tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post5435538557494845562..comments2023-12-22T08:29:29.230-08:00Comments on WHAT IS TRUTH: Two Short Essays: What Postmodernism Gets the Most Right (It Does) and Science Should Recognize Supernaturalism as ScienceKent Brandenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-41991498574820219192020-09-27T15:03:57.862-07:002020-09-27T15:03:57.862-07:00Hey you know what if I'm ever mistaken on anyt...Hey you know what if I'm ever mistaken on anything just let me know. Thanks for the word of approval.Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-15554404810328427242020-09-27T13:59:47.457-07:002020-09-27T13:59:47.457-07:00Good additions, Andrew.Good additions, Andrew.Kent Brandenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13419354741455959191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-80420714083981701702020-09-27T00:19:15.810-07:002020-09-27T00:19:15.810-07:00Oh yes, and I forgot to thank you for the post Pas...Oh yes, and I forgot to thank you for the post Pastor Brandenburg. It got me thinking about these things.<br /><br />One other thing on reflecting on what I previously wrote, "they" would certainly like it if the only religious history you knew involved the puritan witch-burning and roman heretic burning that happened. They wouldn't want you to know about people like Dr. John Clarke who started the first Baptist church in Newport, 1638 and the values freedom of conscience that they stood for at that time in our history. Here is a couple quotations from him:<br /><br />"The 7th day of the first month, 1638. We whose names are underwritten do here solemnly, in the presence of Jehovah, incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick, and, as he shall help, will submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of his given us in his holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby."<br /><br />Petition to the King: "That they might be permitted to hold forth a lively experiment, that a most flourishing civil state may stand, and best be maintained, with a full liberty in religious concernments; and that true piety, rightly grounded upon gospel principles, will give the best and greatest security to sovereignty, and will lay in the hearts of men the strongest obligation to true loyalty."<br /><br />Oh no, the people I've been talking about wouldn't want you to learn about this history or where certain parts of the Bill of Rights comes from. But, as the apostle Paul so prophetically stated: "they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men"<br /><br />And also it was further said, "God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil."<br /><br />"far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.<br />"For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways."Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20213892.post-33311074873384848862020-09-26T23:43:43.110-07:002020-09-26T23:43:43.110-07:00A lot of people really do understand that "mo...A lot of people really do understand that "modernism" as you put it falls short. The huge problem is that, somehow, in the last however long it has been, it has somehow become completely socially unacceptable to talk about God beyond using the most vague, new-age kind of terminology... Part of this has always existed. We know this because some like in Romans 1 often do not want to retain God in their knowledge.<br /><br />But, there's something more going on here. Many people avoid talking about Christianity and the Bible specifically (they don't have this problem with other religions or metaphysical claims) because they have been fed a propaganda narrative that reads like something very similar to the fiction novel "handmaid's tale." They have been fed a retelling of history, partially in the schools, partially on television and in movies. It is a revision of history that seems to speak of a supposed fiendishly cruel regime that used to exist everywhere before the 1960's, made up supposedly of nothing but cruel abusive people, and upon these fictional entities all the sins of "imperialism" are hoisted, on the caricature of Christians of the pre-1960's world. It is a caricature which far outdoes anything Stalin in real life ever did.<br /><br />This narrative is combined with a persistent, pavlovian-style media campaign that has been purposely designed to evoke negative stimuli in a person, anytime someone behaves typically "Christian," to create the impression of a lurking psychopath and tyrant that is always ready to explode, just beneath the surface. You guys probably have a good idea of the sort of false profile I'm talking about. Many people nowadays have this conditioning, and it didn't really exist in the past. This is because this coordinated media campaign or "antichristian propaganda effort" in the west was only just begun in the more recent era of history, and it was started by a group of non-Christians who really want to suppress Biblical values. It seems they want to suppress it very much specifically, almost as if it the truth about the Lord Jesus Christ were, somehow, their one mortal enemy that had to be stopped at any cost.<br /><br />So, now we have people that have actually been conditioned to react negatively to anything involving the Gospel, or preaching, or the Lord God.<br /><br />The problem is that everyone knows pure materialism or naturalism isn't enough. How do you justify any kind of values? You can't. So people are naturally looking for sources of truth. However, they are purposely conditioned away from seeking the Bible or Christianity due to the coordinated media campaign, which we might call political correctness, previously mentioned. Anytime one of the "negative stimuli" is triggered and someone says something perceived as Christian, the conditioned person will reactively close the door on that conversation. Part of it is also because even if they aren't afraid to talk about it, they have long been trained to be aware that other people will also be "offended" when such subjects are brought up. You often hear the phrase "no religion or politics." So we have a strange situation where people want the truth but then as soon as Christianity or the Bible is brought up, a lot of people suddenly switch gears and become hard modernists again. I feel really bad for them because, if they could simply break that conditioning they could be reached and helped. Many people want to know the truth but have been badly lied to. The synagogue of satan really really doesn't want the people of our country freely being able to discuss and think about the truths of Christianity. It is a specific, organized attack on our Biblical Christian values that is underway, and has been since approximately the last sixty to seventy years. I would definitely categorize it as a true spiritual battle.Andrewnoreply@blogger.com