The missing

I'm going to say it again: read Diana West's American Betrayal.

It is about the entire Western world, not just America. 

It is epic. It is an epic unfolding of the fall of our world in the 20th century. 

It is not same-old, same-old history on familiar themes. It is about the evil of anti-Christ, principalities, the dark forces of this world, on epic scale.

It is not conspiracy theory. It is mainstream in that sense. Real events. 

I've just read chapter 8, which is an epic chapter. 

It is really the only thing that can give you the true context to understand the lunacy of the times we are in. Lunacy of media, the political class, the collective impotence of those who know better. Including the lunacy of Islam right now.

I said it on my blog, this is the usually secret, or esoteric, history of anti-Christ - usually left to non-mainstream writers, and usually presented with a lot of needless, wild silliness - written by a mainstream and unusual in a good way writer (she has unusual discernment and value for all that is not darkness and lunacy). This is why there was an explosion of denouncement when it was published, though praised by the hardened and now worldly freedom fighters emerged from the hell she describes itself.

It is a unified story. The epic theme is the missing theme of the unwritten great novel, the deep story of this era. It is central and foundational and real understanding of these times is only partial and shattered without it. - C.

[Originally an email.]

The connection between Critical Theory demoniacs and Critical Text Bible scholars

George Steiner in his Preface to his book Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism talks common-sense on modern critical theory which can be applied to critical text scholars in the biblical realm. He writes of their activity as "...the display of analytic acrobatics in a house of mirrors." One may not associate that radical a degree of asinine theoretical involvement with the text of Scripture by critical text types, yet it is still there. They'll make up any rule, find any justification, read into anything what they need to see in it to get what they want out of it.

But here is the real connection: the Narcissistic arrogance. The looking down on the text as if it is a mere document. The assumption that the Bible needs them (scholars) more than they need it. Look at Steiner's words here directed at deconstructionists and their fellow travelers, and see how they also apply to critical text scholars of the Bible:

"The Narcissist arrogance (the semiotic anatomist is axiomatically more intelligent, more knowing, more important than the text on which he operates), the espousal of a pseudo -scientific jargon, the covert thrill of violence implicit in current interpretative methods, raise larger issues."

For the biblical scholar those "larger issues" are the very attitude that is more worldly and in fear and reverence of the world than is godly (and other-worldly) and in fear and reverence of God and God's revelation alone. Regeneration is also a larger issue. The practical and open atheism of biblical critical text scholars is an ongoing bad joke exposing the hand of the Devil in their works and in the acceptance of their work by rank and file Christians in general.

Don't be the 'sheep' of an academic

"A faithful pastor preaches the Word, administers the sacraments, and looks after the flock with the elders. Faithful believers are also content with this ordinary ministry." - Michael Horton

This is a recipe for a Christian army of spiritually dead, shallow dopes never leaving a nursery. This is not Christianity. This is not the faith.

Christians are prophets, priests, and kings. The spiritual battlefield is the gathering ground. The Holy Spirit and the Word of God is the teacher. The bar is set high, but the Holy Spirit enables Christians to meet and exceed that bar. Flocky sheep subservient to men and ritual neither meet nor exceed anything.

The situation is made worse with Christian leaders and educators having educations from downgraded culturally Marxist institutions, and not having a clue about that. A shallow academic approach to the faith is just that. The right approach to the faith is a spiritual warfare approach. With the spiritual warfare approach you know the Bible is the Sword of the Spirit and doctrine is armor of God. When on a battlefield soldiers want, need, demand a real Sword and real armor. The difference between real armor and false armor is the difference between life and death. And any armor (doctrine) watered down or negotiated down to the demands of man's fallen nature or due to fear of the world (a mark of academia) rather than fear of God alone is not real armor.

Final Judgment and Conscience

If we ponder it I believe we can find analogies in this world to pretty much anything we will encounter in the afterworld.

For instance, the final judgment. We think in terms of standing before Jesus the Judge and so forth. But what do we know of in this world that has anything to do with such an event?

I think conscience. We have conscience within us. It is said to be the voice of God even (forget where, but that is in my memory from somewhere). It is buried to one degree or another (different in different people) since the Fall, yet one can surmise that at the Final Judgment our conscience will be a free flow of crystal clarity.

Anyway, with a little pondering such analogies or parallels between the visible and the currently invisible can be found.

Regeneration plus the real armor of God equals an invincible battlefield presence

Regeneration by the word and the Spirit is like a rain storm of blood compared to ritual water baptism.

Be humbled to the only Bible you have to look up to

Reformation doctrine plus Counter-Reformation bibles doesn't work.

Because the Bible is the foundation of the faith. Your attitude towards the Bible influences your attitude to everything else regarding the faith.

The Traditional Text, Greek and Hebrew, in sound translation, is the only Bible you have to look up to. All other bibles man looks down on. All other Bibles are constructed by man. All other bibles need man more than man needs them. Only the Authorized - King James - Bible (the very name of which makes many of you mock like a devil at this point) forces you to look up to it and to accept that you need it more than it needs you. Only the AV1611 has the authority of the word of God in it rather than the word of man.

When you adopt an attitude of being above the word of God it doesn't matter what doctrine you hold to.