GALATIANS 5 /3-6
1 CORINTHIANS 2 KJ3 THE YOUNGS LITERAL FORM /THE RECEIVED TEXTS ALTERNIVE TO FREE FROM SLANTING THE FLOORS, CEILINGS , STAIR CASES, OR CREATING THE OBSCURE WORLD OF ASSUMPTION AND PHIL0SOPHY . REFUSING THE ALCHMEICA'S PHILOSPHY AND INTO CHRIST ALONE !
THE DIFFERNCE The distinction between "Evangelical Humanism" and Christianity must be made. Christianity is Christ; the spiritual dynamic of the Lord Jesus Christ functioning in man. The Christian life is the behavioral expression of Christians deriving all from Him by faith, our receptivity of His activity. Christ functions as Life in us, to live out His Life. Christ functions as the Righteous One in us, to live out His Righteousness. Christ functions as God in us, to live out His godliness. Christ functions as Savior in us, to effect salvation in us making us safe from misused and dysfunctional humanity and restoring us to the functional humanity that God intends.
We must repudiate the fallacy of human independence, the lie of the independent self, of deified humanity. Man is a spiritually and behaviorally dependent creature. This is not mechanistic determinism that posits man as merely a stimulus-response mechanism. God created us with the capability of personal receptivity, a real choice of spiritual dependency. Our behavioral expressions are derived from one spiritual source or the other, either God or Satan. The behavioral fruit must always be traced to its spiritual root. Righteous behavior can only be the result of the Righteous One, Jesus Christ, living out His character of righteousness in us. Unrighteousness is always a result of the Evil One, Satan, living out his character of evil, unrighteousness, ungodliness, sinfulness and selfishness in us, causing us to "act like the devil."
Major W. Ian Thomas states in his book, The Mystery of Godliness, "As godliness is the direct and exclusive consequence of God's activity, and God's capacity to reproduce Himself in you, so all ungodliness is the direct and exclusive consequence of satan's activity, and of his capacity to reproduce the devil in you."
Apparently the theologians of the Evangelical movement considered themselves too "enlightened" by humanistic psychological concepts to be so categorical, to attribute man's spiritual condition and behavior either to God or to Satan. So they accommodated humanistic premises to explain both unregeneracy and carnality.
Evangelical Humanism predominates in Western churches today. The message is: "We can do it. It is up to us. Do your best, give it your all. Be involved, committed, dedicated and active." The tragedy is that those in evangelical churches are susceptible as easy prey to the New Age philosophy of cosmic humanism. When we do not make the clear-cut distinction of "Either/Or" of spiritual origin and derivation, it is easy to slide into the monistic fusion of good and evil, and to accept the narcissistic selfism of New Age thought. Evangelical Humanism has already accepted the basic thesis of cosmic humanism the inherent ability of an alleged independent man to be his own center of reference and the cause of his own effects.
It is imperative that Christians proclaim the only "good news" available to mankind, that Christ having taken our death for us desires to give His Life to us and live His Life through us to the glory of God. Functional humanity is restored when by spiritual and behavioral dependency upon Christ, by the receptivity of His activity in faith, we become man as God intended man to be, the Creator functioning within the creature. CHRIST IN YOU.ORG
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