“I have set the Lord always before me; Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved (Psalm 16:8).”
Man and woman are divine creations. Yet in darkness, in sin, man chose to walk away from God and in darkness we make our own stuff up. There are countless examples of this. One such recent example is the “Progressive Christian” Jack Bergstrand, the Author of “Christianity Without Dogma: A Personalized Way to Deconstruct Christian Beliefs and Practices”. In the darkness of separation from God, individuals distort themselves and claim, “this is who I am” and “I must be true to my own truth.” Activism becomes sacrament/liturgy. Truth becomes the biggest or loudest fist in the air goose-marching; there is a bullhorn/microphoneology. This life is not about our glory, it never has been, we have forgotten our place and in so doing, in this darkness/blindness we have created an alternative fake Jesus where we claim His love and compassion and justify: the murder of millions of babies who pay the high price of the darkened selfish, me first heart of entitlement. .
Mankind camouflages themselves by appropriating the promise seal of the rainbow, they dress themselves in bright vestments, call rational thinking hateful, fear (phobia) or choice and change or twist the meaning of words; the making of letters, pronouns, and phobias there is no end. Human rights become the god of the lost. Human rights center on “me” the lowest entitlement culture manifested in selfies and so-called ego influencers. Shame and fear are to be avoided at all costs. This is what darkness does, it keeps one in ignorance and delusion, in other words death. The mantra of darkness, “give me what I want, when I want it, and I will be happy, and I will do what I want when I want to. There is no judgement; affirm me, pay tribute to me. When God is brought into the conversation He is created in man’s image (Classic to “Christian Evangelical Universalism") as soft and medicinal choosing to ignore or cancel out our Sovereigns other attributes. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it” (Jeremiah 17:9)?
Fundamental to the success of pluralism, any source that claims to be the standard of truth must be torn down. If there be no standard to refer to that measures truth, then pluralism can claim to be that standard. Pluralism believes that one group cannot lay claim to ultimate truth. In doing so, that group would exclude others and therefore devalue the people of other groups. Transgenderism and homosexuality have become acceptable in many gatherings. This is yet another offshoot consequence of pluralism. In the remaking of God, in whatever image seems desirable, and with the failure to recognize the Bible as the actual Word of God, blasphemous statements as the one that follows become increasingly commonplace. “It is sad that the Bible contains Paul’s homophobic pronouncements, misogynistic statements and pro-slavery sentiments; however, Paul’s shortcomings need not become ours.”[1] It is inconceivable that such a quote can be found in a magazine that claims to represent the largest “Protestant” denomination in Canada. The author of this quote shows a complete lack of biblical illiteracy.
It is one thing to label the Christian a homophobe for disagreeing with men engaging in sexual activity with other men and women engaging in sexual activity with other women, it is quite another to tear pages out of the Bible simply because those pages condemn their behavior. It is also intolerable to call Paul a homophobe. Paul’s writings are a part of the inspiration of scripture. To call Paul a homophobe is to call the Holy Spirit the same since He inspired and moved Paul to write his “homophobic pronouncements, misogynistic statements and pro-slavery sentiments.” For man is in darkness. When one is in darkness his vision is limited to darkness, when one is blind, there is no seeing. In darkness man postulates to follow the heart, his own “light”; the very last thing we should be doing. In the darkness their is the making of letters, pronouns, and phobias which have no end.
To be continued...
[1]The United Church Observer (Vol.63 No.5 Dec 1999 Letters):3
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