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Scripture That Warns Against Falling Before Dialectical Praxis:

“There shall never be to you other gods before my face.” Exodus 20:3.

(Hebrew Literal Translation.) [This includes the worship of group acceptance].

“If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God.” Revelation 14:9,10.

Today, every minute of every day, we must maintain the stance of faith-a faith that separates us from the world and keeps us on our heavenward course.

No One Can Participate in Dialectical Praxis and Keep Their Faith in God

“When praxis became a part of the intellectuals’ dialectic toy, major social changes began to appear in our nation…No one can participate in diaprax and keep their faith in God.” –Dr. Dean Gotcher, The Dialectic and Praxis and the End of the Ages, p. 5.

The Apostle Paul warns Timothy About the Antithesis of What is Falsely Named Knowledge

“O Timothy, the trust (the trust or deposit entrusted to you) guard, turning away from-going out of the way from-profane empty talking and antithesis of falsely named knowledge (in other words, knowledge which is not knowledge), which some offering (professing, laying claim to, making themselves out as experts in), concerning the faith have departed from (missed the mark, deviated, failed). Grace be with you, Amen.” 1 Timothy 6:20,21. (Greek, the actual Greek word “antithesis” is used here in these verses.)

Two generations have now been raised in dialectical praxis.

Attack on the Call of Christ, and the Breach With the World

Social-psychologists, who have defined the intellectual world of reality in all spheres of education for a century, refuse to recognize man’s alienation from God, and seek to remove alienation between man and man by means of diaprax, thus attacking the fundamental elements of the call of Christ to discipleship and the breach with the world and the breach with all immediate interpersonal relationships which is the instant result of obedience to Christ’s call to forsake all and everything for Christ. Thus, the mediatorial work of Christ between man and God, and man and man is utterly extinguished.

The Application of Pantheistic Noogenesis

Diaprax is the application of Teilhard de Chardin’s pantheistic concept of noogenesis, the bringing together of all human minds in pantheistic oneness.

The Internal Reference Points of Faith

“The Kingdom of Heaven is Within You” Luke 17:21

The kingdom of heaven has internal reference points dictated by the presence of Christ, union with Christ, the mediation of Christ, and the character built in submission to Christ and His Word. Diaprax calls these internal reference points, “pre-set ideas” which cause the person to be “unloving” and “maladjusted.” It is the first work of dialectical praxis, or diaprax, to “unfreeze” the person from these “pre-set ideas” which are the result of the righteousness of Christ in the life coming from righteousness by faith. Diaprax hates the every evidence of the fear of God and the righteousness of Christ, and self-surrender to Christ in the soul.

Diabolical “Conflict Resolution” Works on the Principle of Diminishing Conviction

Diaprax is used over the entire spectrum of human life, for its specific application is for the purpose of extinguishing conviction, extinguishing the internal reference points of faith in the soul of the dissenter from satanic power. Its application may be broadly or narrowly focused, and used in an almost infinite variety of situations. One example of a very large use of diaprax is in “Conflict Resolution.” In Conflict Resolution, psychology is used to blunt conviction, diminish conviction, and bring parties together in consensus in the gray zone. If an unscrupulous diabolical pastor can through “conflict resolution counseling” start couples down the road of eliminating conviction in order to resolve conflict, he has them in the palm of his hand when the next crisis comes in a board meeting and he seeks to blunt the conviction of those opposing his authoritarian control of the church. The couple receiving the counseling may think that things have been resolved in their marriage, but in the hour of test, the weakened conviction and will, caused by dialectical counseling may will cause one or the other, or both of the parties to collapse under test and trail.

God’s Way is to Heighten Conviction

God’s way, however, is the opposite: The Holy Spirit heightens conviction (John 16:8, 9), and brings each party to full surrender to Christ. Just in proportion to the closeness of the soul to Christ, is the closeness that we come to other people. If a party refuses to surrender to Christ, then there is variance in the relationship, as the soul that does surrender to Christ, values Christ and His convictions above earthly relationship.

The Variance of the Gospel

“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after Me, is not worthy of Me.” Matthew 10: 32-38.

Individual Absolute Self-surrender

God’s way is to bring each party individually to absolute self-surrender to Christ. Then that person has access by faith to the infinite love of Christ, and he will love his spouse with the eternal, unchanging, stable, and marvelous self-sacrificing, self-renouncing love of Christ, direct from the cross of Calvary. Christ in the husband relates to Christ in the wife. “Christ abiding in the heart of the wife will be at agreement with Christ abiding in the heart of the husband.” AH 120. Christ is the Mediator of all human relationships.

Putty in the Hands of Satanic Power

However, when satanic “conflict resolution” is used by a pastor in counseling to get the parties to abandon their convictions, those souls have broken faith with Christ, they are now vulnerable in the pastor’s, or any one else’s hands, for they are no longer the fortress of Christ in a revolted world, they are no longer disciples of Christ, Jesus said, and they have lost their salvation, their justification in Christ by virtue of having abandoned absolute self-surrender. They are now putty in the hands of satanic power.

The Process of Removing the Soul from the Orientation of the Internal Conviction of Faith to the External Acceptance by a Social Group

Diaprax is used to liquidate opposition to the onward march of the subjection of the soul to man, to earthly powers, rather than God. Diaprax is a process designed to remove a person from orientation to his internal, spiritual, moral structure of the kingdom and presence of Christ, based on conviction with the reference points of discipleship, the Word, the Law of God, and shift the conscience from the internal reference point of submission to the union with the mystical, unseen, Christ, to the external reference points of the group,” the visible “church,” the church hierarchy.

From the Individuality of Discipleship to Socialism

Dialectical praxis, on the broad front, ideologically, the move from individuality based on discipleship, with an internal spiritual/moral/psychological frame of reference to socialism with the primacy reference point being other people-the church board, the members, the pastor, the commune, society. It is the subjection, however subtle, of the soul to the authority of the “group” or man, earthly powers, rather than the internal submission of the soul to Christ apart from reference to other people.

Assault on the Soul: “Unfreezing”

When you come under assault from satanic diaprax, and are accused of being “unloving” or maladjusted” because of your “preset ideas,” you must immediately realize what is happening. Satan is using an assault against your convictions or judgment in the Lord, and trying to jar you loose, to “unfreeze” you from your convictions and the realm of faith. That is precisely the time to use your spiritual weaponry. Raise your shield of faith to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.

Remain on the Terrain of the Kingdom, Use Your Shield of Faith

The issue is not whether or not you are ‘unloving” or “maladjusted” because of your “preset” convictions, no the real issue is the issue of faith—whether you will hold to your faith and use the shield of faith to protect your soul, your convictions, or whether under the assault of the charge of being “unloving” you will abandon your shield of faith in order to abandon your convictions in order to make peace with the enemy on his terms and accommodate the enemy’s assessment of you.  Use that shield and buckler of faith in God [do not forget the great Object of your faith which is God Himself], flashing that shield all around to absorb all those fiery darts, and you will come forth the stronger, perfectly protected from Satan’s assault, if you meet that assault with faith-the faith of Jesus-a faith that does not wilt under assault but is supremely competent to withstand the fiercest salvos.

Full Protection

The shield at times in ancient history often was large enough to cover the entire body. One time Alexander the Great’s army was assaulting a mountain upon which the enemy had a redoubt with many large battlewagons. When Alexander gave the order to charge and take the mountain, the soldiers asked, what do we do when the enemy unleashes the battlewagons? They will wipe us out as they come careening down the mountain. Alexander responded; when the enemy battlewagons come crashing down toward you, simply lie down perpendicular to their track with your shield over your body. The wagons will roll over your shields and you will be safe. That is exactly what the Greek soldiers did. After the wagons rolled over them, they rose up and took the mountain.

Smaller shields and bucklers were moved quickly about to absorb the enemy darts, arrows and bolts. Many times, they had a hard, sturdy boss in the center of the shield, which served as a weapon in itself to push the enemy. Use that shield to push back the enemy as well as absorb his darts.

Do Not Break Rank With the divine Shield Wall

At the battle of Hastings in 1066, William the Conqueror of Normandy repeatedly assaulted the English House Earls and their shield wall that protected Harold, the English king. William was completely stymied, because that English shield was impenetrable, impervious to his cavalry assaults. But then he noticed that after a number of assaults, when his cavalry retreated and were hurled back, the English were so eager to attack that they broke rank and chased, and the Norman cavalry, led by William was able to destroy those who had abandoned the shield wall. This then, became his strategy-to draw the English from maintaining their shield wall. This strategy worked, with the shield wall broken, William conquered the field, and the course of English history was radically changed as the Normans seized control of their nation. 

Satan’s strategy against our souls is no different. He seeks to entice us to abandon our shield wall to fight on his terrain of pantheistic spiritualism as whether we are meeting his spiritualistic standard of the pantheistic/spiritualistic “love gospel.”  We must know the terrain, and fight on the high ground of Word of the Lord in faith, defending conviction and the parameters of the kingdom of God in our soul by maintaining our shield wall of faith.

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