you, always waiting to overthrow restraint and unite on the side of Eros. Self calls you reasonable, rational, practical, etc. when you side with it.  It applauds you, when you are critical of commands which interfere with this world's pleasures, when you portray those who give them as unreasonable, irrational, impractical, and when you question the integrity of those who give them, labeling them as the enemy, the resistor of change, the narrow-minded, the oppressor, the alienator, the trouble maker, the barriers of progress, the resistors of change, etc.

"The essence of man consists in desiring."
"Self-perfection of the human individual is fulfilled in union with the world in pleasure."
Norman O. Brown Life Against Death

    The Christian can not abdicate to self's earthly desires, its cosmic quest of oneness with the universe, its lust for pleasure, and expect to give witness to God above. We must, as John the Baptist stated, proclaiming to ourselves and others, "He [Jesus] must increase, but I must decrease." John 3:30 "And he [Jesus] said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me." Luke 9:23 Any other course takes away from the creator and into the creation.

"Man is free from all ties binding him to spiritual authorities, but this very freedom leaves him alone and anxious, overwhelms him with a feeling of his own individual insignificance and powerlessness." Erick Fromm Escape from Freedom

    Self finds purpose in life by experiencing oneness with the collective voice of acceptance (respect of men, a pleasurable moment), an environment void of any extrinsic voice of restrain and denial, a voice perceived as the source of physical, mental, and social pain.  Self finds peace with itself when it finds an environment in harmony with itself, accepting of all selves, in love with all selves. Self lusts for respect; it savors esteem. When it receives none, it wallows in pity, it sulks and blames those in the environment (which it sees as the source of its pain) as evil, as obstacles to pleasure, and worthy of removal. Self wills all this for the sake of pleasure and peace.

"Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen." Romans 1:25

    In the world of the collective self-esteem, hell is where the God of the Bible rules and heaven is found where the God of the Bible is negated―"negation of negation"―and replaced with a god of mans own making.  As John Dewey stated it, "God is the source of corruption in individuals."  To keep God in our discourse, the community of "Christians" must redefine him as seeking oneness, desiring harmony with the creation, where obedience toward him is filtered by our love for his creation, where god is in love with all who are in love with his creation (greens, socialist, globalists, humanists, ecumenicalists, etc.), where We is God, where God can have no being, no purpose, apart from us. It is not just we who are purpose driven, it is God himself. That driving purpose is discovered in unity. If world peace is to be found in a moment of collective self pleasure―wholism―the attributes of God (labeled as an aggressor, a blocker, a dominator, a self-seeker, a special interest pleader, etc) with his wrath against those of disobedience must be expunged from the self and the environment.  All is in the process of change, in the process of becoming―emerging. 

". . . to overthrow all conditions in which man is a debased, enslaved, neglected, contemptible being." "The critique of religion ends in the doctrine that man is the supreme being for man;" Karl Marx Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right' 

". . . liberals tend to view social problems as symptoms of the underlying social structure, while conservatives view them as results of individual incompetence or immorality. In short, political problems tend to be seen in moral rather than sociological terms." Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality

"[We] must develop persons who see non-influencability of private convictions [men with a strong conscience who must be persuaded with truth before the will change their position on a issue] in joint deliberations as a vice rather than a virtue." Kenneth Benne Human Relations in Curriculum Change (emphasis added)

     This god of man's making is not the God of the Bible.  This process is all about redefining God and his word in our minds (theory) and our actions (praxis) so we can individually and collectively feel good about ourselves and be less offensive toward others. This is all about us creating an environment for our selves where we can serve a god of our own creation (imagining-dreaming), a god of our own illusion (visioning), a god who is built upon our rational foundation (sensuous-Eros), a god who rules according to our terms (through discourse), where we do not have to live in his Kingdom but instead he can live in ours.  This is the foundation for a purpose-driven life, a purpose-driven church, a purpose-driven community, and a purpose-driven cosmos whose master is Satan, the prince of darkness, who savors the thing of man.

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins: Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:1-7

And so were the churches established in the faith, [delivered them the decrees for to keep] and increased in number daily. Acts 16:5

For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 3:11

And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Matthew 16:16-18

    A church can not emerge, it can only be built upon the cornerstone, Jesus Christ, and the revealing word of God  "Every word which proceedeth from the mouth of God."  It can not be built with the ever changing opinions of mankind. A Christian can not discover his purpose in this life through discourse-"theory and practice." His purpose is ordained of God. God does the calling and we do the knowing, through obedience. The true church is obedient to God above. As Jesus Christ, the head of the church, stated it, "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand."  John 10:27, 28

To believe or to evaluate

    When you share your opinion of God and His Word you are an evaluator.  A major tool utilized in education today are two books referred to as Bloom's Taxonomies.  The first book Taxonomy of Educational Objectives Book I: Cognitive Domain uses a pattern, from simple to complex, in the classroom to destabilize the student and prepare to shift him from an obedience-based paradigm to an evaluation paradigm, "a democratic ethic," for the purpose of social harmony. The sequence goes like this: 

Know
Comprehend
Application
Analysis
Synthesis
Evaluation. 

When applied to the behavior of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden we can recognize this pattern. 

Know: when told you can not do something, now you know. 

Comprehend: when the parent looks you in the eye and asks you sternly if you understand what they just said. This comprehending is not that you have an experiential-rational understanding of what you have just been told, but that you understand you will be punished if you do not do or learn what you have just been told. As the saying goes "What part of 'No" do you not understand."  This definition of comprehension is not where Bloom's material is taking teachers, students, and all of society. 

Application: when you disobey commands there are consequences. Despite the fact you may have momentarily gotten your way, done your thing, enjoyed yourself, the result will be painful.  The pain will not necessarily come from the self-environment encounter but from the one in authority who instructed in what you were to do and what you were not to do. 

Analysis: you comment to yourself on the way to the "woodshed" that what you did, disobey, was a dumb thing to do.  At this point we are simply revealing a belief-action dichotomy.  We do not always act according to our belief.  Our belief is not wrong, our actions are wrong.   God chastens those he loves.  "Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." "Boys will be boys" is not an accepted response.  Notice that Adam and Eve did not respond with an obedience based paradigm (believer) but an evaluation paradigm (evaluator).  The reason was they had already praxised the dialectical process which makes the environment the source of one's failure.  It is not my fault, it was her fault, it was the serpents fault, i.e. it was your fault God. There was no repentance in their heart, only self justification. They learned well in Satan's facilitating classroom.

    Bloom then takes us to the step applied in an experiential-experimental environment.

Synthesis: when we are not sure, do not have faith, our prior held standards are correct in light of current conditions, when we do not want to lose what we are familiar with and yet we want to be identified as reasonable in a given situation, we begin a process of finding similarities within the conflicting positions, we begin to evaluate the situation through our natural senses, through our perception.  When Eve was seduced, deceived and manipulated she simply replaced an obedience vs. disobedience, patriarchal paradigm with a scientific method which can be used on everything in the creation except between God and man. When applied to man it becomes "so called science,"  1 Timothy 6:20, which we are to avoid. To synthesize in light of God's word, one must partake of the forbidden fruit and find truth for themselves.  In true science God's laws, set in nature, will correct any of our opinions, but when we apply this process on man all we find is man's carnal nature, the laws of the flesh―approach pleasure, avoid pain. We find that part of man which identifies with the creation and not with the creator. All that which is of the world is lust of flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride of life.  This are not of God.  To mingle the two for the sake of "discovering" truth is to shift one's paradigm. This is what Eve did in the Garden of Eden.  The true science of we "ought to" build a bridge now became the false science of "ought to touch" in regards to disobedient desires. An internal catalyst, her natural desire for pleasure-lust, moving her toward an environment potential with disobedience.  The unique thing about the word "ought" is that when it is spoken we always accept it as good.  Synthesis can not begin without the permissive environment of "oughtiness"―self's point of view.

Evaluation: with this paradigm, "truth" can only be arrived at through mans temporal nature.  From our foundation of ought, our internal sense to bond with the creation, we evaluate the environment through our own perception, through our own senses.  Truth must now be discovered through observation and be repeatable―a materialist process, good for understanding rocks, plants, and animals― but in this process, "truth" is to be identified as man in harmony with the creation―man is just matter.  This is all Eve came up with in her praxis of evaluation in the Garden.  It is what we all will come up with our use of the same process.  God gave us the ability to evaluate so we could evaluate the world and man's nature from His Word, His commands, not so we could evaluate, heuristically, Him and His Word from our worldly nature our temporal perception.

    You are a believer when life is based upon the antithesis (right-wrong) of a didactic paradigm, where truth is set by God―established for all times, and for all people―and not set by the earthly environment―situational. You are either a believer or you are an evaluator―a materialist. God has established pre-set laws in the creation. We simply discover them via a scientific method.  As stated before, when we apply this scientific method to man we end up humanizing ourselves―truth is now based upon our senses.  When our senses become the basis of truth, God and his word become nonsense.  You can only have it one way or the other.  God and his word are spirit, non-sensuous. Jesus came in the flesh, revealing God in the flesh, yet the natural man still can not believe, "Can the dead rise?" To make God's word relevant to a sense-based world you must redefined God's word, make is sensible, to bring it into alignment with the sensuous world. This is the "rational" pathway the world has chosen to identify god, it is not the pathway to God,  His pathway requires faith in Him and His Word. It requires obedience.  It requires knowing, comprehending, application, and analysis, but not synthesis and not evaluation through our sensuous perception―"How did you feel when . . .?" and "What did you think when . . .?"

Evaluators are opinionated, believers are not.

    Believers do not have opinions.  Evaluators have opinions.  Evaluators are never sure of their outcome.  The next time someone tells you you are opinionated when you quote God's word, correct them by letting them know you are a believer and not an evaluator.  They are opinionated since only  evaluators have opinions―they are not sure. Believers are not opinionated―they are sure. The word of God is not by private interpretation (by human opinion), but God breathed (to be believed). Knower's are certain, thinkers are not.  You are either a knower or a thinker. You can either think upon that which you know, meditate, or you can think about your thinking, evaluate―speculate.

    Just realize that throughout history it has always been the evaluators who killed the believers.  Jesus declared that his kingdom is not of this world. He has not called those who follow him to kill anyone for his kingdom sake.  We can defend our families, our property, our nation, but we can not defend our faith. Liberals are always incorrectly blaming Christians for the wars of the world. Evaluators are the cause of wars, even if they call themselves Christians.

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. James 4:2, 3

    "I deserve" is the cry of the "ought" within us (our :id," crying out for our "ego," seeking to change the paradigm from conscience to "superego," from "is" to "can be").  It is the wicked child―our natural inclination―which wants its way.  It is the justifier of immorality, of rape, and of murder. 

    "In psychology, Freud and his followers have presented convincing arguments that the id, man's basic and unconscious nature, is primarily made up of instincts which would, if permitted expression, result in incest, murder, and other crimes." "The whole problem of therapy, as seen by this group, is how to hold these untamed forces in check in a wholesome and constructive manner, rather than in the costly fashion of the neurotic." Carl Rogers in his book on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy

    "Infants are absorbed in their own bodies; they are in love with themselves."  "What the child knows consciously and the adult unconsciously, is that we are nothing but body."  "Life is of the body and only life creates value; all values are bodily values."  "The true life of the body is also the life of the id."  "In the id, says Freud, there is nothing corresponding to the act of negation."  "The key to the nature of dialectical thinking may lie in psychoanalysis, more specifically in Freud's psychoanalysis of negation." "Freud saw that in the id there is no negation, only affirmation and eternity."  "In the id there is nothing corresponding to the idea of time. A healthy human being, in whom ego and id were unified, would not live in time." "Only the abolition of guilt can abolish time."
    "Parental discipline, religious denunciation of bodily pleasure, . . . have all left man overly docile, but secretly in his unconscious unconvinced, and therefore neurotic." "The bondage of all cultures to their cultural heritage is a neurotic construction."     "Neurotic symptoms, with their fixations on perversions and obscenities, demonstrate the refusal of the unconscious essence of our being to acquiesce in the dualism of flesh and spirit, higher and lower." "The new guilt complex appears to be historically connected with the rise of patriarchal religion (for the Western development the Hebrews are decisive)." "The guilty conscience is formed in childhood by the incorporation of the parents and the wish to be father of oneself." "We must return to Freud and say that incest guilt created the familial organization." Norman O. Brown  Life Against Death

    "How to convert the perception of favored principles by those who hold them from dogmas [belief] to 'hypotheses' [opinions] remains a central problem for democratic social engineers." Kenneth Benne Human Relations in Curriculum Change

    With God we deserve nothing. Not until you realize that will you understand God's mercy, not receiving that which you do deserve, and his grace, receiving that which you do not deserve. This process seeks to negate God's way (obedience, where he is our justification) in favor of mans way (evaluation, where justification is found through the evaluation of the environment in the "light of self" and the evaluation of the self in "light of the environment"―a self-environmental dialectical praxis―temporal, carnal, consensuous, contemporary, where ego, id, and "conscience" unite in the "group think," "group hug," "love fest,"  where "mother earth,"  the Buddhists,  the environmentalist, the humanists, the socialists, the globalists,  the internationalist, the "cosmic forces," the religions of the world can unite with apostate church and worship at the alter of Eros).

    Believers are to be a witnesses (martyr) for the truth.  Evaluators are those who market what "seems to" be right in the "here and now," but what leads to death in the "there and then". As darkness can not comprehend the light, evaluators can not comprehend obedience and truth.  "Truth," for them, can only come from evaluation, through consensus, the merging of feelings and thinking in experiencing, through the imagination of the heart, through socially praxis. It is Karl Marx and Benjamin Bloom, and all who think like them―enlightened, following the paradigm of Lucifer―who take all who follow them into eternal damnation.

    There is only one name given among men whereby we must be saved, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. All other ways which man tries to approach God are via the praxis of evaluation―a way which leads not to God but to death.  You must believe upon Him or you can not be saved.  God's wrath is upon the children of disobedience, the evaluators of this world. Jesus told us that the world does not hate us, the believer, but that it hates Jesus Christ himself, the foundation and justification for believing. The only act of evaluation a believer must praxis is to evaluate his self according to God's word, God's commands, and obey His commands. Then and only then is he to evaluate the environment he finds himself in, according to God's commands. To praxis the dialectical process is to evaluate the environment in accordance to a discursive collective perception―consensus―which is death to one's soul.

II Corinthians 10

    Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
    For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)  Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
    Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
    For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present. For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
    But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ: Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
    But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

A closing explanation of the end of the ages.

"What concord [agreement] has Christ with Belial?" 2 Corinthians 6:15

    The pathway of the world is where self and environment are united in praxis. Satan was the first evaluator to assist man in this diabolical journey of death. Evaluators base their outcome upon the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.  In an environment of pain when fighting and fleeing are not available then the only other option they accept is either inhibition or, with the assistance of a third party, the evaluation of the environment to displace the pain with pleasure. In other words to rearrange the environment mentally, emotionally, and physically, to overcome the source of pain.

"Theory X and Theory Y were based upon Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory [and] are assumptions which play a large role in the development of management styles. The evidence upon which Theory X management is based is practically nil." Maslow on Management, Abraham Maslow, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1998. p 69

    The alternative of obedience to God by faith is not accepted. It must be treated as theory X.  In this system of thinking (systems thinking), obedience to one in authority, an authority which does not always grant us our natural desire for pleasure and demands we obey him even in pain, must not be recognized, or included in the outcome. Any such condition must be circumvented.  The changing of the environmental forces, replacing negative forces with positive forces, through "rational," "practical," discourse, becomes the only option acceptable.  This process is at the heart of the New World Order. It is the beast itself.  

    It is the same process used by every person who disobeys God and goes their own way (chasing after the "here and now," pleasure―dopamine), discoursing within themselves and with the world―"justifying" their desires and actions.  Whether it was Adam and Eve, the 10 spies, king David, the scribes and Pharisees (reasoning amongst themselves), etc. it is the same method used to "not" disobey God, but via the "third way," (1-obey, 2-disobey, 3-dialogue) to justify ones desires―self justification-self/dopamine based preservation. It is the way of antichrist, it is the way of the whore, it is the way of the beast, it is the way of death and eternal damnation.

    All looked into the environment and evaluated from their own self-seeking, pleasure-based mind (they set their mind on things below) and sinned against God. The paradigm of right-wrong, obey-disobey disappeared in the paradigm of evaluation.  Only some, after the sin of "honest doubt," of process,  become conscious of their disobedience and like the prodigal son, repented of their sin.  For most, the paradigm of obedience-disobedience and thus the need for repentance is forever lost, characterized as nonsense. The wickedness of man, eternal damnation, the shed blood, resurrection and judgment of the lamb are all overshadowed with the "felt" needs of mankind.  This is the mind of the reprobate, the mind of abomination, the dialectical mind, the mind ripe for judgment.

    It is impossible to praxis the dialectical process―the "rational" evaluation of God's word via man's senses―and keep your faith in God. It is impossible to please God―to accurately evaluate and judge your senses, your self, your praxis, with God's word―without faith. "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." Hebrews 11:6

For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 1 Corinthians 15:21, 22

"For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous." Romans 5:19

Romans 8:1-39

    "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

    For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.

    Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

    Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

    The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

    For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

    For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

    And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

    What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

    Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:1-39

"And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved." Matthew 10:21, 22

"Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin." Hebrews 12:2, 4

    None of these verses build their foundation on a dialectical praxis.  There is no dopamine in the act of enduring, only the assurance of the Holy Spirit; make sure your hope is in Christ Jesus, in his shed blood, in his death, and in his resurrection. In all this we have a joy which is indescribable in human words and a peace which is far beyond all our human understanding.  What profit is it for you, like Esau, Hebrews 12:16, to sell your soul for a dopamine moment, for social harmony, for cosmic oneness, all of which will perish in this life?  And worse of all to spend eternity in Hell and the lake of fire, when, for abiding and enduring in Christ Jesus in this life, you can have eternity life with Him in heaven. 

"Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb." Revelation 19:19

    "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
    Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
    But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ." 1 Corinthians 2:9-16

    Jesus Christ has gone to prepare a place for those who's names are written in the book of life (Revelation 20:12), a place of such beauty, which eye has not seen, nor ear heard, where there will be no tears and no pain. If you do not know him as your Lord and Savior, repent―quit the justifying, stop the dialoging, and trust in him with all your heart and obey his commands. This is not an "intellectual," human reasoning, "group think" process. It is accepting him into your life as an obedient child, and in simple faith, doing it His way. "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     Accept John 3:16 and praxis Colossians 3:1-5.  If you want to know more about Christ Jesus or need someone to talk to, in your walk with him, you can call Pastor John E. Coleman at 800-872-4309 or 323-293-7335.  You can e-mail John via. his web site johnecoleman.org.  Pastor John Swan can be reached at 916-230-2703 and James Borchert can be reached at emmanueltx.com

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your paths." Proverb. 3: 5-6

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