Four necessary positive metaphysical assumptions
A few years ago I suggested that there are several Litmus Test issues, which the demon-affiliated totalitarian Establishment uses to pursue its agenda of damnation (these agendas include the sexual revolution, climate change, antiracism and - more recently - hatred of the Fire Nation and its leader - and some others).
It is necessary to reject these Litmus Test issues, if one is to avoid being absorbed-into the agenda of evil; however rejection of such specific evil strategies is insufficient; and indeed double-negative ideology (opposition to that which is regarded as wrong) is itself a part of the agenda of evil.
What is important are positive convictions; or more exactly positive metaphysical assumptions concerning the nature of reality - positive assumptions concerning the nature of reality (i.e. positive metaphysical beliefs) suitable to underpin, explain and guide a positive purpose to this mortal life.
I think there are at least four such assumption that it seems necessary to affirm; if one is to avoid being (sooner or later) sucked-into taking side with the agenda of evil.
But in the first place, I need to clarify that "being a Christian", in what has until recently been regarded as the normal and socially-understood fashion of Christianity, has proved itself to be utterly insufficient.
(This despite that Christianity is ultimately The Truth; and that a purposive and meaningful mortal life depends utterly on following Jesus Christ to resurrection to eternal Heavenly life.)
As of 2024 in The West; that a person identifies as, and believes himself to be, Christian and publicly states his Christianity; that the is an active member in good standing of a major/ large/ powerful Christian church or denomination - or is a priest, pastor, scholar or leader of such a Christian grouping... is Not a valid discernment anymore.
2020 confirmed this to me: that one could be a practising, devout "Christian" yet firmly on the side of the agenda of evil (first the birdemic/ peck agenda, later the antiracism "MLB" agenda).
2020 saw a stark exhibition of the conformation of "Christianity" (that is, Christianity as defined by the church of which one is a member, this including any and all major churches in The West) to willingly and enthusiastic subordination of (supposedly) core church doctrines and practices to the then-expediencies of the evil establishment totalitarian agenda.
So - If not, then what?
I suggest (at least) four necessary positive metaphysical assumptions that are needed to stay on the side of God, divine creation, and The Good in The West of 2024.
Of course there aren't really four - and that these are separable and sufficient; and of course such things cannot briefly be explained or justified in a blog post.
What I am trying to do is suggest (to a sympathetic reader) the kind of positive assumptions that are now required; and that these fit-together (as would be expected if they were indeed true).
Four necessary positive metaphysical assumptions
1. That there is God, who is a person not an abstraction; and with a personal relationship with Men; and that we inhabit God's creation.
Without these assumptions there is no purpose or meaning to life, and the universe has no relevance to our-selves - so we might as well shut-up and accept whatever happens to be happening.
2. That we inhabit a living, conscious, developing universe.
I believe that we cannot allow any-thing to be not-alive - if materialism is allowed even a toe-hold on our beliefs, it will end-up by regarding the universe as unalive and purposeless. We are compelled to choose. Either everything is "dead" - as modern science assumes; of all is alive; and, if alive, conscious, purposive, developing (evolving) through time.
Eastern (including "Platonic") concepts of reality as a kind of stasis, play into the hands of the powers of evil; which is very keen on promoting oneness spirituality, Buddhism etc - for their own reasons.
In other words: creation is alive. It seems evident, when I think about it, God would have zero interest in creating a universe containing "inanimate" stuff (or indeed "fields" or "forces") of the kind familiar from physics.
3. This mortal life ending in death is followed by continued and personal existence.
In some sense our "self" is immortal. Otherwise, there is no point to this mortal life.
4. That purposive evil is real.
We need to assume, and believe, that there really is purposive (hence personalized) evil in this universe.
That is, we need to recognize that there is a side of evil; a side opposed to God, divine creation and The Good.
And realize, too, that evil is indeed a "side" in the spiritual war; the opposition in the spiritual war.
For many generations, many people have tried to do without (to deny, mock, trivialize) the reality of purposive evil - but as-of 2024 this leads to de facto affiliation with the agenda of evil.
Evil is Not, therefore, particular Beings; but it is the side in the spiritual war to which any particular Beings give their allegiance.
There are - strictly speaking - no Good or evil people in this world. All are mixtures.
Therefore: Nice people can be (and mostly are, in The West) on the side of evil; Nasty people may be on the side of Good.
(And, of course. Good people may be nice, and plenty of nasty people are indeed evil! We need to know all this, if we are not to be fooled by the 24/7 propaganda emanating from the agenda of evil, as well as our own likely prejudices and misunderstandings).
If you consider that one of these four positive assumptions is unneccessary - or that there ought to be one or more further additions; you may wish to argue your case in the comments.
5 comments:
Valuable reminder. I often go back to an older post of yours and readers may find it helpful, A checklist for spiritual en-couragement in the face of resentment, fear and despair.
With these assumptions in mind, there's no telling how much Good can flow downstream from that and transform an individual.
@David - I'd forgotten that post. But maybe 4 may be comprehensible and memorable when 10 was a bit overwhelming?
@Bruce well said, posts like this are why I like your blog. Regarding forces and fields, I think such things exist but they are meeting grounds of the energies of living beings. A basic misunderstanding of dominate modern thought is that beings are contained by their biological expression.
@Jay - *Ultimately* I suspect that what we call forces and fields, are probably abstract models of aspects of relationships between Beings.
I agree about forces and fields being models rather than reality. Within the framework of a model, the abstract entities that it discusses are more fundamental than the world of our experience. But the model itself exists within the world of our experience. The original motivation for Physics was to understand and describe that world of experience. And that's what validates it: experiments can only validate a theory if we can understand and experience some result of the experiment.
Models are only a partial description of reality.
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