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11.21.2020

Christianity has that

When you look at the list of major worldviews, such as Atheism/Materialism, Polytheism, Islam, etc., as a Christian you can default to viewing each as an equal competitor to Christianity, because they seem to be so different from Christianity.

Yet think about it. For instance, as bizarre and wild as the gods and goddesses of Polytheism are Christianity has that. They are called fallen angels. And fallen angels can be decadent, even charismatic as a slinky rock star.

Further, the views of atheists/materialists. This state of mind, sterile, shallow, boxed in, is the exact type of thing Satan would want humans mentally imprisoned in. 

Islam, with its love of death, and its moralizing and accusing and punishing, and finger wagging, and self-righteousness. This all mirrors its god Satan, the Accuser.

I.e. Christianity has all that. Fallen angels, demons and their chief Satan, they all put on these myriad light shows and choreographed spiritual world stage productions to capture human beings in delusion. 

All the different worldviews are contained in and under the umbrella of reality which is Christianity.

11.19.2020

Truth

There are three ways truth manifests, and you can remember them by their antonym.

1. When your words match your thoughts then you are being truthful (or at least trying to be). The antonym is lie. When your words don't match your thoughts you're lying.

2. When appearance matches being. For instance if there is a bar of gold on the table and under its surface it is really gold then that is a true bar of gold. If it looks gold but has lead inside then it is fake, or counterfeit. The antonym is counterfeit. 

3. Finally when your perception matches reality that is true perception. If you look at a Volkswagen Beetle and see a roundish car that is true perception. If you look at it and see an elephant that is illusion. The antonym here is illusion.

True vs. lie.
True vs. counterfeit.
True vs. illusion.

Delusion is close to illusion but delusion has to do with beliefs; illusion to perception. 

Biblical examples:

True vs. lie (Satan in the Garden (yea, hath God said? vs. what God actually told Adam and Eve.)

True vs. counterfeit (false idols vs. the true Creator of Heaven and Earth.)

True vs. illusion (Man is inherently good vs. man is a fallen being and inherently a sinner.)

11.13.2020

Some are stars

Some people are orbiters, some have people orbiting around them. Some are neither orbiters nor have anyone orbiting around them. This can be a positive thing because it can mean you're a star. Some are suns, some are planets, some are stars. 1Cor 15:41 (And in biblical language the sun is not the same as stars.)

Obviously, when a person - rare - is truly separated out from the world, they are in this star category. Vanity aside (vanity in the rare individuals, and in the critics or mockers of what I'm saying), people who are there, and who know, know...

11.01.2020

A. W. Pink as a doctrinal standard

If you want to use A. W. Pink as your doctrinal standard you could do worse. Pink knew the parts in relation to the whole of Reformed Theology. His unique presentation of it in all his numerous, carefully and tightly written books gives one more than mere theological formula. His non-establishment attitude (his non fear of the world) is also rare and bracing. 

Use his entire body of work but just know when he started out he fell under the teaching of dispensationalism. He, though, only wrote four books as a dispensationlist:

Redeemer’s Return

The Golden Age: A Treatise on the One Thousand Year Reign of Christ on Earth

The Antichrist

The Prophetic Parables of Matthew 13  

So, avoid those.

Pink also knew of the grave limitations of churches in this era. He's not for everyone. He was a very hard truth, low church modern day Puritan.