God
Loves Freedom of Conscience
“Congress shall
make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof.” US Constitution, Amendment 1.
Freedom
of Conscience and the Constitution
God loves freedom of
conscience. What is freedom of conscience?
Just that, a conscience that is free. Nothing
is dearer to the original Protestant and
Republican principles of the United States
Constitution than freedom of conscience.
“The
Constitution of the United States guarantees
liberty of conscience. Nothing is dearer or
more fundamental. Pope Pius IX, in his
Encyclical Letter of August 15, 1854, said:
“The absurd and erroneous doctrines or
ravings in defense of liberty of conscience
are a most pestilential error—a pest, of
all others, most to be dreaded in a
state.’ The same pope in his Encyclical
Letter of December 8, 1864, anathematized
those who assert the liberty of conscience
and of religious worship,’ also
‘all such as maintain that the church
may not employ force.’” GC 564,
565.
When Rome today
speaks of freedom, she is speaking of freedom
of the papacy to implement its power
and control.
The
Test
Freedom of conscience
is the test regarding the worship of the
beast and its image, the very focus of the
Third Angels’ Message.
The great issue of
the Image of the Beast is the issue of the
Image coercing the conscience: “And he
had power to give life unto the image of the
beast, that the image of the beast should
both speak, and cause that as many as
would not worship the image of the beast
should be killed.” Revelation 13:15.
That day is quickly approaching. What this
verse is speaking about is the coercion of
conscience-the worship or submission of
conscience to the image of the beast.
God declares,
“all souls are mine.” Ezekiel 18:4.
However, in the education of the conscience
to submit to church hierarchy, the church
hierarchy says, “all souls are
mine.”
Your
Baptismal Vow
The issue of soul
freedom is so delicate and must be preserved
so carefully that God took steps to preserve
this freedom from the very beginning of
discipleship. One greater than the Temple,
has given us our baptismal vow: “Come
out from among them, and be ye separate,
saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean,
and I will receive you, and be a Father unto
you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters,
saith the Lord Almighty.” 2 Corinthians
6:17, 18.
If you do not depart
from iniquity, if you do not separate your
soul from the miasma and spiritual and moral
confusion all around you, you will be
contaminated, infected, and lose eternal
life. You must separate. That is your
baptismal vow.
This separation from
the moral, spiritual, and social confusion of
Babylon is fundamental to country living. God
designed that there be plenty of personal
space, plenty of family space, around the
soul-space in which the Spirit of God could
have free play, space in which Christ could
be exalted and His slightest whisper heard.
True
Discipleship The Opposite of Christogenesis
When Christ calls a
man to follow him, as He did with
Matthew-Levi, the one and only acceptable
response is to immediately leave all and
follow Him.
Discipleship
Creates Individuality
In accepting the call
of Christ, a man becomes an individual;
because he must leave all, forsake all, for
Christ. Christ makes him an individual, an
individual connected directly by faith with a
holy God. Christ makes an immediate breach
between that individual and all else all the
immediacies of life, even the closet ties
with loved ones, are broken in this breach. In
this way alone is soul freedom and
individuality preserved. From then on all
relations pas through Him, the Mediator-even
the closest kin. Only through Him do we have
access to the Father. Only through Him do we
have access to other people.
Diaprax
Destroys Freedom
Diaprax works to
destroy this breach, this freedom. Thus,
diaprax is the right hand of pantheism, which
seeks to fuse all into a mind-melt, a unity
of mind on a basis of alienation from Christ.
This is the greatest challenge in working for
the salvation of souls in our time.
Youth
Ministry is Promoting a Form of Jesuitical
Christogenesis
Current Structure
Youth Ministry on campus is promoting “fusion”
and “integration” –the very
slogans currently being used. Thus, the
youth are immersed in Jesuitical pantheism to
accept a version of Christogenesis, the
Teihardian pantheistic Christ resulting from
the fusion of the minds. The youth are led to
believe that when they are in a state of mind
fusion with all the other youth-brought about
through rock music and other such devices,
that then they have Christ.
A
Deadly Pantheistic “Christ”
The submersion of the
self into the pantheistic mind-melt of group
think appears to provide a solution on the
surface for youth growing up in a culture of
unparalleled loneliness. However, it is a
deadly solution, for discipleship is unknown,
character is destroyed, individuality is
eliminated, salvation is terminated. This
form of collectivism was the basis of the
totalitarianism of Nazism and Communism.
How
We Know When We Are United With the True
Christ
How do we know that
we are in touch with the real Christ of the
Bible, of the everlasting gospel, and not
some false Christ? Fundamental and first of
all, all is forsaken for Christ. There is
that irreparable breach which forbids
pantheistic fusion. We leave all to follow
Him. However, in this process are further
important indicators as to whether we are in
possession of the true Christ.
How
We Partake of Christ’s Glory
“In this glory
of Christ all His followers are to share. The
Savior could say: “I seek not Mine own
will, but the will of the Father which hath
sent Me.” John 5:30.” And,
“declared John, the Father giveth not
the Spirit by measure unto Him.”
So with the followers of Christ. We
can receive of heaven’s light only as we
are willing to be emptied of self. We can
discern the character of God, and accept
Christ by faith, only as we consent to the
bringing into captivity of every thought to
the obedience of Christ. To all who
do this, the Holy Spirit is given without
measure. In Christ “dwelleth all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are
complete in Him.” Colossians 2:
9,10.” 8T 334.
Here is how we
partake of the purity of Christ Himself:
1.
“We can receive of heaven’s light
only as we are willing to be emptied of
self.” Those who are full of self, those
who lust for power, cannot receive of
heaven’s light. Only those willing to be
emptied of self can receive of heaven’s
light.
2.
“We can discern the character of
God…only as we consent to the bringing
into captivity of every thought to the
obedience of Christ.”
The
only person who can discern the character of
God is the person who brings every thought
into captivity to the obedience of Christ.
Therefore, this is the only person
who will ever know if the Christ he is
following is the true Christ of the Bible.
3.
“We can…accept Christ by faith,
only as we consent to the bringing into
captivity of every thought to the obedience
of Christ.” Those who do not
bring every thought into captivity to the
true Christ of the Bible can not
accept Christ by faith. They have
some other pantheistic “Christ,”
like Pierre Teihard de Chardin created.
The true, Biblical
Christ must be seen as distinct and
separate from all church hierarchies and
groups. If Martin Luther had not known
that Christ is distinct from the
ecclesiastical hierarchy, and related to Him
independently of the hierarchy, there never
would have been a Protestant Reformation. If
early Protestants had not known Christ as
distinct from the church hierarchies and
groups of their times, there never would have
been the Great Advent Movement and the
completion of the Protestant Reformation.
Training
the Conscience to Submission to
Ecclesiastical Hierarchy in Preparation for
the Worship of the Image of the Beast
Conscience
is Above church and State
The principle of the
Protestant Reformation is that Christ is
King, and a conscience formed in direct
submission to Christ alone, based on His
Word, is supreme over church and state. This
is the essential feature of Protestantism.
This is the last issue over which the Great
Controversy will be fought in the battle over
the worship of the beast and its image.
“The principles
contained in this celebrated Protest…
constitute the very essence of Protestantism.
Now this Protest opposes two abuses of man in
matters of faith: the first is the intrusion
of the civil magistrate, and the second the
arbitrary authority of the church. Instead of
these abuses, Protestantism sets the
power of conscience above the magistrate, and
the authority of the word of God above the
visible church. In the first place,
it rejects the civil power in divine things,
and says with the prophets and apostles,
‘We must obey God rather than man.’
In presence of the crown of Charles the
Fifth, it uplifts the crown of Jesus Christ.
However, it goes farther: it lays down the
principle that all human teaching should be
subordinate to the oracles of God.”
Ibid., b. 13, ch. 6. The protestors
had moreover affirmed their right to utter
freely their convictions of truth. They would
not only believe and obey, but teach what the
word of God presents, and they denied the
right of priest or magistrate to interfere.
The Protest of Spires was a solemn witness
against religious intolerance, and an
assertion of the right of all men to worship
God according to the dictates of their own
consciences.” GC 203.
Eliminating
the Old Conscience Based on the Authority of
God, Replacing It With a Conscience Formed in
Submission to the Group
Dialectical Praxis is
used wherever it is needed to break down a
soul’s reliance upon God’s
authority and God’s Word, and
re-establish the soul in harmony with the
“group,” the “church,”
the “government,” or the
“school.” It is the destruction
of the fundamental principle of discipleship
and the Protestant Reformation. It
is the implementation of Antonio Gramsci, the
noted Italian communist theorist, who said
that if communism were to take over the West
it would first have to eliminate the
West’s reliance upon a transcendent God.
Diaprax eliminates the soul’s reliance
upon the authority of the transcendent God of
heaven, and re-establishes a new conscience,
re-educated to submit to the authority of the
“group,” the “commune,”
the church hierarchy, to Rome.
From
Obedience to God to Pantheism
Dr. Gotcher, who
researched over 600 books on the topic of
dialectical praxis, says that once a person
submits to Dialectical praxis, only help from
the outside will avail for deliverance.
Diaprax is a particularly evil form of
spiritualism. In the field of the Taxonomy of
Educational Objectives, Festinger, Bloom,
Havighurst and Kholberg are united regarding
the stages of “cognitive moral
development.” In the six stages laid out
by Lisa Kuhmerker, explaining the
relationship between faith development and
Kohlberg’s stage model, the individual
progresses from Stage One which is
“obedience to adults,” and
“obedience to deity” to stage six
which is “Cosmic principle
–pantheism universality.” (Lisa
Kuhmerker, The Kohlberg Legacy for the
Helping Professions. [Birmingham: R.E.P.
Books, 1991], p. 161), quoted in Dean
Gotcher, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives.
Diaprax
in Action
“In order to
effect rapid change, [one] must mount
a vigorous attack on the family lest the
traditions of present generations be
preserved. It is necessary, in other
words, artificially to create an
experimental chasm between parents and
children to insulate the latter in order that
they can more easily be indoctrinated with
new ideas.” Warren Bennis, The
Temporary Society, p. 45.
In this way, the
Protestant ways are completely expunged from
society.
Teachers
Trained in Diaprax
Teachers are trained
in these techniques of dialectical praxis
from Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational
Objectives: Handbook I-Cognitive Domain,
published in 1956, and then a second book
dealing with the affective domain (Handbook
II: Affective Domain), in 1964, to bring
about the submission of the conscience,
particularity of dissidents. These books have
become the bible for contemporary education.
“The Learner Outcomes required in most
states today are structured directly out of
these books. Therefore, they are essential
reading for anyone desiring to understand
Outcome-Based Education.” Dr. Dean
Gotcher, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
[Comments by Dean Gotcher], Institute for
Authority Research, Tulsa, Ok.
“Universities around the world now
consider the writings of these
Transformational Marxists (Luckacs, Gransci,
and Korsch) as some of the most important
reading a student can do if he is going to
understand how the world is to function in
the 21st century.” Gotcher,
Dialectic & Praxis, p. 14.
“A
Man’s Foes Shall Be They of His Own
Household” Matthew 10:36
Writes Dr. Gotcher,
“These transformationalists used to come
to us as liberal politicians or professors.
Today they come to us as our own spouse, our
friends, our teachers, and our
minister…. They are gaining control over
our children, our spouse, our friends, our
community, our nation, and even the church.
That is why moral decay (fallout) is
multiplying all around us.” Gotcher,
Dialectic and Praxis, 23.
John
Huss on Authority
Regarding John Huss,
Wylie writes, as Huss studied the issue of
authority, “This led him to adopt for
their own guidance, and to preach to others
for theirs, the maxim that the
precepts of Scripture, conveyed through the
understanding, are to rule the conscience; in
other words, that God speaking in the Bible,
and not the church speaking through the
priesthood, is the one infallible guide.”
Wylie, b. 3, ch. 2.” GC 102.
Giving
Up One’s Judgment
In the assault of
diaprax, people are often subjected first to
public vilification and then to massive
dialectical pressure to cave in and give up
their own judgment and conscience to the
group. This process, continued to its logical
conclusion, would ultimately result in the
reception of the mark in the forehead,
where the mind has been warped by dialectical
praxis.
These principles of
dialectics were used in establishing the
Soviet Union, now they are everywhere in
America. There are over 10,000 Marxist
professors in over 400 universities now in
America alone. This is one of the reasons why
we are seeing such a breakdown of moral
character. It is all involved in the process
of preparing America to receive the worship
of the Image of the Beast.
No
Man Is to Control Your Conscience
But Jesus said,
“Call no man Master.” “Jesus
impressed upon the people that they were to give
no man a title of honor indicating his
control of their conscience or their faith.”
DA 613.
“Christ foresaw
that the undue assumption of authority
indulged by the scribes and Pharisees would
not cease with the dispersion of the Jews. He
had a prophetic view of the work of exalting
human authority to rule the conscience, which
has been so terrible a curse to the church in
all ages. And His fearful
denunciations of the scribes and Pharisees,
and His warnings to the people not to
follow these blind leaders, were placed on
record as an admonition to future
generations.” GC 596.
Do
Not allow Your Conscience to Be Trained To
Submit to Earthy Power Instead of the Living
Christ
To train the
conscience to submit to church hierarchy
rather that to God is a diabolical work to
train the conscience to ultimately worship
the beast and its image, and to receive the
mark in the forehead or in the hand, for the
submission of the conscience to church
hierarchy is a fatal character trait which is
easily transferred to another church
hierarchy and ultimately the beast and its
image.
Do not ever
walk down the path that bids you to break
down your conscience. Avoid it, pass not by
it, and resist it unto blood, for the soul is
at stake.
Sacredly
Preserve Freedom of Conscience in Your Own
Soul
Freedom of conscience
must be sacredly and jealously preserved at
all costs. The first steps of the training of
the conscience to submit to church hierarchy
rather than God is a deadly work that weakens
the character and prepares it for the worship
of the Image of the Beast. Others all around
you may submit to “group think,”
but you may not. They may try to make
you think you are crazy for not submitting to
the judgment of the group, but remember that
every soul must stand for himself
before God and His judgment, which requires freedom
of conscience, that most
precious of all freedoms.
Never
Give In Except to Convictions of Honor and
Good Sense
Winston Churchill
declared, “Never give in, never,
never, never, in anything great or small,
large or petty, except to convictions of
honor and good sense.” There is a vast
world of what the Word of God calls
“wisdom” in proverbs chapters two
and eight, and in 1 Corinthians 1:30 where we
read that Christ is made unto us Wisdom.
There is a sin against wisdom, a sin against
judgment, a sin against discretion. Never sin
against wisdom, against sound judgment,
against discretion.
The
Way of Truth
Now, just now, our
work is to educate our consciences to be free
in Christ. “Stand fast therefore in the
liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,
and be not entangled again with the yoke of
bondage.” Galatians 5:1.
Freedom of conscience
is nurtured and grows strong in the living
presence of Christ by faith in the soul, and
is fed by the Word, faith, prayer, and action
in following the conscientious convictions
installed by the Holy Spirit. Character
is built through action. Act on
your faith. Act on your convictions,
and your faith and convictions will grow
strong in Christ, preparing you to triumph in
the great struggle over freedom of conscience
in the battle with the Breast and its Image.
