Intuition: Bergson appealed to It; Hitler Used It

“On the highest philosophic levels, the new attitude was justified. Bergson appealed to intuition, and Hitler used it. Other philosophers vied with one another to demonstrate that old mechanism of abstract, rational thought must be rejected as irrelevant, superficial, or meaningless. The semanticists rejected logic by rejecting the idea of general categories or even of definition of terms. According to them, because everything is constantly changing [relativism and the Hegelian dialectic], no term can remain fixed without at once becoming irrelevant. The meaning of any word depended on the context in which it was used; since this was different every time it was used, the meaning, consisting of a series of connotations based on all previous uses of the term, is different at each use.” Quigley, 1225.

Today’s Culture Accepts Hitler’s Premises

The rejection of analysis and logic, with appeal to “intuition” is rampant in today’s culture with its slogans such as “Just do it.” In other words, act on intuition without thought, and, “If it feels good, do it.”

Nazis Repudiate Moral Absolutes

“The Nazis agree. They, too, repudiate any unchanging code of values, any fixed theory of the nature of good and evil, virtue and vice. No ethical principles, they hold, their own included, are permanently valid. There is no moral absolutes. As in everything, so in ethics; truth is flexible, adaptable, and relative.

Pragmatism

“The Nazis’ relativism in ethics is reinforced by another aspect of their ideology: their pragmatism.” –Leonard Peikoff, The Ominous Parallels: A Brilliant Study of America Today-And the ‘Ominous Parallels’ With the Chaos of Pre-Hitler Germany. New York: Penguin, 1982, p. 89.

Nazism was based on nihilism, on irrational activism, the same powerful currents that shape today’s postmodernism. Thus, the same flux present in today’s postmodernism. “The most widely read of twentieth-century philosophers, the existentialists, reflected this same attitude.” –Quigley, p. 1225.

The Stability of Moral Absolutes is Being Completely Erased From the Earth, Preparing the Way for Rome’s Tyranny

After World War II for a few decades there was a resurgence in various areas of the culture of rational analysis, operational research, and organized scientific attitudes, but by the 1990s and twenty-first century this sector of culture has been increasingly challenged by the aftermath of the resurgence of Irrational Activism, Marxism, relativism and New Age unleashed in the Hippie generation of the 1960s. As the baby boomer, generation has taken the reins of power (notably in the Clinton era) and as the rapper generation, X and Y have been immersed in the violence and irrational activism of their nihilistic culture (including rap music), the stability of moral absolutes and rational thought are being completely erased from the face of the earth, preparing the world for a resurgence of the authority of the beast and its image.

True Christianity is Self-abnegating: Contemporary Spirituality is about Self-Discovery

“Clear contrasts now emerge. Traditional Christian spirituality is self-abnegating. It values self-sacrifice and self-discipline, a sacrifice and a discipline that is required by the moral world it inhabits. Because of the felt obligation to curtail and discipline the self, traditional spirituality lives within doctrine that is true and wants to live with corporately practiced faith…  Contemporary spirituality which opposes itself to religion is a spirituality which, by contrast, is about the business of self-realization, or self-discovery… and is assuming, as Bloom puts it, that real knowledge is found in ‘an inward knowledge rather than an outward belief.’…

Contemporary Spirituality Has Clear Parallels With Paganism and Early Gnosticism; Adapts Itself continually to Moral Relativism; Settled, Unmoving Convictions Become Impediments

“This spirituality has clear parallels with paganism, but that is not all that it is. While this pagan impulse parallels what was evident in the early gnosticism, it must also be said that it is thoroughly postmodern. This is the kind of spirituality which goes hand in hand with a flexible biography, with the ability to reinvent one’s self, remake one’s self, shift and adapt consonant with the constantly shifting demands of a virile economy and workplace and with the changing topography of moral reality. It is the psychological counterpart of the modern-driven economy and the collapse of moral absolutes. Settled, unmoving convictions, an inward core of moral belief, easily become impediments to the need to be able to make quick adaptations as changed contexts might require. This, then, is the spirituality of those on the move, those who live in the interstices of the postmodern world, those who know the rhythms, its demands, and the punishment that it inflicts on any who are unwilling to shift as it shifts, those who will not change as it changes, those who look askance at expediency. This is a spirituality, then, that is as contemporary as is contemporary society but, in other ways, as ancient as the world is ancient.”” Wells, pp. 154, 155.

Part and Parcel of Babylon the Great

Thus souls enmeshed in “contemporary spirituality” are locked in with Babylon the Great, reflecting Babylon’s thinking and acting, forming a character in harmony with the beast, and thus preparing to assume the mark (accepting the assumed authority of Rome to change God’s law with reference to the seventh-day Sabbath), number (submission to papal authority), and the name of the beast (having an identity of character and thinking with the beast).

“And that no man might buy or sell, save he had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” Revelation 13:17.

Revival of the Gnostic Gospels in Contemporary Spirituality

The Revival of the Gnostic Gospels

Gnosticism is a diabolical heresy from the Second Century AD. The revival of gnosticism is sweeping the field of religion. The bookshelves in the bookstores are now full of Gnostic “gospels.” Here are just a few of the titles of some of these Gnostic gospels and books pertaining to these Gnostic gospels displayed in the bookstore section today:

·        The Gospel of Thomas,

·        The Gospel of Mary of Magdala,

·        Gospel of the Savior,

·        The Secret Gospel of John: The Gnostic Gospel,

·        The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus: The Hidden saying of Jesus,

·        The Brother of Jesus and the Lost Teachings of Christianity,

·        The Secret Teachings of Mary Madalene: Including the Lost Verses of the Gospel of Mary, revealed and published for the First Time,

·        Mary Magdalene: Bride in Exile,

·        Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It Into the New Testament,

·        The secrets of Judas: The Story of the Misunderstood Disciple and His Lost Gospel,

·        The Gnostic Bible

·        The Gospel of Judas Iscariot.

  The Gospel of Judas Iscariot

Perhaps the most diabolical Gnostic ‘gospel” is the recent Gospel of Judas Iscariot, which, written in the Second Century about 150 AD, discovered in Egypt in the 1970s, restored and translated into English (2001-2006), puts forward the idea that only Judas really understood Jesus. In this false Gospel of Judas Iscariot, Judas is seen as Christ’s favorite. It is the gospel told from Judas’ perspective. In this false, Gnostic gospel, Judas does not betray His master, but rather fulfills Jesus’ wish. “Judas is Jesus’ chosen instrument of fulfillment.” –Krosney, 295.

The Son of Perdition

However, according to the Biblical gospels, in the Gospel of John in Jesus’ High Priestly prayer in John 17: 12, Jesus prays, “Those that Thou gavest Me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.”

In John 13, after the foot washing, Jesus said, “I speak not of you all; I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with Me hath lifted up his heel against Me.” John 13:18. Jesus is quoting from Psalms 41:9: “Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of My bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.”

In John 13, at the Last Supper, gathered around the table, Jesus declares, “One of you shall betray Me.” He then identifies who it is: “He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when He had dipped the sop, He gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. And after the sop, Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly…. He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.” John 13:21, 26, 27, 30.

Found in Egypt in the 1970s

This document, the Gospel of Judas was found by some Egyptian peasants, fellahin, who stumbled upon a cavern near the banks of the River Nile. Across the river from Maghagha, not far from the village of Qarara, they found the cave containing the skeleton of a wealthy man in a shroud. Among a pile of human bones, they found a crumbling limestone box containing a mysterious leather-bound book, a codex, written in Coptic on papyrus.

Emmel: Gospel of Judas “Could Create a Crisis of Faith”

Then began a bizarre cloak-and-dagger journey, as the gospel of Judas, first sold to dealers in Cairo, would eventually be shipped around on three continents for 25 years. After landing in a bank vault in Switzerland, from there it traveled to New York and deposited in a bank vault. Eventually the manuscripts were turned over to Yale University to be translated. Yale, worried about legal issues, declined to buy the manuscript, and then was sold to an antiquities dealer in Ohio, from there it returned to Switzerland, where Rodolphe Kasser, one of the world’s preeminent translators and scholars of Coptic, went to work on the text. Other scholars joined. An American scholar, Stephen Emmel, one of the first to see the Gospel of Judas, warned that this gospel of Judas “could create a crisis of faith.” Stephen Emmel quoted in Krosney, p. 8.

A Crisis Only For New Age Gnostic-oriented “Christianity”

It will only create a crisis of faith in those who are not anchored in the accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. However, the open-ended ‘spirituality” created by the New Age has rendered an apostate “Christianity” open to any new thing. For this New Age Gnostic-oriented “spirituality” the appearance of the Gospel of Judas is an earthshaking event that arms them even further in rebellion against the truth of the true, Biblical gospels.

“Christian” Gnosticism rose about 100-130 AD. Irenaeus, a Church Father, denounced the Gospel of Judas about 180 AD as being “fictitious history.” However, in today’s New Age revival of gnosticism, hosts of Gnostic “gospels” are being put forward as valid gospels.

Jesus Warned About the Gnostic Sect of Nicolaitans

Christ Himself warned John the Revelator, in vision on Patmos, about the terrible heresy that even then was gripping the world, as the Gnostic sects arose. To the church of Ephesus, the church at that time, Christ declares, “I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil; and thou hast tried them which say that are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars…This thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans which I also hate.” Revelation 2: 2,4.

Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, and Tertullian all referred to the Gnostic sect of Nicolaitans. So does Ellen White: “The doctrine is now largely taught that the gospel of Christ has made the law of God of no effect; that by “believing” we are released from the necessity of being doers of the Word. However, this is the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which Christ so unsparingly condemned (ST January. 2, 1912).” –7BC 957.

“A Document Associated With the Cainites”

One cannot accept the Gospel of Judas Iscariot and the four gospels in the New Testament at the same time, for they are completely opposed to each other. The Gospel of Judas, Dr. Ehrman, as scholar whose field is in early Christianity, writes, is “’a document associated with the Cainites. The Cainites were named after Cain. It was a contrary movement- this would have been part of their New Testament. The Cainites wanted to show their allegiance to the one true God. This meant they had to break from what they considered the inferior God of the Old Testament. The Cainite doctrine was that you had to break every law there was in order to have salvation.’” –Bart D. Ehrman, quoted in Herbert Krosney, The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2006, p. 268. The Cainites, one of many heretical sects in the Second Century, believed that Cain was a good brother.

Satan is Now Teaching Millions That An Invasion From Orion is Coming and That Orion is the Center of Tyranny

As the great apostasy is developing, there is now a great effort to present Satan’s side of the Great controversy as being true, valid perspective. Truly, the hostility of mankind against the God of heaven is being taken rapidly to new depths.

The writings of David Icke, read by millions, are preparing the apostate world to resist an invasion from Orion, which declared to be the center of tyranny. Here Satan’s original charge against God that he is a tyrant, is being revived in bald-faced boldness.

 An invasion from Orion is indeed coming, and it will be led by the One Who alone sets men truly free, Jesus Christ, on a white horse, with the armies of heaven following Him.

Sealed: Settled Into the Truth Intellectually and Spiritually

Sealed, Settled Into the Truth Intellectually and Spiritually

By contrast to post modernity which sees settled, unmoving conviction as an impediment to survival, and which fears the punishments inflicted by the postmodern world upon those unwilling to adapt with expediency to its ever-changing relativism, those who are sealed by God in the great Sealing of Revelation seven are settled into the truth, intellectually and spiritually. “They lack the discernment to see what is going to break upon us at any time. There is a spirit of desperation, of war and bloodshed, and that spirit will increase until the very close of time. Just as soon as the people of God are sealed in their foreheads, it is not any seal or mark that can be seen, but a settling into the truth, both intellectually and spiritually, so they cannot be moved, just as soon as God’s people are sealed and prepared for the Great Tribulation, it will come. Indeed, it has begun already; the judgments of God are now upon the land, to give us warning, that we may know what is coming.” MS 173, 1902, pp. 3-6. (“Medical Missionary Work in Southern California,” November 20, 1911.) 1 MR 249, 250.

The Way of Truth

The way of God’s true people is the way of the everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ, not the way of “cultural relativism” to contemporary, postmodern, nihilistic, Gnostic “seeker spirituality.” The way of truth is the way of true discipleship of the person of Jesus Christ, not the substitution of the “fellowship of the church” for Christ. The way of the truth is the way of being sealed into the truth intellectually and spiritually, not the way of nihilism and its expedient adaptation to a world with no moral absolutes, no convictions, no truth, no worldview. As the midnight darkness of almost universal apostasy takes the world by storm, God’s true people will be the last of the breed, the remnant of the seed of the woman.